The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

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Ramsey Library : New Books August 2013
Ben Aaronovitch
Broken homes
DC Peter Grant must head south of the river to the
alien environs of Elephant and Castle. There's a
murderer abroad and, as always when Grant's
department are reluctantly called in by CID, there
is more than a whiff of the supernatural in the
darkness.
Michael Arnold
Assassin’s reign
The forces of King Charles are victorious; their
Parliamentarian enemies in deep crisis. In the
west, the crucial port city of Bristol has fallen, and
Royalist eyes fall quickly upon neighbouring
Gloucester. Its governor - Sir Edward Massie - is
suspected of harbouring sympathy for the King.
Stryker and his men are with the army as it
converges on Gloucester, still reeling from the loss of a close
friend at the bloody Battle of Stratton.
Judy Astley
In the summertime
20 years after Miranda's family sold their holiday
home in Cornwall, she, her two children and her
mother are back to scatter the ashes of her stepfather Jack on the sea, according to his dying
wish. What she doesn't expect is to find that
fisherman Steve, her first serious romance, is now
a successful entrepreneur and living in the village.
Trying to jolly along her grieving mother, squabbling children and
her young sister Harriet who is running away from the tabloid
press, Miranda isn't likely to have a relaxing time.
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Juliet Barnes
The ghosts of Happy Valley
'Happy Valley' was the name given to the region
of Kenya's Highlands where a community of
hedonistic white expatriates settled between the
wars. Juliet Barnes has explored Happy Valley in
a remarkable and indefatigable archaeological
quest to find the homes and haunts of this
extraordinary and vanished set of people.
Lily Baxter
The shopkeeper’s daughter
June 1944. Eighteen-year-old Ginnie Travis works
in her father's furniture shop in the suburbs of
East London when the continued bombing raids
and her sister Shirley's untimely pregnancy force
the two girls to go and stay with their aunt in
Shropshire. Here Ginnie falls in love with an
American, Lieutenant Nick Miller, stationed
nearby. But she discovers that Nick has a fiancée back home and
a heartbroken Ginnie ends the relationship. Then news of their
father's death in an air raid reaches them.
Harry Bingham
Love story, with murders
The second novel featuring recovering psychotic
DC Fiona Griffiths opens with as intriguing a pair
of murders as you could imagine. Firstly, part of a
human leg is discovered in a woman's freezer,
bagged up like a joint of pork. Other similarly
gruesome discoveries follow throughout a cosy
Cardiff suburb, with body parts turning up in
kitchens, garages and potting sheds.
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Benjamin Black
Holy orders
1950s Dublin. When a body is found in the canal,
pathologist Quirke and his detective friend
Inspector Hackett must find the truth behind this
brutal murder. But in a world where the police are
not trusted and secrets often remain buried there
is perhaps little hope of bringing the perpetrator to
justice.
Fanny Blake
The secrets women keep
Rose is waiting for her friends and family to
arrive at their villa in Pisa when a casual glance
at her husband's phone tips her world upside
down. The text reads simply: 'Miss you. Need
you. Come back soon.' Shaking, she does her
best to sound normal when her husband
breezes in moments later. Daniel has always
been popular with women, she knows that. But now it seems that
something has changed within their marriage.
Paul Bogard
The end of night
A beautiful invocation of our constant companion,
the night, which returns every day of our lives, this
book reminds us of the power and mystery of the
dark.
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Simon Brett
Blotto,
riddle of the Sphinx
Twinks
and
the
Yet another financial crisis has hit Tawcester
Towers. The duchess decides to sell off some
family possessions. Blotto and Twinks find a
sarcophagus decorated with hieroglyphs and
Twinks starts to translate: 'anyone who
desecrates this shrine will be visited by the
Pharaoh's curse', just as Blotto prises the lid off.
Jessica Brockmole Letters from Skye
Elspeth Dunn, a poet, has never seen the world
beyond her home on the Isle of Skye. So she is
astonished when a fan letter arrives from an
American college student, David Graham. As the
two strike up a correspondence, their exchanges
blossom into friendship and love. But, as war
moves across Europe, Elspeth can only wait for
him.
Terry Brooks
Witch wraith
The third and final novel in a series from the
master of fantasy Terry Brooks. In a return to his
core Shannara world, this spellbinding series will
astound both seasoned Terry Brooks fans and
those discovering his magical world for the first
time.
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Nick Brown The far shore
When the deputy commander of Rome's Imperial
Security Service is assassinated on the island of
Rhodes, Cassius Corbulo swiftly finds himself
embroiled in the investigation. Assisted once
more by ex-gladiator bodyguard Indavara and
servant Simo, his search for the truth is
complicated by the involvement of the dead
man's headstrong daughter, Annia.
Jay Bulger (dir.)
Beware of Mr. Baker
Award-winning documentary about ex-Cream
and Blind Faith drummer, Ginger Baker. Over
his tumultuous career in the music industry,
Baker has lost as much as he has gained.
Credited with introducing African beats and
world music to Western audiences, he has
become one of the most influential musicians
of all time due to an unparalleled ability on the drums.
Jane Casey
The stranger you know
He meets women. He gains their trust. He kills
them. That's all Maeve Kerrigan knows about the
man she is hunting. Three women have been
strangled in their homes by the same sadistic
killer. With no sign of a break-in, every indication
shows that they let in their attacker. But the
evidence is pointing at a shocking suspect: DCI
Josh Derwent, Maeve's colleague. Maeve refuses to believe he
could be involved, but how well does she really know her
partner?
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John Henry Clay
The lion and the lamb
No-one looking at Paul would ever guess that he
is heir to one of Roman Britain's wealthiest
families. But Paul had his reasons for joining the
army and fleeing the family he loves. When
rumours of a barbarian uprising from beyond the
Wall begin to circulate, Paul realises that his
family is in grave danger.
Jennifer Close
Things we need
Weezy and Will Coffey raised their children,
Martha, Claire and Max, to be kind, bright and
independent. It's true that Matha's a little too
sensitive - she calls Claire several times a week to
discuss natural disasters and local crime. And
Max, in his final year at college, is a little too
happy-go-lucky. Still, their parents did their best to
prepare them for the world. So why is Martha living in her
childhood bedroom after a career crisis?
Chris Collett
Blood and stone
Grieving the death of his ex-lover, Detective
Inspector Tom Mariner has taken two weeks'
leave to recuperate, seeking peace and solitude
in a remote corner of Wales. When his walking
holiday is interrupted by the discovery of a dead
body, Tom discovers that there are a number of
disturbing secrets being kept behind the closed
doors of the ancient stone farmhouses that populate the region.
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Frances Cottam
The memory of trees
Billionaire Saul Abercrombie owns a vast tract of
land on the Pembrokeshire coast. By restoring the
original forest that covered the area before
medieval times, he believes he will rekindle the
spirits of ancient folklore. But the re-planting of the
forest will revive an altogether darker and more
dangerous entity - and young arboreal expert Tom
Curtis will find himself engaging in an epic, ancient battle
between good and evil.
Lucy Cruickshanks The trader of Saigon
As a US Army deserter, Alexander is a man
without country; trapped in a life he no longer
controls and embroiled in the dark business of
trading women. His latest victim is Hanh, a rural
girl who moved to Hanoi to escape inevitable
poverty and who sees Alexander's arrival as the
answer to her prayers.
Tilly Culme-Seymour
Island summers
In 1947 Tilly's grandmother bought an island - it
sits just off the coast of Norway. At first sight, the
island seems bare, hardly more than a collection
of rocks rising determinedly out of the water. But
Mor-mor, as she was known, could see that the
island was more than that when she purchased it
in exchange for a mink coat. She built a twostoreyed wooden cabin on the island and this is where Mor-mor
and her young family would come every summer, escaping their
mollycoddled life in the English countryside.
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Caitlin Davies
Family likeness
A young woman climbs the steps of a smart
London address on her first day as a live-in
nanny. In Kent in the 1950s a little girl called
Muriel is growing up bewildered and lonely.
Despite her best efforts to please everyone,
nobody wants anything to do with her. A figure in
a 19th century painting inspires intrigue and a
sense of connection across the years. But what binds these three
women together?
Maria Duffy
The letter
Ellie seems to have it all - a loving and secure
home, wonderful friends and a great job as a chef
in a Dublin hotel. She's also about to marry Matt,
the most gorgeous man on the planet. But despite
her outward appearance of a glowing bride-to-be,
Ellie is battling with some demons. Then four
weeks before her wedding, she finds a letter that
changes everything.
Steven Dunne
The unquiet grave
The cold case crime department of Derby
Constabulary feels like a morgue to DI Damen
Brook. As a maverick cop, his bosses think it's the
best place for him. But Brook isn't going to go
down without a fight. Applying his instincts and
razor sharp intelligence, he sees a pattern in a
series of murders that seem to begin in 1963.
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Elsebeth Egholm Three dog night
It's the coldest winter in memory as ex-convict
Peter Boutrup moves to remote, rural Denmark to
start a new life. But when a young woman goes
missing on New Year's Eve and Peter discovers
the body of Ramses, an old acquaintance from
prison, things start to unravel.
Kate Elliott
Cold steel
Trouble, treachery and magic just won't stop
plaguing Cat Barahal. The Master of the Wild
Hunt has stolen away her husband. The ruler of
the Taino kingdom blames her for his mother's
murder. An enraged fire mage wants to kill her.
And Cat, her cousin Bee, and her half-brother
Rory, aren't even back in Europa yet, where
revolution is burning up the streets.
Conor Fitzgerald
The memory key
When magistrate Matteo Arconti's namesake, an
insurance man from Milan, is found dead outside
the court buildings in Piazzo Clodio, it's a clear
warning to the authorities in Rome - a message of
defiance and intimidation. Commissioner Alec
Blume, interpreting the reference to his other
ongoing case - a frustrating one in which he's so
far been unable to pin murder on a mafia boss operating at an
untouchable distance in Germany - knows he's too close to it.
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Karin Fossum
I can see in the dark
Riktor doesn't like the way the policeman comes
straight into the house without knocking. He
doesn't like the arrogant way he observes his
home. The policeman doesn't tell him why he's
there, and Riktor doesn't ask. Because he knows
he's guilty of a terrible crime. But it turns out that
the policeman isn't looking for a missing person.
He is accusing Riktor of something totally unexpected.
Mark Gimenez
Con law
John Bookman - Book to his friends - is a tenured
professor at the University of Texas School of
Law. He's 35, handsome and unmarried. He
teaches karate and con law, law school
vernacular for constitutional law. He is a
recognised constitutional law expert, debates
senators on political talk shows and reduces them
to blithering fools and is often mentioned as a possible Supreme
Court nominee.
Robert Goddard
The ways of the world
1919. The eyes of the world are on Paris, where
statesmen, diplomats and politicians have
gathered to discuss the fate of half the world's
nations in the aftermath of the Great War. A
horde of journalists, spies and opportunists has
also gathered and the last thing the British
diplomatic community needs at such a time is the
mysterious death of a senior member of their delegation.
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Gail Godwin
Flora
10-year-old Helen and her summer guardian,
Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying
family house while her father is doing secret war
work in Oak Ridge during the final months of
World War II. At 3, Helen lost her mother and the
beloved grandmother who raised her has just
died.
Ruth Goodman
How to be a Victorian
Brimming with frank, witty and often gruesome
observations, this volume describes what Victorian
life was really like.
George Goodwin Fatal rivalry
In 'Fatal Rivalry' George Goodwin captures the
vibrant Renaissance splendour of the royal courts
of England and Scotland, with their wealth,
innovation and artistic expression. He shows how
two powers on one island forced themselves to
war.
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Sara Gran
highway
Claire DeWitt and the bohemian
When Paul Casablancas, Claire DeWitt's
musician ex-boyfriend, is found dead in his home
in San Francisco's Mission District, the police are
convinced it's a simple robbery. But, as Claire
knows, nothing is ever simple. With the help of
her new assistant Claude, Claire follows the
clues, finding possible leads to Paul's fate in other cases - a longago missing girl and a modern-day miniature horse theft in Marin.
John Gribbin Computing with quantum cats
Using scientific paradigms such as Schrödinger's
famous 'dead and alive' cat to explain the
mechanics of how quantum computers work,
John Gribbin explains the extraordinary
implications of these machines, taking us beyond
the world of physics to their practical applications
in the military and big business. In this fascinating
new quantum reality, communication can occur faster than light,
computers will crack codes that are currently literally uncrackable
and even teleportation is possible.
Guy Grieve
Sea legs
Guy Grieve, after years of exploring and
adventuring around the world, has been living
quietly on the grey-skied Isle of Mull with his wife
Juliet and two small sons. For some time though,
the wild has been beckoning to him more and
more insistently. At last, the lure of freedom and
adventure become too much - he and Juliet pack
in the school run, re-mortgage the house and buy a yacht.
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Charlotte Grimshaw
Soon
The Lampton and Hallwright families gather in a
large beach house belonging to Prime Minister
David Hallwright and his wife Roza. The weather
is perfect and outwardly all is well, but the
harmony is disturbed when Simon Lampton's
brother arrives for a visit. Ford casts a cold eye
over the company, barely disguising his contempt
for David Hallwright.
Michele Giuttari
The dark heart of Florence
In the summer of 2004 Florence was shocked by
the dreadful homicides committed by the serial
killer Leonardo Berghoff. With the news of his
death, the city seems to finally be in peace - but
that doesn't last for long. A senator and his butler
are found brutally murdered and Detective Ferrara
realises that the game is not over. Blood is running
through the city streets again.
Christopher Gortner The Tudor conspiracy
1553: Harsh winter falls across the realm. Mary
Tudor has become queen and her enemies are
imprisoned in the Tower, but rumours of a plot to
depose her swirl around the one person many
consider to be England's heir and only hope - her
half-sister, Princess Elizabeth. Brendan Prescott's
foe and mentor, the spymaster Cecil, brings news
that sends Brendan back to London on a dangerous mission.
Intent upon trying to save Elizabeth, he soon finds himself
working as a double-agent for Mary herself.
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Louisa Hall
The carriage house
Jane Austen's 'Persuasion' is brought into the 21st
century by Louisa Hall in a novel of family and
forgiveness, set in contemporary suburban
America, round Elizabeth, Diana and Izzy, three
sisters who have lived a privileged life in suburban
America. But the idyllic facade masks a family in
turmoil.
Timothy Hallinan The fame thief
There aren't many people brave enough to say
no to Irwin Dressler, Hollywood's scariest mob
boss-turned-movie king. Even though Dressler is
93 years old, LA burglar Junior Bender is
quaking in his boots when Dessler's henchmen
haul him in for a meeting. Dessler wants Junior
to solve a 'crime' he believes was committed
more than 70 years ago.
Paul Ham
Sandakan
After the fall of Singapore in 1942, the conquering
Japanese Army transferred some 2,500 British
and Australian prisoners to a jungle camp at
Sandakan, on the east coast of North Borneo.
There they were beaten, broken, worked to death,
thrown into bamboo cages on the slightest pretext
and subjected to tortures so ingenious and
hideous that the victims were driven to the brink of madness. But
it was only to be the beginning of the nightmare.
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Laurell K. Hamilton
Affliction
Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling
author Laurell K. Hamilton returns with another
exciting, thrilling and addictive adventure for her
vampire hunting heroine Anita Blake.
Suzanne Harrington
The liberty tree
Touching and brutally honest, 'The Liberty Tree'
raises questions many of us will find difficult to
answer but is ultimately life-affirming. Suzanne
Harris did all the things adults do long before
she'd grown up. She married, had babies, was
homeless for a while - and drank. Later freed
from her demons she embraced life, while her
husband chose escape. She wrote this for the memory of Leo,
and for their children.
Michael Harvey
The innocence game
The first day of class for Ian Joyce and Sarah
Gold starts like any other, until a fellow student,
Jake Havens, pulls a wrinkled envelope from his
jacket. Inside is a blood-stained scrap of shirt
from a boy murdered 14 years ago and an
anonymous note taking credit for the killing.
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Terry Hayes
I am Pilgrim
Pilgrim was the codename for a world class and
legendary secret agent. When NYPD Ben Bradley
tracks down Pilgrim, neither man can imagine the
terrifying journey they are about to begin, as what
begins as an unusual and challenging murder
investigation leads them into a direct collision
course with the dark forces of jihadist terrorism.
Tim Hayward
Food DIY
Over recent years, across much of the world,
people have started rejecting shop bought food
and are getting into making it themselves. The
DIY food movement is spreading. In 'Food DIY',
Tim Hayward will show you how to make your
own butter and cheese, sloe gin, suet pudding
and potted lobster, as well as how to smoke, and
cure fish and meats, air-dry bresaola and droewors.
Veronica Henry
Express
A
night
on
the
Orient
The Orient Express. Luxury. Mystery. Romance.
For one group of passengers settling into their
seats and taking their first sips of champagne, the
journey from London to Venice is more than the
trip of a lifetime. A mysterious errand; a promise
made to a dying friend; an unexpected proposal;
a secret reaching back a lifetime. As the train sweeps on,
revelations, confessions and assignations unfold against the most
romantic and infamous setting in the world.
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James Heneage
The walls of Byzantium
15th-century Europe: in the midst of growing
unrest, rivals battle for a hidden treasure, each
desperate to secure its power for their own
nations. But no-one can discover its whereabouts;
nor even knows if it is still in the possession of
those born to guard it. Four remarkable characters
from four leading families provide the story as
their crossed allegiances, plots and passions are played out on
this epic scale.
Elin Hilderbrand
Beautiful day
The Carmichaels and Grahams have gathered on
Nantucket for a wedding. Plans are being made
according to the wishes of the bride's late mother,
who left behind The Notebook: specific
instructions for every detail of her youngest
daughter's future nuptials. Everything should be
falling into place for the beautiful event - but in
reality, things are far from perfect.
Daisy Hildyard
Hunters in the snow
After his death, a young woman returns to her
grandfather's farm in Yorkshire. At his desk she
finds the book he left unfinished when he died.
Part story, part scholarship, his eccentric history of
England moves from the founding of the printing
press into virtual reality, linking four journeys,
separated by the centuries, of four great men.
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James Holland
The devil’s pact
With North Africa secured, the Allies launch an
invasion of Sicily, and the 2nd Battalion, King's
Own Yorkshire Rangers are in the van of the
assault. Jack Tanner is beginning to see a new
type of war, in which the rule books are seemingly
thrown away.
Rachel Hore
The silent tide
When Emily commissions an account of novelist
Hugh Morton, she finds herself steering a path
between Morton's widow who's determined to
protect his secrets and the charming and
ambitious Joel Richards. But someone is sending
Emily messages about Hugh Morton's past and
she discovers a buried story that has to be told.
Richard House
The kills
Camp Liberty is an unmanned staging-post in
Amrah province, Iraq; the place where the detritus
of the war is buried, incinerated, removed from
memory. Until, suddenly, plans are announced to
transform it into the largest military base in the
country, codenamed the Massive, with a post-war
strategy to convert the site for civilian use.
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Seth Hunter
The spoils of conquest
Admiral Nelson has sent Captain Nathan Peake
on a desperate journey across the Middle East to
convey a grim warning to British India.
Bonaparte's army is poised to deliver a fatal blow
to the source of Britain's wealth and power by
marching overland to India. Arriving in Bombay,
Nathan takes command of the East India
Company's naval wing - the Bombay Marine - an under-armed
and poorly crewed flotilla of sloops and gunboats.
Douglas Hurd
Disraeli, or, The two lives
Benjamin Disraeli is one of the most fascinating
men of the 19th century. A superb politician,
orator, writer and wit, he was the most gifted
parliamentarian of his time, who rose to become
Prime Minister (twice). Yet Disraeli had never
intended to be a politician: his early life was led in
pursuit of pleasure as he struggled to find an
occupation that would best suit his energy..
Michael Irwin The skull and the nightingale
Set in England in the early 1760s, this is a chilling
and deliciously dark tale of manipulation, sex, and
seduction. When Richard Fenwick, a young man
without family or means, returns to London from
the Grand Tour, his wealthy godfather, James
Gilbert, has an unexpected proposition. Gilbert
has led a fastidious life in Worcestershire, but
now in his advancing years, he feels the urge to experience, even
vicariously, the extremes of human feeling - love and passion,
adultery and deceit - along with something much more sinister.
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Anna Jacobs
Heir to Greyladies
1900. The death of her father forces Harriet out of
her home to escape the advances of her
stepbrother and the rule of her stepmother, and
into service at Dalton House. Over time Harriet
develops a friendship with the Dalton's crippled
son Joseph but her life is changed completely
when she inherits Greyladies, a haunted house.
Clive James (tr.)
The divine comedy
The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern
literature, and Clive James’s new translation – his
life’s work and decades in the making – presents
Dante’s entire epic poem in a single song.
Lawrence James Churchill and empire
A new biography of Churchill, focusing on his
contradictory and lifelong relationship with the
British Empire.
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Lisa Jewell
The house we grew up in
Meet the Bird family. So far, all four children have
had an idyllic childhood: a cottage in a country
village with a warm cosy kitchen filled with love
and laughter, and sun-drenched afternoons in its
rambling garden. But a tragedy lies in store for the
Birds: a tragedy that strikes one Easter weekend,
and which is so devastating that, almost
imperceptibly, it begins to tear the family apart.
Liz Jones
Girl least likely to
Growing up in Essex, the youngest of seven
children, Liz Jones was always eccentric. She
was convinced her mother would die at any
moment, and that her family home was haunted.
She would buy paperbacks from jumble sales,
change the titles and re-write the endings. She
became anorexic, aged 11, after her sister told
her how many calories there were in marmalade on toast.
Rachel Joyce
Perfect
In 1972, two seconds were added to time. It was
in order to balance clock time with the
movement of the Earth. Byron Hemming knew
this because James Lowe had told him and
James was the cleverest boy at school. But how
could time change? The steady movement of
hands around a clock was as certain as their
golden futures. Then Byron's mother, late for the school run,
makes a devastating mistake. Byron's perfect world is shattered.
Were those two extra seconds to blame? Can what follows ever
be set right?
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Alex Kava
Stranded
International bestseller Alex Kava returns with a
gripping, action-packed thriller featuring FBI
special agent Maggie O'Dell. In 'Stranded', the
inimitable Maggie faces the toughest case of her
career so far, where appearances turn out to be
deceptive and nothing is as it first seems.
Guy Gavriel Kay
River of stars
In his critically acclaimed novel 'Under Heaven',
Guy Gavriel Kay told a vivid and powerful story
inspired by China's Tang dynasty. Now, the
international bestselling and multiple awardwinning author revisits that invented setting four
centuries later - a world inspired this time by the
glittering, decadent Song dynasty.
Mark Keating
Cross of fire
The pirate Olivier Levasseur, 'the Buzzard', has
captured the greatest ship ever to sail the high
seas, the Virgin of the Cape, a Portuguese ship
carring a solid gold cross seven feet long. The
Fiery Cross of Goa. Levasseur is hiding
somewhere in the Indian Ocean, but Patrick
Devlin is on his tail. However, Devlin's former
master, and bitter enemy, John Coxon, has been sent to kill him.
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Bethany Kehdy
The jewelled kitchen
Bethany Kehdy offers up the enticing world of
Middle Eastern and North African cooking in a
stunning collection of over 100 delicious and
evocative recipes.
Lars Kepler
The fire witness
Flora has seen it all, but nobody believes her. A
young girl is dead, someone killed her. She was
only 14 years old and was found in her room at
the institution for young women in distress, north
of Stockholm. The walls are splashed with blood,
the sheets are soaked. None of the other girls
know what happened, but one of them has fled
into the night. What Flora does not know is that it is the
redoubtable Joona Linna who will be investigating the worst and
most puzzling crime of his career.
Stephen Kiernan
The curiosity
'The Curiosity' is a love story in which a man
frozen for 100 years wakes up in today's America
to be hounded by tabloids, condemned by
religious conservatives and hunted by a
presidential candidate while he strives to come to
terms with his unique second life, one in which he
falls in love with a beautiful scientist.
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Malcolm Knox
Bradman’s war
When the Second World War ended, Don
Bradman assembled a cricketing army. Hailed as
one of the greatest cricket teams of all time, the
1948 Invincibles are the only Australians to
complete an Ashes tour undefeated. Their
crushing victories under Sir Donald Bradman's
captaincy created history, even if the Don himself,
on his final tour, was left stranded for ever with a Test batting
average of 99.94 after his duck in the fifth Test.
Stephen Leather
True colours
When a set of Russian oligarchs is assassinated
in London, the Russian expat community
becomes anxious. One man appeals to the British
government for protection and MI5 assigns Spider
Shepherd to the case. But he soon discovers that
the killings aren't political - they're personal, and
the assassin is much nearer than anyone could
conceive.
Roger Lewis
Dark actors
One July afternoon in 2003, in a quiet part of
Oxfordshire, a scientist went out for a walk and
never came back. Dr David Kelly had been all
over the news in the preceding days; as an
investigator on the team which went into Iraq to
check whether they had weapons of mass
destruction,
he
had
been
accused
of
anonymously briefing a BBC reporter that the government's case
for the Iraq War had been deliberately falsified.
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Freda Lightfoot
Lady of passion
Beautiful and talented actress, poet and fashion
icon, Mary Robinson was one of the most famous
women of her time - yet she died virtually
penniless, her reputation in ruins. For Mary was
destined always to be betrayed by the men she
loved - her father, her husband and, most
seriously, by the Prince of Wales, later George
IV, for whom Mary gave up her career, her husband and her
independence, only to be cruelly abandoned.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
The string diaries
A jumble of entries, written in different hands,
different languages, and different times, 'The
String Diaries' tell of a rumour. A shadow. A killer.
The only interest that Oxford Professor Charles
Meredith has in the diaries is as a record of
Hungarian folklore, until he comes face to face
with a myth.
Eric Lustbader
Blood trust
Alli Carson used to be the daughter of the
President of the United States. She wanted for
nothing. But now, after a terrible car crash killed
her father and left her mother in a coma, Alli's only
solace is her work. She is determined to become
the best FBI agent at the Fearington Institute, and
prove herself to the one man who makes life
worth living: National Security Adviser, Jack McClure.
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Malcolm MacKay How
goodbye
a
gunman
says
The breathtaking, devastating sequel to lauded
debut 'The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter',
'How a Gunman Says Goodbye' will plunge the
reader back into the Glasgow underworld, where
criminal organisations war for prominence and
those caught up in events are tested at every turn.
Alexander McCall Smith Bertie’s guide to life
and mothers
Once more we catch up with the delightful goingson in the fictitious 44 Scotland Street. With
customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall
Smith gives us another instalment in this popular
series.
Charles McCarry
The Shanghai factor
An American spy in China. Name: Unknown.
Status: Sleeper. He's deep undercover but, so
far, the job hasn't been too tough: polishing his
Mandarin, drinking every night and falling deeper
in love with the beautiful but enigmatic Mei. Just
when he thought life had settled into a pleasant
routine, he is called back to Washington and
handed a dangerous brief: infiltrate the very core of the Chinese
Secret Police.
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Paul J. McAuley
Evening’s empires
In the far future, a young man stands on a barren
asteroid. His ship has been stolen, his family
kidnapped or worse, and all he has on his side is
a semi-intelligent spacesuit. The only member of
the crew to escape, Hari has barely been off his
ship before. It was his birthplace, his home and
his future. He's going to get it back.
J.C. McKeown A cabinet of Greek curiosities
The ancient Greeks were a wonderful people.
They gave us democracy, drama, and
philosophy, and many forms of art and branches
of science would be inconceivable without them.
And yet they were capable of the most outlandish
behaviour, preposterous beliefs, and ludicrous
opinions. Nearly everything in this book illustrates
the not-quite-so wonderful aspects of Greek life and thought.
Catriona McPherson Dandy Gilver and a
deadly measure of brimstone
Perthshire 1929 and the menfolk of the Gilver
family have come down, between them, with
influenza, bronchitis, pneumonia and pleurisy.
Dandy the devoted wife and mother decides it is
time to decamp; Dandy the intrepid detective,
however, decides to decamp to the scene of a
murder she would dearly love to solve.
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The Medieval Murderers The false virgin
Bernwyn of Lythe, the young daughter of an
ealdorman, spurns marriage and chooses to
remain a virgin dedicated to Christ. When she is
found murdered in the chapel where she kept her
nightly vigils, it is thought that she has fallen
victim to the Viking raiders who are ravaging the
country and the butterflies found resting on her
body are taken to be a sign from God.
Phillip Meyer
The son
Spring, 1849. The first male child born in the
newly established Republic of Texas, Eli
McCullough is 13 years old when a marauding
band of Comanche storm his homestead and
brutally murder his mother and sister, taking him
captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to
Comanche life.
Mark Mills
The long shadow
Ben Makepeace, a screenwriter, is recently
divorced, with a young son to care for. When he's
invited up to Stoneham Park in Oxfordshire to
meet someone who wants to bankroll his latest
script, he jumps at the chance. Victor Sheldon is a
hedge fund billionaire yet when Ben meets him
he's bemused, for Victor is none other than old
school friend Daniel, last seen some 25 years ago. But history
can cast a long shadow, and soon Ben finds himself caught up in
a vicious endgame with roots buried in the past of his childhood.
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Denise Mina
The red road
31st August, 1997. Rose Wilson is 14, but looks
16. Pimped out by her 'boyfriend' and let down by
a person she thought she loved, she has seen
more of the darkness in life than someone twice
her age. On the night of Princess Diana's death a night everyone will remember - Rose snaps and
commits two terrible crimes.
Lottie Moggach
Kiss me first
Leila has never met Tess, but she knows more
about Tess than anyone in the world. Tess has
never met Leila, but she is about to trust Leila with
her life. One of them has never really lived, the
other can't face living any more. Together they
concoct the perfect lie, but how long will it
survive?
Richard Montanari The stolen ones
Destroyed by fire years ago, the infamous
Philadelphia State Hospital was known as a
warehouse for the criminally insane. But one man
never left. By night Luther walks Philadelphia's
backstreets, drawing to him the mad, the corrupt,
the fallen. By day he roams the catacombs
beneath the city, killing his prey. Detectives Kevin
Byrne and Jessica Balzano are called to a bizarre murder scene:
a man has been killed by a railroad spike driven into his head and
left sitting on a bench in a local park.
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Santa Montefiore Secrets of the lighthouse
Ellen Trawton is running away from it all. She is
due to get married to a man she doesn't love, her
job is dragging her down and her interfering
mother is getting on her nerves. So she escapes
to the one place she knows her mother won't
follow her, to her aunt's house. Once there, she
uncovers a dark secret and a future she never
knew she had.
Martin Morales
Ceviche
Making ceviche is serious in Lima, and
restaurateur Martin Morales has travelled the
length of Peru to find the best recipes. From
sizzling barbecued anticuchos, superfood quinoa
salads, giant corn choclos, juicy saltados and
lucuma ice, 'Ceviche' brings the unique and
delicious dishes from
Barbara Nadel
An act of kindness
A young Asian couple moves into a dilapidated
house in Upton Park. The woman, Nasreen,
spends much of her time working alone on the
house, her husband Abdullah preoccupied with
his job. John Sawyer is a veteran of the war in
Afghanistan. Since his discharge, he has been
volatile and is now homeless. An unlikely
friendship develops between Nasreen and John, one that her
husband would frown upon. When John's body is discovered,
Nasreen's suspicions light upon Abdullah. Did he know they were
friends?
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Charity Norman
The son-in-law
On a sharp winter's morning, a man turns his
back on prison. Joseph Scott has served his
term. He's lost almost everything: his career as a
teacher, his wife. All he has left is three children
he is not allowed near. This is the story of
Joseph, who killed his wife, Zoe.
Lisa O’Donnell
Closed doors
11-year-old Michael Murray is getting ready to
wow everyone at the upcoming talent show with
his keepy-uppies, as well as trying to fend off his
arch-nemesis, Dirty Alice, who lives down the
road. When his Ma comes home one evening with
lots of bruises, Michael begins to ask questions.
He is told that a man flashed her in the woods and
that he must keep it a secret. Soon, Michael begins to realise that
things are not what they seem.
Adele Parks
The state we’re in
Adele Parks writes novels that real women want
to read. Her books get right to the heart of the
dilemmas women - and men - face in their lives;
her characters are real as are the choices they
make. She examines the thorny issues for life
today with her trademark tell-it-like-it-is style and
takes her stories to unexpected places.
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R.S. Pateman The second life of Amy Archer
Ten years ago she disappeared without a trace now she's back. On 31st December 1999, ten-yearold Amy Archer went missing from her local
playground. Her body was never found and the
lives of her parents, Beth and Brian, were torn
apart. On the tenth anniversary of the
disappearance, Beth is alone, still struggling with
her grief and the horror of not knowing the fate of her only child.
James Patterson Second honeymoon
A newlywed couple steps into the sauna in their
deluxe honeymoon suite - and never steps out
again. When another couple is killed while
boarding their honeymoon flight to Rome, it
becomes clear that someone is targeting
honeymooners. FBI Agent John O'Hara is deep
into the case, trying to figure out who this
deranged killer is. At the same time, Special Agent Sarah
Brubaker is hunting another ingenious serial killer, whose victims
all have one chilling thing in common.
Roger Pearce
The extremist
In a race down the Thames, Detective Chief
Inspector John Kerr is caught in a fight to the
death with two gold smugglers. The American
wife of the British Defence Secretary is brutally
murdered while walking her dog. A senior judge is
executed in Middle Temple Lane. Blocked by
'affirmative inaction' at New Scotland Yard and
threats from MI6, Kerr deploys a talented female operative
undercover to force the truth.
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Shelina Permalloo Sunshine on a plate
In 2012 over 6.5 million viewers watched
Shelina triumph in the 'MasterChef' final: with
her instinctive spicing and intense flavours, she
brought Mauritian food to TV for the first time,
inspiring legions of home cooks to try out her
recipes at home. Featuring all her favourite
Mauritian recipes and beautiful photography on
location in Mauritius, this book will make Shelina a true star of the
cookery world.
Tasmina Perry
Deep blue sea
Diana and Julian Denver have the world at their
feet. With a blissful marriage, a darling son and
beautiful homes in London and the country,
Diana's life, to the outside world, is perfect. But
nothing is as it seems. When Julian dies suddenly
and tragically, Diana is convinced there is more to
it than meets the eye. She calls on the one
person she had never wanted to see again - her sister, Rachel.
Christopher Priest The adjacent
A photographer returns to Britain after the death
of his wife in a terrorist incident in Afghanistan.
And finds that the IRGB has, itself, been suffering
terrorist attacks. But no-one knows quite what is
happening or how. Just that there are similarities
between what killed the photographer's wife and
what happened in West London.
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Hannah Richell
The shadow year
On a glorious summer's day in 1980, five friends
stumble upon an abandoned lakeside cottage
hidden deep in the heart of the English
countryside. Isolated and rundown, it offers a
retreat, somewhere they can escape from the real
world. For Kat, it's a stay of execution: living there
for a year will surely give Simon the time to fall in
love with her.
Craig Robertson
Witness the dead
It's Saturday morning in Glasgow when
Strathclyde CID are called to photograph the body
of a young woman. Her clothes in disarray, she
has been laid out ritually. The following day,
another girl is found. Retired detective Danny
Neilson is convinced that the murders are linked
to the Red Silk cases that he worked on in the
1960s.
Edward Rutherfurd Paris
Inspired by the haunting, passionate story of the
City of Lights, this epic novel weaves a gripping
tale of four families across the centuries: from the
lies that spawn the noble line of de Cygne to the
revolutionary Le Sourds who seek their
destruction; from the Blanchards whose bourgeois
respectability offers scant protection against
scandal to the hard-working Gascons and their soaring ambitions.
Page 35 of 40
James Rollins
The eye of God
The crash of a U.S. military research satellite in
the remote wilds of Mongolia triggers an
explosive search for the valuable cargo it holds.
At the Vatican, a mysterious package arrives for
the head of Pontifical ancient studies, sent by a
colleague who had vanished a decade earlier. It
contains two strange artifacts: a skull scrawled
with ancient Aramaic and a tome bound in human skin. DNA
testing reveals both are from Genghis Khan.
Donal Ryan
The spinning heart
In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse,
dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town.
Through a chorus of unique voices, each
struggling to tell their own kind of truth, a single
authentic tale unfolds.
John Sandford
Silken prey
A Minnesota political fixer has hit the jackpot, or so
he thinks. Hired to take down the incumbent U.S.
senator with a vicious smear, to open the way for
an ambitious heiress who sees the Senate as
merely a stepping-stone, he decides his payoff
should be larger. Instead, he gets only a small one,
9 millimetres, to be exact.
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Ian Sansom
The Norfolk mystery
The 'County Guides to Murder' is a series of
detective novels set in 1930s England. The books
are an odyssey through England and its history.
In each county, the protagonists - Stephen
Sefton, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and
his employer, the People's Professor, Swanton
Morley - solve a murder. This book is set in
Norfolk.
Goliarda Sapienza The art of joy
This epic Sicilian novel, which begins in the year
1900 and follows its main character, Modesta,
through nearly the entire span of the 20th century,
is at once a coming-of-age novel, a tale of sexual
adventure
and
discovery,
a
fictional
autobiography, and a sketch of Italy's moral,
political and social past.
Tim Severin
The emperor’s elephant
Sigwulf, a Saxon prince who has found himself at
the court of King Carolus in France, is summoned
by the royal advisor. A rare white elephant has
been sent as a gift from the Caliph of Baghdad
and Carolus is determined to send an embassy to
the Caliph bearing presents of equal prize to
encourage good political relations.
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Carole Seymour-Jones
moonlight
She
landed
by
On the night of 22 September 1943 Pearl
Witherington, a twenty-nine-year-old British
secretary and agent of the Special Operations
Executive (SOE), was parachuted from a Halifax
bomber into Occupied France. Like Sebastian
Faulks' heroine, Charlotte Gray, Pearl had a dual
mission: in her case, to fight for her beloved, broken France and
to find her lost love.
Harry Sidebottom The Amber Road
The Roman Empire is torn in two. The western
provinces - Gaul, Spain and Britain - have been
seized by the pretender Postumus. To the east,
on the plains of northern Italy, the armies of the
emperor Gallienus muster. War is coming.
Everyone must choose a side. On a mission
shrouded in secrecy and suspicion, Ballista must
journey The Amber Road to the far north to Hyperborea, back to
his original home and the people of his birth.
Daniel Silva
The English girl
When a beautiful young British woman vanishes
on the island of Corsica, a prime minister's career
is threatened with destruction. Gabriel Allon,
master art restorer, spy, and assassin, is thrust
into a game of shadows where nothing is what it
seems and where the only thing more dangerous
than his enemies might be the truth.
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Karin Slaughter
Unseen
Special Agent Will Trent has something to hide.
Something he doesn't want Dr Sara Linton - the
woman he loves - to find out. He's gone
undercover in Macon, Georgia and put his life at
risk. And he knows Sara will never forgive him if
she discovers the truth. But when a young Macon
patrolman is shot and left for dead Sara is forced
to confront the past and a woman she hoped never to see again.
Dan Smith
Red winte
It is 1920, central Russia. The Red Terror tightens
its hold. Kolya has deserted his Red Army unit
and returns home to bury his brother and reunite
with his wife and sons. But he finds the village
silent and empty. The men have been massacred
in the forest. The women and children have
disappeared.
Danielle Steel
First sight
Timmie is a self-made fashion legend who runs a
hugely successful business empire. But while her
hard-won professional success is satisfying, she's
had much less luck in her personal life. After
tragically losing her young son to cancer, her
marriage quickly crumbled. She has spent the last
decade alone, dating handsome yet superficial
men with whom she cannot have a meaningful relationship. But
all of that changes when Timmie is hospitalised during a business
trip to Paris.
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Charles Stross
Neptune’s brood
'My friend has discovered faster-than-light travel! If
we get in now, we can make it rich! Just send us
your bank details today'. Krina Alizond-114 is a
bookish historian of accountancy practices and a
metahuman in a universe where the last natural
humans went extinct 5000 years ago. When a letter
from her sister goes missing Krina embarks on a
dangerous journey across the star systems to find her.
Peter Tremayne
Atonement of blood
King Colg has invited the nobles of his realm to a
feast. The gathering is interrupted by a messenger
shouting 'Remember Liamuin!', who stabs King Colg.
Who is Liamuin? Who is behind the assassination
attempt?
Lana Wachowski (dir.) Cloud atlas
Blu-ray disc. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions
and consequences of individual lives impact one
another throughout the past, the present and the
future. Action, mystery and romance weave
dramatically through the story as one soul is
shaped from a killer into a hero, and a single act of
kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a
revolution in the distant future.
Page 40 of 40
Jan Costin Wagner
Light in a dark house
Finnish detective Kimmo Joentaa is called to the
local hospital in which his young wife died several
years before. An unidentified woman in a coma
has been murdered by someone who wept over
the body, their tears staining the sheets around
her. The death marks the start of a series of
killings, with the unknown patient at their centre.
James Wilde
End of days
In their fortress on the Isle of Ely, the English
have put their faith in the only man who might
defeat the murderous invaders. He is called
Hereward. He is a warrior and a master tactician as adept at slaughter as his enemy and plans
have been set in motion for a bloody uprising that
will sweep the Norman king off the throne once
and for all. But Hereward is missing.
Nigel Williams
Unfaithfully yours
When Elizabeth Price engages Roland Gibbons
to find out the truth about her husband's
suspected affair, she sets off a chain of
correspondence that reunites four couples. In a
series of letters, from love notes to condolence
messages, each protagonist is far more selfrevealing than they would ever be in person.

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