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Adams, Alex
White horse
When I wake the world is gone. Only fragments remain. And
then I remember ... Before: her life may have taken a couple of
wrong turns but Zoe is trying to make the best of what she has.
A part-time cleaning job to pay for college, a weekly appointment
with her therapist to straighten out the problems in her life. The
same problems that any thirty-year-old would have. Nothing
major. Nothing life-threatening. A few bad dreams, that's all.
After: The only thought that remains is survival. Survival in a
desolate, post-apocalyptic world. For herself. For her unborn
baby. But help is scarce in a world where untold horrors exist
around every corner, where food and water are in desperately
short supply, and the only chance of happiness is half a world
away.
Adams, Poppy
Behaviour of
moths
Ginny watches & waits for her younger sister to return to the
crumbling mansion that was once their childhood home. Vivien
has not stepped foot in the house since she left, 47 years ago;
Ginny, the reclusive lepidopterist, has rarely ventured outside it.
The remembrance of their youth, of loss, & of old rivalries plays
across Ginny's mind.
Adichie,
Chimamanda Ngozi
Half of a yellow
sun
This heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece is set
in Nigeria during the 1960s.This extraordinary novel is about
Africa in a wider sense: about moral responsibility, about the end
of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race;
and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these
things.
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Adichie,
Chimamanda Ngozi
Thing around
your neck
From the Orange Prize-winning author, come twelve dazzling
stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties that
bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the
West. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and
longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's prodigious storytelling powers.
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Adiga, Aravind
White tiger
Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher,
entrepreneur and murderer. Born in a backwater village on the
River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller, Balram works in a
teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of
escape. When he learns that a rich village landlord needs a
chauffeur, he takes his opportunity, and is soon on his way to
Delhi behind the wheel of a Honda. Driven by desire to better
himself, he comes to see how the Tiger might escape his cage...
Ahern, Cecelia
The gift
Step into the magical world of Cecelia Ahern in this heartwarming bestseller. If you could wish for one gift this Christmas,
what would it be? Lou Suffern wishes he could be in two places
at once. His constant battle with the clock is a sensitive issue
with his wife and family. Gabe wishes he was somewhere warm.
When Lou invites Gabe, a homeless man who sits outside his
office, into the building and into his life, Lou's world is changed
beyond all measure...An enchanting and thoughtful Christmas
story that speaks to all of us abut the value of time and what is
truly important in life.
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Alcott, Louisa May
Little women
Set in a small New England community, 'Little Women' tells of
the March family: Marmee looks after her daughters in the
absence of her husband, who is serving as an army chaplain in
the Civil War, and Meg, Jo Beth, and Amy experience domestic
trials and triumphs as they attempt to supplement the family's
small income. In the second part of the novel, the girls grow up
and fall in love. The novel is highly autobiographical, and in Jo's
character Alcott portrays a strong-minded and independent
woman, determined to control her own destiny.
Alderman, Naomi
Liars gospel
Naomi Alderman's "The Liars' Gospel" is the story of a Jewish
man, Yehoshuah, who wandered Roman-occupied Judea giving
sermons and healing the sick. Now, a year after his death, four
people tell their stories. His mother flashes between grief and
rage while trouble brews between her village and the occupying
soldiers. Iehuda, who was once Yehoshuah's friend, recalls how
he came to lose his faith and find a place among the Romans.
Caiaphas, the High Priest at the great Temple in Jerusalem,
tries to hold the peace between Rome and Judea. Bar-Avo, a
rebel, strives to bring that peace tumbling down. "The Liars'
Gospel" makes the oldest story entirely new. Viscerally powerful
in its depictions of the realities of the period: massacres and
riots, animal sacrifice and human betrayal, it finds echoes of the
present in the past.
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Amis, Kingsley
Lucky Jim
Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is
full of things he could happily do without: the tedious and
ridiculous Professor Welch, a neurotic and unstable girlfriend,
Margaret, burnt sheets, medieval recorder music and overenthusiastic students. If he can just deliver a lecture on 'Merrie
England', a moderately successful career surely awaits him. But
without luck, life is never simple ...
Amis, Martin
Pregnant widow
Summer 1970 - a long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a
dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped
inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls are acting
like boys, and the boys are going on acting like boys, and Keith
Nearing - twenty years old, a literature student all clogged up
with the English novel - is struggling to twist feminism and the
rise of women towards his own ends. The sexual revolution may
have been a velvet revolution (in at least two senses), but it
wasn't bloodless - and now, in the twenty-first century, the year
1970 finally catches up with Keith Nearing. The Pregnant Widow
is a comedy of manners and a nightmare, brilliant, haunting and
gloriously risqué.
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Arthur, Max
Dambusters
On 16 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster bomber crews gathered at
a remote RAF station in Lincolnshire for a mission of
extraordinary daring and high risk - a night raid on three crucial
and heavily defended dams deep in the German industrial
heartland. The raiders would have to fly across occupied Europe
at a perilously low level and drop their bombs at a mere 60 feet
above the water to destroy the dam walls. Eight planes never
returned. Bestselling author Max Arthur has collected together
first-hand accounts of the preparation, practise, experimentation
and the raid itself, and the sense of emptiness and loss at RAF
Scampton when 56 men failed to return. From RAF personnel to
German civilians who witnessed the raid, this landmark oral
history collection paints a moving and personal picture of one of
the most famous operations of the Second World War.
Ashworth, Jenn
Kind of intimacy
Annie is morbidly obese, lonely and hopeful. She narrates her
own increasingly bizarre attempts to ingratiate herself with her
new neighbours, learn from past mistakes and achieve a
""certain kind of intimacy"" with the boy next door. Though Annie
struggles to repress a murky history of violence, secrets and
sexual mishaps her past is never too far behind her, finally
shattering her denial in a compelling and bloody climax.
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Atkinson, Kate
When will there
be good news?
Richard and Judy's Best Read of the Year 2009.The story
unfolds in rural Devon, where six-year-old Joanna Mason
witnesses an appalling crime. Thirty years later the man
convicted of the crime is released from prison. In Edinburgh,
sixteen-year-old Reggie works as a nanny for a G.P. But Dr
Hunter has gone missing and Reggie seems to be the only
person who is worried. Across town, Detective Chief Inspector
Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person, unaware
that hurtling towards her is an old friend -- Jackson Brodie -himself on a journey that becomes fatally interrupted.
Atwood, Margaret
The blind
assassin
At the age of 82, Iris still lives in the shadow cast by her younger
sister Laura. Now poor and trying to cope with a failing body, Iris
reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events
surrounding her sister's tragic death. Chief among these was the
publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which earned the
dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult
following. By turns lyrical, outrageous, formidable, compelling
and funny, this is a novel filled with deep humour and dark
drama. Winner of the Booker Prize 2000.
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Austen, Jane
Emma
Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to
get married and instead spends her time organising her
acquaintances' love affairs. Her plans for the matrimonial
success of her new friend Harriet, however, lead her into
complications that ultimately test her own detachment from the
world of romance.
Austen, Jane
Sense and
sensibility
"Sense and Sensibility" is famously characterised as the story of
two Dashwood sisters who embody the conflict between the
oppressive nature of 'civilised' society and the human desire for
romantic passion. However, there is far more to this story of two
daughters made homeless by the death of their father. Elinor,
19, and Marianne, 17, initially project the opposing roles with
Elinor cautious and unassuming about romantic matters, while
Marianne is wild and passionate when she falls hopelessly in
love with the libertine Mr Willoughby. But the lessons in love and
life see the two characters develop and change with sense and
sensibility needing to be compromised as a matter of survival.
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Baggoley, Martin
Murder and crime
in Lancashire
This fascinating collection of local tales and murder cases from
across the county of Lancashire is illustrated with more than 60
archive photographs, reward notices and drawings from the
"Illustrated Police News". Covering more than a century of
criminal history, this chilling catalogue of murderous misdeeds is
sure to horrify and captivate anyone interested in the criminal
history of the area.
Bainbridge, Beryl
Birthday boys
'The birthday boys' is classic Bainbridge - one of her absolute
best. It is a fictional account of Captain Robert Scott's 1910
expedition to Antarctica told from the perspectives of five men
on the voyage: Scott; Petty Officer Taff Evans; ship's medic Dr
Edward Wilson; Lieutenant Henry Bowers; and Captain
Lawrence Oates.
Bainbridge, Beryl
Every man for
himself
For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden
voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering
with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her
labyrinthine passageways are played out the last, secret hours
of a small group of passengers, their fate sealed in prose of
startling, sublime beauty, as Beryl Bainbridge's haunting
masterpiece moves inexorably to its known and terrible end.
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Cocaine nights
Cocaine Nights is an engrossing mystery and unnerving vision
of a society enjoying a life of unlimited leisure. When Charles
Prentice arrives in Spain to investigate his brother's involvement
in the death of five people in a fire in the upmarket coastal resort
of Estrella de Mar, he gradually discovers that beneath the
civilised, cultured surface of this exclusive enclave for Britain's
retired rich there flourishes a secret world of crime, drugs and
illicit sex . What starts as an engrossing mystery develops into a
mesmerising novel of ideas - a dazzling work of the imagination
from one of Britain's most original and controversial novelists.
Stonemouth
Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five years in exile
his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston,
and even though the last time Stu saw the Murstons he was
running for his life, staying away might be even more dangerous
than turning up. An estuary town north of Aberdeen,
Stonemouth, with its five mile beach, can be beautiful on a
sunny day. On a bleak one it can seem to offer little more than
seafog, gangsters, cheap drugs and a suspension bridge
irresistible to suicides. And although there's supposed to be a
temporary truce between Stewart and the town's biggest crime
family, it's soon clear that only Stewart is taking this promise of
peace seriously. Before long Stu steps back into the minefield of
his past to confront his guilt and all that it has lost him,
uncovering ever darker stories. Soon his homecoming takes a
more lethal turn than even he had anticipated. Tough, funny,
fast-paced and touching, Stonemouth cracks open adolescence,
love, brotherhood and vengeance in a rite of passage novel like
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no other.
Banks, Russell
Lost memory of
skin
Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young
man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration.
Known only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a
liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring
device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere
children might gather. With nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up
residence in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex
offenders. Barely beyond childhood himself, the Kid is in many
ways an innocent, trapped by impulses and foolish choices.
Enter the Professor, a man who has built his own life on secrets
and lies. A university sociologist of enormous size and intellect,
he finds in the Kid the perfect subject for his research on
homelessness and reoffending sex offenders. The two men
forge a tentative partnership. But when the Professor's past
resurfaces and threatens to destroy his carefully constructed
world, the balance in the two men's relationship shifts. Suddenly,
the Kid must reconsider everything he has come to believe, and
choose what course of action to take when faced with a new
kind of moral decision.
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Barclay, Linwood
Too close to
home
When the Cutter family's next-door-neighbours, the Langley's,
are gunned down in their house one hot August night, the
Cutters' world is turned upside down. That violent death should
have come so close to them is shocking enough in suburban
Promise Falls, but at least the Cutters can console themselves
with the thought that lightning is unlikely to strike twice in the
same place. Unless, of course, the killers went to the wrong
house...At first the idea seems crazy - but each of the Cutter
family has a secret they'd rather keep buried, and the final
secret - the secret that could save them or destroy them - is in
the one place nobody would ever think of looking...
Barry,
Long long way
A Long Long Way evokes the camaraderie and humour of Willie
and his regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, but also the cruelty
and sadness of war, and the divided loyalties that many Irish
soldiers felt. Tracing their experiences through the course of the
war, the narrative brilliantly explores and dramatises the events
of the Easter Rising within Ireland, and how such a seminal
political moment came to affect those boys off fighting for the
King of England on foreign fields - the paralysing doubts and
divisions it caused them.
Sebastian
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Barry, Sebastian
Long long way
A Long Long Way evokes the camaraderie and humour of Willie
and his regiment, the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, but also the cruelty
and sadness of war, and the divided loyalties that many Irish
soldiers felt. Tracing their experiences through the course of the
war, the narrative brilliantly explores and dramatises the events
of the Easter Rising within Ireland, and how such a seminal
political moment came to affect those boys off fighting for the
King of England on foreign fields - the paralysing doubts and
divisions it caused them.
Barry, Sebastian
Secret scripture
Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces
an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental
hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life
prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this
upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr. Grene, and
their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told through their
respective journals, the story that emerges is at once shocking
and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and
retelling, Roseanne's story becomes an alternative, secret
history of Ireland's changing character and the story of a life
blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked
still by love and passion and hope.
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Bateman, Colin
Mystery man
A superbly gripping and blackly funny mystery by the king of the
comic crime caper. He's the Man With No Name and the owner
of No Alibis, a mystery bookshop in Belfast. But when a
detective agency next door goes bust, the agency's clients start
calling into his shop asking him to solve their cases. Alison, the
beautiful girl in the jewellery shop across the road, will surely be
impressed. Except she's not - because she can see the bigger
picture. And when they break into the shuttered shop next door
on a dare, they have their answer. Suddenly they're catapulted
along a murder trail which leads them from small-time publishing
to Nazi concentration camps and serial killers...
Bauer, Belinda
Dark side
A critically acclaimed thriller – genteel and suspenseful. It is
freezing, mid-winter on Exmoor and in a close-knit community
where no stranger goes unnoticed, a local woman has been
found murdered in her bed. This is local policeman Jonas Holly's
first murder investigation. But he is distracted by anonymous
letters, accusing him of failing to do his job. Taunted by the killer
and sidelined by his abrasive senior detective, Jonas has no
choice but to strike out alone on a terrifying hunt ...but who is
hunting who?
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Bennett, Alan
Uncommon
reader
The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who
drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a
mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. Her reading
naturally changes her world view and her relationship with
people such as the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent
advisers. She comes to question the prescribed order of the
world, and loses patience with much that she has to do. In short,
her reading is subversive. The consequence is, of course,
surprising, mildly shocking and very funny.
Billingham, Mark
In the dark
A rainy night in London. Shots are fired into a car which swerves
on to the pavement, ploughing into a bus stop. It seems that a
chilling gang initiation has cost an innocent victim their life. But
the reality is far more sinister...One life is wiped out and three
more are changed forever: the young man whose finger was on
the trigger; an ageing gangster planning a deadly revenge, and
the pregnant woman who struggles desperately to uncover the
truth. Two weeks away from giving birth, how will she deal with a
world where death is an occupational hazard? Secrets are
uncovered as fast as bodies, and the story's final twist is as
breathtakingly surprising as they come.
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Birch, Carol
Naming of Eliza
Quinn
This is an extraordinarily haunting novel, inspired by a true story.
In the late 1960s, in the hollow of an ancient oak tree beyond a
derelict cottage in Cork, the bones of a three-year-old girl were
found. It was thought that they dated back to the time of the
great potato famine of the mid 1800s. The bones were
discovered by an American woman, who had inherited the
cottage which had lain empty and broken for forty years. Local
searches reveal that the house had originally belonged to The
Quinns. Eliza Quinn was their baby. This is a story that speaks
of generations and of landscapes: abandoned villages, famine
graves, old potato ridges sinking back into the earth, traces of a
population that fell by two and a half million in less than ten
years. It is also about hunger, both physical and emotional. But
above all, it is the story of the Quinn family. And it is Carol
Birch's tour de force.
Bishop, Patrick
Follow me home
High summer in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Two young
soldiers, Milo and Zac, are on a mission which could really make
their names. Their special duties team is to ambush and capture
a notorious Taliban leader. The operation has been meticulously
planned and set up. But suddenly - all is chaos. The hunters are
now the hunted. To reach safety they must make their way
through fifty kilometres of hostile territory, with a Taliban captive
and a young, frightened woman in tow. Perilous at every turn,
the journey is the biggest test any of them has ever faced, and it
will change their lives forever.
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Bolton, S. J.
Blood harvest
Now You See Her...Gillian is haunted by the disappearance of
her little girl two years ago. A devastating fire burned down their
home, but she remains convinced her daughter survived. Now
You Don't...Ten-year-old Tom lives by the town's neglected
churchyard. Is he the only one who sees the strange, solitary
child playing there? And what is she trying to tell him? Now You
Run...There's a new vicar in town - Harry - and he's meeting the
locals. But menacing events suggest he isn't welcome. What
terrible secret is this town hiding?
Bourne, Sam
Righteous man
The Number One bestseller. A religious conspiracy thriller like
no other. Two murders at opposite ends of America, one in the
backstreets of New York City, the other in the backwoods of
Montana. A series of killings in every corner of the globe, from
the crowded slums of India to the pristine beaches of Cape
Town. There can't possibly be a connection. That's the instinct of
Will Monroe, a young, British-born reporter for The New York
Times -- until the morning his beautiful wife Beth is kidnapped.
Desperate, Will follows a trail that leads to a mysterious sect
right on his own doorstep. He will have to break through multiple
layers of mysticism and ancient prophecy, unearthing riddles
buried deep in the Bible -- until he finds the secret that is said to
have animated the world for thousands of years, a secret on
which the fate of humanity may depend. But with more murders
by the hour, and each clue wrapped in layers of code, time is
running out!
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Boyd, William
Restless
It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian
emigree living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the
British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious
Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the
perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, including
those she loves most. Since the war, Eva has carefully rebuilt
her life as a typically English wife and mother. But once a spy,
always a spy. Now she must complete one final assignment, and
this time Eva can't do it alone: she needs her daughter's help.
Boyne, John
Absolutist
September 1919: Twenty-years-old Tristan Sadler takes a train
from London to Norwich to deliver a clutch of letters to Marian
Bancroft. Tristan fought alongside Marian's brother Will during
the Great War. They trained together. They fought together. But
in 1917, Will laid down his guns on the battlefield and declared
himself a conscientious objector, an act which has brought
shame and dishonour on the Bancroft family. The letters,
however, are not the real reason for Tristan's visit. He holds a
secret deep within him. One that he is desperate to unburden
himself of to Marian, if he can only find the courage. Whatever
happens, this meeting will change his life - forever.
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Boyne, John
Boy in the
stripped pyjamas
Shortlisted for Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year
Award: Children's Book of the Year 2007 and British Book
Awards: WH Smith Children's Book of the Year Award 2007. A
story of innocence existing within the most terrible evil, this is the
fictional tale of two young boys caught up in events entirely
beyond their control.
Boyne, John
House of special
purpose
Russia, 1915: Sixteen year old farmer's son Georgy Jachmenev
steps in front of an assassin's bullet intended for a senior
member of the Russian Imperial Family and is instantly
proclaimed a hero. Rewarded with the position of bodyguard to
Alexei Romanov, the only son of Tsar Nicholas II, the course of
his life is changed for ever. Sixty-five years later, visiting his
wife Zoya as she lies in a London hospital, memories of the life
they have lived together flood his mind. And with them, the
consequences of the brutal fate of the Romanovs which has
hung like a shroud over every aspect of their marriage...
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Bragg, Melvyn
Remember me
A passionate but ultimately tragic love affair starts when two
students, one French, one English, meet at university at the
beginning of the sixties. From its tentative early stages, the
relationship develops into a life-changing one, whose profound
impact continues to reverberate forty years later. 'Daring and
brave...With great skill and stunning insight, Bragg doesn't just
tell a very tragic tale, he explores what it really means to love
and be loved...eclipses anything Bragg has written before' Henry
Sutton, Daily Mirror.
Brockmeier, Kevin
Brief history of
the dead
Laura Byrd is in trouble. Three weeks ago she and her friends
found themselves alone in one of the coldest, most remote
places on earth. Her friends set out in search of help, and now
Laura realises that they are not coming back...The Brief History
of the Dead tells a magical story about our lives - about our
place in the world, our connections with each other, and what
happens to us all after our deaths. It is a story of spellbinding
power and imagination, which resonates long after the final
page.
Bronte, Charlotte
Jane Eyre
Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless
Aunt, where she endures loneliness and cruelty, and at a charity
school with a harsh regime. This troubled childhood strengthens
Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary
when she finds a position as governess at Thornfield Hall. But
when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the
discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a choice.
Should she stay with him and live with the consequences, or
follow her convictions, even if it means leaving the man she
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Bronte, Emily
Wuthering
heights
One of the greatest love stories ever told. Cathy and Heathcliff,
childhood friends, are cruelly separated by class, fate and the
actions of others. But uniting them is something even stronger:
an all-consuming passion that sweeps away everything that
comes between them. Even death!
Brookmyre, Chris
Where the bodies
are buried
Detective Catherine McLeod was always taught that in Glasgow,
they don't do whodunit. They do score-settling, vendettas and
petty revenge. And however she looks at it, the discovery of a
dead drug-dealer in a back alley means she's going to be busy.
Meanwhile, aspiring actress Jasmine Sharp is reluctantly - and
incompetently - working for her uncle Jim's private investigation
business. When Jim goes missing, Jasmine has to take on the
investigator mantle for real, and her only lead points to a
professional assassin who has been dead for twenty years.
Soon Jasmine stumbles into a web of corruption and secrets
that leaves her running for her life.
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Brooks, Geraldine
People of the
book
The new novel from the author of 'March' and 'Year of Wonders'
takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young
book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure.
When Hannah Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her
Sydney home about a precious medieval manuscript which has
been recovered from the smouldering ruins of war torn Sarajevo,
she knows she is on the brink of the experience of a lifetime. But
the trip will also set in motion a series of events that threaten to
rock Hannah's orderly life, including her encounter with Ozren
Karamen, the young librarian who risked his life to save the
book. 'People of the Book' is a gripping and moving novel about
war, art, love and survival.
Brunt, Carol Rifka
Tell the wolves
I'm home
There's only one person who has ever truly understood
fourteen-year-old June Elbus, and that's her uncle, the
renowned painter, Finn Weiss. Shy at school and distant from
her once inseparable older sister, June can only be herself in
Finn's company; he is her godfather, confident, and best friend.
So when he dies far too young of a mysterious illness that
June's mother can barely bring herself to discuss, June's world
is turned upside down. At the funeral, she notices a strange man
lingering just beyond the crowd, and a few days later, June
receives a package in the mail. Inside is a beautiful teapot she
recognizes from Finn's apartment, and a note from Toby, the
stranger, asking for an opportunity to meet. As the two begin to
spend time together, June realises she's not the only one who
misses Finn, and if she can bring herself to trust this unexpected
friend, he might just be the one she needs the most. Tell the
Wolves I'm Home is a tender story of love lost and found, an
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again.
Buckley, Jonathan
So he takes the
dog
A stunning novel which examines our fears, prejudices and
desires. On a beach in southern England, a dog returns to its
owner with a human hand in its mouth. The hand belongs to a
homeless eccentric named Henry, who has been wandering the
south-west of England for the last thirty years. As the story of
Henry's life becomes clearer, so the life of the narrator becomes
more and more complex, in ways he could never have expected.
'So He Takes the Dog' is a detective story like no other.
Burgess, Anthony
Clockwork
orange
"A Clockwork Orange" is the daring and electrifying book by
Anthony Burgess that inspired one of the most notorious films
ever made, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin
Essentials range. In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt,
fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy
of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his
teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at
what cost? Social prophecy? Black comedy? Study of freewill? A
"Clockwork Orange" is all of these. It is also a dazzling
experiment in language, as Burgess creates a new language 'nadsat', the teenage slang of a not-too-distant future.
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Summer of
drowning
A terrifying and dream-like new novel from one of our greatest
contemporary writers. Set in the white nights of an Arctic
summer, the novel has the heightened, hallucinogenic
atmosphere of a dream, but culminates in a moment of profound
horror. Intensely imagined and exquisitely written, A Summer of
Drowning is a play of dark and light, of looking and seeing, that
will hold and haunt every reader. Shortlisted for Costa Novel
Award 2011.
Butler, John
Serendipity
In 'Serendipity' a miscellany of sort stories, there is something
for everyone. If your taste is humour there are plenty including
'It's No Laughing Matter', 'Stop! ...Don't Go Any Further'. There
are slices of real life in 'Arthur', 'Lanky Franky', 'Death of the
Hindenburg' and 'My Only Sunshine'. There is satire and
irreligious ones - written without any malice. In the animal stories
'The Dog', 'The Gulls' Court' and 'The Camel' I have given
myself full rein and enjoyed exercising anthropomorphism. In
short 'Serendipity' is the word - take a dip and find your winner. I
hope while reading these stories you will be able to share the
enjoyment that I felt when writing them.
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Heart-shaped
bruise
A compelling, brutal and heart-breaking story about identity,
infamy and revenge, from debut author Tanya Byrne. Shortlisted
for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2012. They say
I'm evil. The police. The newspapers. The girls from school who
sigh on the six o'clock news and say they always knew there
was something not quite right about me. And everyone believes
it. Including you. But you don't know. You don't know who I used
to be. Who I could have been. Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever
shake off my mistakes or if I'll just carry them around with me
forever like a bunch of red balloons. Awaiting trial at Archway
Young Offenders Institution, Emily Koll is going to tell her side of
the story for the first time.
Camilleri, Andrea
Paper moon
As he gets older, Inspector Montalbano is plagued by existential
questions. But he doesn't have much time to wax philosophical
before the gruesome murder of a man - shot in the face at pointblank range with his pants down - commands his attention. Add
two evasive, beautiful women as prime suspects, dirty cocaine,
dead politicians, mysterious computer codes, and a series of
threatening letters, and things soon get very complicated at the
police headquarters in Vigata.
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Food of love
Laura Patterson is an American exchange student in Rome who,
fed up with being inexpertly groped by her young Italian beaus,
decides there's only one sure-fire way to find a sensual man:
date a chef. Then she meets Tomasso, who's handsome, young
- and cooks in the exclusive Templi restaurant. Perfect. Except,
unbeknownst to Laura, Tomasso is in fact only a waiter at
Templi -- it's his shy friend Bruno who is the chef. A delicious
tale of Cyrano de Bergerac-style culinary seduction, but with
sensual recipes instead of love poems.
Cartwright, Justin
Promise of
happiness
The Judds, formerly of London N1, now scattered, are about to
be thrown together again by the eldest child Juliet's release from
prison in New York. The family is devastated by Juliet's
conviction for art theft. The nature of this theft and the reasons
for it plague all the protagonists. A powerful elegy to the idiocies
and intimacies of family love, this is the captivating story of an
apparently ordinary English family caught up in uncontrollable
events, united again, as much by apprehension as celebration
on the return of the prodigal daughter.
Cash, Wiley
A land more kind
than home
One Sunday nine-year-old Jess Hall watches in horror as his
autistic brother is smothered during a healing service in the
mountains of North Carolina. Wiley Cash uses this haunting
image - inspired by a horrific true event - to spin us into a
spellbinding, heartbreaking story about cruelty and innocence,
and the failure of faith and family to protect a child. This is a
novel thick with stories and characters connected by faith,
infidelity, and a sense of hope that is both tragic and
unforgettable.
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Fear
This is a rediscovered - and controversial - classic of war
literature. It is 1915. Jean Dartemont is just a young man. He is
not a rebel, but neither is he awed by authority and when he's
called up and given only the most rudimentary training, he
refuses to follow his platoon. Instead, he is sent to Artois, where
he experiences the relentless death and violence of the
trenches. His reprieve finally comes when he is wounded,
evacuated and hospitalised. The nurses consider it their duty to
stimulate the soldiers' fighting spirit, and so ask Jean what he
did at the front. His reply? 'I was afraid.' First published in 1930,
"Fear" is both graphic and clear-eyed in its depiction of the
terrible experiences of soldiers during the First World War.
Child, Lee
Killing floor
Killing Floor presents Jack Reacher for the first time, as the
tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode: a righter of wrongs, the
perfect action hero. Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen
miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary
decision he's about to regret. Reacher is the only stranger in
town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years.
The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness
to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out, and the
body count mounts, one thing is for sure. They picked the wrong
guy to take the fall.
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Murder on the
Orient Express
Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery - Just after
midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The
luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by
the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies
dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door
locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst,
detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer - in case he
or she decides to strike again.
Coake, Christopher
You came back
Praised by Nick Hornby and singled out by Granta magazine as
one of the best young writers in America, Christopher Coake has
written a heart-stopping first novel about love and loss, grieving
and belief. Mark Fife thinks he has got over the death of his son
Brendan in an accident and the break-up of his marriage. He's in
love again, he's successful and he believes he has grieved
properly. But when a crazy woman claims Brendan's ghost is
back in their old house, and his ex-wife wants so much to
believe her, Mark finds himself desperately trying to cling on to
his sanity. And desperately trying to discover where his future
lies. 'You Came Back', is a modern ghost story, a Lovely Bones
for our time.
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Hold tight
Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they'd become the type of
overprotective parents who spy on their kids. But their sixteenyear-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately, and after
the suicide of his classmate Spencer, they can't help but worry.
They install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer,
and within days they are jolted by a message from an unknown
correspondent addressed to their son: 'Just stay quiet and all
safe.' It soon becomes clear that something deep and sinister
has infected their community...
Coelho, Paul
The alchemist
A global phenomenon, The Alchemist has been read and loved
by over 62 million readers, topping bestseller lists in 74 countries
worldwide - A beautiful parable about learning to listen to your
heart, read the omens strewn along the way. The story revolves
around Santiago, a young shepherd living in the hills of
Andalucía who finds the courage to follow his dreams into
distant lands, each step galvanised by the knowledge that he is
following the right path: his own. The people he meets along the
way, the things he sees and the wisdom he learns are lifechanging. The Alchemist is a story with the power to inspire
nations and change people's lives.
Coleman, Rebecca
Kingdom of
childhood
'It's the job of adults to teach teenagers to be responsible. That's
what grownups do.' You've fallen for your son's best friend. You
are a teacher. You are abusing your power, your
responsibility...your student. You know it's wrong. But you
cannot stop. I suppose in the beginning it was a love story. 'The
danger loomed much larger than I had feared. Not because he
might report me. But because he would not.' Controversial,
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about The Kingdom Of Childhood.
Collins, James
Love in the air
Peter works for a prestigious financial firm on Wall Street, and
Holly teaches Latin at a private girls' school - when they sit next
to each other on a plane journey, an intoxicating tale of
romance, coincidence and thwarted plans starts to unfold. The
result is a debut novel that is charming, fresh, clever and
beautifully written; a deeply romantic story about the
transformative power of love.
Collins, Wilkie
Moonstone
When Rachel Verinder receives a gift of an astonishing yellow
diamond from her bitter old uncle for her eighteenth birthday,
she has no idea that the stone brings great danger with it. When
the diamond goes missing during the night the ensuing
investigations gradually bring to light the sinister history of the
jewel and the passions and plots of those close to Rachel.
Collins, Wilkie
Woman in white
In love with the beautiful heiress Laura Fairlie, the impoverished
art teacher Walter Henright finds his romantic designs thwarted
by the scheming of the wicked Sir Percival Glyde and his sinister
ally Count Fosco. The mystery and intrigue are deepened by the
ghostly appearances of a woman in white, harbouring a secret
that concerns Sir Percival's past. A tale of love, madness and
identity, boasting sublime Gothic settings and pulse-quickening
suspense, "The Woman in White" was the first best-selling
Victorian sensation novel, sparking off a huge trend in the fiction
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Connelly, Michael
Brass verdict
Defence lawyer Mickey Haller has had some problems but now
he's put all that behind him and is ready to resume his career.
Then another lawyer, Vincent, dies, and Haller gets an
unexpected windfall: he inherits all Vincent's clients - putting his
stalled career back on track at a stroke. Not only that, but
Vincent had taken on a high profile and potentially lucrative
murder case. It'll be a trial that promises big fees and an even
bigger place in the media spotlight - and if Mickey can win
against the odds, he'd really be back in the big leagues. The
only problem is the detective handling the case - a certain Harry
Bosch - is convinced the killer must be one of Vincent's clients.
Suddenly Mickey is faced with the biggest challenge of his
career: how to successfully defend a client who might just be
planning to murder him.
Connolly, John
Reapers
They are the Reapers, the elite among killers. Men so terrifying
that their names are mentioned only in whispers. The assassin
Louis is one of them. But now Louis, and his partner, Angel, are
themselves targets. And there is no shortage of suspects. A
wealthy recluse sends them north to a town that no longer exists
on a map. There they find themselves trapped, isolated, and at
the mercy of a killer feared above all others: the assassin of
assassins, Bliss. Thanks to former detective Charlie Parker, help
is on its way. But can Angel and Louis stay alive long enough for
it to reach them?
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My dearest Jonah Introduced via a pen-pal scheme, Verity and Jonah write their
lives, hopes and dreams to one another without ever having
met. Verity is a fragile beauty. When a dangerous sequence of
events is set in motion, she tries to explain to Jonah, what led
her to unravel so spectacularly. Jonah has been released after
years of imprisonment, and embarks upon the quiet life he's
always wanted. But then a dark reminder shatters his world,
keen to make history repeat itself. Offering the sole strand of
stability in two progressively elaborate lives, they develop a
deep and delicate love, a love that becomes clouded and
threatened by increasingly dark forces.
Cummings, Charles
Trinity six
The most explosive secret of the Cold War could be exposed:
but the bigger the lie, the more ruthlessly it will be protected!
Hard-up Russia expert Dr Sam Gaddis finally has a lead for the
book that could solve all his career problems. But the story of a
lifetime becomes an obsession that could kill him. When his
source is found dead, Gaddis is alone on the trail of the Cold
War's deadliest secret: the undiscovered sixth member of the
infamous Cambridge spy ring. Suddenly threatened at every
step and caught between two beautiful women, both with access
to crucial evidence, Sam cannot trust anyone. To get his life
back, he must chase shadows through Europe's corridors of
power.
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By Battersea
Bridge
Anita Mostyn feels the need to take a holiday from her life. As a
child, she was dismissed by her parents in favour of her more
confident brothers, and as an adult, her choices are disapproved
of - the small art gallery she works for, the friends she makes,
the men she sees. On a whim, she takes up an offer to scout for
holiday properties in Bulgaria, escaping the impending second
wedding of her perfect brother. But as Anita navigates these
difficult waters, a horrifying episode in her past - the thing she
has really been trying to escape - comes back to haunt her.
Davies, Martin
Unicorn Road
A young woman leaves her home, summoned to the emperor's
court and a husband she barely knows. On the other side of the
world, a famous scholar is sent to find and collect the mysterious
beasts of legend in the unknown lands of the East. He takes with
him an interpreter, Venn, famous for his special gift with
language. The two groups of travellers are destined to cross
paths, revealing the secret motives and hidden passions of
those who are brought together.
Davies, Martin
Year after
Home of the Danesbury family, Hannesford Court was always
Tom's sanctuary. But in the summer of 1914 – in the last weeks
before the war- its famous tranquillity was shattered. Now, after
five years in uniform, Tom returns to London where he receives
an invitation from Margot Stansbury...to spend Christmas at
Hannesford Court. Soon he is caught up in a web of secrets and
deceptions that he could never have imagined. The more he
uncovers the truth behind the fateful events of that summer, the
more he realises that he never really knew Hannesford and its
people at all.
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Davitt, Jacqueline
Murder and
crime: Pendle
and the Ribble
Valley
Dawkins, Richard
God delusion
Illustrated with more than 60 archive images, this collection of
true tales from across the Ribble Valley provides a fascinating
record of crime and punishment over the centuries. From
terrifying tales of the dark magic of the Pendle Witches, to
newspaper reports of petty theft and drunkenness, almost every
kind of unlawful activity is included here. Considering the unique
circumstances behind each offence, as well as the inevitable
consequence of punishment, this book will horrify and captivate
anyone interested in the criminal history of the area.
"The God Delusion" caused a sensation when it was published
in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic,
with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for
presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all
types. Dawkins attacks God in all his forms. He eviscerates the
major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme
improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels
war, foments bigotry and abuses children. "The God Delusion" is
a brilliantly argued, fascinating polemic that will be required
reading for anyone interested in this most emotional and
important subject. Shortlisted for Independent Booksellers' Book
of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2007 and British
Book Awards: Book of the Year 2007.
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Palace of strange
girls
Winner of Portico Prize for Literature: Fiction 2008. Blackpool,
1959 and the Singleton family are on holiday. For seven-yearold Beth, just out of hospital, this means struggling to fill in her 'ISpy' book and avoiding her mother Ruth's eagle-eyed
supervision. Her sixteen-year-old sister Helen, meanwhile, has
befriended a waitress whose fun-loving ways hint at a life
beyond Ruth's strict rules. But times are changing. Over the
holiday week, all four Singletons must struggle to find their place
in a shifting world of promenade amusements, illicit sex and
stilted afternoon teas, in this touching and extraordinarily
evocative novel.
Dean, Debra
Madonnas of
Leningrad
A brilliant and moving debut novel about one woman's struggle
to preserve an artistic heritage from the horrors and destruction
of World War II, and the ensuing lifelong memories from this
extraordinary experience. In this extraordinary first novel by
Debra Dean, the siege of Leningrad by German troops in World
War II is echoed by the destructive siege against the mind and
memory of an elderly Russian woman. The novel shifts between
Marina's experiences at the Hermitage during the siege of
Leningrad and her current existence as a very old lady in
America whose mind has begun to fray.
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Broken window
He is watching you. He knows you, better than you know
yourself. And he is using his knowledge to plan your death. But
you are not his only victim. He is also watching your killer. He is
about to get away with the perfect murder ...
DeBlasi, Marlena
Thousand days in 'A thousand days in Venice' is filled with the foods and flavours
Venice
of Italy and peppered with recipes and culinary observations. But
the main course here is about a woman who falls in love with
both a man and a city, and finally finds the home she didn't know
she was missing.
Delaney, Joseph
Spook's
apprentice
A wonderful and terrifying novel about a young boy training to be
an exorcist. Thomas Ward is the seventh son of a seventh son
and has been apprenticed to the local Spook. The job is hard,
the Spook is distant and many apprentices have failed before
Thomas. Somehow Thomas must learn how to exorcise ghosts,
contain witches and bind boggarts. But when he is tricked into
freeing Mother Malkin, the most evil witch in the County, the
horror begins...
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Christmas carol
Ebenezer Scrooge is unimpressed by Christmas. He has no
time for festivities or goodwill toward his fellow men and is only
interested in money. Then, on the night of Christmas Eve, his life
is changed by a series of ghostly visitations that show him some
bitter truths about his choices. "A Christmas Carol" is Dickens'
most influential book and a funny, clever and hugely enjoyable
story.
Dickens, Charles
David
Copperfield
When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his
childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which
will lead him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak
and friendship and betrayal. Over the course of his adventures,
David meets an array of eccentric characters and learns hard
lessons about the world before he finally discovers true
happiness.
Dickens, Charles
Dombey and son
Mr Dombey is a man obsessed with his firm. His son is groomed
from birth to take his place within it, despite his visionary
eccentricity and declining health. But Dombey also has a
daughter, whose unfailing love for her father goes unreturned.
When Walter Gay, a young clerk in her father's office, rescues
her from a bewildering experience in the streets of London, his
unforgettable friends believe he is well on his way to receiving
her hand in marriage and inheriting the company. It is to be a
very different type of story.
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Great
expectations
Young orphan Pip finds his life changed forever when he helps
escaped convict Magwitch, and falls impossibly in love with
Estella, the beautiful, icy charge of bitter Miss Haversham. Then
an anonymous well-wisher gives him money to begin a new life
in London. Are these events random? Or does Pip's fate hang
on a series of coincidences he could never have expected?
Dickens, Charles
Hard times
'Hard Times' is Dickens's shortest novel, and arguably his
greatest triumph. Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr
Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian
success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans
fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence his
obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and
'bully of humanity' Mr Bounderby, and his son Tom rebels to
become embroiled in gambling and robbery. And, as their
fortunes cross with those of free-spirited circus girl Sissy Jupe
and victimized weaver Stephen Blackpool, Gradgrind is
eventually forced to recognize the value of the human heart in
an age of materialism and machinery.
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Oliver Twist
'Oliver Twist has asked for more!' Fleeing the workhouse, Oliver
finds himself taken under the wing of the Artful Dodger and
caught up with a group of pickpockets in London. As he tries to
free himself from their clutches he becomes immersed in the
seedy underbelly of the Capital, amongst criminals, prostitutes
and the homeless. Dickens scathing attack on the cruelness of
Victorian Society features some of his most memorable and
enduring characters, including innocent Oliver himself, the Artful
Dodger, Fagin, Bill Sikes and Nancy.
Dickens, Charles
Pickwick papers
"The Pickwick Papers" was Dickens' first novel and was a huge
success when it was first published. It tells the tale of the
irrepressible Mr Pickwick and his fellow Pickwick Club members
who travel around the English countryside getting into all kinds
of scrapes and adventures. Funny, warm-hearted and full of
memorable and engaging characters, this is an enchanting novel
that continues to delight readers today.
Dickens, Charles
Tale of two cities
Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen
years while he languished in Paris' most feared prison, the
Bastille. Finally reunited, the Manettes' fortunes become
inextricably intertwined with those of two men, the heroic
aristocrat Darnay and the dissolute lawyer Carton. Their story,
which encompasses violence, revenge, love and redemption, is
grippingly played out against the backdrop of the terrifying
brutality of the French Revolution.
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Room
Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked
room. They don't have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners.
Winner of Channel 4 TV Book Club Best Read 2011 and Galaxy
National Book Awards, this book will break your heart. It is a
vivid, radiant and beautiful expression of maternal love, both
startlingly original and moving.
Donoghue, Emma
Sealed letter
After a separation of many years, Emily 'Fido' Faithfull bumps
into her old friend Helen Codrington on the streets of Victorian
London. Much has changed: Helen is more and more unhappy
in her marriage to the older Vice-Admiral Codrington, while Fido
has become a successful woman of business and a pioneer in
the British Women's Movement. But, for all her independence of
mind, Fido is too trusting of her once-dear companion and finds
herself drawn into aiding Helen's obsessive affair with a young
army officer. Then, when the Vice-Admiral seizes the children
and sues for divorce, the women's friendship unravels amid
accusations of adultery and counter-accusations of cruelty and
attempted rape, as well as a mysterious 'sealed letter' that could
destroy more than one life ...
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Behind closed
doors
There's an instinct all investigators share: the lure of the curious.
We're like collectors rummaging through the shadowy corners of
a bric-a-brac shop; we just can't resist intrigue when it pops up.
PI Eddie Flynn is having a bad day. When some snot-nosed kid
barges in with a story about a missing girl, it doesn't get any
better - especially since Rebecca Slater's parents say nothing's
wrong. Problem is, the family are telling lies. Before he knows it
Flynn's following a trail that leads out of the Slaters' mansion
and straight into the gutter. Down among the rats Rebecca's not
the only girl who's missing - and in a game where there's no
such thing as coincidence, how long will it be before Flynn
disappears too?
Dumas, Alexandre
Count of Monte
Cristo
Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Edmond Dantes
spends fourteen bitter years in a dungeon. When his daring
escape plan works he uses all he has learnt during his
incarceration to mastermind an elaborate plan of revenge that
will bring punishment to those he holds responsible for his fate.
No longer the naive sailor who disappeared into the dark fortress
all those years ago, he reinvents himself as the charming,
mysterious and powerful Count of Monte Cristo.
DuMaurier, Daphne
House on the
Strand
Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor
Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea
pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his
biochemical researches. The effect of this drug is to transport
Dick from the house at Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the 14th
century. There, in the manor of Tywardreath, the domain of Sir
Henry Champernoune, he witnesses intrigue, adultery and
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murder. As his time travelling increases, Dick resents more and
more the days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever
more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before ...
Duffy, Carol Ann
The world's wife
A collection of poems, each of which takes a famous male
person or character - Midas, Darwin, Quasimodo, Pontious
Pilate, King Kong - and presents their story from the perspective
of the lesser-known wife.
Du Maurier, Daphne
House on the
strand
Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend, Professor
Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea
pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his
biochemical researches. The effect of this drug is to transport
Dick from the house at Kilmarth to the Cornwall of the 14th
century. There, in the manor of Tywardreath, the domain of Sir
Henry Champernoune, he witnesses intrigue, adultery and
murder. As his time travelling increases, Dick resents more and
more the days he must spend in the modern world, longing ever
more fervently to get back into his world of centuries before ...
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Memory keeper's
daughter
It should have been an ordinary birth, the start of an ordinary
happy family. But the night Dr David Henry delivers his wife's
twins is a night that will haunt five lives for ever. For though
David's son is a healthy boy, his daughter has Down's
syndrome. And, in a shocking act of betrayal whose
consequences only time will reveal, he tells his wife their
daughter died while secretly entrusting her care to a nurse. As
grief quietly tears apart David's family, so a little girl must make
her own way in the world as best she can. Winner of British
Book Awards: Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award 2008.
Egan, Jennifer
Look at me
Reconstructive facial surgery after a car crash so alters
Manhattan model Charlotte that, within the fashion world, where
one's look is oneself, she is unrecognizable. Seeking a new
image, Charlotte engages in an Internet experiment that may
both save and damn her. As her story eerily converges with that
of a plain, unhappy teenager - another Charlotte - it raises
tantalizing questions about identity and reality in contemporary
Western culture. Jennifer Egan's bold, innovative novel,
demonstrating her virtuosity at weaving a spellbinding, ambitious
tale with language that dazzles, captures the spirit of our times
and offers an unsettling glimpse of the future.
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Relic
A golden relic, containing an ancient manuscript that could
change the course of history, has been hidden in a monastery.
But nobody knows where. One determined man sets out to find
this sensational artefact and to trace its origins. His quest takes
him via a scientific intelligence organization in London, a Middle
Eastern outpost and a Crusaders' castle, as layer by layer he
reveals the religious mysteries inside the Shrine of Sacred
Secrets. Coined by critics as 'The Norwegian Da Vinci Code',
Relic is a masterful concoction of history and intrigue.
Ellory, R. J.
Quiet belief in
angels
Joseph Vaughan's life has been dogged by tragedy. Growing up
in the 1950s, he was at the centre of series of killings of young
girls in his small rural community. The girls were taken,
assaulted and left horribly mutilated. Barely a teenager himself,
Joseph becomes determined to try to protect his community and
classmates from the predations of the killer. But no one was
ever caught. Only after a full ten years did the nightmare end
when the one of his neighbours is found hanging from a rope,
with articles from the dead girls around him. Thankfully, the
killings finally ceased. But the past won't stay buried - for it
seems that the real murderer still lives and is killing again. And
the secret of his identity lies in Joseph's own history...
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Simple act of
violence
Washington, embroiled in the mid-term elections, did not want to
hear about serial killings. But when the newspapers reported a
fourth murder, when they gave the killer a name and details of
his horrendous crimes, there were few people that could ignore
it. Detective Robert Miller is assigned to the case, and rapidly
uncovers a complication. The victims do not officially exist. Their
personal details do not register on any known systems. And as
Miller unearths ever more disturbing facts, he starts to face
truths so far-removed from his own reality that he begins to fear
for his life. Winner of Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of
the Year 2010.
Elton, Ben
First casualty
Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is
shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from
shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is
arrested and, although he protests his innocence, charged with
his murder. Douglas Kingsley is a conscientious objector,
previously a detective with the London police, now imprisoned
for his beliefs. He is released and sent to France in order to
secure a conviction. Forced to conduct his investigations amidst
the hell of The Third Battle of Ypres, Kingsley soon discovers
that both the evidence and the witnesses he needs are quite
literally disappearing into the mud that surrounds him. Ben
Elton's tenth novel is a gut-wrenching historical drama which
explores some fundamental questions. What is murder? What is
justice in the face of unimaginable daily slaughter? And where is
the honour in saving a man from the gallows if he is only to be
returned to die in a suicidal battle? As the gap between legallysanctioned and illegal murder becomes evermore blurred,
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Eng, Tan Twan
Garden of
evening mists
Shortlisted for the man booker prize 2012. Malaya, 1949. After
studying law at Cambridge and time spent helping to prosecute
Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh, herself the scarred lone
survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace
among the jungle fringed plantations of Northern Malaya where
she grew up as a child. There she discovers Yugiri, the only
Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the
enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the Emperor of
Japan. As the months pass, Yun Ling finds herself intimately
drawn to her sensei and his art while, outside the garden, the
threat of murder and kidnapping from the guerrillas of the jungle
hinterland increases with each passing day. But the Garden of
Evening Mists is also a place of mystery. Who is Aritomo and
how did he come to leave Japan? Why is it that Yun Ling's friend
and host Magnus Praetorius, seems to almost immune from the
depredations of the Communists? What is the legend of
'Yamashita's Gold' and does it have any basis in fact? And is the
real story of how Yun Ling managed to survive the war perhaps
the darkest secret of all?
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Painted drum
From one of the most gifted bestselling American novelists
comes this elegantly crafted novel that explores the strange
power that lost children exert on the memories of those they
leave behind. Through Faye, we experience her anguished
relationship with a local sculptor who also mourns the loss of a
daughter, and witness the life Faye has made alone with her
mother, in the shadow of her sister's death. Erdrich poetically
captures the intricate, transformative rhythms of human grief that
these losses create within her characters with grace, wit,
captivating prose and surprising beauty.
Fallada, Hans
Alone in Berlin
It's Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on
55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi
rule in their different ways: the bullying Hitler loyalists the
Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple
Otto and Anna Quangel. Then the Quangels receive the news
that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France.
Shocked out of their quiet existence, they begin a silent
campaign of defiance, and a deadly game of cat and mouse
develops between the Quangels and the ambitious Gestapo
inspector Escherich. When petty criminals Kluge and
Borkhausen also become involved, deception, betrayal and
murder ensue, tightening the noose around the Quangels'
necks...
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Way things look
to me
At 23, Asif is less than he wanted to be. His mother's sudden
death forced him back home to look after his youngest sister,
Yasmin, and he leads a frustrating life, ruled by her exacting
need for routine. Lila has escaped from home, abandoning Asif
to be the sole carer of their difficult sister. She leads a wayward
existence, drifting between jobs and men, obsessed with her
looks and certain that her value is only skin deep. And then
there is Yasmin, who has no idea of the resentment she has
caused. Who sees music in colour and remembers that
sometimes her head hurts. Who doesn't feel happy, but who
knows that she is special. Who has a devastating plan! "The
Way Things Look To Me" is an affecting, comically tender
portrayal of a family in crisis, caught between duty and love in a
tangled relationship both bitter and bittersweet.
Faulks, Sebastian
Devil may care
Bond is back. With a vengeance. M has summoned agent 007 to
London. It's the swinging Sixties and a flood of narcotics is
pouring into Britain. Sinister industrialist Dr Julius Gorner is
identified as the source and James Bond is dispatched to
investigate. The trail takes Bond to Paris and then Persia where the beautiful and enigmatic twins Scarlett and Poppy lead
him to Gorner's secret desert headquarters. Here, Bond
uncovers Gorner's cold-blooded plans for world domination.
Only by playing Gorner's twisted game can Bond stop him.
Winner of Galaxy British Book Awards: Sainsbury's Popular
Fiction Award 2009.
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Engleby
Mike Engleby, a working-class boy wins a place at an esteemed
English university. But with the disappearance of Jennifer, the
undergraduate Engleby admires from afar, the story turns into a
mystery of gripping power. Sebastian Faulks's new novel is a
bolt from the blue, unlike anything he has ever written before:
contemporary, demotic, heart-wrenching - and funny, in the
deepest shade of black.
Faulks, Sebastian
Fool's alphabet
The events of Pietro Russell's life are told in 26 chapters. From
A-Z each chapter is set in a different place and reveals a
fragment of his story. As his memories flicker back and forth
through time in his search for a resolution to the conflicts of his
life, his story gradually unfolds...
Faulks, Sebastian
Possible life
Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his
eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket
ground in Hampshire. Across the courtyard in a Victorian
workhouse, a father too ashamed to acknowledge his son. A
skinny girl steps out of a Chevy with a guitar; her voice sends
shivers through the skull. Soldiers and lovers, parents and
children, scientists and musicians risk their bodies and hearts in
search of connection...some key to understanding what makes
us the people we become. Provocative and profound, Sebastian
Faulks' dazzling novel journeys across continents and time to
explore the chaos created by love, separation and missed
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opportunities. From the pain and drama of these highly particular
lives emerges a mysterious consolation: the chance to feel your
heart beat in someone else's life.
Fine, Anne
Up on cloud nine
Ian's best friend - his next-door neighbour, Stolly, who is like a
brother to him - is in hospital. Again. For Stolly has always had
accident after accident and, through Ian's memories as he sits
and waits for Stolly to wake up, we discover just what a
remarkable character Stolly is. And just how funny some of his
experiences have been. A moving, powerful and dramatic novel
- intelligent, funny and true.
Fitzek, Sebastian
Splinter
Have you ever done something you wish you could forget?
Wracked with grief after an accident killed his wife and unborn
child, all Marc Lucas wants is to wipe his memory. Until he
returns home one night to find that his key doesn't fit in the lock
and his wife is alive, well and pregnant - but claims not to
recognise him. Marc is drawn into a nightmare world, one where
it's impossible to separate reality from fiction. Is he going mad?
Or is there a conspiracy at work - one that could cost him his
memory, his sanity...even his life.
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott
This side of
paradise
This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine as he
grows from pampered childhood to young adulthood, and learns
to know himself better. As he moves out into the world and tries
to find his true direction he falls in love with a succession of
beautiful young women. Youthful exuberance and immaturity
give way to disillusion and disappointment as Amory confronts
the realities of life. The novel's frank description of Amory's love
affairs shocked and delighted its first readers. Brilliant and
original in style and structure.
Fletcher, Susan
Oystercatchers
Moira knows this: that she's been a poor daughter, and a
deceptive wife. But it is as Amy lies half-dying that she sees the
real truth: she's been a cruel sister, and it is this cruelty that has
led them both here, to this hospital bed. A novel about trust, loss
and loneliness, 'Oystercatchers' is a love story with a profound
darkness at its core.
Flynn, Gillian
Gone girl
'What are you thinking, Amy?' The question I've asked most
often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person
who could answer. I suppose these questions storm cloud over
every marriage: 'What are you thinking? How are you feeling?
Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we
do?' Just how well can you ever know the person you love? This
is the question that Nick Dunne must ask himself on the morning
of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly
disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy's friends
reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him.
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He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer
shows strange searches. He says they aren't his. And then there
are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did
happen to Nick's beautiful wife? And what was in that halfwrapped box left so casually on their marital bed? In this novel,
marriage truly is the art of war...
Foley, Winifred
Full hearts &
empty bellies
Winifred Foley grew up in the 1920s, a bright, determined
miner's daughter - in a world of unspoilt beauty and desperate
hardship, in which women were widowed at thirty and children
died of starvation. Living hand-to-mouth in a tumbledown
cottage in the Forest of Dean, Foley - 'our Poll' - had a loving
family and the woods and streams of a forest 'better than
heaven' as a playground. But a brother and sister were dead in
infancy, bread had to be begged from kindly neighbours and she
never had a new pair of shoes or a shop-bought doll. And most
terrible of all, at age fourteen, little Poll had to leave for the city,
bound for a life in service among London's grey terraces.
Ford, Ford Madox
Good soldier
'This is the saddest story I have ever heard.' Wealthy American
John Dowell describes in a disarmingly casual, compellingly
intimate manner how he and his wife Florence meet an English
couple in a German spa resort. They become friends over the
years and gradually the history of their relationships and the
passions that lie behind the orderly Edwardian facade are
unveiled. Dowell is the archetypal 'unreliable narrator', and his
casual revelations are both unexpected and explosive. A
masterpiece of early Modernism and a virtuoso performance of
literary skill, Ford's 'Tale of Passion' reflects contemporary
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interests in psychology, sexuality, and the New Woman. Its
portrayal of the destruction of a civilized elite anticipates the
cataclysm of the First World War, which erupted while Ford was
finishing the book.
Forna, Aminatta
Memory of love
Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1969. On a hot January evening that he
will remember for decades, Elias Cole first catches sight of
Saffia Kamara, the wife of a charismatic colleague. He is
transfixed. Thirty years later, lying in the capital's hospital, he
recalls the desire that drove him to acts of betrayal he has tried
to justify ever since. Elsewhere in the hospital, Kai, a gifted
young surgeon, is desperately trying to forget the pain of a lost
love that torments him as much as the mental scars he still
bears from the civil war that has left an entire people with terrible
secrets to keep. It falls to a British psychologist, Adrian
Lockheart, to help the two survivors, but when he too falls in
love; past and present collide with devastating consequences.
The Memory of Love is a heartbreaking story of ordinary people
in extraordinary circumstances.
Forster, Margaret
Diary of an
ordinary woman
Margaret Forster presents the 'edited' diary of a woman, born in
1901, whose life spans the twentieth century. On the eve of the
Great War, Millicent King begins to keep her journal and vividly
records the dramas of everyday life in a family touched by war,
tragedy, and money troubles. From bohemian London to Rome
in the 1920s her story moves on to social work and the build-up
to another war, in which she drives ambulances through the
bombed streets of London. Here is twentieth-century woman in
close-up coping with the tragedies and upheavals of women's
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lives from WWI to Greenham Common and beyond. A triumph of
resolution and evocation, this is a beautifully observed story of
an ordinary woman's life - a narrative where every word rings
true.
Forster, Margaret
Hidden lives
Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many
secrets to her grave. The search for answers took Margaret on a
journey into her family's past, examining not only her
grandmother's life, but also her mother's and her own. The result
is both a moving, evocative memoir and a fascinating
commentary on how women's lives have changed over the past
century.
Fossum, Karin
In the darkness
Eva is walking by the river one afternoon when a body floats to
the surface of the icy water. She tells her daughter to wait
patiently while she calls the police, but when she reaches the
phone box Eva dials another number altogether. The dead man,
Egil, has been missing for months, and it doesn't take long for
Inspector Sejer and his team to establish that he was the victim
of a very violent killer. But the trail has gone cold. It's as puzzling
as another unsolved case on Sejer's desk: the murder of a
prostitute who was found dead just before Egil went missing.
While Sejer is trying to piece together the fragments of a
seemingly impossible case, Eva gets a phone call late one night.
A stranger speaks and then swiftly hangs up. Eva looks out into
the darkness and listens. All is quiet. Gripping and thoughtprovoking, "In the Darkness" is Karin Fossum's first novel
featuring the iconic Inspector Sejer. The prizewinning series has
been published around the world to great acclaim.
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Frank, Anne
Diary of a young
girl
In Amsterdam, in the summer of 1942, the Nazis forced
teenager Anne Frank and her family into hiding. For over two
years, they, another family and a German dentist lived in a
'secret annexe', fearing discovery. All that time, Anne kept a
diary. An intimate record of tension and struggle, adolescence
and confinement, anger and heartbreak.
Frankel, Laurie
Goodbye for now
Imagine a world in which you never have to say goodbye. A
world in which you can talk to your loved ones after they've gone
- About the trivial things you used to share About the things you
wish you'd said while you still had the chance About how hard it
is to adjust to life without them. When Sam Elling invents a
computer programme that enables his girlfriend Meredith to do
just this, nothing can prepare them for the success and the
complications that follow. For every person who wants to say
goodbye, there is someone else who can't let go. And when
tragedy strikes, they have to find out whether goodbye has to be
for ever. Or whether love can take on a life of its own...
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Gale, Patrick
Notes from an
exhibition
When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies she leaves behind an
extraordinary body of work - but for her family there is a legacy
of secrets and painful revelations. To her children she is both
curse and blessing, as they cope with the inheritance of her
passions - and demons. Only their father's gift of stillness can
withstand Rachel's destructive influence and the suspicion that
they all came a poor second to her art. Piecing together the
clues of her life - as artist, lover, mother, wife and patient - takes
the reader from Cornwall to Canada across a span of forty
years. What emerges, is a tender story of enduring love and a
portrait of a family coping with the sometimes too dazzling
brilliance of a genius.
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North and South
North and South is a novel about rebellion. Moving from the
industrial riots of discontented millworkers through to the
unsought passions of a middle-class woman, and from religious
crises of conscience to the ethics of naval mutiny, it poses
fundamental questions about the nature of social authority and
obedience.
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Gerrard, Nicci
Missing persons
When Jonny went missing everything changed. His mother's
heart is full of terror and sadness instead of joy. His father's
study overflows with newspaper cuttings and profiles on missing
people instead of the academic texts that were there before. His
sister, once carefree, now carries the weight of the world on her
shoulders. His bedroom at home remains untouched and ready
for his return. A place is set for him at the table on Christmas
day each year. His birthday is always celebrated; his unopened
gifts gather dust. The hands on the clock continue to turn and
yet Jonny hasn't returned. Where is he?
Gerritson, Tess
Keeping the dead
He Hides. When an ancient mummy is discovered in the
basement of a museum in down-town Boston, excitement starts
to mount. Under the glare of media frenzy, the mummy is taken
to hospital for a CT scan. Forensic pathologist Maura Isles is
also invited to attend. He Kills. As the CT scan proceeds,
everyone in the room leans in - and gasps in horror as an image
of a bullet is revealed. Maura declares it a possible homicide,
and calls in detective Jane Rizzoli. He Keeps. When the
preserved body of a second victim is found, and then a third, it
becomes clear that taking their lives is not enough for this
terrifying killer. And that unless Maura and Jane can find and
stop him, he will soon be adding yet another chilling piece to his
monstrous collection.
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Ghosh, Amitav
Sea of poppies
At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is
an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage
across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and
stowaways, coolies and convicts. The vast sweep of this
historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges,
the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of China. But it
is the panorama of characters, whose diaspora encapsulates the
vexed colonial history of the East itself, which makes Sea of
Poppies so breathtakingly alive - a masterpiece from one of the
world's finest novelists.
Gibbons, S.
Cold Comfort
Farm
When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at
nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon
relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort
Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith,
heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos,
preaching fire and damnation; their sons, lustful Seth and
despairing Reuben; child of nature Elfine; and crazed old Aunt
Ada Doom, who has kept to her bedroom for the last twenty
years. A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas,
"Cold Comfort Farm" (1932) is one of the best-loved comic
novels of all time.
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Golding, William
Lord of the flies
A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a
group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be
rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and
dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the
image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order
fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something
more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a
murderous, savage significance.
Goodwin, Daisy
Silver River
Daisy was brought up by her respectable father and her
meticulous German stepmother and adored her glamorous
mother from afar. She made sense of her mother's difference
and of her absence through her imaginings about the family's
unstable South American history. It was only when Daisy
underwent a deep depression following the birth of her own
daughter, that she felt the weight of her mother's abandonment
and the burden of her family's past take root in her own life.
Grecian, Alex
The Yard
A gripping debut from Alex Grecian, "The Yard" evokes London
in the wake of Jack the Ripper. Victorian London is in the grip of
a wave of crime and murder, with its citizens no longer able to
trust the police to protect them. The newly formed Murder Squad
of Scotland Yard, made up of just twelve detectives, battles in
vain against the tide of violence and cruelty. When the body of a
Yard detective is found in a suitcase, his lips sewn together and
his eyes sewn shut, it becomes clear that not even the police are
safe from attack. Has the Ripper returned - or is a new killer at
large? Walter Day, the squad's newest recruit, is assigned the
case and finds a strange ally in the Yard's first forensic
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pathologist, Dr Bernard Kingsley. Can they find the murderer
before it's too late? Or is London at the mercy of a serial killer
even deadlier than Jack the Ripper?
Greene, Graham
Brighton Rock
This title is presented with an introduction by J.M. Coetzee. A
gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton.
Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a
man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for
the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping
thriller exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the
'dangerous edge of things'.
Gregory, Philippa
White Queen
The White Queen tells the story of a common woman who
ascends to royalty by virtue of her beauty, a woman who rises to
the demands of her position and fights tenaciously for the
success of her family, a woman whose two sons become the
central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for
centuries: the Princes in the Tower whose fate remains unknown
to this day.
Gremillon, Helene
Confidant
'I got a letter one day, a long letter that wasn't signed.' Camille
reads this narration of events from pre-war France, certain that it
has been sent to her by mistake. Then more letters start to
arrive - They tell of a friendship struck up between a young
village girl, Annie, and Madame M, a bourgeois lady. To begin
with the women simply share a love of art, but when Annie offers
to carry a child for her infertile friend, their lives become
intimately entwined. The child is born on the eve of the German
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invasion of France, and the repercussions of her birth are still
felt decades later. This powerful first novel by Helene Gremillion
is a gripping study of the destruction unleashed, when human
desires for love and motherhood turn to obsession.
Grenville, Kate
Secret river
This story is set in London, 1807. William Thornhill, happily
wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the
River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a
mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to
pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales
for the term of his natural life. The Thornhills arrive in this harsh
and alien land that they cannot understand and which feels like
a death sentence. But, among the convicts there is a rumour
that freedom can be bought, that 'unclaimed' land up the
Hawkesbury offers an opportunity to start afresh, far away from
the township of Sydney. When William takes a hundred acres for
himself, he is shocked to find Aboriginal people already living on
the river. And other recent arrivals - Thomas Blackwood,
Smasher Sullivan and Mrs. Herring - are finding their own ways
to respond to them. Soon Thornhill, a man neither better nor
worse than most, has to make the most difficult decision of his
life...
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Firm
Mitch qualified at Harvard, third in his class, and is sought by law
firms all over America. The one that gets him is small, but wellrespected, and pays him beyond his wildest dreams. But then
the nightmares begin - secret files, bugs in the bedroom,
colleagues' mysterious deaths and mob money.
Groff, Lauren
Arcadia
In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, on the
grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House, a few
dozen idealists set out to live off the land. Abe and Hannah's
only child, Bit, is born into the commune soon after its creation.
He grows up there, becoming deeply attached to Arcadia's way
of life and everyone within it, in particular the beautiful but
troubled Helle. While Arcadia rises and falls, Bit, too, ages and
changes. He needs to find a way to live in the world beyond
Arcadia, but can he let go of the past to forge a new start?
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Diary of a nobody 'I fail to see - because I do not happen to be a "Somebody" why my diary should not be interesting'. Mr. Pooter is a man of
modest ambition, content with his clerkly lot. So why is he
always in trouble with disagreeable tradesmen, impudent young
clerks and wayward friends? And what is he to do about his son
Lupin's distinctly unsuitable choice of bride? However hard he
tries, life piles its little mishaps on his head - but he's not about
to give up.
Gruen, Sarah
Water for
elephants
When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift,
jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters,
and misfits the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on
Earth a second-rate travelling circus struggling to survive during
the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after
endless town. Jacob, a veterinary student who almost earned
his degree, is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It
is there that he meets Marlena, the beautiful young star of the
equestrian act who is married to August, the charismatic but
twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who
seems un-trainable until he discovers a way to reach her. Water
for Elephants is illuminated by a wonderful sense of time and
place. It tells a story of a love between two people that
overcomes incredible odds in a world in which even love is a
luxury that few can afford.
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One breath away
'He has a gun.' 'Who? Tell me, where are you? Who has a gun?'
'I love you, Mum.'' An ordinary school day in March, snowflakes
falling, classroom freezing, kids squealing with delight, lockerdoors slamming. Then the shooting started. No-one dared take
one breath...He's holding a gun to your child's head. One wrong
answer and he says he'll shoot. This morning you waved
goodbye to your child. What would you have said if you'd known
it might be the last time?
Haddon, Mark
Curious incident
of the dog in the
night
Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has
Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with
maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to
understand other people. When he discovers a dead dog on a
neighbour's lawn he decides to solve the mystery and write a
detective thriller about it. As in all good detective stories,
however, the more he unearths, the deeper the mystery gets for both Christopher and the rest of his family.
Hall, Emylia
Book of summers Beth Lowe has been sent a parcel. Inside is a letter informing
her that her long-estranged mother has died, and a scrapbook
Beth has never seen before. Entitled The Book of Summers, it's
stuffed with photographs and mementos complied by her mother
to record the seven glorious childhood summers Beth spent in
rural Hungary. It was a time when she trod the tightrope
between separated parents and two very different countries; her
bewitching but imperfect Hungarian mother and her gentle,
reticent English father; the dazzling house of a Hungarian artist
and an empty-feeling cottage in deepest Devon. And it was a
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time that came to the most brutal of ends the year Beth turned
sixteen.
Hall, Sarah
Beautiful
indifference
Uniquely disturbing and deeply erotic, this collection confirms
Sarah Hall as one of the greatest writers of her generation. 'The
Beautiful Indifference', includes 'Butcher's Perfume', which was
short-listed for the BBC National Short Story Prize in 2010.
Hamid, Mohsin
Reluctant
fundamentalist
In the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in the
city he loves suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship
with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. His
own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances
more fundamental than money, power, and perhaps even love.
Hancock, Penny
Tideline
One winter's afternoon, Sonia opens the door of her beautiful
riverside home to fifteen-year-old Jez, the nephew of a family
friend. He's come to borrow some music. Sonia invites him in
and soon decides that she isn't going to let him leave. As
Sonia's desire to keep Jez hidden and protected from the
outside world becomes all the more overpowering, she is
haunted by memories of an intense teenage relationship, which
gradually reveal a terrifying truth. The River House, Sonia's
home since childhood, holds secrets within its walls. And
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outside, on the shores of the Thames, new ones are coming in
on the tide...
Hancock, Sheila
Two of us
Theirs was a sometimes turbulent, always passionate
relationship, and in this remarkable book Sheila describes their
love - weathering overwork and the pressures of celebrity, drink
and cancer - with honesty and piercing intelligence, and evokes
two lives lived to the utmost.
Hannah, Sophie
Little face
Her husband David was meant to be looking after their twoweek-old daughter. But when Alice Fancourt walks into the
nursery, her terrifying ordeal begins; for Alice insists the baby in
the cot is a stranger she's never seen before. With an
increasingly hostile and menacing David swearing she must
either be mad or lying, how can Alice make the police believe
her before its too late?
Hannah, Sophie
Other half lives
Ruth Bussey knows what it means to be in the wrong - and to be
wronged. She once did something she regrets, and was
punished excessively for it. Now Ruth is trying to rebuild her life
and has found a love she doesn't believe she deserves. Aidan
Seed is a passionate, intense man who has also been damaged
by his past. Desperate to connect with the woman he loves, he
confides his secret: he killed a woman called Mary Trelease.
Through her shock, Ruth recognises the name. And when she's
realised why it's familiar, her fear and revulsion deepen. The
Mary Trelease that Ruth knows is very much alive...
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Hardy, Thomas
Tess of the
D'Urbervilles
Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her
rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles. Her encounter with her
manipulative cousin, Alec, leads her onto a path that is beset
with suffering and betrayal. When she falls in love with another
man, Angel Clare, Tess sees a potential escape from her past,
but only if she can tell him her shameful secret..."Gloriously
physical, full of passion and irony, humour and tenderness.
Harris, Jane
Gillespie and I
Back in 1888, the young, art-loving Harriet arrives in Glasgow at
the time of the International Exhibition. After a chance encounter
she befriends the Gillespie family and soon becomes a fixture in
all of their lives. But when tragedy strikes - leading to a notorious
criminal trial - the promise and certainties of this world all too
rapidly disintegrate into mystery and deception.
Harris, Joanne
A cat, a hat and a
piece of string
Conjured from a wickedly imaginative pen, here is a new
collection of short stories that showcases Joanne Harris'
exceptional talent as a teller of tales, a spinner of yarns.
Sensuous, mischievous, uproarious and wry, these are tales that
combine the everyday with the unexpected and wild fantasy with
bittersweet reality.
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Fear index
Meet Alex Hoffmann: among the secretive inner circle of the
ultra-rich, he is something of a legend. Based in Geneva, he has
developed a revolutionary system that has the power to
manipulate financial markets. Generating billions of dollars, it is
a system that thrives on panic - and feeds on fear. And then, in
the early hours of one morning, while he lies asleep, a sinister
intruder breaches the elaborate security of his lakeside home.
So begins a waking nightmare of paranoia and violence as
Hoffmann attempts - with increasing desperation - to discover
who is trying to destroy him - before it's too late...
Harris, Robert
Pompeii
A sweltering week in late August. Where better to enjoy the last
days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? But even
as Rome's richest citizens relax in their villas around Pompeii
and Herculaneum, there are ominous warnings that something is
going wrong. Wells and springs are failing, a man has
disappeared, and now the greatest aqueduct in the world - the
mighty Aqua Augusta - has suddenly ceased to flow. Through
the eyes of four characters - a young engineer, an adolescent
girl, a corrupt millionaire and an elderly scientist - Robert Harris
brilliantly recreates a luxurious world on the brink of destruction.
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Hartley, L. P.
Go-between
When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a schoolfriend at Brandham Hall, he begins to act as a messenger
between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful young
woman up at the hall. He becomes drawn deeper and deeper
into their dangerous game of deceit and desire, until his role
brings him to a shocking and premature revelation. The haunting
story of a young boy's awakening into the secrets of the adult
world, "The Go-Between" is also an unforgettable evocation of
the boundaries of Edwardian society.
Haynes, Elizabeth
Revenge of the
tide
Elizabeth Haynes' second novel is a taut and gripping murder
mystery introducing a compelling new heroine, Genevieve office worker by day and pole dancer by night - who finds herself
implicated in a mob underworld of murder, corruption and
betrayal. Genevieve has finally escaped the stressful demands
of her sales job and achieved her dream: to leave London
behind and start a new life aboard a houseboat in Kent. But on
the night of her boat-warming party the dream is shattered when
a body washes up beside the boat, and Genevieve recognises
the victim. As the sanctuary of the boatyard is threatened, and
Genevieve's life seems increasingly at risk, the story of how she
came to be so out of her depth is unfolded, and Genevieve finds
out the real cost of mixing business with pleasure...
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Heaney, Seamus
New selected
poems, 19661987
An updated selection of all Heaney's books, up to and including
"The Haw Lantern", which was published in 1987. The book also
includes selections from "Stations", prose poems of 1975 which
have never appeared except as a pamphlet.
Heller, Joseph
Catch 22
Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on this novel's
strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire
is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months
of World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named
Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of
people he has never met are trying to kill him. His real problem
is not the enemy - it is his own army which keeps increasing the
number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. If
Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the
perilous missions then he is caught in Catch-22: if he flies he is
crazy, and doesn't have to; but if he doesn't want to he must be
sane and has to. That's some catch...
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Dog stars
Shorlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2013. Hig, bereaved
and traumatised after global disaster, has three things to live for
- his dog Jasper, his aggressive but helpful neighbour, and his
Cessna aeroplane. He's just about surviving, so long as he only
takes his beloved plane for short journeys, and saves his
remaining fuel. But, just once, he picks up a message from
another pilot, and eventually the temptation to find out who else
is still alive becomes irresistible. So he takes his plane over the
horizon, knowing that he won't have enough fuel to get back.
What follows is scarier and more life-affirming than he could
have imagined. And his story, THE DOG STARS, is a book
unlike any you have ever read.
Heller, Zoe
Believers
When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her
husband, New York radical lawyer Joel Litvinoff, she is forced to
re-examine everything she thought she knew about their fortyyear marriage. Joel's children will have to deal with this
unsettling secret themselves, but meanwhile, they are trying to
cope with their own dilemmas. In the course of battling their own
demons and each other, every member of the family is called
upon to decide what - if anything - they still believe in.
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Heller, Zoe
Notes on a
scandal
When the new teacher first arrives, Barbara immediately senses
that this woman will be different from the rest of her staff-room
colleagues. But Barbara is not the only one to feel that Sheba is
special, and before too long Sheba is involved in an illicit affair
with a pupil. Barbara finds the relationship abhorrent, of course,
but she is the only adult in whom Sheba can properly confide.
So when the liaison is found out and Sheba's life falls apart,
Barbara is there...
Henry, Veronica
Long weekend
In a gorgeous quay-side hotel in Cornwall, the long weekend is
just beginning ...Claire Marlowe owns 'The Townhouse by the
Sea' with Luca, the hotel's charismatic chef. She ensures
everything runs smoothly - until an unexpected arrival checks in
and turns her whole world upside down. And the rest of the
guests arrive with their own baggage. There's a couple looking
for distraction from a family tragedy; a man trying to make
amends for an affair he bitterly regrets ...and the young woman
who thinks the Cornish village might hold the key to her past.
Here are affairs of the heart, secrets, lies and scandal - all
wrapped up in one long, hot weekend.
Hewson, David
Killing
Sarah Lund is looking forward to her last day as a detective with
the Copenhagen police department before moving to Sweden.
But everything changes when nineteen-year-old student, Nanna
Birk Larsen, is found raped and brutally murdered in the woods
outside the city. Lund's plans to relocate are put on hold as she
leads the investigation along with fellow detective Jan Meyer.
While Nanna's family struggles to cope with their loss, local
politician, Troels Hartmann, is in the middle of an election
campaign to become the new mayor of Copenhagen. When
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links between City Hall and the murder suddenly come to light ,
the case takes an entirely different turn. Over the course of
twenty days, suspect upon suspect emerges as violence and
political intrigue cast their shadows over the hunt for the killer.
Hickman, Katie
Aviary gate
Elizabeth Stavely sits in the Bodleian Library, her hands
trembling as she holds a fragment of parchment, the key to a
story untold for four hundred years. Constantinople 1599: the
English merchant Paul Pindar must deliver an extraordinary gift
to the Sultan. Grieving for his lost love, drowned in a shipwreck,
he hears rumours of a new golden-haired slave in the Sultan's
harem. Could this be his Celia?
Hickson, Joanna
Agincourt bride
The epic story of the queen who founded the Tudor dynasty, told
through the eyes of her loyal nursemaid. Perfect for fans of
Philipa Gregory. Her beauty fuelled a war. Her courage captured
a king. Her passion would launch the Tudor dynasty. When her
own first child is tragically still-born, the young Mette is pressed
into service as a wet-nurse at the court of the mad king, Charles
VI of France. Her young charge is the princess, Catherine de
Valois, caught up in the turbulence and chaos of life at court.
Mette and the child forge a bond, one that transcends Mette's
lowly position. But as Catherine approaches womanhood, her
unique position seals her fate as a pawn between two powerful
dynasties. Her brother, The Dauphin and the dark and sinister,
Duke of Burgundy will both use Catherine to further the cause of
France. Catherine is powerless to stop them, but with the French
defeat at the Battle of Agincourt, the tables turn and suddenly
her currency has never been higher. But can Mette protect
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Catherine from forces at court who seek to harm her or will her
loyalty to Catherine place her in even greater danger?
Highsmith, Patricia
Talented Mr.
Ripley
Ripley wanted out. He wanted money, success, the good life
and was willing to kill for it... He is struggling to stay one step
ahead of his creditors when a chance acquaintance offers him a
free trip to Europe. When his new found happiness is
threatened, his response is as swift as it is shocking.
Hill, Susan
Man in the
picture
This is the chilling tale of a painting so terrifying, its secrets will
haunt those who see it...It is a ghost story by the author of "The
Woman in Black". A mysterious depiction of masked revellers at
the Venice carnival hangs in the college rooms of Oliver's old
professor in Cambridge. On this cold winter's night, an eerie
secret is revealed by the ageing don. The dark art of the
Venetian scene, instead of imitating life, has the power to entrap
it. To stare into the painting is to play dangerously with the
unseen demons it hides, and become the victim of its macabre
beauty...
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Hislop, Victoria
Island
On the brink of her own life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding
longs to find out about her mother's past. But Sofia has never
spoken of it. All she admits to is growing up in a small Cretan
village before moving to London. When Alexis decides to visit
Crete, however, Sofia gives her daughter a letter to take to an
old friend. Then she finds Fotini, and at last hears the story that
Sofia has buried all her life.
Hislop, Victoria
Return
Beneath the majestic towers of the Alhambra, Granada's
cobbled streets resonate with music and secrets. Sonia
Cameron knows nothing of the city's shocking past; she is here
to dance. But in a quiet cafe, a chance conversation and an
intriguing collection of old photographs draw her into the
extraordinary tale of Spain's devastating civil war.
Hislop, Victoria
Thread
Thessaloniki, 1917. As Dimitri Komninos is born, a devastating
fire sweeps through the thriving Greek city where Christians,
Jews and Muslims live side by side. Five years later, Katerina
Sarafoglou's home in Asia Minor is destroyed by the Turkish
army. Losing her mother in the chaos, she flees across the sea
to an unknown destination in Greece. Soon her life will become
entwined with Dimitri's, and with the story of the city itself, as
war, fear and persecution begin to divide its people.
Thessaloniki, 2007. A young Anglo-Greek hears his
grandparents' life story for the first time and realises he has a
decision to make. For many decades, they have looked after the
memories and treasures of the people who were forced to leave.
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Should he become their next custodian and make this city his
home?
Holt, Anne
1222
1222 metres above sea level, train 601 from Oslo to Bergen
careens off iced rails as the worst snowstorm in Norwegian
history gathers force around it. Marooned in the high mountains
with night falling and the temperature plummeting, its 269
passengers are forced to abandon their snowbound train and
decamp to a centuries-old mountain hotel. They ought to be safe
from the storm here, but as dawn breaks one of them will be
found dead, murdered. With the storm showing no sign of
abating, retired police inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is asked to
investigate. But Hanne has no wish to get involved. She has
learned the hard way that truth comes at a price and sometimes
that price just isn't worth paying.
Hosseini, Khaled
Kite runner
Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his
father and resolves to win the local kite-fighting tournament, to
prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan
promises to help him - for he always helps Amir - but this is
1970s Afghanistan and Hassan is merely a low-caste servant
who is jeered at in the street, although Amir still feels jealous of
his natural courage and the place he holds in his father's heart.
But neither of the boys could foresee what would happen to
Hassan on the afternoon of the tournament, which was to
shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is
forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must
return, to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him:
redemption.
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Hosseini, Khaled
Thousand
splendid suns
Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry
Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between
Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties
between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life
becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and
fear. Yet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways,
and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a
startling heroism.
Howey, Hugh
Wool
In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been
unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant
underground silo. Inside, men and women live an enclosed life
full of rules and regulations, of secrets and lies. To live, you
must follow the rules. But some don't. These are the dangerous
ones; these are the people who dare to hope and dream, and
who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple
and deadly. They are allowed outside. Jules is one of these
people. She may well be the last.
Iggulden, Conn
Bones of the hills
Genghis Khan, the fatherless boy, exiled from his tribe, whom
readers have been following in 'Wolf of the Plains' and 'Lords of
the Bow', has grown into a great king. This, the third book in the
Conqueror series, is once more an epic story. Genghis Khan is
an exhilarating and heroic figure. The sense of his ambition and
his power, the relationships with his wives, sons and trusted
aides, the sweep of his conquests, is all brought together by
masterful storytelling. It is a compelling read.
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Arnaldur
Outrage
Reykjavik, Saturday night. He offered her another margarita,
and, as he returned from the bar, he carefully slid the pill into her
glass. They were getting along fine, and he was sure she would
give him no trouble...48 hours later, a young man is found dead
in a pool of blood. There is no sign of a break-in at his flat. The
victim is found wearing a woman's t-shirt, while a bottle of
Rohypnol lies on the table nearby. Detective Elinborg, already
struggling to juggle family life and the relentless demands of her
job, is assigned the case. But with no immediate leads to the
killer, can she piece together details of the victim's secret life
and solve a brutal murder?
Ivey, Eowyn
Snow child
A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska,
The Snow Child was a bestseller on hardback publication, and
went on to establish itself as one of the key literary debuts of
2012, and was a Richard and Judy Book Club pick. Alaska, the
1920s. Jack and Mabel have staked everything on a fresh start
in a remote homestead, but the wilderness is a stark place, and
Mabel is haunted by the baby she lost many years before. When
a little girl appears mysteriously on their land, each is filled with
wonder, but also foreboding: is she what she seems, and can
they find room in their hearts for her? Written with the clarity and
vividness of the Russian fairy tale from which it takes its
inspiration, The Snow Child is an instant classic.
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Strangled in Paris Why would anyone strangle a humble seamstress with no
known enemies? When newly-married bookseller Victor Legris is
asked to solve the murder of Louise Fontaine in the abattoir
district of La Villette, he is initially baffled by the case. But as the
investigation progresses, Victor, along with his assistant and
brother-in-law Joseph discover that in belle-époque Paris, young
girls with no money or background are as ruthlessly preyed on
as ever they were.
Jacobson, Howard
Mighty Walzer
From the beginning, Oliver Walzer is a natural – at ping-pong;
he can chop, flick and half-volley like a champion. At sex he is
not a natural, but with tuition his game improves. This is the
story of coming-of-age in 1950s Manchester. Winner of HH
Wingate/Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize 2000. Shortlisted for
WH Smith Literary Prize 2000 and WH Smith Annual Literary
Award 2000.
Jaye, Lola
By the time you
read this
Rules of the manual: 1.You must only read each new entry on
your birthday. 2. This is a private manual between you and me.
3. No peeping at the next entry unless it's your birthday! When
Lois Bates is handed the manual, she can barely bring herself to
read it as the pain of her dad's death is still so raw. Yet soon
Kevin's advice is guiding her through every stage of her life –
from jobs to first loves and relationships. The manual can never
be a substitute for having her dad back, but through his words
Lois learns to start living again, and finds that happiness is
waiting round the corner ...
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We, the drowned
Carsten Jensen conjures a wise, humorous, thrilling story of
fathers and sons, of the women they love and leave behind, and
of the sea's murderous promise. This is a novel destined to take
its place among the greatest seafaring literature.
Jonasson, Jonas
Hundred-year-old
man who climbed
out of the window
and disappeared
It all starts on the one-hundredth birthday of Allan Karlsson.
Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, he is waiting
for the party he-never-wanted-anyway to begin. The mayor is
going to be there. The press is going to be there. But, as it turns
out, Allan is not...Slowly but surely Allan climbs out of his
bedroom window, into the flowerbed (in his slippers) and makes
his getaway. And so begins his picaresque and unlikely journey
involving criminals, several murders, a suitcase full of cash, and
incompetent police. As his escapades unfold, we learn
something of Allan's earlier life in which – remarkably – he
helped to make the atom bomb, became friends with American
presidents, Russian tyrants, and Chinese leaders, and was a
participant behind the scenes in many key events of the
twentieth century. Already a huge bestseller across Europe, The
Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and
Disappeared is a fun, feel-good book for all ages.
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Some kind of
fairy tale
'Some kind of fairy tale' is a very English story. A story of woods
and clearings, a story of folk tales and family histories.
It is Christmas afternoon and Peter Martin gets an unexpected
phone call from his parents, asking him to come round. It pulls
him away from his wife and children and into a bewildering
mystery. He arrives at his parents' house and discovers that
they have a visitor. His sister Tara. Not so unusual you might
think, this is Christmas after all, a time when families get
together. But twenty years ago Tara took a walk into the woods
and never came back and as the years have gone by with no
word from her, the family have, unspoken, assumed that she
was dead. Now she's back, tired, dirty, dishevelled, but happy
and full of stories about twenty years spent travelling the world,
an epic odyssey taken on a whim. But her stories don't quite
hang together and once she has cleaned herself up and got
some sleep it becomes apparent that the intervening years have
been very kind to Tara. She really does look no different from
the young women who walked out the door twenty years ago.
Peter's parents are just delighted to have their little girl back, but
Peter and his best friend Richie, Tara's one time boyfriend, are
not so sure. Tara seems happy enough but there is something
about her. A haunted, otherworldly quality. Some would say it's
as if she's off with the fairies. And as the months go by Peter
begins to suspect that the woods around their homes are not
finished with Tara and his family...
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Francis
Report
It is an early spring evening in 1943 when the air-raid sirens wail
out over the East End of London. From every corner of Bethnal
Green, people emerge from pubs, cinemas and houses, and set
off for the shelter of the tube station. But at the entrance steps,
something goes badly wrong, the crowd panics, and 173 people
are crushed to death. When an enquiry is called for, it falls to the
local magistrate, Laurence Dunne, to find out what happened
during those few, fatally confused, minutes. But as Dunne
gathers testimony from the guilt-stricken warden of the shelter,
the priest struggling to bring comfort to his congregation, and the
grieving mother who has lost her youngest daughter, the picture
grows ever murkier. The more questions Dunne asks, the more
difficult it becomes to disentangle truth from rumour – and to
decide just how much truth the damaged community can
actually bear. It is only decades later, when the case is reopened by one of the children who survived, that the facts can
finally be brought to light...
Kay, Francesca
An equal stillness Jennet Mallow is born in Yorkshire in the 1920s but her interest
in art and creativity alienates her from her family. Moving to
London in search of a more exciting life, she finds it in the
handsome and enigmatic figure of the painter David Heaton. But
when she falls pregnant, her parents more or less force the two
to marry. In the post-war austerity of the 1940s, the young
couple struggles to make ends meet and Jennet finds that her
home life is gradually eroding everything she has fought to
achieve. Suggesting they move to Spain, there, the bright blue
skies, warm air and sunlit beaches give the couple and their
children a new lease of life. Jennet begins to paint again and an
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agent takes an interest in her work. But as Jennet's own career
begins to take off, her relationship with David sours and the two
enter a destructive spiral with tragic consequences.
Kazantzakis, Nikos
Zorba the Greek
Set before the start of the First World War, this moving fable
sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small
inheritance. But when he arrives, he meets Alexis Zorba, a
middle-aged Greek man with a zest for life. Zorba has had a
family and many lovers, has fought in the Balkan wars, has lived
and loved – he is a simple but deep man who lives every
moment fully and without shame. As their friendship develops,
the Englishman is gradually won over, transformed and inspired
along with the reader.
Kelby, N.
White truffles in
winter
White Truffles in Winter imagines the world of the remarkable
French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935), who changed how
we eat through his legendary restaurants at the Savoy and the
Ritz. A man of contradictions – kind yet imperious, foodobsessed yet rarely hungry – Escoffier was also torn between
two women: the famous, beautiful, and reckless actress Sarah
Bernhardt and his wife, the independent and sublime poet
Delphine Daffis, who refused ever to leave Monte Carlo. In the
last year of Escoffier's life, in the middle of writing his memoirs,
he has returned to Delphine, who requests a dish in her name
as he has honoured Bernhardt, Queen Victoria, and many
others.
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Kelly, Clara O.
Flamboya tree
When the Japanese invaded Java during World War II, fouryear-old Clara Kelly was sent to a women's camp with her
mother and two young brothers. Her descriptions of the
appalling conditions are countered by the resilience and courage
of the internees.
Kennedy, A. L.
Day
Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper
purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the
wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and – most extraordinary of all
– he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now – the
war took it away. Maybe it took him, too. Now in 1949, employed
as an extra in a war film that echoes his real experience, Day
begins to recall what he would rather forget. Winner of Costa
Novel Award 2007 and Costa Book of the Year 2007.
Kent, Kathleen
Heretic's
daughter
Martha Carrier was hanged on August 19th, 1692 in Salem,
Massachusetts, unyielding in her refusal to admit to being a
witch, going to her death rather than joining the ranks of men
and women who confessed and were thereby spared execution.
Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and wilful, openly
challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. In this
startling novel, she narrates the story of her early life in Andover,
near Salem. As Sarah and her brothers are hauled into the
prison themselves, the vicious cruelty of the trials is apparent, as
the Carrier family, along with other innocents, are starved and
deprived of any decency, battling their way through the hysteria
with the sheer willpower their mother has taught them.
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Kernick, Simon
Murder exchange
Five grand for a couple of hours work? It seems easy money,
but the deal ex-mercenary Max Iversson is chasing has gone
disastrously wrong. Two of his friends are dead. And now he
wants to find out who's behind their killings. Detective Sergeant
John Gallan is also looking for answers. He's investigating the
fatal poisoning of a nightclub doorman. But leads are scarce
and, when they do appear, so do bodies. What neither man
knows is that they are heading towards a devastating
confrontation that will see one of them staring down the wrong
end of a gun.
Kerouac, Jack
On the road
"On the Road" swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground
America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal
Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the
living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its
American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott
Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with
unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical
passion.
Kerrigan, Kate
City of hope
An uplifting, inspiring and heart-warming story of a woman truly
ahead of her time. Of loves lost and found, of courage and
determination. It is the 1930s and when her beloved husband,
John, suddenly dies, young Ellie Hogan decides to leave Ireland
and return to New York. She hopes that the city's vibrancy will
distract her from her grief. But the Depression has rendered the
city unrecognisable...gone is the energy and party atmosphere
that Ellie once fell in love with, ten years before. Ellie plunges
headfirst into a new life pouring all her passion and energy into
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running a home and refuge for the homeless. In return they give
her the kind of love, support and friendship she needs to try and
overcome her grief. Until, one day, someone she thought she'd
never see again steps through her door. It seems that even the
Atlantic isn't big enough to prevent the tragedies of the past
catching up with her ...The heart-rending but inspiring follow-up
to TV Book Club bestseller ELLIS ISLAND.
Keyes, Marian
Rachel's holiday
Meet Rachel Walsh. She has a pair of size 8 feet and such a
fondness for recreational drugs that her family has forked out the
cash for a spell in Cloisters – Dublin's answer to the Betty Ford
Clinic. She's only agreed to her incarceration because she's
heard that rehab is wall-to-wall acuzzis, gymnasiums and rock
stars going tepid turkey – and it's about time she had a holiday.
But what Rachel doesn't count on are the toe-curling
embarrassments heaped on her by family and group therapy,
the dearth of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll – and missing Luke, her
ex. What kind of a new start in life is this?
Khadivi, Laleh
Walking
Iran. 1979. The Mullahs have come to power and they want
everyone to know. Two young Kurdish brothers, Saladin and Ali,
are forced to swear their loyalty to the new regime by taking part
in a massacre. In the traumatic aftermath of the killing they flee.
For Saladin, the younger, the decision to travel west is exciting;
this is the direction of Hollywood, Los Angeles, America. But his
euphoria is not enough for the reluctant Ali, who belongs, heart
and soul, to the mountain town of his birth. As they cross the
treacherous Zagros mountains by foot to Istanbul, to the Azores
by freighter and finally as smuggled cargo aboard a plane to Los
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Angeles, Saladin realises that his dream of a better future can
only be fulfilled alone. And as he walks along the hot,
shimmering beaches of the promised land, unbearably
dislocated, Saladin must define who he will become – and who
he's always been. Haunting and beautifully-written, The Walking
is a story of exodus; of those many people torn between the lure
of home and the lure of hope.
Kidd, Sue Monk
Secret life of
bees
Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother
when she was four. She not only has her own memory of
holding the gun, but her father's account of the event. Now
fourteen, she yearns for her mother, and for forgiveness. Living
on a peach farm in South Carolina with her father, she has only
one friend: Rosaleen, a black servant whose sharp exterior
hides a tender heart. South Carolina in the sixties is a place
where segregation is still considered a cause worth fighting for.
When racial tension explodes one summer afternoon, and
Rosaleen is arrested and beaten, Lily is compelled to act.
Kiefer, Christian
Infinite tides
Mathematical genius. Brilliant engineer. Revered astronaut.
Keith Corcoran is all of these things and more, but his
otherworldly talents do nothing to prepare him for the tragedy
that befalls his family, or its irrevocable outcomes. After a sixmonth mission aboard the International Space Station, Keith
returns to a house that has already ceased to be a home –
emptied entirely of furniture and the people he loves. It is here
that Keith tries to make sense of the ghosts, the memories and
the feelings that he can barely acknowledge. His experiences in
space quickly fade into the distant past. What remain in their
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wake are endlessly interlocking cul-de-sacs, big box stores and
enormous parking lots. Within this seemingly hopeless expanse,
an eccentric man from a distant country presents an opportunity
for redemption. Their unlikely friendship leads Keith to an
understanding of all he has lost, and a sense of how to live
under the weight of gravity.
Kingsolver, Barbara
Flight behaviour
On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young
mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. As
the world around her is suddenly transformed by a seeming
miracle, can the old certainties they have lived by for centuries
remain unchallenged? "Flight Behaviour" is a captivating, topical
and deeply human story touching on class, poverty and climate
change. It is Barbara Kingsolver's most accessible novel yet,
and explores the truths we live by, and the complexities that lie
behind them.
Kingsolver, Barbara
Lacuna
"The Lacuna" is the heartbreaking story of a man's search for
safety, of a man torn between the warm heart of Mexico and the
cold embrace of 1950s McCarthyite America. This is a gripping
story of identity, loyalty and the devastating power of
accusations to destroy innocent people. 'The Lacuna' is as deep
and rich as the 'New World'. Winner of Orange Prize for Fiction
2010.
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Kress, Nancy
After the fall,
before the fall,
during the fall
The year is 2035. After ecological disasters nearly destroyed the
Earth, 26 survivors – the last of humanity – are trapped by an
alien race in a sterile enclosure known as the Shell. Fifteenyear-old Pete is one of the 'Six', children who were born
deformed or sterile and raised in the Shell. As, one by one the
survivors grow sick and die, Pete and the Six struggle to put
aside their anger at the alien Tesslies in order to find the means
to rebuild the earth together. Their only hope lies within brief
time-portals into the recent past, where they bring back children
to replenish their disappearing gene pool. Meanwhile, in 2013,
brilliant mathematician Julie Kahn works with the FBI to solve a
series of inexplicable kidnappings. Suddenly her predictive
algorithms begin to reveal more than just criminal activity. As
she begins to realise her role in the impending catastrophe,
simultaneously affecting the Earth and the Shell, Julie closes in
on the truth. She and Pete are converging in time upon the
future of humanity – a future which might never unfold. Weaving
three consecutive time lines to unravel both the mystery of the
Earth's destruction and the key to its salvation, this taut
adventure offers a topical message with a satisfying twist.
Landvik, Lorna
Tall pine polka
In the small town of Tall Pine, Minnesota, the locals gather for
what they call the Tall Pine Polka, an event in which heavenly
coffee, good food, and that feeling of being alive among friends
inspires both body and soul to dance. Then Hollywood
'discovers' Tall Pine. It seems the sleepy town is the perfect
location for a romantic comedy. And Fenny, pounced on like a
bone in a yard full of hungry dogs is evidently that rarity in
Hollywood: a 'natural'. Lee and Fenny are to find their friendship
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put to the test as events push their hearts in unexplored
directions – where endings really can turn into new beginnings...
Larsson, Stieg
Girl who kicked
the hornets nest
Salander is plotting her revenge - against the man who tried to
kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly
destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward
campaign. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under
close supervision in Intensive Care, and is set to face trial for
three murders and one attempted murder on her eventual
release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his
researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must not only
prove her innocence, but identify and denounce the corrupt
politicians that have allowed the vulnerable to become victims of
abuse and violence. Once a victim herself, Salander is now
ready to fight back.
Larsson, Stieg
Girl with the
dragon tattoo
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family
gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful
Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is
convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his
own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced
financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent
computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair
link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders
from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling
family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and
Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they
are prepared to go to protect themselves.
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Larsson, Stieg
Girl who played
with fire
Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists
about to expose the truth about sex trafficking in Sweden are
murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history
of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official
danger to society - but no-one can find her. Mikael Blomkvist,
editor-in-chief of Millennium, does not believe the police. Using
all his magazine staff and resources to prove Salander's
innocence, Blomkvist also uncovers her terrible past, spent in
criminally corrupt institutions. Yet Salander is more avenging
angel than helpless victim. She may be an expert at staying out
of sight - but she has ways of tracking down her most elusive
enemies.
Lawson, Mary
Other side of the
bridge
Arthur and Jake: brothers, yet worlds apart. Arthur is older, shy,
dutiful, and set to inherit his father's farm. Jake is younger and
reckless, and dangerous to know. When Laura arrives in their
1930s rural community, an already uneasy relationship is driven
to breaking point...
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Le Bon, Eva
Bring down the
moon
Written with sensitivity and compassion, Bring Down the Moon
straddles the genre of romance and family saga over 50 years.
At times romantic, at times tragic It offers an overarching
message of hope. The story initially revolves around the doctor's
home, the heart of the community in the 60's and sees the joys,
adventures and struggles from such a well loved start in life. It
becomes an account of the heroine: Fleur's story. It is a story of
honesty and veiled truths, with the intensity of emotions as two
sisters marry two brothers.
Le Carre, John
Most wanted man
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is
smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable
amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a
devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an
idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save
Issa from deportation. Soon her client's survival becomes more
important to her than her own career. In pursuit of Issa's
mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue,
the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Freres, a failing British bank
based in Hamburg. A triangle of impossible loves is born.
Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the so-called War on Terror,
the spies of three nations converge upon the innocents.
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Le Carre, John
Tinker Tailor
Soldier Spy
The Circus has already suffered a bad defeat, and the result
was two bullets in a man's back. But a bigger threat still exists.
And the legendary George Smiley is recruited to root out a highlevel mole of thirty years' standing - though to find him means
spying on the spies. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is brilliant and
ceaselessly compelling, pitting Smiley against his Cold War rival,
Karla, in one of the greatest struggles in all fiction.
Lee, Harper
To kill a
mockingbird
Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee
explores the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in
the Deep South of the 1930s with both compassion and humour.
She also creates one of the great heroes of literature in their
father, Atticus, whose lone struggle for justice pricks the
conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and
hypocrisy.
Lehmann,
Rosamond
Weather in the
streets
Taking up where 'An invitation to the waltz' left off, 'The weather
in the streets' shows us Olivia Curtis ten years older, a failed
marriage behind her, thinner, sadder, and apparently not much
wiser. A chance encounter on a train with a man who enchanted
her as a teenager leads to a forbidden love affair and a new
world of secret meetings, brief phone calls and snatched liaisons
in anonymous hotel rooms. Years ahead of its time when first
published, this subtle and powerful novel shocked even the most
stalwart Lehmann fans with its searing honesty and passionate
portrayal of clandestine love.
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Leimbach, Mark
Daniel isn't
talking
Leveen, Lois
Secrets of Mary
Bowser
A powerful novel exploring the effects of autism on a young
family from the author of the international bestseller 'Dying
Young', who has experienced and dealt with the condition within
her immediate family. 'Daniel Isn't Talking' is a passionate and
darkly humorous novel that explores a mother's determination to
help her child. A love story for grown ups, it somehow extends
its wisdom far beyond the parameters of disability and into the
substance of human nature itself. A tense and moving novel,
that will make you laugh out loud even as it breaks your heart.
Mary Bowser was born a slave. She was freed and educated.
Then she willingly went back into slavery ...As the American Civil
War looms, Mary gives up her independence and returns to her
home state. There she poses as an illiterate slave in the
Confederate White House and spies on President Jefferson
Davis. But as the death and destruction of war take their toll,
Mary discovers that everything comes at a cost--even freedom.
Based on a true story, The Secrets of Mary Bowser is an
extraordinary and inspiring tale of injustice and courage,
friendship and conflict--and of one woman willing to sacrifice her
own liberty to change the course of history.
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Lewis, Susan
No child of mine
What if you knew a child was in danger - and no one believed
you? Alex Lake's day job is all about helping people, especially
children. She cares about them passionately and does
everything in her power to rescue them from those who mean
them harm. When the case of three-year-old Ottilie Wade comes
to her attention, Alex feels an overpowering need to make a real
difference in the little girl's life, but no one is prepared to believe
that Ottilie is in danger. In the end, Alex makes a decision that
has consequences that no one, least of all Alex, could have
foreseen.
Lewycka, Marina
We are all made
of glue
Georgie Sinclair's life is coming unstuck. Her husband's left her.
Her son's obsessed with the End of the World. And now her
elderly neighbour Mrs Shapiro has decided they are related. Or
so the hospital informs her when Mrs Shapiro has an accident
and names Georgie next of kin. This, however, is not a case of a
quick ward visit: Mrs Shapiro has a large rickety house full of
stinky cats that needs looking after that a pair of estate agents
seem intent on swindling from her. Plus there are the
'Uselesses' trying to repair it (uselessly). Then there's the social
worker who wants to put her in a nursing home. Not to mention
some letters that point to a mysterious, painful past. As Georgie
tries her best to put Mrs Shapiro's life back together somehow
she must stop her own from falling apart...
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Leyshon, Nell
Colour of milk
"The Colour of Milk" is the new novel by Orange longlisted
author and playwright Nell Leyshon. The year is eighteen
hundred and thirty one when fifteen-year-old Mary begins the
difficult task of telling her story. A scrap of a thing with a sharp
tongue and hair the colour of milk, Mary leads a harsh life
working on her father's farm alongside her three sisters. In the
summer she is sent to work for the local vicar's invalid wife,
where the reasons why she must record the truth of what
happens to her - and the need to record it so urgently - are
gradually revealed.
Lupton, Rosamund
Afterwards
There is a fire and they are in There. They are in there ...Black
smoke stains a summer blue sky. A school is on fire. And one
mother, Grace, sees the smoke and runs. She knows her
teenage daughter Jenny is inside. She runs into the burning
building to rescue her. Afterwards, Grace must find the identity
of the arsonist and protect her family from the person who's still
intent on destroying them. Afterwards, she must fight the limits
of her physical strength and discover the limitlessness of love.
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McCarthy, Morgan
Other half of me
Jonathan and Theo's childhood is one in which money is
abundant but nurture is scarce. With a father who died when
they were very young and a mother who starts drinking at
lunchtime, the brother and sister are largely left to roam around
their sprawling estate in rural Wales, looking after only
themselves and each other. Until, that is, their grandmother Eve
returns to the family home. Eve is a figure who is as enchanting
as she is forbidding, and she takes the children under her wing,
answering their questions about their family history that have
always been ignored. Yet as they grow older, they discover that
much of what they've been told is a fiction, and that something
very sinister lies in their past.
McCleen, Grace
Land of
decoration
A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 2013. "My name is
Judith McPherson. I am ten years old. On Monday a miracle
happened." Judith doesn't have much. The house she shares
with her devoutly religious father is full of dusty relics, reminders
of the mother Judith never knew. Bullied at school, she finds
comfort in creating a miniature world in her bedroom - a world of
wonder she calls 'The Land of Decoration'. Perhaps, she thinks,
if she makes it snow in The Land of Decoration there will be no
school on Monday. Sure enough, when Judith opens her
curtains the next day, the world beyond her window has turned
white. And that's when her troubles begin.
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McEwan, Ian
Atonement
On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old
Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and
plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house.
Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like
Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of
that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever.
Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not
even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the
younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries,
and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her
life trying to atone.
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Deadly secrets
When the eminent mathematician and former government
advisor Marcus Ardleigh is found hanged in his home in the
sleepy Lancashire village of Moulton Bank, at first it looks to be
a simple case of suicide. Very soon, however, Inspector Steve
Carmichael begins to suspect that the death is altogether more
complicated than it first appears.
As his investigations lead him and his team ever deeper into
Ardleigh's murky past and into the tortured lives of his lukewarm
friends and bitter enemies, dark and dangerous secrets begin to
emerge...
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McFadyen, Ian
Little white lies
When Inspector Steve McNab and his family move from London
to the village of Moulton in rural Lancashire they all expect a
quieter existence. However, in a matter of days, a woman is
murdered in the village, and Steve finds himself in charge of an
investigation that casts dark shadows into the village's past.
After a second murder is committed, the case becomes
increasingly complex and the Met begins to look like the quiet
life as Steve finds himself drawn into intrigue, and the
investigations begin to overlap with his family life in more ways
than one.
McGrath, M. J.
Boy in the now
When Arctic guide Edie Kiglatuk stumbles across a body
abandoned in the Alaskan forest, she little imagines what her
discovery will lead her to. With the local police convinced the
death is linked to the Dark Believers, a sinister Russian sect,
Edie's friends insist she leave the investigation to the proper
authorities. But remaining in the area as part of the support team
for her ex-husband Sammy's bid to win the famous Iditarod dog
sled race, Edie cannot get the image of the frozen corpse out of
her mind. While Sammy travels across some of world's toughest
and most deadly terrain, Edie sets off on an investigation which
will take her into a dark world of politics, corruption and greed -as a painful secret in her past finally catches up with her ...
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McKeon, Belinda
Solace
Mark Casey did not expect to fall in love. But from the minute he
saw Joanne Lynch across the garden of a Dublin pub, it seemed
that nothing else was possible. But Mark is also drawn
back...guiltily...to his family and the land they have farmed for
generations, and when he discovers the truth behind a family
feud, it threatens to destroy this passionate love affair.
McMahon,
Katherine
Crimson rooms
Living at home with her mother, aunt, and grandmother, Evelyn
is still haunted by the death of her younger brother James in the
First World War. She is also determined to make a career for
herself as one of the first female lawyers. So when the doorbell
rings late one night and a woman appears, claiming to have
mothered James's child, her world is turned upside down.
Evelyn distrusts Meredith at first, but also finds that this new
arrival challenges her work-obsessed lifestyle. So far her legal
career has not set the world alight. But then two cases arise that
make Evelyn realise perhaps she can make a difference. The
first concerns a woman called Leah Marchant whose children
have been taken away from her simply because she is poor. The
second, Stephen Wheeler, has been charged with murdering his
own wife. It is clear that Wheeler is innocent but he won't talk. In
the meantime, Meredith makes an earth-shattering accusation
about James - and Evelyn falls in love with a man engaged to be
married. With the Wheeler case coming to a head, and her heart
in limbo, Evelyn takes matters into her own hands...
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McMahon,
Katherine
Rose of
Sebastapol
Russia, 1854: the Crimean War grinds on, and as the bitter
winter draws near, the battlefield hospitals fill with dying men. In
defiance of Florence Nightingale, Rosa Barr - young, headstrong
and beautiful - travels to Balaklava, determined to save as many
of the wounded as she can. For Mariella Lingwood, Rosa's
cousin, the war is contained within the letters she receives from
Henry, her fiancé but when he falls ill and is sent to recuperate
in Italy, Mariella decides she must go to him. But upon their
arrival at his lodgings, she and her maid make a heartbreaking
discovery: Rosa has disappeared. Following the trail of her
elusive and captivating cousin, Mariella's epic journey takes her
from the domestic restraint of Victorian London to the ravaged
landscape of the Crimea and the tragic city of Sebastopol...and
into the dark heart of the conflict.
McQueen, Alison
Secret children
Assam, 1925. James MacDonald is one of the sons of empire
who has no yearning for England. Running a tea plantation, he
loves India and is reluctant to choose a British bride from the
eager crowds sent over. But when he takes a beautiful young
Indian woman as his courtesan, he can little imagine what he
has begun. So starts the story of Mary and Serafina. Born of two
worlds, accepted by neither. Growing up beloved but hidden
away, their childhood is one of contradiction. It is only as the
shadow of war falls and the turmoil of Indian partition begins,
that the girls must face the truth about their parents and begin
the search for somewhere to belong. As Serafina and Mary grow
into women, they must risk everything and make choices with a
legacy that will last a lifetime, and beyond.
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Hope and glory
Starting with the death of Queen Victoria, to the Battle of the
Somme and the General Strike, and on to the docking of the
Empire Windrush and Bobby Moore raising the Jules Rimet
trophy, Stuart Maconie chooses a defining moment in our
nation's story from each decade of the last century and explores
its legacy today. Some were glorious days, some were tragic, or
even shameful, but each has played its part in making us who
we are as a nation. From pop stars to politicians, Suffragettes to
punks, this is a journey around Britain in search of who we are.
Maconie, Stuart
Pies and
prejudice
A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in
search of the North, attempting to discover where the clichés
end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to
Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake
District to find his own Northern Soul, encountering along the
way an exotic cast of chippy Scousers, pie-eating woollybacks,
topless Geordies, mad-for-it Mancs, Yorkshire nationalists and
brothers in southern exile. The bestselling Pies and Prejudice is
a hugely enjoyable journey around the North of England.
Mantell, Hilary
Wolf Hall
From one of our finest living writers, 'Wolf Hall' is that very rare
thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the
intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a
vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it
peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made
society, moulding itself with great passion, suffering and
courage.
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Baghdad railway
club
Baghdad 1917. Captain Jim Stringer, invalided from the Western
Front, has been dispatched to investigate what looks like a nasty
case of treason. He arrives to find a city on the point of
insurrection, his cover apparently blown - and his only contact
lying dead with flies in his eyes. As Baghdad swelters in a
particularly torrid summer, the heat alone threatens the lives of
the British soldiers who occupy the city. The recently ejected
Turks are still a danger - and many of the local Arabs are none
too friendly either. For Jim, who is not particularly good in warm
weather, the situation grows pricklier by the day. Aside from his
investigation, he is working on the railways around the city. His
boss is the charming, enigmatic Lieutenant-Colonel Shepherd,
who presides over the gracious dining society called "The
Baghdad Railway Club" - and who may or may not be a Turkish
agent. Jim's search for the truth brings him up against
murderous violence in a heat-dazed, labyrinthine city where an
enemy awaits around every corner.
Martell, Yann
Life of Pi
One boy, one boat, one tiger ...After the tragic sinking of a cargo
ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific.
The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen year-old boy
named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orangutan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for
one of the most extraordinary and best-loved works of fiction in
recent years.
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Masters, Stuart
Stuart. A life
backwards
This is the story of a remarkable friendship between a reclusive
writer and Stuart Shorter, a homeless, knife-wielding thief. Told
backwards - Stuart's idea - it starts with a deeply troubled thirtytwo-year-old and ends with a 'happy-go-lucky little boy' of
twelve. This brilliant biography, winner of the Guardian First
Book Award, presents a humbling portrait of homeless life, and
is as extraordinary and unexpected as the man it describes.
Maxwell, William
Time will darken
it
The decision to invite his Southern relatives to stay proves a
fateful one for Austin King. By the time they leave, his reputation
and his marriage have suffered irreparable damage. Against the
perfectly-drawn background of small-town Illinois at the turn of
the 20th century, Maxwell once again uncovers the seeds of
potential tragedy at the heart of a happily-established family.
Mercier, Pascal
Night train to
Lisbon
Driven by two chance encounters - with a mysterious
Portuguese woman in a red coat and with a book he finds
hidden in a dusty corner of a second-hand bookshop, the journal
of an enigmatic Portuguese aristocrat, Amadeu de Prado,
Raimund Gregorius boards the night train to Lisbon on a journey
to find out more about Prado, whose words haunt and compel
him. Gradually, a picture of an extraordinary man emerges: a
difficult, brilliant, charismatic figure, a doctor and a poet, and a
rebel against Salazar's dictatorship. And as Prado's story comes
to light so, too, Gregorius himself begins his life anew. Hurtling
through the dark, "Night Train to Lisbon" is a rich tale,
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wonderfully told - propelled by the mystery at its heart.
Meyer, Stephanie
Host
Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been
invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their human
hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has
succumbed. Wanderer, the invading 'soul' who has been given
Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a
human: the overwhelming emotions, the too-vivid memories. But
there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former
tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.
Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of the man
Melanie loves - Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable
to separate herself from her body's desires, Wanderer yearns for
a man she's never met. As outside forces make Wanderer and
Melanie unwilling allies, they set off to search for the man they
both love.
Miller, Andrew
Pure
Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785,
overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby.
Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial
engineer charged by the king with demolishing it. At first Baratte
sees this as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task
for a modern man of reason. But before long, he begins to
suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude
to his own. Winner of the 2011 Costa Book of the Year Award.
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Kalahari Passage
Orphaned as a young child, Koba, a San bushman, has lived
most of her life as the adopted daughter of a white, farming
family. But when her love affair with their son, Mannie, is
discovered, Koba is forcibly repatriated to the lands of the
Kalahari Desert. To survive she must find her nomadic tribe. But
will she stay alive long enough to succeed after years of living
among whites? When she finds her drought-stricken people, she
brings with her the longed-for rain. But even as she's feted for
this 'miracle', tribal tensions boil over as bachelors in the
Ju/'hoansi tribe vie for the attention of the young stranger.
Meanwhile, Mannie has set out after Koba, hitch-hiking across
southern Africa to find her.
Miller, Danny
Gilded edge
London 1965 and Vince Treadwell investigates the seemingly
unrelated murders of a playboy aristocrat from Belgravia and a
young black nurse from the wrong side of town. It takes the
detective to the illegal drinking dens of Notting Hill run by the
self-styled Black Power leader, Michael X; the nightclubs of
Soho owned by the legendary gangster, Billy Hill; and the
exclusive gaming tables of the Montcler Club in Berkeley
Square, where the blue bloods and power players of England
gamble thousands on the turn of a card. But as Vince Treadwell
digs deeper he finds himself not only embroiled with a beautiful
society girl, Isabel Saxmore-Blaine, but a world of espionage
and corruption where the underworld mixes easily with the
aristocracy, and no one is innocent.
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Mills, Mark
Whaleboat House
Long Island, 1947, where the men have fished the wild Atlantic
waters over the centuries. For Conrad Labarde, recently
returned from the Second World War, the nets hold a sinister
catch - the body of Lillian Wallace, a beautiful New York
socialite. Is it an accident or murder? Police chief Tom Hollis is
convinced the roots of the tragedy lie in the twisted histories of
local families. But the enigmatic Labarde insists on pursuing his
own investigation. It seems the fisherman may have powerful
reasons for wanting answers to the questions surrounding her
death. And in this strange place where tradition meets power
and riches, the truth is a rare thing indeed!
Mitchell, David
Black swan green January, 1982. Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor - covert
stammerer and reluctant poet - anticipates a stultifying year in
his backwater English village. But he hasn't reckoned with
bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, a
threatened gypsy invasion and those mysterious entities known
as girls. Charting thirteen months in the black hole between
childhood and adolescence, this is a captivating novel, wry,
painful and vibrant with the stuff of life.
Mitchell, David
Cloud atlas
In his extraordinary third novel, David Mitchell erases the
boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on
humanity's dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us.
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Moffat, G. J.
Protection
Could you spot a killer? Logan Finch's life depends on his ability
to do just that. He's a bodyguard whose clients rely on his talent
to head off trouble before it even starts. Now he's got his
toughest job yet - protecting American serial killer Chase Black
who has been released from prison on a technicality and is in
London promoting his memoirs. Colorado Homicide Detective
Jake Hunter, the man who put Black in jail, thought that he could
spot a killer. Now he's not so sure. And the more he investigates
the more he wonders whether a miscarriage of justice really did
occur. The trouble is: if Black is innocent the real killer must still
be at large. Finch becomes convinced that someone is hunting
Black, and as violence erupts on both sides of the Atlantic he
finds himself caught between his duty to a client and the instinct
to survive the increasingly deranged individual that wants him
dead. Protection is a terrifying journey that reveals the true
darkness residing in the human heart.
Moggach, Deborah
Best exotic
Marigold Hotel
Enticed by advertisements for a newly restored palatial hotel and
filled with visions of a life of leisure, good weather and mango
juice in their gin, a group of very different people leave England
to begin a new life in India. On arrival they are dismayed to find
the palace is a shell of its former self, the staff more than a little
eccentric, and the days of the Raj long gone. But, as they soon
discover, life and love can begin again, even in the most
unexpected circumstances.
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Monsarrat, Nicholas
Cruel sea
Based on the author's own vivid experiences, "The Cruel Sea" is
the nail-biting story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a
corvette assigned to protect convoys in World War Two. Packed
with tension and vivid descriptions of agonizing U-boat hunts,
this tale of the most bitter and chilling campaign of the war tells
of ordinary, heroic men who had to face a brutal menace which
would strike without warning from the deep...
Moore, Brian
Statement
Pierre Brossard is on the run. For his life. From a determined
squad of unknown hit-men. From his former 'friends'. From his
past. Condemned to death in absentia by French courts for
crimes against humanity during the war, he has been in hiding
for over forty years. Now, perhaps, justice will be done.
Morgentstern, Eric
Night circus
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede
it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. The black sign,
painted in white letters that hangs upon the gates, reads: Opens
at Nightfall Closes at Dawn. As the sun disappears beyond the
horizon, all over the tents small lights begin to flicker, as though
the entirety of the circus is covered in particularly bright fireflies.
When the tents are all aglow, sparkling against the night sky, the
sign appears. Le Cirque des Reves. The Circus of Dreams. Now
the circus is open. Now you may enter.
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Moriarty, Laura
Rest of her life
"The Rest of Her Life" is the story of a family plunged into a
crisis that will irrevocably change their lives forever. It's about
the true nature of mother-daughter relationships, and about how
far you would go to protect everything you hold dear.
Morrison, Toni
Beloved
It's the mid-1800s. In Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery
comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Hale &
Paul are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of agony & torment. The
world of Sethe is to turn to violence and death.
Morrissey, Donna
Sylvanus now
Sylvanus Now is a young man of great charm and strength,
most at home when fishing the great Newfoundland fishing
banks. He wants Adelaide, a fiery beauty from the next village,
but Adelaide swore she would never love a fisherman. She
hates the sea, the fish, and the prying eyes of an isolated 1950s
community. But as their love for each other grows into marriage,
the more they seem linked to the rhythms of the sea -- a sea that
takes as well as gives, something that Sylvanus knows all too
well having lost both his brother and father to the depths. Worse
is to come. Looming at the edge of the horizon are menacing
congregations of giant fishing trawlers that threaten to suck not
only fish from the sea but the life from a community.
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Murdock, Iris
Flight from the
enchanter
Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more
than she bargained for in the real world beyond; the fierce and
melancholy Rosa is torn between two Polish brothers; Peter is
obsessed by an indecipherable ancient script. This is a story of a
group of people under a spell, and the centre of it all is the
mysterious Mischa Fox, the enchanter.
Mutch, Barbara
Housemaid's
daughter
Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919 to travel
to South Africa and marry the fiancé she has not seen for five
years. Isolated and estranged in a harsh landscape, she finds
solace in her diary and the friendship of her housemaid's
daughter, Ada. Cathleen recognises in her someone she can
love and respond to in a way that she cannot with her own
husband and daughter. Under Cathleen's tutelage, Ada grows
into an accomplished pianist, and a reader who cannot resist
turning the pages of the diary, discovering the secrets Cathleen
sought to hide. When Ada is compromised and finds she is
expecting a mixed-race child, she flees her home, determined to
spare Cathleen the knowledge of her betrayal, and the disgrace
that would descend upon the family. Scorned within her own
community, Ada is forced to carve a life for herself, her child,
and her music. But Cathleen still believes in Ada, and risks the
constraints of apartheid to search for her and persuade her to
return with her daughter. Beyond the cruelty, there is love, hope
- and redemption.
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Neill, Robert
Mist over Pendle
Nemirovsky, Irene
Suite Francaise
Seventeenth century England is a place of superstition and fear.
Deep in the Forest of Pendle, people have been dying in
mysterious circumstances. The locals' whisper of witchcraft, but
Squire Roger Nowell, in charge of investigating the deaths,
dismisses the claims as ridiculous. Until a series of hideous
desecrations forces Roger and his cousin Margery to look
further into the rumours. And what they discover brings them
face to face with the horrifying possibility that a coven of witches
is assembling, preparing to unleash a campaign of evil and
destruction...
Set during the year that France fell to the Nazis, Suite Francaise
falls into two parts. The first is a brilliant depiction of a group of
Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion; the second follows the
inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation. Suite
Francaise is a novel that teems with wonderful characters
struggling with the new regime. However, amidst the mess of
defeat, and all the hypocrisy and compromise, there is hope.
True nobility and love exist, but often in surprising places.
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Nesser, Hakan
Hour of the wolf
In the dead of night, in the pouring rain, a drunk driver smashes
his car into a young man. He abandons the body at the side of
the road, but the incident will set in motion a chain of events
which will change his life forever. Soon Chief Inspector Van
Veeteren, now retired from the Maardam police force, will face
his greatest trial yet. As someone close to him is inexplicably
murdered, Van Veeteren's former colleagues, desperate for
answers, struggle to decipher the clues to this appalling crime.
But when another body is discovered, it gradually becomes clear
that this killer is acting on their own terrifying logic ...
Ngugi, Wa Thiongo
Wizard of crows
Nicholls, David
One day
Commencing in 'our times' and set in the 'Free Republic of
Aburiria', the novel dramatises with corrosive humour and
keenness of observation a battle for control of the souls of the
Aburirian people. Fashioning the stories of the powerful and the
ordinary into a dazzling mosaic, Ngugi reveals humanity in all its
ceaselessly surprising complexity. Informed by richly enigmatic
traditional African storytelling, "Wizard of the Crow" is a
masterpiece, the crowning achievement in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's
career thus far.
Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their
graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So
where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after
that? And every year that follows? Twenty years, two people,
One Day. From the author of the massive bestseller "Starter for
ten".
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Nicoll, Andrew
If you're reading
this I'm already
dead
'I want people to know how Otto Witte, acrobat of Hamburg,
became the crowned king of Albania.' Otto Witte is an old man.
The Allies are raining bombs on his city and, having narrowly
escaped death, he has come home to his little caravan to drink
what remains of his coffee (dust) and wait for the inevitable.
Convinced that he will not see the sunrise, he decides to write
the story of his life for the poor soul who finds what's left of him
come the morning. And it's quite a story. Years earlier, when he
was in either Buda or Pest, working at the circus, a dear friend
brought him the newspaper. Inside was an article about how
Albania was looking for a particular Turkish prince, because the
country was in need of a new king. This Turkish prince is the
image of Otto...A plan is formed; adventure, disaster, love and
sheer, unabashed hope await. If You're Reading This, I'm
Already Dead is a joy to read; accomplished and full of the
warmth, honesty and lightness of touch for which Andrew Nicoll
is known and loved.
Nifenegger, Audrey
Time traveller's
wife
This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry who met
when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married
when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but
true, because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his
genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled
suddenly into his past or future. In the face of this force they can
neither prevent nor control, Henry and Clare's struggle to lead
normal lives is both intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.
Winner of Popular Fiction Award 2006.
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Nobbs, David
Pratt a Manger
When pretty young TV researcher Nicky Proctor visits Cafe
Henry in London's Soho, Henry Pratt's life changes forever. He
becomes an instant star of the TV food quiz, 'A Question of Salt'
and before long he is given his own series, 'Hooray, its Henry'.
The book of the series reaches Number Two. He's a celebrity.
Henry Ezra Pratt has come a long way from his humble
beginnings. But, as usual in Henry's life, things begin to go
wrong. He incurs the deep hatred of rival celebrity chef Bradley
Tompkins, with his bad manners, bad wig and no Michelin stars.
Noble, Elizabeth
Girl next door
What makes a house a home? For Eve Gallagher, home is miles
away in England but she and her husband relocated to an
apartment building on New York's Upper East Side. And life isn't
remotely coming up roses. What makes a neighbour a friend?
Violet has lived in the building for decades but she's always kept
herself apart, until Eve's loneliness touches her heart and
friendship blossoms. Dreams come true, hearts are broken and
no one is left unchanged when the secrets and desires hidden
behind closed doors are finally brought into the light.
Nothomb, Amelie
Life of hunger
In a wistful, clever and unusual novel, Amelie Nothomb casts
herself as hunger: hunger for experience, hunger for life, hunger
for sweetness and, in what is the book's nucleus, hunger for
hunger (the period during which she was afflicted by acute
anorexia). Recounting the formative journeys of her youth, from
Tokyo to Peking to Paris to New York, "The Life of Hunger" is a
brilliant and moving examination of the self, and perhaps
Amelie's most mature and moving work to date.
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Obama, Barak
Dreams from my
father
'Dreams from my Father' is an unforgettable read. It illuminates
not only Obama's journey, but also our universal desire to
understand our history, and what makes us the people we are.
O'Farrell, Maggie
Vanishing act of
Esme Lennox
Edinburgh in the 1930s. The Lennox family is having trouble with
its youngest daughter. Esme is outspoken, unconventional, and
repeatedly embarrasses them in polite society. Something will
have to be done. Years later, a young woman named Iris
Lockhart receives a letter informing her that she has a greataunt in a psychiatric unit who is about to be released. Iris has
never heard of Esme Lennox and the one person who should
know more, her grandmother Kitty, seems unable to answer
Iris's questions. What could Esme have done to warrant a
lifetime in an institution? And how is it possible for a person to
be so completely erased from a family's history?
O'Hara, John
BUtterfield 8
'On this Sunday morning in May, this girl who was later to be the
cause of a sensation in New York awoke much too early for her
night before'...This particular morning Gloria finds herself alone
in a stranger's apartment with nothing but a torn evening dress
and her stockings and panties. When she takes a fur coat from
the wardrobe to wear home, she sets in train a series of events
that will lead to tragedy. A bestseller on its first publication,
"BUtterfield 8" is the glittering story of a 1930s glamour girl
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whose ill-starred entanglement with a respectable married man
is set against a backdrop of Manhattan bars and bedrooms.
Ohlsson, Kristina
Unwanted
Oksanen, Sofi
Purge
In the middle of a rainy Swedish summer, a little girl is abducted
from a crowded train. Despite hundreds of potential witnesses,
no one noticed when the girl was taken. Her mother, left behind
at the previous station, alerted the crew immediately. But as the
train pulled into Stockholm Central Station, the girl was nowhere
to be seen. To Inspector Alex Recht of the Stockholm police, this
looks like a classic custody row. But none of the evidence adds
up and young Investigative Analyst Fredrika Bergman is
convinced the case is far more complex than her boss is
prepared to admit. So when the missing child is found dead in
the far north of Sweden, with the word UNWANTED scribbled on
her forehead, the rule book is finally thrown out of the window.
Now on the trail of a ruthless murderer with a terrifying agenda,
will Alex and Fredrika manage to put aside their differences and
work together to find the killer, before it's too late?
A haunting, intimate and gripping story of suspicion, betrayal
and retribution against a backdrop of Soviet oppression and
European war. Deep in an Estonian forest, two women, one
young, one old, are hiding. Zara is a prostitute and a murderer,
on the run from brutal captors - men who know how to punish a
woman. Aliide offers refuge but not safety, and she has her own
criminal secrets...
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Oldham, Nick
Crunch time
Willing to do almost anything to escape his humdrum desk job,
DCI Henry Christie leaps at the chance to go working
undercover again, possibly his last chance ever.. But the last
thing Henry needs in this dangerous situation is the appearance
of a man bearing a fatal grudge that will jeopardise not only
himself, but also his family. As Henry attempts to balance his
latest case with his personal life, he finds himself dealing with a
series of events which begin to spiral murderously out of his
control...
Osborne, Frances
Bolter
As the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high
society by leaving her multimillionaire father to run off to Africa
with a near penniless man. An inspiration for Nancy Mitford's
character The Bolter, painted by William Orpen, and
photographed by Cecil Beaton, Sackville went on to divorce a
total of five times, yet died with a picture of her first love by her
bed. Now, her great granddaughter Frances Osborne tells the
moving tale of betrayal and heartbreak behind Sackville's road
to scandal and return, painting a dazzling portrait of high society
in the early twentieth century.
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Park Lane
London, 1914. Two young women dream of breaking free from
tradition and obligation; they know that suffragettes are on the
march and that war looms, but at 35 Park Lane, Lady Masters,
head of a dying industrial dynasty, insists that life is about
service and duty. Below stairs, housemaid Grace Campbell is
struggling. Her family in Carlisle believes she is a high earning
secretary, but she has barely managed to get work in service something she keeps even from her adored brother. Asked to
send home more money than she earns, Grace is in trouble. As
third housemaid she waits on Miss Beatrice, the youngest
daughter of the house, who, fatigued with the social season, is
increasingly drawn into Mrs Pankhurst's captivating underground
world of militant suffragettes. Soon Bea is playing a dangerous
game that will throw her in the path of a man her mother
wouldn't let through the front door. Then war comes and it is not
just their secrets - now on a collision course - that will change
their lives for good. Brilliantly capturing a deeply fascinating
period of British life in which the normal boundaries of behaviour
were overturned and the social hierarchy could no longer be
taken for granted, Park Lane is as gripping and intense as
Frances Osborne's number one bestselling The Bolter.
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Parks, Adele
Whatever it takes
Eloise Hamilton is a Londoner born and bred, so it is a
momentous day when she reluctantly agrees to uproot to
Dartmouth, leaving behind her perfect world so her husband can
finally live in his. There are compensations, however. Her
mother-in-law Margaret will welcome her with open arms, and
besides, she can still rely on best friend Sara to be her lifeline to
London. But both Margaret and Sara are facing their own
difficulties, and thrust into unexpected turmoil, Eloise finds she is
the one holding everything together for her loved ones - and by
an ever-weakening thread. As her world implodes with the strain
of being responsible for all around her, someone is bound to be
overlooked. And the damage might be irreparable...
Parssinen, Keija
Ruins of us
More than two decades after moving to Saudi Arabia and
marrying Abdullah Baylani, Rosalie learns that her husband has
married a second wife. The discovery plunges the powerful
family into chaos as Rosalie grapples with leaving Saudi Arabia,
her life and her family behind. Abdullah and Rosalie's
consuming personal entanglements also blind them to the crisis
approaching their sixteen-year-old son Faisal, whose deepening
resentment towards their lifestyle has led to his involvement with
a controversial sheikh. When Faisal makes a choice that could
destroy everything his family holds dear, all must confront
difficult truths as they fight to preserve what remains of their
love.
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Dark matter
Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to
change his life. So when he's offered the chance to join an Arctic
expedition, he jumps at it. Five men and eight huskies reach the
remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year.
Gruhuken. But the Arctic summer is brief. As night returns to
claim the land, Jack feels a creeping unease. One by one, his
companions are forced to leave. He faces a stark choice. Stay or
go. Soon he will reach the point of no return - when the sea will
freeze, making escape impossible. And Gruhuken is not
uninhabited. Jack is not alone. Something walks there in the
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Expats
Kate Moore is an expat mum, newly transplanted from
Washington D.C. In the cobblestoned streets of Luxembourg,
her days are filled with play dates and coffee mornings, her
weekends spent in Paris or skiing in the Alps. Kate is also
guarding a secret - one so momentous it could destroy her neat
little expat life - and she suspects that another American couple
are not who they claim to be; plus her husband is acting
suspiciously. As she travels around Europe, she finds herself
looking over her shoulder, terrified her past is catching up with
her. As Kate begins to dig, to uncover the secrets of those
around her, she finds herself buried in layers of deceit so thick
they threaten her family, her marriage - and her life.
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Tenderness of
wolves
1867 Canada, as winter tightens its grip on the isolated
settlement of Dove River, a man is brutally murdered and a 17year old boy disappears. Tracks leaving the dead man's cabin
head north towards the forest and the tundra beyond. In the
wake of such violence, people are drawn to the township journalists, Hudson's Bay Company men, trappers, traders - but
do they want to solve the crime or exploit it?
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Songs of the
humpback whale
Escaping a childhood of abuse by marrying oceanographer
Oliver Jones, Jane finds herself taking second place to his
increasingly successful career. However, when her daughter
Rebecca is similarly treated, Jane's dramatic stand takes them
all by surprise. Jane and Rebecca set out to drive across
America to the sanctuary of the New England apple orchard
where Jane's brother Joley works. Oliver, used to tracking male
humpback whales across vast oceans, now has the task of
tracking his wife across a continent.
Pierre, D. B. C.
Vernon God Little
Fifteen-year-old Vernon Gregory Little is in trouble, and it has
something to do with the recent massacre of 16 students at his
high school. Soon, the quirky backwater of Martirio, barbecue
capital of Texas, is flooded with wannabe CNN hacks, eager for
a scapegoat. Winner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2003.
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Pilkington, Doris
Rabbit-proof
fence
In 1931 the authorities seized 14-year-old Molly Craig from her
desert home in Jigalong, western Australia, with her younger
sister Daisy and cousin Gracie. Official policy decreed that the
three girls be taken to the Moore River Native Settlement, where
they were to be trained as domestic servants. Their trauma was
intensified by Moore River's harsh regime and when Molly
decided it was time to go home, the only way was to walk. This
is the true story of the girls' 1600 kilometre journey back to
Jigalong.
Quick, Matthew
Silver linings
playbook
Pat Peoples knows that life doesn't always go according to plan,
but he's determined to get his back on track. After a stint in a
psychiatric hospital, Pat is staying with his parents and trying to
live according to his new philosophy: get fit, be nice and always
look for the silver lining. Most importantly, Pat is determined to
be reconciled with his wife Nikki. Pat's parents just want to
protect him so he can get back on his feet, but when Pat
befriends the mysterious Tiffany, the secrets they've been
keeping from him threaten to come out ...
Rankin, Ian
Doors open
Mike Mackenzie is a self-made man with too much time on his
hands and a bit of the devil in his soul. He is looking for
something to liven up the days and settles on a plot to rip-off one
of the most high-profile targets in the capital - the National
Gallery of Scotland. So, together with two close friends from the
art world, he devises a plan to lift some of the most valuable
artwork around. But of course, the real trick is to rob the place
for all its worth whilst persuading the world that no crime was
ever committed...
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Churchill's
wizards
By June 1940, most of Europe had fallen to the Nazis and
Britain stood alone. To protect itself, the nation fell back on
cunning and camouflage. With Winston Churchill in charge, the
British bluffed their way out of trouble - lying, pretending and
dressing up in order to survive. The British had developed this
uncommon talent during the trench and desert fighting of the
First World War, when writers and artists created elaborate
camouflages and fiendish propaganda. So successful were
these deceptions they gave rise to the German belief that they
hadn't been beaten fairly - in which case why not 'have a second
go'? Above all, Nicholas Rankin reveals the true stories of those
brave and creative mavericks who helped win what Churchill
called 'The war of the unknown Warriors'.
Remarque, M.
All quiet on the
Western front
The story is told by a young 'unknown soldier' in the trenches of
Flanders during the First World War. Through his eyes we see
all the realities of war - under fire, on patrol, waiting in the
trenches, at home on leave, and in hospitals and dressing
stations. Although there are vividly described incidents which
remain in mind, there is no sense of adventure here, only the
feeling of youth betrayed and a deceptively simple indictment of
war - of any war - told for a whole generation of victims.
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Wide Sargasso
Sea
If Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have
foreseen the terrible future that awaited her, she would not have
married the young Englishman. Initially drawn to her beauty and
sensuality, he becomes increasingly frustrated by his inability to
reach into her soul. He forces Antoinette to conform to his rigid
Victorian ideals, unaware that in taking away her identity; he is
destroying a part of himself as well as pushing her towards
madness. A powerful and haunting masterpiece set against the
lush backdrop of 1830s Jamaica.
Richell, Hannah
Secrets of the
tides
The Tides are a family with dark secrets. Haunted by the events
of one tragic day ten years ago, they are each, in their own way,
struggling to move forwards with their lives. Dora, the youngest
daughter, lives in a ramshackle East End warehouse with her
artist boyfriend Dan. Dora is doing a good job of skating across
the surface of her life - but when she discovers she is pregnant
the news leaves her shaken and staring back at the darkness of
a long-held guilt. Returning to Clifftops, the rambling family
house perched high on the Dorset coastline, Dora must confront
her past. As she begins her search for clues surrounding the
events of that fateful day, she comes to realise that the path to
redemption may rest with her troubled sister, Cassie. If Dora can
unlock the secrets Cassie swore she would take to her grave,
just maybe she will have a shot at salvation. But can long-held
secrets ever really be forgiven? And even if you do manage to
forgive and forget, how do you ever allow yourself to truly love
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Richman, Alyson
Lost wife
During the last moments of calm in pre-war Prague, Lenka, a
young art student, falls in love with Josef. They marry - but soon,
like so many others, they are torn apart by the currents of war. In
America Josef becomes a successful obstetrician and raises a
family, though he never forgets the wife he thinks died in the
camps. But in the Nazi ghetto of Terezin - and later in Auschwitz
- Lenka has survived, relying on her skills as an artist and the
memories of a husband she believes she will never see again.
Now, decades later, an unexpected encounter in New York
brings Lenka and Josef back together. From the comfort of life in
Prague before the occupation to the horrors of Nazi Europe, The
Lost Wife explores the endurance of first love, the resilience of
the human spirit and our capacity to remember.
Riley, Lucinda
Girl on the cliff
Mysteriously drawn to Aurora, Grania discovers that the histories
of their families are strangely and deeply entwined...From a
bittersweet romance in wartime London to a troubled
relationship in contemporary New York, from devotion to a
foundling child to forgotten memories of a lost brother, the
Ryans and the Lisles, past and present, have been entangled
for a century. Ultimately, it will be Aurora whose intuition and
remarkable spirit help break the spell and unlock the chains of
the past. Haunting, uplifting and deeply moving, Aurora's story
tells of the triumph of hope over loss.
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Marilynne
Gilead
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he
begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his
remarkable forebears. Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2005.
Orange Prize for Fiction 2006.
Robinson, Peter
Watching the
dark
Banks is back - and this time he's investigating the murder of
one of his own. Detective Inspector Bill Quinn is killed by a
crossbow in the tranquil grounds of a police rehabilitation centre,
and compromising photos are found in his room. DCI Banks,
brought in to investigate, is assailed on all sides. By Joanna
Passero, the Professional Standards inspector who insists on
shadowing the investigation in case of police corruption. By his
own conviction that a policeman shouldn't be deemed guilty
without evidence. By Annie Cabbot, back at work after six
months' recuperation, and beset by her own doubts and
demons. And by an English girl who disappeared in Estonia six
years ago, who seems to hold the secret at the heart of this case
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Rogan, Charlotte
Lifeboat
I was to stand trial for my life. I was twenty-two years old. I had
been married for ten weeks and a widow for six. It is 1914 and
Europe is on the brink of war. When a magnificent ocean liner
suffers a mysterious explosion en route to New York City, Henry
Winter manages to secure a place in a lifeboat for his new wife
Grace. But the survivors quickly realize the boat is over capacity
and could sink at any moment. For any to live, some must die.
Over the course of three perilous weeks, the passengers on the
lifeboat plot, scheme, gossip and console one another while
sitting inches apart. Their deepest beliefs are tested to the limit
as they begin to discover what they will do in order to survive.
Rogers, Jane
Testament of
Jessie Lamb
If the human race is to survive, it's up to her. Set just a month or
two in the future, in a world irreparably altered by an act of
biological terrorism, The Testament of Jessie Lamb explores a
young woman's determination to make her life count for
something, as the certainties of her childhood are ripped apart.
Romer, Knud
Nothing but fear
The Second World War is long over but its legacy continues to
tear a town - and a young boy's life - apart. Knud is growing up
in Faster, a small Danish town in the 1960s. The war is over but
the Germans are still hated and Knud has a German mother.
Bullied and persecuted at school, he retreats into the eccentric
world of his family's history - but he can't escape the fact that, for
him, his parents, and his paternal grandparents, the war is still
being fought. Depicting a town and a family devastated by
prejudice, "Nothing But Fear" is written with empathy and venom
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Sanchez, Clara
Sent of lemon
leaves
Having left her job and boyfriend, thirty-year-old Sandra decides
to stay in a village on the Costa Brava in order to take stock of
her life and find a new direction. She befriends Karin and
Fredrik, an elderly Norwegian couple, who provide her with
stimulating company and take the place of the grandparents she
never had. However, when she meets Julian, a former
concentration-camp inmate who has just returned to Europe
from Argentina, she discovers that all is not what it seems and
finds herself involved in a perilous quest for the truth. Winner of
Premio Nadal 2010.
Sansom, C. J.
Dissolution
Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church
and the country is waking up to savage new laws, rigged trials
and the greatest network of informers ever seen. Under the
order of Thomas Cromwell, a team of commissioners is sent
through the country to investigate the monasteries. There can
only be one outcome: the monasteries are to be dissolved. But
on the Sussex coast, at the monastery of Scarnsea, events have
spiralled out of control.
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Revelation
Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr,
whom he wants for his sixth wife. Archbishop Cranmer and the
embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for
Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies. Matthew
Shardlake, meanwhile, is working on the case of a teenage boy
who has been placed in the Bedlam insane asylum, before his
terrifying religious mania leads to him being burned as a heretic.
When an old friend is horrifically murdered, Shardlake vows to
bring the killer to justice.
Sansom, C. J.
Winter in Madrid
1940: The Spanish Civil War is over, and Madrid lies ruined, its
people starving, while the Germans continue their relentless
march through Europe. Britain now stands alone while General
Franco considers whether to abandon neutrality and enter the
war. Into this uncertain world comes Harry Brett: a traumatised
veteran of Dunkirk turned reluctant spy for the British Secret
Service. Sent to gain the confidence of old school friend Sandy
Forsyth, now a shady Madrid businessman, Harry finds himself
involved in a dangerous game -- and surrounded by memories.
Meanwhile Sandy's girlfriend, ex-Red Cross nurse Barbara
Clare, is engaged on a secret mission of her own -- to find her
former lover Bernie Piper, a passionate Communist in the
International Brigades, who vanished on the bloody battlefields
of the Jarama.
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Sasson, Jean
Daughters of
Arabia
Maha and Amani, both teenagers, were surrounded by untold
opulence and luxury from the day they were born, but stifled by
the unbearably restrictive lifestyle imposed on them, they
reacted in equally desperate ways. Their dramatic and shocking
stories, together with many more which concern other members
of Princess Sultana's huge family, are set against a rich
backdrop of Saudi Arabian culture and social mores which she
depicts with equal colour and authenticity.
Schine, Cathleen
Three
Weissmanns of
Westport
A sparkling, and stinging, contemporary adaptation of Sense
and Sensibility. The Weissmann sisters quite unexpectedly find
themselves the middle-aged products of a broken home.
Dumped by her husband of nearly fifty years and then exiled
from their elegant New York apartment by his mistress, Betty is
forced to move to a small, run-down Westport, Connecticut,
beach cottage. Joining her are Miranda and Annie, who dutifully
comes along to keep an eye on her capricious mother and
sister. As the sisters mingle with the suburban aristocracy, love
starts to blossom for both of them, and they find themselves
struggling with the duelling demands of reason and romance.
Schlink, Bernhard
Reader
For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older
woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in
question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a
passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both
euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems. Years
later, as a law student observing a trial in Germany, Michael is
shocked to realize that the person in the dock is Hanna. The
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woman he had loved is a criminal. Much about her behaviour
during the trial does not make sense. But then suddenly, and
terribly, it does - Hanna is not only obliged to answer for a
horrible crime, she is also desperately concealing an even
deeper secret.
Schwartz, John
Burnham
Northwest Corner Twelve years after a tragic accident and a cover-up that led to
prison time, Dwight Arno, now fifty, is a man who has started
over without exactly moving on. Living alone in California,
haunted yet keeping his head down, Dwight manages a sporting
goods store and dates a woman to whom he hasn't revealed the
truth about his past. Then an unexpected arrival throws his
carefully neutralized life into turmoil and exposes all that he's
hidden. Sam, Dwight's estranged college-age son, has shown
up without warning, fleeing a devastating incident in his own life.
In its way, Sam's sense of guilt is as crushing as his father's.
Told in the resonant voices of everyday people gripped in the
emotional riptide of lived life, "Northwest Corner" is at once
tough and heart-lifting, an urgent, powerful story about family
bonds that can never be broken and the wayward roads that
lead us back to those we love.
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Scott, Kim
That deadman
dance
Throughout Bobby Wabalanginy's young life the ships have
been arriving, bringing European settlers to the south coast of
Western Australia, where Bobby's people, the Noongar people,
have always lived. But slowly - by design and by hazard - things
begin to change. Not everyone is so pleased with the progress
of the white colonists. Livestock mysteriously starts to disappear,
crops are destroyed, there are 'accidents' and injuries on both
sides. As the Europeans impose ever-stricter rules and
regulations in order to keep the peace, Bobby's Elders decide
they must respond in kind, and Bobby is forced to take sides,
inexorably drawn into a series of events that will forever change
the future of his country. That Deadman Dance is haunted by
tragedy, as most stories of first contact between European and
native peoples are. But through Bobby's life, this novel
exuberantly explores a moment in time when things might have
been different, when black and white lived together in
amazement rather than fear of the other, and when the world
suddenly seemed twice as large and twice as promising.
Segal, Francesca
Innocents
Winner of the Costa first novel award 2012. Longlisted for the
women's prize for fiction 2013. What if everything you'd ever
wanted was no longer enough? Adam and Rachel are getting
married at last. Childhood sweethearts whose lives and families
have been intertwined for years; theirs is set to be the wedding
of the year. But then Rachel's cousin Ellie makes an unexpected
return to the family fold. Beautiful, reckless and troubled, Ellie
represents everything that Adam has tried all his life to avoid and everything that is missing from his world. As the longawaited wedding approaches, Adam is torn between duty and
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temptation, security and freedom, and must make a choice that
will break either one heart, or many.
Sem-Sandberg,
Steve
Emperor of lies
In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the
second largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lodz. Its
chosen leader: Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, a sixty-threeyear-old Jewish businessman and orphanage director, and the
elusive, authoritarian power sustaining the ghetto's very
existence. From one of Scandinavia's most critically acclaimed
and bestselling authors, "The Emperor of Lies" chronicles the
tale of Rumkowski's monarchical rule over a quarter of a million
Jews. Drawing on the chronicles of life in the Lodz ghetto, Steve
Sem-Sandberg captures the full panorama of human resilience,
and questions the nature of good and evil.
Setterfield, Diana
Thirteenth tale
Angelfield House stands abandoned and forgotten. It was once
home to the March family - fascinating, manipulative Isabelle,
brutal, dangerous Charlie, and the wild, untamed twins,
Emmeline and Adeline. But Angelfield House hides a chilling
secret which strikes at the very heart of each of them, tearing
their lives apart...Now Margaret Lea is investigating Angelfield's
past - and the mystery of the March family starts to unravel.
What has Angelfield been hiding? What is its connection with the
enigmatic writer Vida Winter? And what is the secret that strikes
at the heart of Margaret's own, troubled life? As Margaret digs
deeper, two parallel stories unfold, and the tale she uncovers
sheds a disturbing light on her own life...
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Shaffer, M. A. &
Barrows, A.
Guernsey
Literary and
Potato Peel Pie
Society
It's 1946 and author Juliet Ashton can't think what to write next.
Out of the blue, she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of
Guernsey - by chance, he's acquired a book that once belonged
to her - and, spurred on by their mutual love of reading, they
begin a correspondence. When Dawsey reveals that he is a
member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,
her curiosity is piqued and it's not long before she begins to hear
from other members. As letters fly back and forth with stories of
life in Guernsey under the German Occupation, Juliet soon
realizes that the society is every bit as extraordinary as its name.
Sharp, Zoe
Second shot
Charlie Fox, ex-Special Forces soldier turned bodyguard, has a
new client: a lottery millionairess mother who is looking for
protection from a nuisance ex. When Simone decides to escape
his unwanted attentions and the scrutiny of the press by going to
America, it should make Charlie's job easier, what with the main
character she is protecting her from out of the picture. But
Charlie has some very bad memories from her last time in the
US and from the moment they arrive, Simone seems to
undermine all of Charlie's measures for her security.
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Resistance
1944. After the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings, half
of Britain is occupied...Young farmer's wife Sarah Lewis wakes
to find her husband has disappeared, along with all of the men
from her remote Welsh village. A German patrol arrives in the
valley, the purpose of their mission a mystery. Sarah begins a
faltering acquaintance with the patrol's commanding officer,
Albrecht, and it is to her that he reveals the purpose of his
mission - to claim an extraordinary medieval art treasure that lies
hidden in the valley. But as the pressure of the war beyond
presses in on this isolated community, this fragile state of
harmony is increasingly threatened.
Shepherd, Lynn
Tom-all-alone
"Tom's-All-Alone" is 'Dickens but darker' - without the comedy,
without the caricature, and a style all its own. The novel explores
a dark underside of Victorian life that Dickens and Collins hinted
at - a world in which young women are sexually abused,
unwanted babies summarily disposed of, and those that
discover the grim secrets of great men brutally eliminated.
Shreve, Anita
Testimony
At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to
break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is
the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of
revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voice -- those of the
men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal -that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed
in one foolish moment.
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We need to talk
about Kevin
This title is winner of the Orange Prize for fiction 2005. Two
years ago, Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seven of
his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a
popular algebra teacher. Because he was only fifteen at the time
of the killings, he received a lenient sentence and is now in a
prison for young offenders in upstate New York. Telling the story
of Kevin's upbringing, Eva addresses herself to her estranged
husband through a series of letters. Fearing that her own
shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, she
confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about both
motherhood in general and Kevin in particular.
Simons, Jake
Pure
Disaffected ex-Mossad agent, Uzi, works as a security guard
and low-level drug dealer in London. Uzi gets the chance to
expose the ruthlessness of his former employers by giving the
details of a top-secret assassination operation to WikiLeaks - a
story so damaging to the Israeli government that an opposition
party is prepared to pay to ensure WikiLeaks gets the scoop. But
once it's out there, Uzi will be a marked man ...
Slaughter, Karin
Fracture
When Atlanta housewife Abigail Campano comes home
unexpectedly one afternoon, she walks into a nightmare. There
is a broken window, a bloody footprint on the stairs and, most
devastating of all, the horrifying sight of her teenage daughter
lying dead on the landing, a man standing over her with a bloody
knife. The struggle which follows changes Abigail's life forever.
When the local police make a misjudgement which not only
threatens the investigation but places a young girl's life in
danger, the case is handed over to Special Agent Will Trent of
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the Criminal Apprehension Team - paired with detective Faith
Mitchell, a woman who resents him from their first meeting.
Smith, Tim Rob
Child 44
In Stalin's Soviet Union, crime does not exist. But still millions
live in fear. The mere suspicion of disloyalty to the State, the
wrong word at the wrong time, can send an innocent person to
his execution. Officer Leo Demidov, an idealistic war hero,
believes he's building a perfect society. But after witnessing the
interrogation of an innocent man, his loyalty begins to waver,
and when ordered to investigate his own wife, Raisa, Leo is
forced to choose where his heart truly lies. Then the impossible
happens. A murderer is on the loose, killing at will, and every
belief Leo has ever held is shattered.
Smith, Zadie
White teeth
One of the most talked about fictional debuts of recent years,
"White Teeth" is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored
by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over
three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the
past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a lifeaffirming, riotous must-read of a book.
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Solana, Teresa
Shortcut to
paradise
A writer is murdered at the Ritz on the night she wins an
important literary prize, battered to death with the trophy she has
just won. A satire of the Catalan literary scene dressed up as a
hilarious murder mystery.
Staincliffe, Cath
Witness
Four bystanders in the wrong place at the wrong time, witnesses
to the shocking shooting of a teenage boy. A moment that
changes their lives forever. Ordinary people in an extraordinary
situation. Will the witnesses stand firm or be prevented from
giving evidence? How will they cope with the emotional trauma
of reliving the murder under pitiless cross-examination? This is a
compassionate, suspenseful and illuminating story exploring the
real human cost of bearing witness.
Steinbeck, John
Grapes of wrath
John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and
hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic
vision of the struggle for the American Dream. Shocking and
controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's
Pulitzer prize-winning epic "The Grapes of Wrath" remains his
undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of Dust
Bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of Tom Joad
and his family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel
west in search of the promised land.
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Stephenson, Neal
Snow crash
The only relief from the sea of logos is within the well-guarded
borders of the Burbclaves. Is it any wonder that most sane folks
have forsaken the real world and chosen to live in the computergenerated universe of virtual reality? In a major city the size of a
dozen Manhattans, is a domain of pleasures limited only by the
imagination. But now a strange new computer virus called Snow
Crash is striking down hackers everywhere, leaving an unlikely
young man as humankind's last best hope.
Stockett, Kathryn
Help
Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white
children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...There's
Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt
caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is
nearly as sassy as her tongue; and, white Miss Skeeter, home
from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has
disappeared. Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would
believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each
woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to
depend and rely upon one another. Each is in search of a truth.
And together they have an extraordinary story to tell...
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Sullivan, Jane
Little people
One day, she will ask me the inevitable question. There is so
much to tell, and I am not certain how to tell it. At least I know
where to begin. I will remind her that I was young, and had
always been told that wanting was nothing but covetousness, a
sin before God. I had no idea how dangerous that world would
be.
It began with a game a gentleman taught me...
Summerscale, Kate
Suspicions of Mr.
Whicher
It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian
house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind
shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some
point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next
morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome
murder has taken place in their home. The household
reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is
surely still among them. Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, the
most celebrated detective of his day, reaches Road Hill House a
fortnight later. He faces an unenviable task: to solve a case in
which the grieving family are the suspects.
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Spiral
Pathologist Ando is at a low point in his life. His small son's
death from drowning has resulted in the break-up of his
marriage and he is suffering from traumatic recurrent
nightmares. Work is his only escape, and his depressing world
of loneliness and regret is shaken up when an old rival from
medical school, Ryuji Takayama, turns up on his slab ready to
be dissected. Through Ryuji's bizarre demise Ando learns of a
series of mysterious deaths that seem to have been caused by a
sinister virus. From beyond the grave Ryuji appears to be
leading Ando towards a suspicious videotape - could this hold
the answer to the riddle of the strange deaths? Or is it merely
the first clue?
Thubron, Colin
Shadow of the
Silk Road
On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin
Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the
heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across
northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey.
Covering over 7000 miles in eight months Thurbron recounts his
extraordinary adventures.
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Hobbit
This film tie-in edition features the complete story of Bilbo
Baggins' adventures in Middle-earth, with a striking cover image
from Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED
JOURNEY and drawings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien. Bilbo
Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life,
rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag
End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf,
and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one
day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey 'there and
back again'. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of
Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous
dragon...The prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit has
sold many millions of copies since its publication in 1937,
establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influential
books of the twentieth century.
Torday, Paul
Legacy of
Hartlepool Hall
Ed Hartlepool has been living in self-imposed exile for five years,
but with a settlement regarding his inheritance looming, he must
return to his ancestral seat, Hartlepool Hall. On his return, he
discovers that his father has left him, along with the house, a
seven million pound tax bill, two massive overdrafts, an 80-yearold butler, and a vast country estate that is creaking at the
seams. Not only that, but there is a strange woman in residence
- Lady Alice - who seems to have made herself very much at
home. With the debts mounting, it seems that Ed's only recourse
is to turn to his friend Annabel's new boyfriend, a property
developer who plans to turn Hartlepool Hall into luxury flats and
a golf course. But can Ed save his inheritance without such a
drastic move? And is Lady Alice really the person she claims to
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Torday, Paul
More than you
can say
Traumatised by a tour of duty in Iraq, Richard Gaunt returns
home to his girlfriend with very little of a plan in mind. Finding it
difficult to settle into civilian life, he turns to drink and gambling and is challenged to a bet he cannot resist, all he has to do is
walk from London to Oxford in under twelve hours. But what
starts as a harmless venture turns into something altogether
different when Richard recklessly accepts an unusual request
from a stranger ...
Torday, Paul
Salmon fishing in
the Yemen
With a wickedly wonderful cast of characters - including a
visionary Sheikh, a weasely spin doctor, Fred's devilish wife and
a few thousand transplanted salmon – 'Salmon Fishing in the
Yemen' is a novel about hypocrisy and bureaucracy, dreams
and deniability, and the transforming power of faith and love.
Treadwell, James
Advent
For centuries it has been locked away Lost beneath the sea
Warded from earth, air, water, fire, spirits, thought and sight. But
now magic is rising to the world once more. And a boy called
Gavin, who thinks only that he is a city kid with parents who hate
him, and knows only that he sees things no one else will believe,
is boarding a train, alone, to Cornwall. No one will be there to
meet him.
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Tremain, Rose
Colour
When Joseph finds gold in the creek, he is seized by a rapturous
obsession with the voluptuous riches awaiting him deep in the
earth. Abandoning his farm and family, he sets off alone for the
new gold-fields over the Southern Alps, a moral wilderness
where many others, under the seductive dreams of 'the colour',
are violently rushing to their destinies. By turns both moving and
terrifying, 'The Colour' is about a quest for the impossible, an
attempt to mine the complexities of love and explore the
sacrifices to be made in the pursuit of happiness.
Tremain, Rose
Music and
silence
In the year 1629, a young English lutenist named Peter Claire
arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV's Royal
Orchestra. From the moment when he realises that the
musicians perform in a freezing cellar underneath the royal
apartments, Peter Claire understands that he's come to a place
where the opposing states of light and dark, good and evil, are
waging war to the death. Designated the King's 'Angel' because
of his good looks, he finds himself falling in love with the young
woman who is the companion of the King's adulterous and
estranged wife, Kirsten.
Tremain, Rose
Restoration
When a twist of fate delivers an ambitious young medical
student to the court of King Charles II, he is suddenly thrust into
a vibrant world of luxury and opulence. Blessed with a quick wit
and sparkling charm, Robert Merivel rises quickly, soon finding
favour with the King, and privileged with a position as 'paper
groom' to the youngest of the King's mistresses. But by falling in
love with her, Merivel transgresses the one rule that will cast him
out from his new-found paradise. Shortlisted for the Booker
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Trollope, Anthony
Barchester
Towers
In this novel Trollope continues the story of Mr Harding and his
daughter Eleanor, adding to his cast of characters that oily
symbol of progress Mr Slope, the hen-pecked Dr Proudie, and
the amiable and breezy Stanhope family. The central questions
of this moral comedy - Who will be warden? Who will be dean?
Who will marry Eleanor? - are skilfully handled with that subtlety
of ironic observation that has won Trollope such a wide and
appreciative readership.
Tsiolkas, Christos
Dead Europe
In the mountain village in the Balkans where his mother was
born, Isaac, a young Australian photographer unearths ancient
terrors that have not been laid to rest, and perhaps never can
be. Part long-forgotten myth, part meditation on the violence and
tragedy of contemporary Europe, Dead Europe is an unsettling
story about blood lust and blood revenge; a novel of blazing
brilliance from the acclaimed author of 'The Slap'.
Tyler, Anne
Beginner's
goodbye
When Dorothy came back from the dead, it seemed to Aaron
that some people simply didn't notice. The accident that killed
Dorothy - involving an oak tree, a sun porch and some elusive
biscuits - leaves Aaron bereft and the house a wreck. As those
around him fuss and flap and bring him casserole after
casserole, Aaron ploughs on. But then Dorothy starts to
materialize in the oddest places. At first, she only comes for a
short while, leaving Aaron longing for more. Gradually she stays
for longer, and as they talk, they also bicker and the cracks that
were present in their perfectly ordinary marriage start to
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Unsworth, Cathi
Weirdo
Twenty years ago, a fifteen-year-old schoolgirl named Corrine
Woodrow was convicted of murdering one of her classmates.
But now new forensic evidence indicates that Corrine didn't act
alone, and Sean Ward - a private investigator whose promising
career in the Met was cut short by a teenage drug dealer with an
automatic weapon - travels to the seaside town of Ernemouth, to
try to discover what really happened all those years ago. But he
quickly realises that what's ultimately at stake is not Corrine's
reputation, but those of the people who ran the place then - and
still run it now. In order to get to the truth, he has to take on not
just retired Detective Inspector Le Rivett - the man who headed
up the original case and wants to keep it firmly closed - but also
the mindset of an entire town that has always known how to look
after its own.
Varley, Jane
Elizabeth
Truth about love
Sally seems to have everything: a marriage to Edward; a muchloved baby son; and a dream house. Yet beneath an apparently
content exterior, Sally struggles with the legacy of Edward's
past: his ex-wife, his resentful step-daughter and Edward's
mixed feelings about the family he left behind. When Sally
discovers the house holds a secret, her need to escape the
strains of her marriage leads her on a quest to discover the
truth. But can she solve the challenges of the present as well as
the past?
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Other side of you
'There is no cure for being alive.' Thus speaks Dr David
McBride, a psychiatrist for whom death exerts an unusual draw.
One day a failed suicide, Elizabeth Cruikshank, is admitted to
his hospital. As her story unfolds David finds his own life being
touched by her account and a haunting sense that the 'other
side' of his elusive patient has a strange resonance for him, too.
Set partly in Rome, 'The Other Side of You' explores the theme
of redemption through love and art, which has become a
hallmark of Salley Vickers's acclaimed work.
Waldman, Amy
Submission
A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims
of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations
complete, the jurors open the envelope containing the
anonymous winner's name - and discover he is an American
Muslim. Instantly they are cast into roiling debate about the
claims of grief, the ambiguities of art, and the meaning of Islam.
The memorial's designer is Mohammad Khan, an enigmatic,
ambitious architect. His fiercest defender on the jury is its sole
widow, the mediagenic Claire Burwell. But when the news of his
selection leaks to the press, Claire finds herself under pressure
from outraged family members and in collision with hungry
journalists, wary activists, opportunistic politicians, fellow jurors,
and Khan himself. All will bring the emotional weight of their own
histories to bear on the urgent question of how to remember,
and understand, a national tragedy.
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Walker, Martin
Black diamond
At the heart of French gastronomy lies the famed black truffle of
the Perigord. But France's truffles are being adulterated with
cheaper ones from China, and it seems that Chinese organised
crime is behind the fraud. In St Denis market, a Vietnamese
family has been selling their dishes for years, until their stall is
wrecked by attackers who look Chinese. Again it appears that
organised crime is behind the outrage, firing the opening shots
of a Viet-Chinese triad war.
Waters, Sarah
Night watch
Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out
streets, illicit liaisons and sexual adventure, to end with its
beginning in 1941;'The Night Watch' is the work of a truly brilliant
and compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute
truth and intimacy. Tender, tragic and beautifully poignant, set
against the backdrop of feats of heroism both epic and ordinary,
here is a novel of relationships that offers up subtle surprises
and twists.
Watson, Christie
Tiny sunbirds far
away
Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2011. "Everything
changed after Mama found Father lying on top of another
woman." Blessing and her brother Ezikiel adore their largerthan-life father, their glamorous mother and their comfortable life
in Lagos. But all that changes when their father leaves them for
another woman. Told in Blessing's own beguiling voice, Tiny
Sunbirds Far Away shows how some families can survive almost
anything. At times hilarious, always poignant, occasionally
tragic, it is peopled with characters you will never forget.
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Before I go to
sleep
Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you
went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the
people you love - all forgotten overnight. And the one person
you trust may only be telling you half the story. Welcome to
Christine's life.
Way, Camilla
Little bird
Three identities, no known name, and an obsessed pursuer from
the past. It took one second to snatch the child. One silent,
unseen moment to pluck her from the world. In a click of a
finger, a blink of an eye, she was gone. As if, like a bird, she had
just flown away. Kate never speaks about the past, and you
would never know at first who she was. But, if you looked
closely, you might see how she glances nervously over her
shoulder, as if she were being followed. If you paid attention,
you might hear how carefully she speaks. And if you were to
search, you might find the old newspaper clippings she keeps
hidden away.
Webb, Katherine
Half forgotten
song
1937. In a village on the Dorset coast, fourteen-year-old Mitzy
Hatcher has endured a wild and lonely upbringing - until the
arrival of renowned artist Charles Aubrey, his exotic mistress
and their daughters, changes everything. Over the next three
summers, Mitzy sees a future she had never thought possible,
and a powerful love is kindled in her. A love that grows from
innocence to obsession; from childish infatuation to something
far more complex. Years later, a young man in an art gallery
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looks at a hastily-drawn portrait and wonders at the intensity of
it. The questions he asks lead him to a Dorset village and to the
truth about those fevered summers in the 1930s ...
Weir, Alison
Innocent traitor
Lady Jane Grey was born into times of extreme danger. Child of
a scheming father and a ruthless mother, for whom she was
merely a pawn in a dynastic power game with the highest
stakes, she lived a life in thrall to political machinations and
lethal religious fervour. Jane's astonishing and essentially tragic
story was played out during one of the most momentous periods
of English history. As a great-niece of Henry VIII, and the cousin
of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, she grew up to realize that
she could never throw off the chains of her destiny. Her honesty,
intelligence and strength of character carry the reader through
all the vicious twists of Tudor power politics, to her nine-day
reign and its unbearably poignant conclusion.
Weller, Lance
Wilderness
Thirty years ago, Abel Truman found himself on the wrong side
in the Battle of the Wilderness, one of the bloodiest clashes of
the American Civil War. Its aftermath took him to the edge of the
continent, the rugged coast of Washington State, where he has
made his home in a driftwood shack with his beloved dog,
waiting for the scars of war to heal. Now an old and ailing man,
Abel must make one heroic final journey over the snowbound
Olympic Mountains. It's a quest he has little hope of completing
but must still undertake to settle matters of the heart that predate
even the horrors of the war. Hypatia is a slave whose freedom
comes at a terrible price, and who finds herself walking
unwittingly into the hellish heart of the Wilderness. Ellen is a
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white woman, married to a black man at a time that is as
dangerous as it is unforgiving. And Jane is a young Chinese girl,
who is newly, cruelly orphaned, and clinging on to life. Abel's
tortured and ultimately redemptive path leads him to each of
them as he encounters compassion amid brutality and
tenderness within loss.
Welsh, Louise
Cutting room
Set in contemporary Glasgow, The Cutting Room is narrated by
Rilke, one of the most engaging, flawed and hedonistic fictional
creation of recent years. When this dissolute and promiscuous
auctioneer comes upon a hidden collection of violent, and highly
disturbing, erotic photographs, he feels compelled to unearth
more about the deceased owner who coveted them. What
follows is a compulsive journey of discovery, decadence and
deviousness.
White, Neil
Beyond evil
There's no way back...DI Sheldon Brown has never recovered
from finding the body of Alice Kenyon brutally murdered, naked
and abandoned in a pool. And he's never stopped pursuing his
main suspect, hell raiser and lottery winner Billy Privett either.
So when Billy is found dead and, what's more, viciously
dissected, DI Brown's obsession is rekindled. Who killed the
notorious millionaire in such a bloodthirsty way? With jaded
lawyer Charlie Barker - who desperately needs to pick up the
pieces of his own life - Sheldon will uncover a world of drugs,
long-buried secrets and a cult with a deadly conviction to their
cause ...
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White, Neil
Cold kill
"Every breath you take, he'll be watching you!" When Jane
Roberts is found dead in a woodland area Detective Sergeant
Laura McGanity is first on the scene. The body bears a chilling
similarity to a woman-Deborah Corley - murdered three weeks
earlier. Both have been stripped, strangled and defiled. When
reporter Jack Garrett starts digging for dirt on the notorious
Whitcroft estate, he finds himself face-to-face with Jane's father
and gangland boss Don who will stop at nothing until justice is
done.
White, Neil
Fallen idols
Everyone would kill for their fifteen minutes of fame...A
Premiership footballer is shot dead in cold blood on a busy
London street, and a country is gripped by terror. Who is behind
this apparently motiveless killing - and who's next in the firing
line? Jack Garrett is determined to find out. A small-time
journalist who's left behind his Lancashire roots for the glitz and
glamour - and seediness and squalor - of the capital, he's
convinced this is no celebrity stalker. Aided and abetted by DC
Laura McGanity, desperately trying to juggle police life with
motherhood and her feelings for Jack, the trail takes them back
to Jack's home town of Turner's Fold - and his past. What's the
connection between the recent murder and the death of a young
girl 10 years before? Conspiracy, revenge and the high price of
fame all combine in this stunning debut from a dazzling new
voice in crime fiction.
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White, Neil
Last rites
The Lancashire town of Blackley has been rocked by the violent
death of Luke Howarth. The fingers of suspicion point towards
his girlfriend, Sarah Goode - missing since his murder. Just
another crime of passion with a tragic end. Or is it? Reporter
Jack Garrett isn't so sure - especially when he's asked by
Sarah's distraught parents to find their daughter. Their
description of caring schoolteacher Sarah doesn't tally with the
media's portrayal of a cold-blooded killer. But as he hunts for
Sarah, Jack finds himself immersed in the town's troubled
history and discovers that dangerous rituals from the past are
impacting on the present. Jack's girlfriend, DC Laura McGanity,
in the midst of a tough custody battle, must be content to sit on
the sidelines. But she soon finds herself caught up in the
investigation, as the mystery surrounding Sarah's
disappearance dramatically unravels.
White, Neil
Lost souls
Sometimes the worst nightmares happen in broad daylight... A
woman is found brutally murdered on a quiet housing estate, her
tongue and eyes ritualistically gouged out. Children are being
abducted and then returned to their families' days later without a
scratch and with no knowledge or where they have been - or
with whom. If DC Laura McGanity thought moving from London
to sleepy Lancashire was taking the easy option then she can
think again. Already worried about uprooting young son Bobby
to follow her reporter boyfriend Jack Garrett back to his
hometown, she must quickly get a handle on these mystifying
cases terrifying the people of Blackley - without putting the local
officers' noses out of joint. Meanwhile, restless Jack is itching to
get back to his writing and the cases provide the perfect
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opportunity to do so. But as he delves deeper into them, he finds
murky connections between the two crimes and skeletons buried
in the most unlikely of closets. Most astonishing of all, he meets
a man who 'paints' the future - terrible events come to him in
vivid dreams which he then puts onto canvas. This 'precognition'
is not so much a gift as a curse and to Jack it becomes
terrifyingly apparent that many people, including his own family,
are in danger...
Wilde, Oscar
Picture of Dorian
Gray
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges
his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend
Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life;
indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in
the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his
decadence.
Wilhide, Elizabeth
Ashenden
Elizabeth Wilhide's debut novel "Ashenden" traces the history of
an English house across two and a half centuries. When Charlie
and Ros inherit Ashenden from their aunt Reggie a decision
must be made. The beautiful eighteenth-century house, set in
acres of English countryside, is in need of serious repair. Do
they try to keep it in the family, or will they have to sell? Moving
back in time, in an interwoven narrative spanning two and a half
centuries, we witness the house from its beginnings through to
the present day.
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Williams, Kate
Becoming Queen
Laying bare the passions that swirled around the throne in the
eighteenth century, 'Becoming Queen' is an absorbingly
dramatic tale of secrets, sexual repression and endless conflict.
After her lauded biography of Emma Hamilton, 'England's
Mistress', Kate Williams has produced a most original and
intimate portrait of Great Britain's longest reigning monarch.
Williams, Kate
Pleasures of men
It's Spitalfields, 1840. Catherine Sorgeiul lives with her Uncle in
a rambling house in London's East End. She has few
companions and little to occupy the days beyond her own
colourful imagination. But then a murderer strikes, ripping open
the chests of young girls and stuffing hair into their mouths to
resemble a beak, leading the press to christen him The Man of
Crows. And as Catherine hungrily devours the news, she finds
she can channel the voices of the dead ...and comes to believe
she will eventually channel The Man of Crows himself. But the
murders continue to panic the city and Catherine gradually
realizes she is snared in a deadly trap, where nothing is as it first
appears ...and lurking behind the lies Catherine has been told
are secrets more deadly and devastating than anything her
imagination can conjure. With an elegant style and thrilling plot,
"The Pleasures of Men" reveals the dark, beating heart of
corrupt London during Queen Victoria's reign.
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When God was a
rabbit
Spanning four decades and moving between suburban Essex,
the wild coast of Cornwall and the streets of New York, this is a
story about childhood, eccentricity, the darker side of love and
sex, the pull and power of family ties, loss and life. More than
anything, it's a story about love in all its forms.
Winterson, Jeanette
Daylight gate
Good Friday, 1612. Pendle Hill, Lancashire. A mysterious
gathering of thirteen people is interrupted by local magistrate,
Roger Nowell. Is this a witches' Sabbat? Two notorious
Lancashire witches are already in Lancaster Castle waiting trial.
Why is the beautiful and wealthy Alice Nutter defending them?
And why is she among the group of thirteen on Pendle Hill?
Elsewhere, a starved, abused child lurks. And a Jesuit priest and
former Gunpowder plotter, recently returned from France, is
widely rumoured to be heading for Lancashire. But who will offer
him sanctuary? And how quickly can he be caught? This is the
reign of James I, a Protestant King with an obsession: to rid his
realm of twin evils, witchcraft and Catholicism, at any price ...
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Wolfe, Tom
Electric Kool-Aid
acid test
"I looked around and people's faces were distorted...lights were
flashing everywhere...the screen at the end of the room had
three or four different films on it at once, and the strobe light was
flashing faster than it had been...the band was playing but I
couldn't hear the music...people were dancing...someone came
up to me and I shut my eyes and with a machine he projected
images on the back of my eye-lids...I sought out a person I
trusted and he laughed and told me that the Kool-Aid had been
spiked and that I was beginning my first LSD experience..."
Woolf, Virginia
Mrs Dalloway's
party
Written in the same period as Mrs Dalloway these seven short
stories show the author's fascination with parties and with all the
excitement, the fluctuations of mood and temper and the
heightened emotions which surround these social occasions.
"Mrs Dalloway's Party" is enchanting piece of work by one of our
most acclaimed twentieth century writers.
Yates, Richard
Revolutionary
Road
Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication,
'Revolutionary Road' is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a
bright, young couple who are bored by the banalities of
suburban life and long to be extraordinary. With heartbreaking
compassion and clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and
April's decision to change their lives for the better leads to
betrayal and tragedy.
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Warsaw
anagrams
Its Autumn 1940. The Nazis seal 400,000 Jews inside a small
area of the Polish capital, creating an urban island cut off from
the outside world. Erik Cohen, an elderly psychiatrist, is forced
to move into a tiny apartment with his niece and his beloved
nine-year-old nephew, Adam. One bitterly cold winter's day,
Adam goes missing. The next morning, his body is discovered in
the barbed wire surrounding the ghetto. The boy's leg has been
cut off, and a tiny piece of string has been left in his mouth.
Soon, another body turns up - this time a girl's, and one of her
hands has been taken. Evidence begins to point to a Jewish
traitor luring children to their death...In this profoundly moving
and darkly atmospheric historical thriller, the reader is taken into
the most forbidden corners of Nazi-occupied Warsaw - as well
as into the most heroic places of the heart.
Zola, Emile
Germinal
'Germinal' tells the story of Etienne Lantier, from the illegitimate
Macquart branch of the family, who arrives in the mining
settlement of Montsou, and witnesses at first hand the appalling
conditions in which miners live and work. But this is more than
the struggle of labour against capital. It is also the struggle of the
hungry against the well-fed, against the passivity and resignation
passed down over generations of starving people, and ultimately
against hunger itself, represented by the fantastical devouring
monster of the mine, which swallows up men, just as the beast
of the modern industrial economy relentlessly swallows up
capital. This apparent pessimism about society is offset by the
possibility of rebirth and regeneration. For all the inherited
misery of the downtrodden, the old order may some day be
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Zusak, Markus
Book thief
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath.
Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. By
her brother's graveside, Liesel Meminger's life is changed when
she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is
The Gravedigger's Handbook, left there by accident, and it is her
first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and
words, as Liesel, with the help of her foster father, learns to
read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the
mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found. But
these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a
Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and
closed down.
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