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Rachel Allen’s Everyday kitchen

Cookery teacher and home cook Rachel Allen returns with clever ideas, simple shortcuts and plenty of practical advice for achieving simple, wholesome and nutritious meals day after day.

Lisa Appignanesi Paris requiem

Paris, 1899. Everywhere preparations are under way for the dawn of the new century, but beneath the beauty lie racial and social tensions. The body of a beautiful woman is found in the Seine.

Ace Atkins The lost ones

When Quinn Colson, the new sheriff of Tebbenhah County, is called out to investigate a child abuse case, what he finds is a horrifying scene of neglect, 13 empty cribs and a shoe box full of money. Janet and Ramon Torres seem to have skipped town. Soon, Colson and Virgil find a link between the fugitive couple and a drug cartel

that controls most of the Texas border, taking their investigation far beyond the rough hills of northeast Mississippi.


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Stephen Baxter Proxima

The very far future: the Galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, chill white dwarfs. The age of star formation is long past. Yet there is life here, feeding off the energies of the stellar remnants, and there is mind, a tremendous Galaxy-spanning intelligence each of whose thoughts lasts a hundred thousand years. And this mind cradles

memories of a long-gone age when a more compact universe was full of light ...

Lynda Bellingham Tell me tomorrow

Meredith Lee is one of the most successful women in television. She has a daytime show that has an audience of millions. She seems to have it all. But behind the tirelessly successful facade lies the story of a woman who nearly lost everything. This is the story of a woman who could not keep love in her life.

Mary Berry Recipe for life

Mary Berry has shared her skills, experience and tips through a varied and fascinating career, yet few people know the professional and personal story behind her success. Now, in her inspiring, charming and life-affirming memoir, Mary tells us about her life - a life in some ways reassuringly ordinary, yet at the same time completely extraordinary.

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Maeve Binchy Maeve’s times

For many years Maeve Binchy was a journalist, writing for The Irish Times. From 'The Student Train' to 'Plane Bores', 'Bathroom Joggers' to 'When Beckett met Binchy', these articles have all the warmth, wit and humanity of her fiction. Arranged in decades, from the 1960s to the 2000s, and including Maeve's first and last ever

piece of writing for The Irish Times, the columns also give a fascinating insight into the author herself.

Usain Bolt Faster than lightning This is the autobiography of the fastest man of all time and a superstar whose talent and charisma have made him one of the most famous people on the planet.

Tracy Borman Witches

September 1613. In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of England's great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. His body is 'tormented' with violent convulsions. Within a few short weeks he will suffer an excruciating death. Soon the whole family will be stricken with the same terrifying symptoms. It is said witches are

to blame..


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Sandra Brown Deadline

Dawson Scott is a well-respected journalist recently returned from Afghanistan. Haunted by everything he experienced, he's privately suffering from battle fatigue which is a threat to every aspect of his life. But then he gets a call from a source within the FBI. A new development has come to light in a story that began 40 years

ago.

Alafair Burke If you were here

When McKenna Jordan, a magazine journalist investigating the story of a heroic and unidentified woman, finds the video footage, she thinks she recognizes her as Susan Hauptmann. But Susan disappeared without a trace ten years earlier, having just introduced McKenna to her future husband, Patrick. McKenna's complex search for

her missing friend forces her to unearth secrets that lie deep in all their pasts.

Andrea Camilleri Treasure hunt

Montalbano opened the door to step out. But Gallo held him back, putting one hand on his arm. 'What's in there, Chief? If it's what I think, it's something so horrific that it'll haunt your dreams for the rest of your life.' When a crazed elderly man and his sister begin firing bullets from their balcony down onto the Vigata street below,

Inspector Montalbano finds himself a reluctant television hero.

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Justin Cartwright Lion heart

Richard Cathar was named after his father's hero, Richard the Lionheart. His father, Alaric, believed that Richard and Robin Hood had met and found a document which was to prove this. In his father's footsteps, Richard travels to Jerusalem where he falls in love with an journalist who is kidnapped in Cairo. In the course of writing about

the Crusades, Richard discovers that the True Cross, lost to Saladin in 1187, was recovered by a small band of Richard's knights. He embarks on a quest of his own to find the True Cross.

Simon Clark Her vampyrrhic heart

She will come back to me, Tom Westonby tells himself. We'll be reunited. It has been five years since he's seen his beloved wife, Nicola Bekk. Five years since their wedding day - when he won her hand, but in doing so triggered the curse that has blighted the Bekk family for centuries. Nicola became a vampire, and fled, lest she harm

the one she loves the most. Since then, Tom has lived a remote life in Nicola's ancestral home in the woods, patiently awaiting the

return of his vampire bride.

Jonathan Coe Expo 58

Good-looking girls and sinister spies: a naive Englishman at loose in Europe in Jonathan Coe's brilliant comic novel.


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Elizabeth Corley Dead of winter

The South of England is held in the icy grip of winter, blizzards are forecast and roads are virtually impassable. Yet in the middle of the night, 17-year-old Isabelle Mathias vanishes. And she's no ordinary girl; the gifted, disturbed daughter of a dead rock musician and artist mother recently remarried to Bill Saxby, whose press empire

includes the UK's most-read newspaper, The Daily Enquirer. As winter closes in on the town and the search unfolds, Chief Superintendent Andrew Fenwick is brought in to help.

Clive Cussler Zero hour

A new energy source holds the promise to change the world. It's called zero point energy, and it really exists - a state of energy contained in all matter everywhere, and all but unlimited. Nobody has ever found a way to tap into it, until one scientist discovers a way - or at least he thinks he has. The problem is his machine causes

great earthquakes, even fissures in tectonic plates. One machine is buried deep underground; the other in an ocean trench.

Richard Dawkins An appetite for wonder

From innocent child to charismatic world-famous scientist, Richard Dawkins paints a colourful, richly textured canvas of his early life. Honest self-reflection and witty anecdotes are interspersed with touching reminiscences of his family and friends, literature, poetry and songs.

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Tim Dee Four fields

Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields. Meditating on these four fields, Dee makes us look anew at where we live and how. He argues that we must attend to what we have made of the wild, to look at and think about the way we have messed things up but also to notice how we have kept going alongside nature, to listen to the

conversation we have had with grass and fields.

Michael Dobbs A ghost at the door

Harry Jones barely knew his father Johnnie and hated what little he did know, yet no man is able to escape the shadows of the past. Harry has already lost almost everything - his seat in parliament, his reputation, his fortune. There is little left apart from his love for the headstrong Jemma, and now he must risk losing her to

uncover the truth about his dead father.

Patrick Leigh Fermor The broken road

A Time of Gifts' and 'Between the Woods and the Water' were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of 18 from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. This book completes the extraordinary journey.


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Frederick Forsyth The kill list

The kill list : a top secret catalogue of names held at the highest level of the US government. On it, those men and women who would threaten the world's security. At the top of it is The Preacher, a radical Islamic cleric whose sermons inspire his followers to kill high profile Western targets. As the bodies begin to pile up, the message goes

out: discover this man's identity, locate him and take him out.

Felix Francis Refusal

Sir Richard Stewart, chairman of the horse racing authority, wants Sid Halley to look into some suspicious race results, but Sid gave up the investigating business six years ago and he thought nothing could make him go back. He thought wrong. The following day, Sir Richard is found dead and Sid receives a threatening call

from a man with an Irish accent

Tom Franklin The tilted world

April 1927. After months of rain, the Mississippi River has reached dangerous levels and the little town of Hobnob, situated at a sharp bend in the river and protected only by a faltering levee, is at threat. Residents fear the levee will either explode under the pressure of the water or be blown by saboteurs from New Orleans, who wish to save

their own city.

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Caro Fraser Errors of judgment

Behind the elegant doors of Caper Court, the elite barrister's chamber, are the hard choices, the ethical dilemmas, the overlap between the personal and the professional, the sacrifices, the deceitful politics, the affairs and the corruption. Life at the Bar is gritty behind the gloss and Leo Davies QC is at the centre of another Caper Court

drama.

David J L Gibbins Destroy Carthage

Carthage, 146 BCE. This is the story of Fabius Petronius Secundus, Roman legionary and centurion, and his rise to power. Fabius's success brings him admiration and respect, but also attracts greed and jealousy, and the closest allies can become the bitterest of enemies. And then there is Julia, of the Caesar family, a dark horse

in love with both Fabius and his rival Paullus, who causes a vicious feud.

Elizabeth Gilbert The signature of all things

5th January 1800. Alma Whittaker is born into a perfect Philadelphia winter. Her father, Henry Whittaker, is a bold and charismatic botanical explorer whose vast fortune belies his lowly beginnings as a vagrant in Sir Joseph Banks' Kew Gardens and as a deck hand on Captain Cook's HMS Resolution .


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Terry Goodkind The third kingdom

The bloodthirsty Jit is dead, and against all odds Richard and Kahlan have survived. But a new menace has attacked them in the Dark Lands. Infected with the essence of death itself, robbed of his power as a war wizard, Richard must race against time to uncover and stop the infernal conspiracy assembling itself behind the wall far

to the north. His friends and allies are already captives of this fell combination, and Kahlan, also touched by death's power, will die completely if Richard fails.

Sue Grafton W is for wasted

Two seemingly unrelated deaths, one a murder, the other apparently of natural causes. But as Kinsey Millhone digs deeper into the mystery of the John Doe, some very strange links begin to emerge. And before long at least one aspect is solved as Kinsey finds the key to his identity . . .

Hannah Greig Beau monde

The story of the world's first fashion-obsessed society - 18th century London - and the colourful tales of extravagance, vanity, intrigue, and sexual indiscretion that accompanied it.

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Steve Hamilton Let it burn

When a young woman named Dorothy Parrish arrives in the small northern Michigan town of Paradise, Alex McKnight's past is about to catch up with him in the most explosive way possible, as a cold-blooded psychopath and a ten-year-old mystery are unleashed.

Robert Harris An officer and a spy

Paris, January 1895. Army officer Georges Picquart witnesses a convicted spy, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, being humiliated in front of 20,000 spectators baying 'Death to the Jew!' The officer is promoted and put in command of shadowy intelligence unit, the Statistical Section. The spy is shipped off to a lifetime of solitary confinement on

Devil's Island and his case seems closed forever. But gradually Picquart comes to believe there is something rotten at the heart of the Statistical Section.

Sarah Harrison The wildflower path

All families have secrets and many are taken to the grave, but those that aren't can return, generations later, with devastating consequences. For Kate Drake, now a great-grandmother, marriage and family brought peace after years of restless uncertainty. Now, watching her own grown-up children, it seems the world is

a no less complicated place.


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Max Hastings Catastrophe

In 'Catastrophe 1914', Max Hastings answers how World War I could ever have begun. Ranging across Europe, from Paris to St. Petersburg, from kings to corporals, he traces how tensions across the continent kindled into a blaze of battles; not the stalemates of later trench-warfare but battles of movement and dash where Napoleonic tactics

met with weapons from a newly industrialised age.

Victoria Hislop (ed.) The story

This anthology showcases the range and skill of women's short stories written throughout the centuries. Divided thematically into collections on love, laughter and loss, there is a story for every mood, mindset and moment in life.

Wendy Holden Gifted and talented

It's the new university term among the dreaming spires. Meet Isabel, beautiful, clever, shy - and leaving home for the first time. Meet Olly, recently graduated, idealistic and a little hopeless, a man whose heart leads his brain and for whom opportunity just hasn't come knocking - yet. Meet Amber, the It girl who is soon partying with the

fast set - and no-one is faster than Jasper de Borchy, glamorous leader of the notorious Bullinger club.

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Lucy Inglis Georgian London

Travel back to the Georgian years, the age of love, sex, art, great ambition and fantastic ruin. Meet the people who called London their home, from dukes and artists to rent boys, dog-nappers and hot-air balloonists.

J.W. Iremonger The coincidence authority

Thomas Post is an expert on coincidence. Every coincidence, he says, can be explained by the cold laws of chance. But why then do coincidences so afflict the life of Azalea Lewis? And why has Thomas Post's orderly life been thrown into such disarray by the coincidences of Azalea? This is the tale of two lost souls, each

with a quest to understand the secret patterns hidden in a very random universe.

Derek Jacobi As luck would have it

Admired for his willingness to grapple with even the most dislikeable of characters, Derek Jacobi has worked continuously throughout his career, starring in roles ranging from the lead in 'I, Claudius' to Hitler in 'Inside the Third Reich' and Francis Bacon in the controversial 'Love Is The Devil'. But it is his numerous Shakespearean

roles that have gained him worldwide recognition. This book is, however, much more than a career record. Funny, warm and honest, Jacobi brings us his insider's view on the world of acting.


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Neil Jordan (dir.) Byzantium

Blu-ray disc. Two beautiful mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara meets lonely Noel, who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Eleanor befriends Frank and tells him their lethal secret. They were born

200 years ago and survive on human blood. As knowledge of their secret spreads, their past catches up on them with deathly consequence.

Julia Keller Bitter river

When a local high-school student is found murdered in a car in Bitter River, the hunt is on to find her killer. Bell Elkins is on the case, and determined to bring justice for the girl whose death devastates the whole population of Acker's Gap. But there are even more sinister events taking place in the isolated West Virginia town,

and in the shadow of the Appalachian Mountains the strength of small community ties is tested by catastrophe.

Sherrilyn Kenyon Styxx

Centuries ago Acheron saved the human race by imprisoning an ancient evil bent on absolute destruction. Now that evil has been unleashed and it is out for revenge. As the twin to Acheron, Styxx hasn't always been on his brother's side. They've spent more centuries going at each other's throats than protecting their backs. Now

Styxx has a chance to prove his loyalty to his brother, but only if he's willing to trade his life and future for Acheron's.

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Greg King The assassination of the Archduke

The tragic story behind 'the shot that rang round the world' - the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his beloved wife in Sarajevo in June 1914.

Stephen King Doctor Sleep

Stephen King says he wanted to know what happened to Danny Torrance, the boy at the heart of 'The Shining', after his terrible experience in the Overlook Hotel. The instantly riveting Doctor Sleep picks up the story of the now middle-aged Dan, working at a hospice in rural New Hampshire, and the very special twelve-year old

girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.

Jhumpa Lahiri The lowland

Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portrayal of lives undone and forged anew, 'The Lowland' is a deeply felt novel of family ties that entangle and fray in ways unforeseen and unrevealed, of ties that ineluctably define who we are. With all the hallmarks of Jhumpa Lahiri's achingly poignant, exquisitely empathetic story-telling, this is her

most devastating work of fiction to date.


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Joe R. Lansdale The thicket

Jack Parker knows all too well how treacherous life can be. His parents did not survive a smallpox epidemic. His grandfather was murdered. Now his sister Lula has been kidnapped by a bank robber. Alongside bounty hunter Shorty, an eloquent dwarf with a chip on his shoulder, and Eustace, the grave-digging son of an ex-slave, Jack sets

off to rescue Lula.

Lynda La Plante Wrongful death

Six months after the body of Josh Reynolds, a London nightclub owner, was found and determined by police and coroner to be a suicide, DCS James Langton tasks DCI Anna Langton to review the case. Reynolds died from a single gunshot wound to the head, but details are emerging that suggest someone else may have

fired the gun.

Mark Lawson The deaths

Four families, the Crossans, the Dunsters, the Lonsdales, and the Rutherfords live in a beautiful stretch of English countryside in magnificent listed houses, built for the old aristocracy. They are the new aristocracy: financiers, business tycoons, lawyers, doctors, magistrates. They leave their rural idyll only to commute first-class to London

for meetings, deals and theatre outings or Heathrow flights to winter sun or half-term skiing. They and their children are protected by investments, pensions and expensive security systems.

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Jeff Lindsay Dexter’s final cut

Cop shows are bringing revenue to Miami and Dexter Morgan is asked to be an advisor for the filming of a new show on top of his regular job as Miami PD's blood-spatter analyst. But things take a distinctly dark turn when the leading actress on the show keels over from a very real bullet on set in front of him.

Pittacus Lore The fall of five

After facing near annihilation at the hands of the Mogadorian ruler, the Loriens have learned their lessons and won't be caught unprepared and outgunned again. The battle may have been lost, but the war for Earth's survival is far from over.

Eric Lustbader Father night

Alli Carson is being targeted by a cyber agency intent on destroying her career. Jack McClure's life is being threatened by a Russian assassin. And President Arlen Crawford is struggling to preserve the pretence of power in the corridors of the White House. All paths collide at the feet of one man, a Nazi code-named Father Night.


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Alan Mallinson 1914

Allan Mallinson has written a new history of the origins - and the opening first few weeks fighting - of what would become known as 'the war to end all wars'. He explains the grand strategic shift that occurred in the century before the war, the British Army's regeneration after its drubbings in its fight against the Boer, its almost calamitous

experience of the first 20 days' fighting in Flanders, and the point at which the BEF took up the pick and the spade in the middle of September 1914.

Ken McClure The secret

Steven Dunbar gets the news that an old friend, Dr Simone Ricard of Médecins sans Frontières, has died in an accident while attending a scientific meeting in Prague. She and her team have been working to eradicate polio in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan and have discovered a possible reason for their

failure to do so - fake teams put in by the CIA.

David McKie What’s in a surname?

Part social, part cultural, part local history, this book is an exploration of the way in which the nation's surnames have evolved and what they tell us about who we are and where we have come from. It looks at the surname's tentative beginnings in medieval times, and the myriad routes by which particular names became

established.

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Fergus McNeill Knife edge

He didn't intend to let her get so close. But now that Kim's become important to him, Robert Naysmith decides to tell his girlfriend his deadly secret. He wants her to recognise the power he holds. He hopes he won't have to kill her. Detective Inspector Harland hasn't forgotten the serial killer who got away from him. But with

nothing to go on, he fears he will never bring him to justice. Then he is seconded to investigate the brutal murder of a woman in her Bristol home.

Giles Milton Russian roulette

In 1917, post Russian Revolution, an unlikely and eccentric band of British spies are smuggled into newly Soviet Russia to thwart Lenin's plan to destroy British rule in India, as a precursor to toppling the democracies of the West. The spies, under Mansfield Cumming, were the unsung founders of the present-day MI6.

Jo Nesbø Police

A killer is stalking Oslo's streets. Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated, but failed to solve. The murders are brutal, the media reaction hysterical. But this time, Harry Hole can't help anyone, least of all himself.


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Håkan Nesser The strangler’s honeymoon

Desperately lonely, 16-year-old Monica Kammerle has little idea of what she is getting herself into when she begins an affair with her mother's latest partner; the sophisticated Benjamin Kerran. Months later, when a woman's strangled body is found decomposing in her flat, the Maardam police must discover who has committed this

terrible crime. It isn't long before they realise the perpetrator may have killed before; and is likely to do so again.

Kim Newman Johnny Alucard

Newman's dark and impish tale begins with a single question: What if Dracula had survived his encounters with Bram Stoker's Dr John Seward and enslaved Victorian England? Fallen from grace and driven from the British Empire in previous instalments, Dracula now descends on

New York.

Chris Nickson Fair and tender ladies

1734. A young man arrives in Leeds searching for his missing sister - and ends up dead, his throat slit. Then the girl the young man came seeking is dragged from the river, drowned. Constable Richard Nottingham finds himself investigating two killings where nothing is as it seems.

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Jamie Oliver Save with Jamie

'Save with Jamie' draws on knowledge and cooking skills to help you make better choices, showing you how to buy economically and efficiently, get the most out of your ingredients, save time and prevent food waste.

James Patterson Gone

Manuel Perrine doesn't fear anyone or anything. A charismatic and ruthless leader, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suit. Detective Michael Bennett once managed to put Perrine behind bars, the only official in the US ever to accomplish that. But now Perrine is out, and he has sworn to

find and kill Bennett and everyone dear to him.

Sergio de la Pava A naked singularity

'A Naked Singularity' tells the story of Casi, a child of Colombian immigrants who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a public defender - one who, tellingly has never lost a trial.


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Simon Pearson The great escaper

Roger Bushell was 'Big X', mastermind of the mass breakout from Stalag Luft III in March 1944, immortalised in the Hollywood film The Great Escape. Very little was known about Bushell until 2011, when his family donated his private papers - a treasure trove of letters, photographs and diaries - to the Imperial War Museum. Through

exclusive access to this material Simon Pearson has now written the first biography of this iconic figure.

Louise Penny How the light gets in

Most of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache's best agents have left the Homicide Department and hostile forces are lining up against him. When Gamache receives a message about a mysterious case in Three Pines, he is compelled to investigate - a woman who was once one of the most famous people in the world has

vanished. As he begins to shed light on the investigation, he is drawn into a web of murder, lies and unimaginable corruption at the heart of the city.

Anne Perry Death on Blackheath

Greenwich, 1897. A macabre scene is discovered outside a house on Shooters Hill. There has been a vicious fight, and amid the bloodstains are locks of long auburn hair. Thomas Pitt, head of Special Branch, is called: this is the home of Dudley Kynaston, a minister with access to some of the government's most dangerous secrets, and any

inquiry must be handled with utmost discretion.

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Marisha Pessl Night film

Cult horror director Stanislas Cordova hasn't been seen in public since 1971. To his fans, he is an enigma. To journalist Scott McGrath, he is the enemy. To Ashley he was a father. On a damp October night, Ashley is found dead. Her suicide appears to be the latest tragedy to hit a severely cursed dynasty. For McGrath, another death

connected to Cordova seems more than coincidence.

Thomas Pynchon Bleeding edge

It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dotcom boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as there was at the

height of the tech bubble, but there's no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what's left.

Robert Rankin The chickens of Atlantis

Robert Rankin, the master of far-fetched fiction, presents, for the first time, a book written in 'the first monkey'. Sure to be taken up as the newest of literary fads, Darwin, the Educated Ape here tells his life story to his legions of fans.


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Mandy Retzlaff One hundred and four horses

'One Hundred and Four Horses' is the story of an idyllic existence that falls apart at the seams, and a story of incredible bonds - a love of the land, the strength of a family, and of the connection between man and the most majestic of animals, the horse.

Anthony Riches The eagle’s vengeance

The Tungrian auxiliary cohorts return to Hadrian's Wall after their successful Dacian campaign, only to find Britannia in chaos. The legions are overstretched and are struggling to man the forts of the northern frontier in the face of increasing barbarian resistance.

Jim Ring Storming the eagle’s nest

From the Fall of France in June 1940 to Hitler's suicide in April 1945, the swastika flew from the peaks of the High Savoy in the western Alps to the passes above Ljubljana in the east. The Alps as much as Berlin were the heart of the Third Reich. With great authority and verve, Jim Ring tells the story of how the war was conceived and

directed from the Fuhrer's mountain retreat, how all the Alps bar Switzerland fell to Fascism, and how Switzerland herself became the Nazi's banker and Europe's spy centre.

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J.D. Robb Thankless in death

Murder doesn't stop for Thanksgiving. As the household of NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her billionaire husband Roarke prepares for an invasion of family and friends, an ungrateful son decides to stop the nagging from his parents - by ending their lives. Soon Jerald Reinhold is working his way through anyone who has ever

thwarted him in his path to an easy life.

Kim Stanley Robinson Shaman

An award-winning and bestselling SF writer, Kim Stanley Robinson is widely acknowledged as one of the most exciting and visionary writers in the field. His latest novel, '2312', imagined how we would be living 300 years from now. Now, with his new novel, he turns from our future to our past - to the Palaeolithic era, and an extraordinary

moment in humanity's development.

Chris Ryan Masters of war

In Paris, an elderly man is assassinated as he takes his morning walk. In the war-torn cities of Syria, government forces wage a bloody war against their own people. The Russians are propping up the government, the French are backing one rebel fraction and the British are backing another. And in north Africa, young SAS

trooper Jamie Truman is coming to the end of a gruelling tour of duty, or so he thinks.


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Sathnam Sanghera Marriage material

To Arjan Banga, returning to the Black Country after the death of his father, his family's corner shop represents everything he has tried to leave behind. But when his mother insists on keeping the shop open, he finds himself being dragged back, forced into big decisions about his imminent marriage back in London and uncovering the

history of his broken family.

Simon Schama The story of the Jews

A history of the Jews is possibly the greatest story that can be told. It is the story of mankind - at its most noble and at its most barbaric. From the invention of a single deity and the killing of his embodied Son through to the production of urban modernity, so much of supreme importance for humanity bears the imprint of Jewish thinking and

culture.

Simon Sebag Montefiore One night in winter

Moscow 1945. As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory over Hitler, shots ring out. On a nearby bridge, a teenage boy and girl lie dead. But this is no ordinary tragedy and these are no ordinary teenagers, but the children of Russia's most important leaders who attend the most exclusive school in Moscow.

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Miranda Seymour Noble endeavours

Nothing about the story of England and Germany, as this remarkable book demonstrates, is as simple as we might expect. A shared faith, a shared hunger for power, a shared culture. Miranda Seymour has written a rich and heart-breaking story that needs to be heard: the vibrant, extraordinary history - told through the lives of

kings and painters, soldiers and sailors, sugar-bakers and bankers, crooks and saints - of two countries entwined.

Chris Simms A price to pay

It starts with the death of a teenage runaway, killed when she leaps from a motorway bridge into the speeding traffic below. When a connection is made to three other missing girls, Greater Manchester Police's Counter Terrorism Unit are called in. DC Iona Khan investigates, little realizing that she is now in the sights of a sinister

figure.

Nicholas Sparks The longest ride

91-year-old Ira Levinson is in trouble. Struggling to stay conscious after a car crash, with his mind fading, an image of his beloved, and long-dead, wife Ruth appears. Urging him to hang on, she lovingly recounts the joys and sorrows of their life together - how they met, the dark days of WWII, and its unrelenting effect on their families.


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Mary Jane Staples A sister’s secret

An impetuous decision to marry has left the young Lady Caroline widowed and with two estates in her name. She is now in a position to live her life to the full, socialising with London's finest aristocracy, but her unhappy experience has put her off marrying again. Her younger sister, Annabelle, on the other hand, is falling in love with

a man who is notoriously unfaithful.

Rick Stein Under a mackerel sky

Rick Stein's formative years were shaped by the Oxfordshire farm he was brought up on and his family's much loved holiday home in Cornwall. His father's suicide when Stein was 18 precipitated his escape for two years to Australia, as he struggled to find his place in the world. However, after graduating from Oxford, success

followed hopelessness, and his hugely impressive career as a restaurateur and entrepreneur was followed by those of broadcaster, food champion and writer.

D.J. Taylor The Windsor faction

Autumn 1939, in a parallel world where Edward VIII never abdicated and the Second World War might have taken a very different course. As the storm clouds gather over Europe and German troops are amassing, a clandestine 'King's Party' of fascist peace campaigners is stealthily undermining the war-effort. Back from Ceylon,

Cynthia Kirkpatrick finds herself at the centre of a web of intrigue.

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Brian Thompson Bella Wallis

Bella Wallis is glamorous but with a secret identity: in an office buried deep within the seedy backstreets of London, she writes sensationalist novels exposing the scoundrels that litter high society, under the pen name Henry Ellis Margam.

Neil White Next to die

Joe Parker is Manchester's most ingenious criminal defence lawyer. Sam Parker is Manchester's most tenacious homicide detective. Both bear the burden of the unsolved murder of their sister 15 years earlier. And both have a stake in a new series of murders that has shaken their city to its core.

Elie Wiesel The testament

On August 12, 1952, Russia's greatest Jewish writers were secretly executed by Stalin. In 'The Testament', poet Paltiel Kosover meets the same fate, but unlike his real-life counterparts he is permitted to leave a written testament.


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Annie Wilkinson Angel of the north

As bombs whistle down on the North East of England during the Second World War, Marie Larsen fights to keep her family safe. When her father is killed and her mother is injured during an air raid, only Marie is left to look after her brother and sister, Pamela and Alfie. Marie knows that the safest place for them is at their evacuation

posts away from the bombings in Hull

Glyn Williams Naturalists at sea

On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the 'long eighteenth century', naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrative flora and fauna unknown at home, these men set out eagerly to collect and catalogue,

study, and document an uncharted natural world.

Tad Williams Happy hour in hell

Bobby Dollar has four problems. Problem one: his best friend Sam has given him an angel's feather, evidence of an unholy pact between Bobby's employers and those who dwell in the infernal depths. Problem two: Eligor, Grand Duke of Hell, wants to get his claws on the feather at all costs. Problem three: Bobby has fallen in love

with Casimira, who happens to be Eligor's girlfriend. Problem four: Eligor, aware of Problem three, has whisked Casimira off to the Bottomless Pit itself, telling Bobby he will never see her again unless he hands over the feather.

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Simon Winder Danubia

For centuries, much of Europe was in the hands of the peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off a number of rivals until finally packing up in 1918. Simon Winder's account of the rule of the Habsburgs plunges the reader into a maelstrom

of alchemy, skeletons, jewels, bear-moats, unfortunate marriages - and even a guinea-pig village.

Chris Wooding Ace of skulls

All good things come to an end. And this is it: the last stand of the Ketty Jay and her intrepid crew. They've been shot down, set up, double-crossed and ripped off. They've stolen priceless treasures, destroyed a ten-thousand-year-old Azryx city and sort-of-accidentally blew up the son of the Archduke. Now they've gone and started a civil

war. This time, they're really in trouble.

Lucy Worsley A very British murder

Murder - a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange, very British obsession. It's a subject that we have maintained a long and bloody fascination with - the more gruesome the details, the better. But where did this fixation develop? And what does it tell us about ourselves? In this

book, Lucy Worsley explores this phenomenon in forensic detail.


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Christopher J. Yates Black chalk

One game. Six students. Five survivors. It was only ever meant to be a game. A game of consequences, of silly forfeits, childish dares. A game to be played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford University. But then the game changed: the stakes grew higher and the dares more personal, more humiliating, finally evolving

into a vicious struggle with unpredictable and tragic results. Now, fourteen years later, the remaining players must meet again for the final round.

Craig Zobel (dir.) Compliance

Blu-ray disc. On a particularly busy day at a Ohio fast food joint, high-strung manager Sandra (Ann Dowd - Garden State) receives a phone call from a police officer, informing her that an employee, a pretty young blonde named Becky (Dreama Walker of Gossip Girl & The Good Wife) has stolen money from a

customer. Convinced she's only doing what's right, Sandra commences the investigation, following instructions from the officer at the other end of the line, no matter how invasive they become.

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