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ASSASSINS CREED

Christie Golden Trade paperback

The official film tie-in for the first ever Assassin’s Creed film.

We work in the dark to serve the light. We are assassins.

Through a revolutionary technology that unlocks his genetic memories, Callum Lynch experiences the adventures of his ancestor, Aguilar, in 15th Century Spain. Callum discovers he is descended from a mysterious secret society, the Assassins, and amasses incredible knowledge and skills to take on the oppressive and powerful Templar organisation in the present day.

TRUE FAITH & ALLEGIANCE

Tom Clancy Trade paperback

A US Navy Commander is attacked while having dinner with his wife by an unidentified Russian man.

A CIA operative travelling on a Canadian passport is intercepted and interrogated at Tehran Airport.

A team of FBI officers are arrested by Indonesian police for travelling under fake passports in Jakarta.

These apparently unrelated incidents point to a compromise in US government security, and Jack Ryan and his team must find out where it is coming from. From Maryland to Macedonia, they frantically battle shadowy forces who are looking to drag the US president into a ground war with ISIS.

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THE BOOK OF MIRRORS

E O Chirovici Trade paperback

When big-shot literary agent Peter Katz receives an unfinished manuscript entitled ‘The Book of Mirrors’, he is intrigued.

The author, Richard Flynn is writing a memoir about his time at Princeton in the late 80s, documenting his relationship with the famous Professor Joseph Wieder.

One night in 1987, Wieder was brutally murdered in his home and the case was never solved.

Peter Katz is hell-bent on getting to the bottom of what happened that night twenty-five years ago and is convinced the full manuscript will reveal who committed the violent crime.

But other people’s recollections are dangerous weapons to play with, and this might be one memory that is best kept buried.

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THE WANGS VS THE WORLD

Jade Chang Trade paperback

Charles Wang has just lost the cosmetics fortune he built up since emigrating to the US. Gone are the houses, the cars, and the incredible lifestyle. Faced with this loss, he decides to take his family on a trip to China and attempt to reclaim his ancestral lands.

But first they must go on a cross-country journey from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the upstate New York retreat of his eldest daughter, Saina. Charles takes his other two children out of schools that he can no longer afford and packs them into the only car that wasn’t repossessed – along with their wealth-addicted stepmother.

But with his son waylaid by a much-older temptress in New Orleans, his wife ready to defect for a set of 1,000-thread-count sheets, and an epic smash-up in North Carolina, Charles may have to choose between the old world and the new, between keeping his family intact and finally, finally fulfilling his dream of China.

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A THOUSAND TALES OF JOHANNESBURG

Harry Kalmer Softcover

This is the story of Sara, who poses stiffly for a photo with her four children at Turffontein concentration camp in 1901, and of Abraham, who paints the street names on Johannesburg’s kerbs. It is the tale of their grandson Zweig, and of a Congolese mother who flees to the city only to be caught up in a wave of xenophobic violence.

Spanning more than a hundred years, A Thousand Tales of Johannesburg is a novel that documents the lives of the inhabitants of this incomparable African city – the exiled, those returning from exile, and those who never left.

THE BEAUTIFUL DEAD

Belinda Bauer Softcover

Eve Singer needs death. With her career as a TV crime reporter flagging, she’ll do anything to satisfy her ghoulish audience.

The killer needs death too. He even advertises his macabre public performances, where he hopes to show the whole world the beauty of dying.

When he contacts Eve, she welcomes the chance to be first with the news from every gory scene. Until she realizes that the killer has two obsessions.

One is public murder.And the other one is her…

GOOD ME, BAD ME

Ali Land Softcover

Annie’s mother is a serial killer. The only way she can make it stop is to

hand her in to the police. But out of sight is not out of mind. The secrets of her past won’t let her sleep, even with a new family and name – Milly.

A fresh start. Now, surely, she can be whoever she wants to be.

But Milly’s mother is a serial killer. And blood is thicker than water… She is, after all, her mother’s daughter.

FIFTY SHADES DARKER

E L James Trade paperback

The second novel in the global bestselling Fifty Shades trilogy. Soon to be a major movie starring Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, coming February 2017.

Daunted by the dark secrets of the tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Ana Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a US publishing house.

But desire for Grey still dominates her every waking thought, and while Grey wrestles with his inner demons, Ana must make the most important decision of her life. And it’s a decision she can only make on her own…

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SWING TIME

Zadie Smith Trade paperback

Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, Swing Time is a story about friendship and music and true identity, how they shape us and how we can survive them. Moving from north-west London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance to the music of time.

Two brown girls dream of being dancers – but only one has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It’s a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either…

IF I COULD TELL YOU JUST ONE THING…

Richard Reed Trade paperback

Richard has collected pearls of wisdom from some of the most remarkable, inspiring and game-changing people in the world – from Richard Branson to Andy Murray, from the president of Google to President Clinton, and from Richard Curtis to Annie Lennox – to give you a lesson in how to live, how to create and how to succeed.

GIRL ONLINE: GOING SOLO

Zoe Sugg Trade paperback

As Penny starts the school year she’s ready to face the world – alone. Noah has gone off the radar after ending his world tour early and no one, including Penny, knows where he is. So when she accepts Megan’s invitation to visit her performing arts school it seems like an opportunity to make some new friends.

Helping everyone else seems to be the right remedy. Elliot needs her friendship more than ever, and she meets Posey – struggling with stage fright and in need of support. But is charming Scottish boy Callum the right kind of distraction? And can Penny truly move on?

BOOKSHOTS: COME AND GET US

James Patterson Trade paperback

What is her husband’s secret?Miranda Cooper’s life takes a terrifying

turn when an SUV deliberately runs her and her husband off a desolate Arizona road. With her husband badly wounded, she must run for help alone as his cryptic parting words echo in her head: ‘Be careful who you trust.’

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COLOUR BAR

Susan Williams Trade paperback

London, 1947. He was the heir to an African kingdom. She was a white English insurance clerk. When they met and fell in love, it would change the world.

This is the inspiring true story of Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams, whose marriage sent shockwaves through the establishment, defied an empire – and, finally, triumphed over the prejudices of their age.

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