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Ramsey Library : New Books July 2014

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Mark Alder Son of the morning

Edward the Third stands in the burnt ruin of an English church. He is beset on all sides. He needs a victory against the French to rescue his kingship, or he will die trying. Philip of Valois can put 50,000 men in the field. He has sent his priests to summon the angels themselves to fight for France. Edward could call on God for aid but

he is an usurper. What if God truly is on the side of the French?

Kevin J. Anderson The dark between the stars

Twenty years after the elemental conflict that nearly tore apart the cosmos in 'The Saga of Seven Suns', a new threat emerges from the darkness, and the human race must set aside its own inner conflicts to rebuild their alliance with the Ildiran Empire for the survival of the galaxy.

Paddy Ashdown The cruel victory

Paddy Ashdown tells the long neglected D-Day story of the Resistance uprising and subsequent massacre on the Vercors massif - the largest action by the French Resistance during the Second World War.

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David Baldacci (ed.) Face off

In this unprecedented collaboration, 23 of the world's favourite crime writers bring you original, co-written short stories featuring their much-loved series characters.

Nicola Barker In the approaches

From quiet beginnings in the picturesque English seaside enclave of Pett Level, 'In The Approaches' ultimately constructs its own anarchic city-state on the previously undiscovered common ground between G.K. Chesterton and Philip K. Dick.

James Benmore Dodger of the Dials

Two years on from the events of Dodger, Jack Dawkins is back as top-sawyer with his own gang of petty thieves from Seven Dials. But crime in London has become a serious business, and when Jack needs protection he soon finds himself out of his depth and facing the gallows for murder. The evidence against him seems insurmountable,

until a young reporter by the name of Oliver Twist takes up his cause.

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Vanora Bennett The white Russian

Evie, a rebellious young American leaves New York in search of art and adventure in jazz-age Paris, where her grandmother lives. But on arrival, her grandmother's sudden death leaves Evie compelled to carry out her dying wish: to find a man from her past called Zhenya. The quest leads Evie deep into the heart of the Russian

emigré community of Paris.

Steve Berry The Lincoln myth

New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry returns with his latest thriller, a Cotton Malone adventure involving a flaw in the United States Constitution, a mystery about Abraham Lincoln, and a political issue that's as explosive as it is timely - not only in Malone's world, but in ours.

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore Bittersweet

Small-town Mabel Dagmar has never known anyone like Ev Winslow, and now she's sharing her college dorm and suddenly they're friends. Mabel can hardly believe her luck when she finds herself summering at the Winslow's luxurious estate, Winloch, in Vermont. Days spent swimming in watery coves evaporate into nights

at glamorous cocktail parties. And as the formality melts away Mabel is left to think that her summer has become a dream.

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Mark Billingham The bones beneath

This novel shows Tom Thorne facing perhaps the most dangerous killer he has ever put away, Stuart Nicklin. When Nicklin announces that he wishes to reveal the whereabouts of one of his earliest victims and that he wants the cop who caught him to be there when he does it, it becomes clear that Thorne's life is about to become seriously unpleasant.

Bernardine Bishop Hidden knowledge

Accused of child abuse, Father Roger Tree makes his confession: but it masks a darker secret. Meanwhile his sister Romola faces a future without their beloved brother, the novelist Hereward Tree. Can she live with the ending of his last book? And then there is Hereward's much younger lover, Carina, who takes fate into her own hands. But it is

Betty Winterborne, forced to re-examine the death of her son Mark twenty years before, who has the courage to face the truth.

Lawrence Block The burglar who counted the spoons

Everybody's favourite burglar returns in an eleventh adventure that finds him and his lesbian sidekick Carolyn Kaiser breaking into houses, apartments, and even a museum, in a madcap adventure replete with American Colonial silver, an F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscript, a priceless

portrait, and a remarkable array of buttons.

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Ben Bova Rescue mode

In this gritty and scientifically accurate science fiction adventure the first human mission to Mars meets with near-disaster when a meteoroid strikes the spacecraft, almost destroying it. Too far from Earth to simply turn around and return home, the 8-person crew mush ride their crippled ship to Mars while they desperately

struggle to survive. On Earth, powerful political forces that oppose human spaceflight try to use the accident as proof that sending humans into space is too dangerous to continue.

C.J. Box Shots fired

Ten riveting stories, including four Joe Pickett Stories. In 'One-Car Bridge' Pickett goes up against a 'plain mean' landowner - with disastrous consequences. In 'Shots Fired' his investigation into a radio call nearly ends up being the last thing he does.

Adam Brookes Night heron

A lone man, Peanut, escapes a labour camp in the dead of night, fleeing across the winter desert of north-west China. Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British; now Peanut must disappear on Beijing's surveillance-blanketed streets. Desperate and ruthless, he reaches out to his one-time MI6 paymasters via crusading journalist

Philip Mangan, offering military secrets in return for extraction.

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Nick Brown The black stone

Obsessed by the solar religions of the east, the emperor Aurelian sets out to obtain every sacred object within his realm. But one - a mysterious rock said to channel the power of the sun god - lies beyond his reach. Warrior-priest Ilaha has captured the legendary stone and is using it to raise an army against Rome. For Imperial agent

Cassius Corbulo and ex-gladiator bodyguard Indavara, stopping him constitutes their greatest challenge yet.

Jane Casey The kill

When a police officer is found shot dead in his car, DC Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent take on the investigation. But nothing about the case prepares them for what happens next: a second policeman dies - and then another. The Metropolitan Police struggle to carry out their usual duties, but no one knows where or how this cop killer will strike again.

Javier Cercas Outlaws

One summer's day in Gerona bespectacled, 16-year-old Ignacio Canas, known to his few friends as Gafitas, is working in an amusement arcade, when a charismatic teenager walks in with the most beautiful girl Canas has ever seen. Zarco and Tere take over his pinball machine and his life. 30 years on and now a successful criminal defence

lawyer, Canas has tried to put that long, hot summer of drugs, yearning and delinquency behind him.

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Lincoln Child The third gate

Under the direction of famed explorer Porter Stone, an archaeological team is secretly attempting to locate the tomb of King Narmer, an ancient pharaoh unlike any other. And Stone is anticipating a further discovery, the first of its kind in history: Narmer's famed crown, supposedly possessed of mythical powers, is thought to be

buried with him. The dig is located in the Sudd, a nearly impassable swamp in northern Sudan and one of the most forbidding places on Earth.

Hillary Clinton Hard choices

Hillary Clinton's candid reflections about the key moments during her time as Secretary of State, as well as her thoughts about how to navigate the challenges of the 21st century.

George Clooney The monuments men

DVD. In the last months of the war, with the Third Reich teetering on the brink of collapse, the German army are ordered to destroy every piece of looted art in their possession. In a race against time, American President Franklin D. Roosevelt mobilises a seven-man platoon to rescue the cream of the world's art.

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Tamar Cohen The broken

Best friends tell you everything; about their kitchen renovation, about their little girl's schooling. How one of them is leaving the other for a younger model. Best friends don't tell lies. They don't take up residence on your couch for weeks. They don't call lawyers. They don't make you choose sides. Best friends don't keep secrets

about their past.

Jonas Cramby Texas BBQ

There is only one state in the US which lives up to the epithet 'the best BBQ in the world', and that's Texas. But what is BBQ? Traditional grilling means cooking a piece of meat as quickly as possible with a high heat, but BBQ is exactly the opposite - this is slow cooking at low temperatures.

Richard Crompton Hell’s gate

It must have been someone's idea of a joke. Too many offended egos back at headquarters, too many influential people unhappy with him in Nairobi. And yet, with his record, almost impossible to dismiss. So where had they sent Mollel? Straight to Hell. When Mollel, a former Maasai warrior turned detective, ends up in a

small, fly-blown town on the edge of a national park, it looks as if his career has taken a nose-dive. His colleagues are a close-knit group and they have not taken kindly to a stranger in their midst.

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Mitch Cullin A slight trick of the mind

It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn't even know he was asking - about life,

about love, and about the limits of the mind's ability to know.

Clive Cussler Ghost ship

Kurt Austin is injured attempting to rescue the passengers and crew from a sinking yacht, he wakes with fragmented and conflicted memories. Did he see an old friend and her children drown, or was the yacht abandoned when he came aboard? For reasons he cannot explain, Kurt doesn't trust either version of his recollection.

Jason Dean The hunter’s oath

Amy Philmore knows something is wrong as she walks home alone through Fort George Hill in Upper Manhattan. When a car pulls up and three men get out Amy runs, but is too late to escape. Now she is in hospital fighting for her life. But her attackers are about to find themselves in even graver danger. Because Amy's brother is former Marine James Bishop. And when you target those

he loves, he will do anything to save them.

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Mark Diacono A year at Otter Farm

The taste of a perfectly ripe mulberry was Mark Diacono's inspiration for creating Otter Farm, a unique smallholding in Devon with every inch dedicated to extraordinary produce. Here Mark shares his colourful recipes, all brimming with flavour and with fresh vegetables, herbs and fruit.

Paul Doherty Roseblood

When Simon Roseblood is summoned by Amadeus Sevigny to stand trial for a crime he knows he didn't commit, their paths cross in ways that alter them both forever. And as the Wars of the Roses looms, an even greater foe is poised to rock the foundations of England, and wreak horror in a hotbed of political unrest.

Tim Dowling How to be a husband

20 years ago Tim Dowling and his wife embarked on a project so foolhardy, the prospect made them shudder. They agreed to get married - with the resigned determination of two people plotting to bury a body in the woods. Two decades on they are still together, still married and still, well, he hesitates to say happy, if only because it's one of those absolute terms that life has taught him to

deploy with caution.

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Jordan Ellenberg How not to be wrong

How a little mathematics goes a long way in helping you not to be wrong. Ellenberg explores the mathematician's way of analysing life, from the everyday to the cosmic, showing us which numbers to defend, which ones to ignore, and when to change the equation entirely.

R.J. Ellory Carnival of shadows

Kansas, 1959. A travelling carnival appears overnight in the small town of Seneca Falls, intriguing the townsfolk with acts of inexplicable magic and illusion. But when a man's body is discovered beneath the carousel, with no clue as to his identity, FBI Special Agent Michal Travis is sent to investigate. Led by the elusive Edgar Doyle, the carnival folk range from the enigmatic

to the bizarre, but none of them will give Travis a straight answer to his questions

.Liz Fenwick A Cornish stranger

When her reclusive grandmother becomes too frail to live alone, Gabriella Blythe moves into the remote waterside cabin on Frenchman's Creek which has been her grandmother's home for decades. Everything is fine until a handsome stranger arrives in a storm, seeking help.

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Joshua Ferris To rise again at a decent hour

Paul O'Rourke, 40-year-old slightly curmudgeonly dentist, runs a thriving practice in New York. Yet he is discovering he needs more in his life than a steady income and the perfect mochaccino. But what? As Paul tries to work out the meaning of life, a Facebook page and Twitter account appear in his name.

Karin Fossum The murder of Harriet Krohn

Charles Olav Torp is grieving for his late wife, he's lost his job, and gambling debts have alienated him from his teenage daughter. Desperate, his solution is to rob an elderly woman of her money and silverware. But Harriet Krohn fights back, and Charlo loses control. Wracked with guilt, Charlo attempts to rebuild his life and regain his dignity.

But the police are catching up with him, and Inspector Konrad Sejer has never lost a case yet.

Matthew Frank If I should die

Scarred physically and mentally while serving with the army in Afghanistan, trainee detective Joseph Stark must endure the rigours of a murder investigation while battling his own demons and dealing the suspicions and jealousies of his new colleagues.

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Elizabeth Fremantle Sisters of treason

Lady Jane Grey has just been executed by her cousin, Mary Tudor, and her two younger sisters, Mary and Catherine, live in the shadow of their sister's tragic demise. Court painter Levina Teerlinc helps the girls survive Mary Tudor's reign, but when the queen's sister, the hot-headed Elizabeth, inherits the crown, life

becomes increasingly treacherous. Rebecca Front Curious Rebecca Front has always used anecdotes from her own life to inform not only the characters she plays in such series as 'The Thick of It' and 'Nighty Night', but also her frequent observational comment pieces for the 'Guardian', 'Independent' and other magazines. In 'Curious', she takes

those characters further, exploring and delighting in the absurdities of life, the oddities of human nature.

Chris Froome The climb 'The Climb' tells the extraordinary story of Chris Froome's journey from a young boy in Kenya, riding through townships and past wild animals, and with few opportunities for an aspiring cyclist, to his unforgettable yellow jersey victory in the 2013 Tour.

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Alan Furst Midnight in Europe Cristian Ferrar, a Spanish lawyer living in Paris, is approached by anti-Franco forces, he readily agrees asked to help smuggle arms into his homeland. Working with de Lyon - an enigmatic man of Slavic descent - Ferrar goes on a quest which will take him from libertine nightclubs in the City of Light to volatile bars by the docks in

Gdansk, as Europe holds its breath.

Diana Gabaldon Written in my own heart’s blood June 1778, and as the American War of Independence nears its turning point, time-travelling lovers Jamie and Claire find themselves torn apart by the warring forces. As sons fight against fathers and whole families are splintered by the conflict, even Claire's foreknowledge of the

future can only help her so much. Caught in the maelstrom of historical events, once again Jamie and Claire must battle to survive.

Maggie Gee Virginia Woolf in New York Angela Lamb, a British novelist, has sent her boisterous daughter Gerda to boarding school. Now she can fly to New York to pursue her passion for Woolf, whose manuscripts are in the private Berg Collection there. When a bedraggled-looking Virginia herself materializes in the library one day and is instantly evicted, a

stunned Angela follows her hero into the streets of Manhattan

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Carrie Gibson Empire’s crossroads In October 1492, an Italian-born, Spanish-funded navigator discovered a new world, thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean. In 'Empire's Crossroads', Carrie Gibson, unfolds the story of the Caribbean from Columbus's first landing on the island he named San Salvador to today's islands; largely independent, but often still in thrall

to Europe and America's insatiable desire for tropical luxuries.

Gerd Gigerenza Risk savvy This is a practical guide to making better decisions with our money, health, and personal lives from Gerd Gigerenzer, the author of 'Reckoning with Risk'. Here, Gerd Gigerenzer examines the many psychological, societal, and mathematical factors that contribute to our collective misunderstanding of the world around us and shows how we can

overcome them. Richard Girling The hunt for the golden mole This story is a quest for an animal so rare that a sighting has never been recorded. The Somali golden mole was first described in 1964. It is mentioned in a number of textbooks, but the sole evidence for its existence is a tiny fragment of jawbone found in an owl pellet. Intrigued by this

elusive creature, and what it can tell us about extinction and survival.

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Jason Goodwin The baklava club In 19th-century Istanbul, a Polish prince has been kidnapped. His assassination has been bungled and his captors have taken him to an unused farmhouse. Little do they realise that their revolutionary cell has been penetrated by their enemies, who use the code name La Piuma (the Feather). Yashim is convinced that the prince is

alive. But he has no idea where, or who La Piuma is - and has become dangerously distracted by falling in love.

Bryony Gordon The wrong knickers For years, women have been told that their twenties are their golden years, filled with fun, parties, sex and glamour. Countless TV shows and movies tell us the same story: this is your perfect decade - don't waste it! Here, in her hilariously honest memoir, Bryony Gordon gives us a fresh perspective. John Gordon Sinclair Blood whispers In a room full of murder suspects, lawyer Keira Lynch will finger the culprit every time. They put her uncanny ability down to luck, but there's a more sinister explanation. Keira has a dark secret of her own: when she was seven years old she killed a man. It takes one to know one.

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Susanna Gregory Death of a scholar Matthew Bartholomew returns to Cambridge to learn that his beloved sister is in mourning after the unexpected death of her husband, Oswald Stanmore. Aware that his son has no interest in the cloth trade that made his fortune and reputation, Oswald has left the business to his widow, but a spate of burglaries in the town

distracts Matthew from supporting Edith in her grief and attempting to keep the peace between her and her wayward son.

Nick Harkaway Tigerman Lester Ferris, sergeant of the British Army, is a good man in need of a rest. He's spent a lot of his life being shot at, and Afghanistan was the last stop on his road to exhaustion. He has no family, he's nearly 40 and burned out and about to be retired. The island of Mancreu is the ideal place for Lester to serve out his time. It's a former

British colony in legal limbo, soon to be destroyed because of its very special version of toxic pollution

John Harvey Darkness, darkness Thirty years ago, the Miners' Strike threatened to tear the country apart, turning neighbour against neighbour, husband against wife, father against son - enmities which smoulder still. Resnick, recently made up to inspector, and ambivalent at best about some of the police tactics, had run an information gathering unit at the heart of the

dispute.

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Desmond Hawkins War report 'War Report', the landmark BBC radio programme, first broadcast after the nine o-clock news on D-Day, 6 June 1944, provided an almost-daily chronicle to millions of listeners of the final year of World War II. A team of BBC reporters, including Chester Wilmot, Frank Gillard, Wynford Vaughan Thomas, and Richard Dimbleby, trained and were

embedded with British troops, a first in war reporting. Emma Healey Elizabeth is missing 'Elizabeth is missing', reads the note in Maud's pocket in her own handwriting. Lately, Maud's been getting forgetful. She keeps buying peach slices when she has a cupboard full, forgets to drink the cups of tea she's made and writes notes to remind herself of things. But Maud is determined to discover what has happened to her friend,

Elizabeth, and what it has to do with the unsolved disappearance of her sister Sukey, years back, just after the war.

Hemsley & Hemsley The art of eating well 'The Art of Eating Well' is a revolutionary cookbook that will help anyone who wishes to feel better, lose weight or have more energy. London-based sisters Jasmine and Melissa Hemsley teach their principles of life-long healthy eating with exciting and inventive recipes that are so delicious you forget the purpose is good health and nourishment.

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Jack Higgins The death trade

The world's most dangerous man has escaped - and it's up to Sean Dillon and Co to find him, before he falls into the hands of al Qaeda. When Iran's head of nuclear weapons programme absconds he is hunted by everyone: the Iranians, al Qaeda and Sean Dillon's team of specialists.

Elin Hilderbrand The matchmaker

Dabney Kimball Beech, the 48-year-old Director of the Nantucket Chamber of Commerce and fifth generation Nantucketer, has had a lifelong gift of matchmaking (52 couples still together to her credit). But when Dabney discovers she is dying of pancreatic cancer, she sets out to find matches for a few people very close to home.

Suzette Hill The Venetian venture

Rosy Gilchrist is sent to Venice to find a rare, signed translation of Horace's Odes by the late Dr Bodger. Rosy jumps at the chance to fit some sightseeing around work, but the holiday plans go on hold when she learns that there is a significant bounty prize for anyone who finds this valuable text. Finding herself in the midst of a cat-and-

mouse chase, Rosy's rivals will stop at nothing, not even murder, to get their hands on the book.

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Alice Hoffman The museum of extraordinary things

Coney Island, 1911: Coralie Sardie is the daughter of a self-proclaimed scientist and professor who acts as the impresario of The Museum of Extraordinary Things, a boardwalk freak show offering amazement and entertainment to the masses. She swims regularly in New York's

Hudson River, and one night stumbles upon a striking young man alone in the woods photographing moon-lit trees. From that moment, Coralie knows her life will never be the same.

Stephen Hunt In dark service

Carter Carnehan is longing to test himself against whatever the world has to offer. Carter is going to get his opportunity. He's caught up in a village fight, kidnapped by slavers and,is swept to another land. A lowly slave, surrounded by technology he doesn't understand, his wish has come true: it's him vs. the world.

Tristram Hunt Ten cities that made an empire

The final embers of the British Empire are dying, but its legacy remains in the lives and structures of the cities which it shaped. Here Tristram Hunt examines the stories and defining ideas of ten of the most important: Boston, Bridgetown, Dublin, Cape Town, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Bombay, Melbourne, New Delhi, and 20th-century Liverpool.

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David Ignatius The director

Graham Weber has been director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty t-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents' names to prove it. This is the moment a CIA director most dreads.

Peter James Want you dead

When Red Cameron meets handsome, charming and rich Bryce Laurent through an online dating agency, there is an instant attraction. But as their love blossoms, the truth about his past, and his dark side, begins to emerge. Everything he has told Red about himself turns out to be a tissue of lies, and her infatuation with him gradually turns to terror. Within a year, and under police protection,

she evicts him from her flat and her life. But her nightmare is only just beginning.

Michael Jecks Fields of glory

The year is 1346 and King Edward III is restless. Despite earlier victories his army has still not achieved a major breakthrough and the French crown remains intact. Determined to bring France under English rule and the French army to its knees he has regrouped and planned a new route of attack. And on the beaches of Normandy his

men now mass, ready to march through France to victory. But the French are nowhere to be seen.

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Spike Jonze Her

Blu-ray disc. Set in Los Angeles in the slight future round Theodore who becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive and unique entity in its own right. Upon initiating it, he is delighted to meet "Samantha", a bright, female voice who is insightful, sensitive and surprisingly funny.

Alan Judd Inside enemy

Charles Thoroughgood is now the recently-appointed chief of a reconstituted MI6, married to his predecessor's widow and tasked with halting the increasingly disruptive cyber attacks on Britain, which are threatening government itself and all the normal transactions of daily life - not to mention a missing nuclear missile-carrying submarine.

Stephen King Mr Mercedes

A cat-and-mouse suspense thriller featuring a retired homicide detective who's haunted by the few cases he left open, and by one in particular - the pre-dawn slaughter of eight people among hundreds gathered in line for the opening of a jobs fair when the economy was guttering out. Without warning, a lone driver ploughed through the crowd

in a stolen Mercedes. The plot is kicked into gear when Bill Hodges receives a letter in the mail, from a man claiming to be the perpetrator.

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Michael Koryta Those who wish me dead

When Jace Wilson accidentally witnesses a brutal murder, he is suddenly forced into the Witness Protection Program and given a new name and history. Taken in by a couple who run a wilderness program for young boys, Jace finds himself hiking through the Montana mountains, tortured by his memories and by the fear that he'll

never be safe again.

Lynda La Plante Twisted

Amy Fulford vanishes one Saturday afternoon. DSI Marshe runs the local missing persons unit. He is responsible for overseeing the disappearance of Amy Fulford. While the spiral of media interest in the missing daughter of a well-connected couple heats up, the spotlight turns on the parents who are embroiled in a bitter divorce

Hans Olav Lahlum The human flies

Oslo, 1968. Ambitious young detective Inspector Kolbjrn Kristiansen is called to an apartment block, where a man has been found murdered. The victim was a legendary hero of the Resistance during the Nazi occupation and at first it is difficult to imagine who could have wanted him dead. But as Detective Inspector Kolbjrn Kristiansen (known

as K2) begins to investigate, it seems clear that the murderer could only be

one of Olesen's fellow tenants in the building.

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Alexander Larman Blazing star

Restoration England witnessed an extraordinary flowering of literature, music, architecture and science. At the centre of the burgeoning cultural life of the age was John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. A peerlessly witty satirist, Rochester epitomised the manners of the court of Charles II. But he was also a libertine and drunkard, a writer

of scandalously offensive poetry who got himself banned from court. Rochester died of syphilis at the age of just 33, leaving behind him a mystery as to the true nature of his character.

Jill Leman Watercolour secrets

This beautiful book showcases the work of the members of the prestigious Royal Watercolour Society, including Ken Howard, Sonia Lawson and many other fine and well-known contemporary watercolour painters. Each artist discusses their inspiration and gives their best practical advice for working in this medium, offering a fascinating

insight into the methods and techniques of the pros.

Damien Lewis Judy : a dog in a million

Judy, a beautiful English pointer, was cherished and adored by the British, Australian, American and other Allied servicemen who fought alongside her.

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Sarah Lotz The three

Four passenger planes crash, at almost exactly the same moment. There are only four survivors. Three are children, who emerge from the wreckage seemingly unhurt. The fourth lives just long enough to record a message that will change the world.

Michelle Lovric The true and splendid history of the Harristown sisters

When seven sisters, born into fatherless poverty in Ireland, grow up with hair cascading down their backs, to their ankles, and beyond, men are not slow to recognise their potential. It begins with a singing and dancing septet, with Irish jigs kicked out in dusty church halls. But it is not the

sisters' singing or their dancing that fills the seats: it is the torrents of hair they let loose at the end of each show.

Eric Lustbader Robert Ludlum's The Bourne ascendancy

Jason Bourne is hired by government ministers fearful of assassination. He is paid to impersonate these men at meetings in places of uncertain security around the globe. Bourne is at one such meeting when armed gunmen storm the room - but their target is Bourne himself.

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Marco Malvadi The art of living well

Pellegrino Artusi, Italy's first celebrity chef, has travelled the length and breadth of the country compiling his masterpiece, 'The Science of Cooking and The Art of Eating Well'. When Baron Romualdo Bonaiuti invites him to his Tuscan home to compare notes with his kitchen staff, he's quite looking forward to a break. On

arrival he finds everything one might expect: a dramatic Tuscan castle, eccentric aristocrats, spinster aunts and a mysterious guest. Not to mention a murdered butler.

Justin Marozzi Baghdad

Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great hardships, beset by epidemics, famines, floods,

and numerous foreign invasions which have brought terrible bloodshed.

M.J. McGrath The bone seeker

When young Inuit Martha Salliaq goes missing from her settlement, her teacher Edie Kiglatuk enlists her police friend Derek Palliser to help search for the girl. But once a body is discovered floating in a polluted lake, Edie’s worst fears are realised.

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Sam Miller A strange kind of paradise

'A Strange Kind of Paradise' is an exploration of India's past and present, from the perspective of a foreigner who has lived in India for many years. Sam Miller investigates how the ancient Greeks, the Romans, the Chinese, Arabs, Africans, Europeans and Americans - everyone really, except for Indians themselves - came to imagine India.

Lia Mills Fallen

Spring 1915, Dublin. Katie Crilly gets the news she dreaded: her beloved twin brother, Liam, has been killed on the Western Front. A year later, when her home city of Dublin is suddenly engulfed in violence, Katie finds herself torn by conflicting emotions. Taking refuge in the home of a friend, she meets Hubie Wilson, a friend of Liam's from

the Front. There unfolds a remarkable encounter between two young people, both wounded and both trying to imagine a new

life.

Mary Morris A very private diary

'The real war started for me today'. So begins the diary of 18-year-old Mary Mulry, a young Irish nurse, newly arrived in London in 1940. Over the next seven years she witnesses many of the pivotal events of the war at first hand.

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James Patterson NYPD Red

NYPD Red - the task force attacking the most extreme crimes in America's most extreme city - hunts a killer who is on an impossible mission. A vigilante serial killer is on the loose in New York City, tracking down and murdering people whose crimes have not been punished. NYPD Red Detective Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie

MacDonald are put on the case when a woman of vast wealth and even greater connections disappears.

Laline Paull The bees

Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey, and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen. But Flora is not like other bees. Despite her ugliness she has talents that are not typical of her kin.

Stuart Pearson Blood on the thistle

'Blood on the Thistle' is the examination of the life and times of a remarkable Scottish family, the Cranstons of Haddington, East Lothian. It focuses on a period from about 1880, when the young, hard-working parents, Alec and Lizzy Cranston, arrived in Haddington, through to 1920, when the family they had produced had been torn apart by the effects of

the Great War and broke up as its surviving members pursued separate lives around the globe.

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Elizabeth Pisani Indonesia etc

One in 30 of the people on this planet is Indonesian. Indonesia is a global hub, one of the most dynamic and diverse countries of the 21st century. But you don't have to look far from metropolitan Jakarta to find poverty, superstition, ancient rituals and black magic.

Tom Rachman The rise and fall of great powers

Tooly Zylberberg tells a story: as a child, she was stolen from home, stashed at a den of thieves, then adopted by crooks there, who ended up raising her and even using the little girl in capers around the globe. But Tooly understands only fragments of what happened in Thailand, Italy,

New York and beyond.

Martina Reilly Things I want you to know

When a tragic accident tore his life apart, Nick Deegan left his beautiful wife Kate and their two young children - always thinking that someday he would return to them. Now, two years later, Kate has passed away after an illness and Nick moves back home to raise Emma and little Liam without her. On the day of Kate's funeral, Nick discovers

a book she left for him containing things she wanted him to know.

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Craig Robertson The last refuge

When John Callum arrives on the wild and desolate Faroe Islands, he vows to sever all ties with his previous life. He is surprised by how quickly he is welcomed into the close-knit community. Then the solitude is shattered by an almost unheard of crime on the islands: murder.

James Rollins The kill switch

Who does the US government call upon when a mission requires perfect stealth, execution, and discretion? Meet the newest recruits to the expanding Sigma Force universe - former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his stalwart companion, Kane, a military working dog of exceptional abilities.

Mike Rossiter The spy who changed the world

Brilliant German physicist Klaus Fuchs worked on the Manhattan Project and developed many of the significant calculations that led to the creation of nuclear weaponry. He was also a Soviet spy.

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William Shaw A house of knives

London, November 1968. The decade is drawing its last breath. In Marylebone CID, suspects are beaten in the cells and the only woman has resigned. Detective Sergeant Breen has a death threat in his in tray and two burned bodies on his hands. One is an unidentified, unmourned vagrant; the other the wayward son of a rising politician.

One case suffers the apathy of a depleted police force; the other obstructed by a PR-conscious father with the ear of the Home Office.

Ben Shephard Headhunters

How did the human brain evolve? In the final decades of the 19th century, this question began to occupy scientists. With Darwin's theory of evolution now accepted, modern neuroscience began. 'Head Hunters' traces the intellectual journey of four men who met at Cambridge in the 1890s and whose lives interlinked for the next

three decades - William Rivers, Grafton Elliot Smith, Charles Myers and William McDougall.

Chris Stewart Last days of the bus club

It's two decades since Chris Stewart moved to his farm on the wrong side of a river in the mountains of southern Spain and his daughter Chloe is preparing to fly the nest for university. In this latest, typically hilarious dispatch from El Valero, we find Chris, now a local literary celebrity, using his fame to help his old sheep-shearing partner

find work on a raucous road trip.

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Julia Stoneham Evie

And then there was Evie - the quiet one. If nobody recalled her arrival at the hostel they were unlikely to forget her departure from it. Through the boisterous adventures of the other Land Girls as war ends and peacetime begins, Evie's story runs, out of sight and out of mind, until the disruptive arrival one evening, of her husband, Corporal

Norman Clark.

Simon Sylvester The visitors

Nobody moves to the remote Scottish island of Bancree, and few leave - but leaving is exactly what 17-year-old Flo intends to do. So when a mysterious man and his daughter arrive at isolated Dog Cottage, Flo is curious. Who would willingly choose to live in such solitude?

Michael Tiernan The first game with my father

In the winter of 1983 Michael Tierney attended his first, and only, game with his father, John. For a self-employed electrician with nine children to support, this was the rarest of opportunities. Miraculously, Celtic overturned a first-leg deficit to thrash Sporting Lisbon, 5-0, with a team of

home-grown talent. As the years pass, that one magical evening fades in the bustle of family commitments and the constant spectre of unemployment.

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Richard van Emden Tommy’s war

Conventional histories of the Great War have tended to focus on the terrible attritional battles of Ypres, of Arras and of the Somme. What they do not tell us is what life was like for the ordinary soldier, what mattered to him, and how he survived, both physically and mentally. Now for the first time, one of Britain's leading military

historians, Richard van Emden tells the story of the Great War exclusively through the words and images of soldiers on the ground.

Martin Walker Children of war

Bruno, chef de police in the French town of St Denis, is already busy with a case when the body of an undercover French Muslim cop is found in the woods, a man who called Bruno for help only hours before.

Jason Webster Blood Med

Spain is corrupt and on the brink of collapse. The king is ill, banks are closing, hospitals are in chaos, homes are lost, demonstrators riot and rightwing thugs patrol the streets. The tunnels beneath the streets are at once a refuge and a source of anger. And as the blood flows Cámara roars in on his motorbike.

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Jerry White Zeppelin nights

Despite the carnage across the Channel, the First World War was almost wholly positive for London. Full employment and huge advances in living standards brought the grinding poverty of the pre-war era almost to an end. Public health was improved. Women's lives were transformed. In the capital converged the many threads of Britain's war: munitions were manufactured;

soldiers on their way to or from active service passed through in their hundreds of thousands; refugees sought new lives.

Neil White The death collector

Joe Parker is Manchester's top criminal defence lawyer and Sam Parker - his brother - is a brilliant detective with the Greater Manchester Police force. Together they must solve a puzzling case that is chilling Manchester to the bone.

Louisa Young The heroes’ welcome

1919, and Britain is realising that it is no longer at war. Now, Nadine and Riley, Rose, and Peter and Julia, must try to regain a sense of normality. But long shadows cast by the war dim the potential joys of peacetime, and matters of the heart prove arduous and bewildering. Normality doesn't seem to exist the way it did, and there is no 'going back'

to anything. What must give, for happiness to stand a chance?

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