List - November 2013 (750 KB PDF)

James Scott – The keptIn the winter of 1897, a trio of killers descends upon an isolated farm in upstate NewYork. Elspeth Howell returns home to find her family brutally murdered. The onlysurvivor is her 12­year­old son who witnessed it all. Wounded, frightened and withretribution in their hearts, mother and son set out into the frozen wilderness to trackdown the red­scarfed men who killed their loved ones in cold blood. Their journeyleads them to a rough­hewn settlement on the edge of ice­filled Lake Erie, a mercilessplace where violence abounds. Here, forced into a brutal adulthood, Caleb begins todiscover truths about his mother he could never have anticipated and Elspeth mustfinally confront the terrible urges that envelop her. All the while, the memory of Caleb'sbrothers and sisters presses him onwards.Alex Shearer – This is the life'Life just seems like a big party sometimes, at which we all gradually get edged to thedoor, and then we are out in the cold. But the party continues without us.' This is thestory of Louis, who never quite fitted in, and of his younger brother who always taggedalong. Two brothers on one final journey together, wading through the stuff that isthicker than water.Adam Smallbone – The Rev diaries'The Rev Diaries' is the hilarious tie­in novel to the award­winning hit BBC1 comedy,Rev. When vicar Adam Smallbone swapped his rural parish for St Saviours inHackney, he thought he was going somewhere where he would be able to make adifference. Somewhere his ministry would have a purpose. Or that was the idea. Butan eccentric, needy band of parishioners, unhelpfully attractive head teacher of the26