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LIZ MURRAY 

Breaking Night 

publication: 20/01/2011 

price: 12.99 

size: Demy Octavo 

pages: 432 

ISBN: 9781846058707 

An inspirational memoir by a young woman who, at age fifteen, was 

forced out onto the streets and survived several years of homelessness 

before eventually making it into Harvard 

Liz Murray never really had a chance in life. Born to a drug-addicted father 

who was in and out of prison, and an equally dependent mother who was 

in and out of mental institutions, she seemed destined to become just 

another tragic statistic. Another life wasted on the brutal streets of New 

York. 

By the age of fifteen, Liz found herself homeless with nowhere to turn but 

the tough streets, riding subways all night for a warm place to sleep and 

foraging through dumpsters for food. But when her mother died of AIDS a 

year later, Liz’s life changed for ever. With no education, with no chance at 

a job or a home, she realised that only the most astonishing of turnarounds 

could stop her heading all the way down the same path her parents took. 

And so she set her mind to overcoming what seemed like impossible odds – 

and in the process, achieved something extraordinary. 

Told with astounding sincerity, Breaking Night is the breathtaking and 

inspirational story of how a young woman, born into a world without 

hope, used every ounce of strength and determination to steer herself 

towards a brighter future. Beautifully written, it is a poignant, evocative and 

stirring portrait of struggle, desperation, forgiveness and survival. 

Liz Murray completed high school and won a New York Times 

scholarship while homeless, and graduated from Harvard University 

in 2009. She has been awarded The White House Project Role Model 

Award, a Christopher Award, as well as the Chutzpah Award, which 

was given to her by Oprah Winfrey. Lifetime Television produced a 

film about Murray’s life, Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story. The 

founder and director of Manifest Living, a New York-based company 

that empowers adults to create the results they want in their own lives, 

today Murray travels the world delivering motivational speeches and 

conducting workshops to inspire others. 

GRAHAM MOORE 

The Holmes Affair 


price: 12.99 

size: Royal Octavo 

pages: 304 

ISBN: 9781846058769 

A gripping debut thriller which draws on Sherlock Holmes’ classic cases 

to provide the clues to a century-old mystery 

For over a century, the secrets of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s missing diary 

have lain buried. Now all that’s about to change … 

Victorian London: as the world mourns the demise of Sir Arthur Conan 

Doyle’s fictional detective Sherlock Holmes at the foot of the Reichenbach 

Falls, Conan Doyle has a new preoccupation, as a chance encounter sets 

him on the trail of a brutal killer targeting vulnerable suffragettes. Together 

with Bram Stoker, he roams the dark streets of Victorian London searching 

for clues as to what happened to the girls. 

Modern-day New York: literary researcher Harold White’s lifelong 

obsession with Sherlock Holmes turns into something far more sinister. The 

world’s leading Doylean scholar is found murdered in his hotel room, and 

only Harold is familiar enough with the arcane mysteries of the Holmes 

novels to recognise the clues the killer has left. Clues which will lead him 

not only to a murderer prepared to stop at nothing, but also to the mystery 

of Conan Doyle’s missing diary - and a secret that Conan Doyle, a hundred 

years earlier, risked everything to hide … 

Graham Moore is a writer for film and television. He is currently a staff 

writer on the television show 10 Things I Hate About You, and is also 

writing the feature action-comedy ID Theft for Charlize Theron, who is 

set to produce and star. 

Graham was born and raised in Chicago, the son of a criminal defence 

attorney and a political lawyer. His mother, Susan Sher, worked for the 

mayor when Graham was growing up, and she is now Chief of Staff to 

Michelle Obama. He now lives in Los Angeles.

FRANK TALLIS 

Death And The Maiden 


price: 11.99 


pages: 384 

ISBN: 9781846053573 

Vienna, 1903. An operatic diva, Ida Rosenkrantz, is found dead in her 

luxurious villa. It appears that she has taken an overdose of morphine, but 

a broken rib, discovered during autopsy, suggests other and more sinister 

possibilities. Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt seeks the assistance of 

his young friend, the psychoanalyst Dr Max Liebermann, and they begin 

their inquiries at Vienna’s majestic opera house, where its director, Gustav 

Mahler, is struggling to maintain a pure artistic vision while threatened 

on all sides by pompous bureaucrats, vainglorious singers, and a hostile 

press. When the demagogue Mayor of Vienna, Karl Lueger, becomes the 

prime suspect - with an election only months away - the Rosenkrantz case 

becomes politically explosive. 

The trail leads Rheinhardt and Liebermann, via a social climbing professor 

of psychiatry, to the Hofburg palace and the mysterious Lord Marshal’s 

office – a shadowy bureau that deals ruthlessly with enemies of the ageing 

Emperor Franz Josef. As the investigation proceeds, the investigators are 

placed in great personal danger, as corruption is exposed at the very highest 

levels. Meanwhile, Liebermann pursues two private obsessions: a coded 

message in a piece of piano music, and the alluring Englishwoman Miss 

Amelia Lydgate. Romance and high drama coincide as the Habsburg 

Empire teeters on the edge of scandal and ruin. 

Frank Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist. He has held lecturing 

posts at the Institute of Psychiatry and King’s College, London. He has 

written self-help manuals (How to Stop Worrying, Understanding Obsessions 

and Compulsions), non-fiction for the general reader (Changing Minds, 

Hidden Minds, Love Sick), academic text books and over thirty academic 

papers in international journals. He has also published seven novels, six 

of which were are the critically acclaimed ‘Liebermann Papers’. 

JAMES PATTERSON 

Tick Tock 


price: 18.99 


pages: 400 

ISBN: 9781846057601 

From the creator of the number one New York detective series comes 

the most volatile and explosive Michael Bennett novel yet 

NYC’s number one detective, Michael Bennett, has a huge problem – 

someone is recreating the crimes of infamous killers from New York’s 

history. The city has never been more terrified. 

A rash of horrifying crimes tears through the city, throwing it into complete 

chaos and terrorising everyone living there. Immediately, it becomes clear 

that they are not the work of an amateur, but of a calculating, efficient, and 

deadly mastermind. 

The city calls on Detective Michael Bennett, pulling him away from a 

seaside retreat with his ten adopted children, his grandfather, and their 

beloved nanny, Mary Catherine. Not only does it tear apart their first 

vacation since Michael’s wife Maeve died – it leaves the entire family open 

to attack. 

Bennett enlists the help of a former colleague, FBI Agent Emily Parker. As 

his affection for Emily grows into something stronger, his relationship with 

Mary Catherine takes an unexpected turn. All too soon, another appalling 

crime leads Bennett to a shocking discovery that exposes the killer’s pattern 

and the earth-shattering enormity of his plan. 

James Patterson is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of 

all time. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past 

decade - the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club and Detective Michael 

Bennett novels - and he has written many other number one bestsellers 

including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. He lives in Florida 

with his wife and son. 

James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his 

own son, who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books 

specifically for young readers. James has formed a partnership with 

the National Literacy Trust, an independent, UK-based charity that 

changes lives through literacy. In 2010, he was voted Author of the Year 

at the Children’s Choice Book Awards in New York. 

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Maximum Ride: Angel 


price: 12.99 


pages: 384 

ISBN: 9781846054662 

The electrifying new novel in the bestselling Maximum Ride series 

Is this the end of Max and Fang, and the beginning of Max and Dylan? 

Only Angel knows. 

Maximum Ride and her friends have always had each other’s backs because 

they can’t trust anyone else. No. Matter. What. But now the flock is up 

against a threat unlike any they’ve ever faced and, just when they need each 

other the most, Fang is gone. He’s creating his own gang that will replace 

everyone – including Max. 

Max is heartbroken over losing Fang, her soulmate, her best friend. The 

one she thought would always be there for her. Could it be that she really 

is destined to be with Dylan? He’s proven that he’ll do anything for her, 

and she can’t deny that there’s an intensity about him that draws her in. As 

the flock race to Paris to stop a terrifying cult intent on exterminating the 

human race, she has no choice but to trust him. 














10th Anniversary 


price: 18.99 


pages: 384 

ISBN: 9781846054785 

The sensational tenth novel in the number one bestselling Women’s 

Murder Club series 

Detective Lindsay Boxer has finally married her long-time boyfriend Joe. 

But she doesn’t even have time for a honeymoon before returning to work 

and a traumatic case. A fifteen-year-old girl is found lying unconscious in 

the street, naked but for a cheap plastic raincoat, and haemorrhaging badly 

after having given birth within the last 36 hours. But the baby is nowhere 

to be found. 

Meanwhile Yuki Castellano is trying a case against a woman accused of 

killing her husband. The evidence is overwhelming and Yuki is certain of 

winning a conviction. But the accused is a renowned heart surgeon and her 

attorney specialises in criminal defence of the wealthy. This case might not 

be a straightforward as Yuki had hoped. 

Lindsay and Yuki’s close friend and fellow member of the Women’s Murder 

Club reporter Cindy Thomas is investigating a terrifying story. Two women 

have reported recent sexual assaults, but neither can remember anything of 

the attacks. Are these two incidents linked? Will this be the start of a string 

of attacks? Cindy is determined to uncover the truth, but her headstrong 

approach can lead her straight into danger. 












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KATIE FFORDE 

Summer of Love 


price: 14.99 


pages: 400 

ISBN: 9781846056505 

The wonderful new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A 

Perfect Proposal 

Sian Bishop has moved to an idyllic Oxfordshire village for a better life for 

herself and her young son Rory. With her roses-round-the-door cottage, 

the perfect school for Rory just down the road, and her very own vegetable 

patch she knows she’s made the right decision. She’s also struck gold in 

Richard – steady, safe, reliable, he is the perfect man for her and the perfect 

potential stepfather for Rory. 

But little does she realise she’s now living in the village, Gus – the 

wonderful, irresistible, dangerous, unreliable and straight-out-of-a- 

Georgette-Heyer-novel, Gus – grew up in. And her quiet life in the country 

is about to get a whole lot more complicated... 

Katie Fforde lives in Gloucestershire with her husband and some of her 

three children. Recently her old hobbies of ironing and housework have 

given way to singing, Flamenco dancing and husky racing. She claims 

this keeps her fit. To find out more about Katie Fforde visit her website 

at www.katiefforde.com and follow her on twitter @KatieFforde. 


Toys 


price: 18.99 


pages: 400 

ISBN: 9781846057700 

He was the perfect agent. But now he’s become their target 

In the future, humans will no longer rule the world. Elites have taken 

control of civilised society; humans exist merely to serve. Elites are 

genetically modified, technologically enhanced versions of humankind. 

Originally designed and created by man, they were intended to save 

humanity. Instead, they have slowly usurped humans from leadership and 

have made them their subjects. 

Animosity between Elites and humans is fierce, and many rebels fight back 

against Elite rule. Hays Baker is a high-ranking agent in the Elite forces and 

at the forefront of keeping the humans under control. However, Hays is 

unknowingly hiding a secret that will make him the greatest threat to the 

Elite regime, and their number one target. 

Now hunted by the people he used to work alongside, Hays searchs for the 

truth of his identity. But to understand this he must first learn of a greater 

truth, hidden within the rule of the Elite. 













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ALASDAIR WICKHAM 

The Black Book of Modern Myths 


price: 14.99 


pages: 288 

ISBN: 9781846055706 

Collection of new, true horror stories from around the world – in the 

Vanishing Hitchhiker mode 

The world is experiencing an epidemic of supernatural events. 

For the most part they are unreported by conventional, print-based media, 

but reports of them rage around cyberspace. 

Many of these stories have achieved mythic status, like the stories in the 

bestselling books of urban myths of the early eighties. The Black Book of 

Modern Myths pulls together the most resonant of these stories, and reveals 

the disturbing trends that lie beneath. One thing that distinguishes these 

stories of the supernatural is that they are startlingly up to date. 

Discarding olde worlde notions of the supernatural – black cloaks, and 

bodices, deserted country graveyards at night – The Black Book of Modern 

Myths shows us the supernatural caught in a bright digital glare. 

Modern technology has recorded the supernatural visually and aurally like 

never before. But could it also be opening portals to the demonic? 

The Black Book of Myths is referred to in Dino Argento’s cult horror flicks. 

Like its mythical inspiration, The Black Book of Modern Myths will be 

cultish, new, horrific, sexy, stylish, bang up to date and in your face. 

Alasdair Wickham is the pen name of James Buxton. Shortly after his 

parents died, James Buxton went to live in his grandparent’s house, 

which was haunted. He has taken the supernatural for granted ever 

since and has been researching the field for the last thirty-five years. He 

is a successful writer with four horror novels under his belt: 

Subterranean, Strange, The Wishing Tree and Pity. He has written on the 

supernatural for the Evening Standard, has worked on numerous 

ghostwriting projects (no pun intended) and is currently writing the 

second of a series of occult novels commissioned by Hachette for the 

young adult market. 

LISA JEWELL 

The Making Of Us 


price: 12.99 


pages: 400 

ISBN: 9781846055744 

The wonderful new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of 

After the Party 

In a hospice in Bury St Edmunds, a man called Daniel is slowly fading 

away. His friend Maggie sits with him every day; she holds his hand and 

she listens to the story of his life, to his regrets and to his secrets. And then 

he tells her about the children he has never met and never will, conceived 

with women he has never slept with, never even touched. Four of them, 

apparently, two boys, two girls. He talks of them wistfully. His legacy, he 

calls them. 

Lydia, Robyn and Dean don’t know each other. Yet. And they are all 

facing difficult challenges. Lydia is still wearing the scars from her traumatic 

childhood and, although she is wealthy and successful, her life is lonely and 

disjointed. Until an unexpected letter from her long-lost uncle reveals a 

shocking truth about her childhood. 

Dean is a young man whose life is going nowhere. He is jobless and about 

to have a baby with a girl who hates him. But then one afternoon, life flips 

over and leaves him somewhere he never expected to be: a single dad to an 

ill daughter and he is forced to re-evaluate his whole life. 

Robyn is eighteen. She is training to be a doctor and is determined one day 

to be a paediatrician, just like her father. She has never met her father. 

Neither has her mother. He was an anonymous donor, and that’s exactly 

what she wants him to stay – a character in her own personal fairy tale. 

Until the day she meets the man of her dreams and falls in love. He looks 

like her, he thinks like her, he even has the same freckle in the same place 

on his left hand. It could be just a coincidence, but she needs to be sure 

before she can allow herself to be with him. It’s time for her to open the 

envelope her parents gave her on her eighteenth birthday. 

And Daniel’s children slowly find their way into each other’s lives… 

Lisa Jewell was born and raised in north London, where she lives with 

her husband and two daughters. Her first novel, Ralph’s Party, was the 

bestselling debut of 1999. She is also the author of Thirtynothing, One- 

Hit Wonder, Vince & Joy, A Friend of the Family, 31 Dream Street, The Truth 

About Melody Browne and, most recently, After the Party, all of which have 

been Sunday Times bestsellers. To find out more more about the author 

visit her website at www.lisa-jewell.co.uk.


Private London 


price: 18.99 


pages: 400 

ISBN: 9781846058318 

A hard-hitting thriller set in the London office of the world’s most 

exclusive detective agency 

Dan Carter is the head of the London office of Private, the world’s largest 

and most technologically advanced investigation agency. Jack Morgan, 

Private’s owner and CEO, put his faith in Carter, and has entrusted him 

with some of their most important assignments. 

None more important than Hannah Shapiro. The daughter of one of 

Private’s wealthiest and most valuable clients, Hannah and her mother were 

kidnapped when she was thirteen years old. Hannah survived; her mother 

didn’t. Hannah is now in London studying at one of the most 

prestigious universities in England, and it is Carter’s job to protect her. But 

the unthinkable happens as Hannah is kidnapped for the second time in 

her young life. 

Carter has all of Private’s extensive global resources at his disposal to use in 

the investigation of this kidnapping. But as time progresses and no word 

is received from the kidnappers, fears for Hannah’s safety mount. Recently 

there has been a string of unsolved murders involving young women. 

Carter is praying that Hannah is not another link in this particular chain. 













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KIERAN MULVANEY 

Ice Bear 


price: 18.99 


pages: 320 

ISBN: 9780091926106 

A fascinating, up-close look at virtually everything interesting, 

important, or culturally relevant about the birth, life, and death of the 

polar bear 

The polar bear is one of the most recognisable animals on the planet. Yet if 

global warming continues at its present pace, summer sea ice could 

disappear entirely from the Arctic Ocean by the year 2040. Polar bears 

could be extinct within a generation. 

Ice Bear is the definitive account of an iconic species: its life, its past, and 

its uncertain future. These beautiful bears are creatures of paradox: Arctic 

residents whose major problem is not staying warm, but keeping cool. 

Officially classed as marine mammals, they are the world’s largest land 

carnivores. They begin life in a snowdrift; at birth they weigh just twenty 

ounces. Fully grown, they become massive predators that can walk almost 

silently, ten feet in length and close to 2,000 pounds. Wandering thousands 

of miles over the course of a year, they are, above all, creatures of the ice. 

Without sea ice and the life it supports, polar bears cannot survive. 

Kieran Mulvaney is an expert on the Polar regions who has led three 

expeditions to the Arctic, as well as Project Thin Ice 2006: Save the Polar 

Bear - the successful first attempt to reach the North Pole in summer and 

draw attention to the impact of climate change on polar bears. This book 

blends natural and human history, myth and reality with scientific and 

personal observation, to tell the story of these remarkable animals, the 

region in which they dwell, and the rapid changes overtaking planet Earth. 

Kieran Mulvaney is the author of At the Ends of the Earth: A History of 

the Polar Regions and The Whaling Season: An Inside Account of the Struggle 

To Stop Commercial Whaling. He was born in the UK, in Weston-super- 

Mare, but now lives in Virginia in the US. He has travelled extensively 

in the Arctic and Antarctic, and has written for such outlets as New 

Scientist, BBC Wildlife, the Washington Post Magazine and the Guardian. 

He blogs regularly at the ‘Earth Pub’, Discovery Channel’s Global 

Science Blog, and is also a boxing correspondent for Reuters. 

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL 

Diaries Volume Two 


price: 25.00 


pages: 800 

ISBN: 9780091797317 

The second volume of Campbell’s riveting diaries, rejoining New 

Labour as they come into power 

Power and the People is the second of four volumes, and covers the first two 

years of New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at 

the polls in 1997. 

Volume Two details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they come to 

power and settle into running the country. It covers an astonishing array 

of events and personalities, progress and setbacks, crises and scandals, as 

Labour make the transition from opposition to office. 

Alastair Campbell was born in Keighley, Yorkshire, in 1957, the son of 

a vet. After graduating from Cambridge University with a degree in 

modern languages, his first chosen career was journalism, principally 

with the Mirror Group. When Tony Blair became leader of the Labour 

Party, he asked Campbell to be his press secretary. He worked for Blair 

– first in that capacity, then as official spokesman and director of 

communications and strategy – from 1994 to 2003, since when he has 

been mainly engaged in writing, public speaking, working for 

Leukaemia Research, where he is chairman of fundraising, and 

continuing to advise Blair, Gordon Brown and other leading Labour 

figures. His first novel, All In The Mind, and an accompanying awardwinning 

TV documentary, Cracking Up, led to him being voted Mind 

Champion of the Year. A second novel, Maya, was published in 2010, as 

was the first volume of his diaries, Prelude to Power. His interests 

include running, cycling, playing the bagpipes and following the 

varying fortunes of Burnley Football Club.

DONALD SPOTO 

Possessed 


price: 20.00 


pages: 352 

ISBN: 9780091931278 

The life of Joan Crawford, a luminous and unique Hollywood film star 

‘I’ve been protected by studio publicity men most of my life, so in some ways I’m 

a goddam image, not a person. I was a commodity, a piece of property … I felt 

an overwhelming obligation to my career, and so I was an actress first, a wife 

second. I worked almost constantly, and even when I wasn’t working, there was 

that image thing of looking like a star, conducting myself like a star. I just went 

ahead like a bulldozer. I was a very selfish woman.’ 

Joan Crawford was a complex, contradictory, driven human being, but not 

the alcoholic, sadistic monster depicted in the notorious book, Mommie 

Dearest, which appeared a year after her death. 

In some ways, Donald Spoto’s Possessed is the ultimate Hollywood book – 

about a young woman, poor, abandoned by her father, but determined at 

all costs to succeed. Born in Texas, Lucille Fay LeSueur escaped destitution 

by becoming a popular dancer and then managed to make the decisive 

leap that transformed her into a luminous, unique star of the screen. She 

became Joan Crawford. 

There were many important men in her life, not least Clark Gable, with 

whom she appeared in eight pictures and with whom she conducted a 

thirty-year affair. She was married four times, once to the debonair Douglas 

Fairbanks Jr, unaware that he had failed to discontinue his relationship with 

Marlene Dietrich. 

Dancer, dramatic actress, businesswoman, corporate executive with Pepsi- 

Cola, Joan Crawford during her lifetime (1906 – 1977) was rarely out 

of the news. With the use of only recently opened archives and personal 

papers, Donald Spoto probes behind the lurid headlines to bring us Joan 

Crawford, the private person as well as the movie legend. 

Donald Spoto was born near New York City in 1941 and received his 

PhD degree from Fordham University in 1970. He is the author of 22 

books, including bestselling biographies of Alfred Hitchcock, Tennessee 

Williams, Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Ingrid Bergman, Audrey 

Hepburn and Alan Bates. 

TARQUIN HALL 

The Case of the Man who Died Laughing 


price: 12.99 


pages: 320 

ISBN: 9780091925659 

The wonderful second outing for Delhi detective Vish Puri (‘the Indian 

Hercule Poirot’ Financial Times) and his team of skilled operatives 

Early one morning, on the lawns of a grand boulevard in central Delhi, a 

group of professionals are attending their therapeutic Laughing Club when 

a 20-foot apparition of the Goddess Kali apppears, and strikes one of their 

number dead. 

The goddess disappears without trace, and soon news of the crime has all 

of India agog. For the victim is celebrated sceptic and rationalist Dr Suresh 

Jha, enemy of all gurus and mystics, and he has been silenced in a manner 

calculated to unnerve even his most loyal supporters. 

As the media go into a frenzy, it becomes clear that the case goes to the 

heart of the battle between superstition and rationality in modern India. 

But the fact remains that a murder has been committed. And as it becomes 

clear that powerful forces are at play, one man is perfectly placed to 

investigate: the portly detective Vish Puri. 

In fact, the idea that he could resist getting involved in such a tantalizing 

murder is preposterous. There is as much chance of him going without his 

lunch. 

Tarquin Hall is a writer and journalist who has lived and worked in 

much of South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the US. He is the 

author of Mercenaries, Missionaries and Misfits: Adventures of an Under-age 

Journalist; To the Elephant Graveyard; and Salaam Brick Lane: A Year in the 

New East End. He is married to the journalist Anu Anand and lives in 

Delhi. 

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DOUGLAS KENNEDY 

The Moment 


price: 9.99 


pages: 400 

ISBN: 9780091795849 

From the New York Times bestselling author of Leaving the World comes a 

tragic love story set in Cold War Berlin 

Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer in the midst of a rueful 

middle age. Living a very private life in Maine - in touch only with his 

daughter and still trying to reconcile himself to the end of a long marriage 

that he knew was flawed from the outset - he finds his solitude disrupted 

by the arrival, one wintry morning, of a box postmarked Berlin. The name 

accompanying the return address on the box - Dussmann - unsettles him 

completely. For it is the name of the woman with whom he had an intense 

love affair twenty-six years ago in Berlin - at a time when the city was 

cleaved in two, and personal and political allegiances were haunted by the 

deep shadows of the Cold War. 

Refusing initially to confront what he might find in that box, Thomas 

nevertheless finds himself forced to grapple with a past he has never 

discussed with any living person - and in the process relive those months 

in Berlin, when he discovered, for the first and only time in his life, the 

full, extraordinary force of true love. But Petra Dussmann - the woman to 

whom he lost his heart - was not just a refugee from a police state, but also 

someone who lived with an ongoing sorrow beyond dreams and one which 

gradually rewrote both their destinies. 

In this, his tenth novel, Douglas Kennedy has written that rare thing: a 

love story as morally complex as it is tragic and deeply reflective. Brilliantly 

gripping, it is an atmospherically dense, ethically tangled tale of romantic 

certainty and conflicting loyalties, all set amidst a stunningly rendered 

portrait of Berlin in the final dark years before the Wall came down. 

Like all of Kennedy’s previous, critically acclaimed bestselling novels, The 

Moment is both unputdownable and profound. Posing so many 

searching questions about why and how we fall in love - and the tangled 

way we project onto others that which our hearts seek - it is a love story of 

great epic sweep and immense emotional power. 

Douglas Kennedy’s previous novels include the critically acclaimed 

bestsellers The Big Picture, The Pursuit of Happiness, A Special 

Relationship and The Woman in the Fifth. He is also the author of three 

highly praised travel books. His work has been translated into twentytwo 

languages. In 2006 he was awarded the French decoration of 

Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Born in Manhattan in 

1955, he has two children and currently divides his time between 

London, Paris, Berlin and Maine. 

ANDREW ROSENHEIM 

Fear Itself 


price: 14.99 


pages: 384 

ISBN: 9780091796068 

A compelling, finely-crafted, intelligent thriller set in the Second World 

War 

It’s the late 1930s in an America slowly pulling itself out of the Depression. 

War is threatening in Europe, but in America, with forty million citizens of 

German ancestry, there is great pressure to stay out of the fight. 

Jimmy Nessheim, a young Special Agent in the fledgling FBI, is assigned 

to infiltrate a new German–American organisation known as the Bund. 

Ardently pro-Nazi, it is conspiring to sabotage President Roosevelt’s efforts 

to stop Hitler’s advance. But as Nessheim’s investigation takes him into the 

very heart of the Bund, it becomes increasingly clear that something far 

more sinister is at work, something that seems to lead directly to the White 

House. Drawn into the centre of Washington’s high society, Nessheim finds 

himself caught up in a web of political intrigue and secret lives. But as he 

moves closer to the truth, an even more lethal plot emerges, one that could 

rewrite history in the most catastrophic of ways. 

Set in the tense years before the Second World War, Fear Itself offers a rich 

depiction of history as it was – and as it might have been. A compelling 

thriller, it tells the riveting story of a plot that had the potential to change 

the world. 

Andrew Rosenheim came to England from America as a Rhodes Scholar 

in 1977 and has lived near Oxford ever since. He is the author of five 

novels, including Stillriver, Keeping Secrets and Without Prejudice. He is 

married and has twin daughters.

JANELLE BROWN 

This is Where We Live 


price: 14.99 


pages: 416 

ISBN: 9780091920685 

An unforgettable and powerful novel that will appeal to the massive 

Douglas Kennedy fan-base 

How do you recover when life’s labours are lost? 

On the outskirts of the LA hustle and bustle, aspiring film-maker Claudia 

and musician Jeremy have managed to carve out a corner of paradise. After 

years of living on a shoestring they have at last found their perfect home. 

And with Claudia’s first film completed and Jeremy on the brink of a record 

deal things are finally falling into place the way they’d always planned. 

But what they don’t know is that the world is teetering on the verge of a 

catastrophic recession. 

Within months their bohemian bubble has burst. With the bank 

foreclosing and her film a flop, Claudia has no choice; she must bite the 

bullet and take a mundane job as a teacher. Jeremy, blind to the realities of 

their precarious financial situation, is appalled by what he sees as her 

materialistic and defeatist attitude, and starts to rebel against Claudia’s 

desperate attempts to save everything they’ve built together. With their 

relationship strained nearly to breaking point, both Jeremy and Claudia are 

forced to make profound choices about what really matters to them. And 

how far each will go for what they love the most … 

Poignant and emotionally fraught, this is a novel for our times by one of 

the most exciting new voices of her generation. 

Janelle Brown is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist. Having 

spent four years as a senior writer at Salon, she currently writes for the 

New York Times and Vogue, amongst others. Her first novel, All We Ever 

Wanted Was Everything was published in 2007. 

MATTHEW PARKER 

The Sugar Barons 


price: 25.00 


pages: 464 

ISBN: 9780091925833 

Family, corruption, Empire and war in the West Indies 

The beautiful West Indies are sold to us as unspoilt paradise islands. 

Nothing could be further from the truth. There can be few places in the 

world with a more turbulent, dramatic and shocking history. 

Most of the Caribbean islands seem tiny specks in the sea, but their size 

belies their enormous historical importance. In the eighteenth century 

they were the most valuable and fiercely-defended colonies in the British 

Empire. The wealth that flowed from them to England put the capital into 

capitalism and underwrote the Industrial Revolution. 

The Sugar Barons focuses on key moments in the story of the first British 

Empire’s rise and fall: the sugar revolution in Barbados which made the 

English a nation of voracious consumers and transformed the island from a 

backward outpost into the richest English colony in the world, powered by 

tens of thousands of enslaved Africans; the change to state-driven 

imperialism with Cromwell’s disastrous ‘Western Design’ and the bitter 

wars against the French; the zenith of Jamaican opulence, and the island’s 

subsequent calamitous decline; and the growing revulsion against slavery 

that led to Emancipation. 

At the heart of the book, however, are the human stories of a small number 

of the families whose fortunes rose and fell with those of this strange and 

cruel empire: the family of James Drax, the first sugar baron who 

introduced sugar cultivation to Barbados as well as extensive slavery; 

the Codringtons, the most powerful family in the Leeward Islands, who 

struggled to fashion a workable society in the Caribbean but in the end 

succumbed to corruption and decadence; and the Beckfords, Jamaica’s 

leading planters who amassed the greatest sugar fortune of all, only to see it 

frittered away through the most extraordinary profligacy. 

The Sugar Barons ends with examining the legacy of the sugar empire, in the 

islands and in Britain, where it still constitutes perhaps the darkest episode 

in the country’s history. 

Born in Central America, Matthew Parker spent part of his childhood 

in the West Indies, acquiring a lifelong fascination with the history of 

the region. Since graduating from Oxford, he has worked as an editorial 

consultant on a number of works of history, and written three 

bestselling books. He now lives with his family in east London. 

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BARBARA SINATRA 

Lady Blue Eyes 


price: 18.99 


pages: 368 

ISBN: 9780091937249 

Barbara Sinatra tells how a gangly kid in pigtails from Bosworth, 

Missouri became the fourth Mrs Frank Sinatra – a marriage that lasted 

more than twenty years 

Thirty years after she first heard his voice singing to her from a jukebox at 

her local drive-in, Barbara began her love affair with Frank Sinatra. After 

a tempestuous courtship, she finally heard him say the wedding vows that 

began his fourth, final, and most enduring marriage; one that would last 

more than two decades until the end of his life. Generous and jealous, witty 

and wicked, Frank comes alive in this poignant inside story of the highs 

and lows of marriage to one of the world’s most famous men. In this, her 

first public love letter to the husband she adored, his wife celebrates the 

sensational singer, sexy heart-throb, possessive mate, and loyal friend that 

was Frank Sinatra. 

This book will let his legions of fans see another side of ‘Ol’ Blue Eyes’. 

Though Frank Sinatra’s children have written memoirs about their father, 

this is the first time his wife of twenty-two years is sharing intimate details 

of life with the man and the legend. 

Barbara Ann Sinatra was Frank Sinatra’s wife and steadfast companion 

for more than twenty years. Born Barbara Blakeley, she was a former 

model, Vegas showgirl and wife of Zeppo Marx before meeting and 

marrying Francis Albert Sinatra in July 1976. Barbara is now in her 

eighties and lives in California. 

HUGO VICKERS 

Behind Closed Doors 


price: 25.00 


pages: 256 

ISBN: 9780091931551 

The tragic, untold story of the Duchess of Windsor 

Writing about Hugo Vickers’ last book for Hutchinson, Elizabeth, The 

Queen Mother, a succession of fellow biographers applauded Vickers’ unique 

skill. ‘Masterly...Hugo Vickers’ long immersion in the history and dramatic 

personae of the Royal Family has certainly paid off’ – Selina Hastings. ‘A 

bulging plum pudding of insider snippets’, commented Robert Lacey. ‘An 

overall portrait which may well be as close as anyone will ever get to the 

truth’, said Craig Brown. And A.N. Wilson added admiringly, ‘There is a 

small handful of British royal biographies which have acquired classic status 

. . . It is a truly magnificent book. Hugo Vickers knows his subject through 

and through.’ 

Hugo Vickers has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Royal Family, and has 

had a fascination with the story of the Duchess of Windsor since he was a 

young man. There have been a number of books about this doomed couple 

(and Channel 4 is very interested in doing a programme based on Hugo’s 

text), but this book brings a new perspective on the story by focussing on 

the later years of exile. 

While Vickers has his own theories about the Abdication itself, and he 

makes it very clear that Mrs Simpson did not lure the King from the 

throne, the drama of this narrative comes from the criminal exploitation 

of an old sick woman after the death of her husband. She was ruthlessly 

exploited by a French lawyer called Suzanne Blum. Some members of the 

Royal Family, like Mountbatten and the Queen Mother, don’t emerge with 

much credit either. 

Using previously unpublished papers and other personal testaments, Hugo 

Vickers relates a tragic story which has lost none of its resonance over the 

years since the Duchess died in 1986. 

Hugo Vickers was born in 1951 and educated at Eton and Strasbourg 

University. His books include Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece; Gladys, 

Duchess of Marlborough; Cecil Beaton; Vivien Leigh; Loving Garbo; Royal 

Orders; The Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor; and The Kiss, 

which won the 1996 Stern Silver Pen for non-fiction. He is an 

acknowledged expert on the Royal Family, appears regularly on 

television and has lectured all over the world. Hugo Vickers is married 

and has two sons and a daughter.

MAVIS CHEEK 

The Lovers of Pound Hill 


price: 12.99 


pages: 288 

ISBN: 9780091931667 

A colourful countryside romp from bestselling author, Mavis Cheek 

When city girl Molly Bonner arrives in the small village of Lufferton Boney, 

she creates quite a stir. With her non-country-style boots, skirt, hair and 

car, she sends waves of intrigue rippling amongst the residents of the village, 

from antiques dealer Dryden Fellows to Montmorency the cat. Nobody 

knows why she has come here or what her visit will accomplish, but one 

thing is certain: her presence in the village will alter the past, present and 

future of the place and the people for good. 

Molly is an archaeologist who has come to discover the truth behind 

Lufferton Boney’s greatest and most famous resident, the giant (and slightly 

obscene) Gnome, a fertility symbol etched into the face of Pound Hill. 

She is hoping to uncover the truth behind the village’s past and settle her 

own personal demons with the Gnome, but in the process of doing this 

she shakes up the lives and loves of the colourful characters he looks down 

upon. 

Mavis Cheek was born and grew up in Wimbledon. She began her 

working life at Editions Alecto, the contemporary art publishers. She 

then attended Hillcroft College for Women from where she graduated 

in Arts. After her daughter Bella was born, she began her writing career 

in earnest; journalism and travel writing at first, then short stories, 

and eventually, in 1988, her novel Pause Between Acts was published by 

Bodley Head and won the She/John Menzies First Novel Prize. She is 

the author of thirteen novels including Mrs Fytton’s Country Life, 

Janice Gentle Gets Sexy and, most recently, Amenable Women, which was 

described in The Times as ‘a brilliantly funny, warm, intelligent read’. 

She now lives and writes in the heart of the English countryside. 

SILVENA ROWE 

Orient Express 


price: 20.00 

size: Other 

pages: 272 

ISBN: 9780091930950 

Orient Express is the follow-up to Silvena Rowe’s hugely successful and 

critically esteemed Purple Citrus and Sweet Perfume, sales to date in excess 

of 10,000 

Orient Express is for busy cooks who want a touch of the light, beautiful 

cuisine of the eastern Mediterranean that Silvena Rowe is making her own. 

Silvena’s USP is fabulous Ottoman Empire recipes with brilliant modern 

twists - and Orient Express provides 100 new recipes in this follow-up, 

which is a slightly more practical cookery book with recipes that are quicker 

to cook. 

In a simple, recipe-per-page format, it will have the same high production 

values and use many of the same fantastic combinations of sweet and sour 

– honey and cinnamon, saffron and sumac - that make her cuisine perfect 

for healthy living, celebrating and sharing. 

Silvena Rowe has used her Turkish and Bulgarian heritage passed down 

through her family’s love of food and cooking, to forge a career in some 

of London’s most competitive restaurants. 

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RACHEL HEATH 

Part of the Spell 


price: 14.99 


pages: 320 

ISBN: 9780091925888 

The second novel from Costa-shortlisted Rachel Heath, a subtle, 

character-driven suspense tale set in contemporary England 

Autumn 2007. A woman disappears from the small provincial market town 

where she has lived a quiet respectable community life, raising her family, 

for years. She leaves behind few clues as to why she might have vanished, 

or where to. Her absence sends out ripples that begin to connect its diffuse 

citizens; her daughter, a young dangerously dreamy mother of two, a 

museum archivist and her ‘complicated’ partner, a secret, furious blogger 

whose supposedly secret posts are attracting global interest, and a bemused 

City risk analyst, each with problems, conflicting desires, joys and 

confusions of their own. The disappearance begins to implicate and involve 

them all. 

This is a novel about what it means to say you want ‘the quiet life’ in the 

modern world, about the contracts we enter - love, marriages, houses and 

work, about community, nostalgia and neighbourliness. 

Rachel Heath was born in Bristol in 1968. She lives with her husband, a 

screenwriter, and their three children and one dog in Bath. 

ALASTAIR CAMPELL 

Diaries Volume Three 


price: 25.00 


pages: 800 

ISBN: 9780091797362 

The third volume of Campbell’s compelling diaries, covering 1999 to 

2001 

Life continues apace for Campbell and the New Labour government. 

Alongside the day-to-day running of the country, they deal with the fallout 

from the military action in Kosovo, continuing negotiations over Northern 

Ireland, and the increasing pressures which come from 24-hour media 

scrutiny. All this, and they wish to be elected for a second term. 

Alastair Campbell was born in Keighley, Yorkshire, in 1957, the son of 

a vet. After graduating from Cambridge University with a degree in 

modern languages, his first chosen career was journalism, principally 

with the Mirror Group. When Tony Blair became leader of the Labour 

Party, he asked Campbell to be his press secretary. He worked for Blair 

– first in that capacity, then as official spokesman and director of 

communications and strategy – from 1994 to 2003, since when he has 

been mainly engaged in writing, public speaking, working for 

Leukaemia Research, where he is chairman of fundraising, and 

continuing to advise Blair, Gordon Brown and other leading Labour 

figures. His first novel, All In The Mind, and an accompanying 

award-winning TV documentary, Cracking Up, led to him being voted 

Mind Champion of the Year. A second novel, Maya, was published in 

2010, as was the first volume of his diaries, with the second volume 

following in early 2011. His interests include running, cycling, playing 

the bagpipes and following the varying fortunes of Burnley Football 

Club.

CRAIG RUSSELL 

A Fear of Dark Water 


price: 18.99 


pages: 336 

ISBN: 9780091921460 

Jan Fabel returns to the Hamburg murder squad to track down a 

horrifying killer 

Just as a major environmental summit is about to start in Hamburg, a 

massive storm hits the city. When the flood waters recede, a headless torso 

is found washed up. 

Initially, Jan Fabel of the Murder Commission fears it may be another 

victim of a serial rapist and murderer who stalks his victims through internet 

social network sites, then dumps their bodies in waterways around the 

city. 

But the truth of the situation is far more complex and even more sinister. 

Fabel’s investigations lead him to a secretive environmental Doomsday cult 

called ‘Pharos’, the brainchild of a reclusive, crippled billionaire, Dominik 

Korn. 

Fabel’s skills as a policeman are tested to their utmost as he finds himself 

drawn into an unfamiliar, high-tech world of cyberspace, where anyone can 

be anybody or anything they want. And he quickly realises that he is no 

longer the hunter, but the hunted. 

Craig Russell was born in 1956, in Fife, Scotland. He served as a police 

officer and worked in the advertising industry as a copywriter and 

creative director. In 2007, his second novel, Brother Grimm, was 

shortlisted for the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger and in the same year 

he was presented with a Polizeistern (Police Star) award by the Polizei 

Hamburg for raising public awareness of the work of the Hamburg 

police. In 2008 he won the CWA Dagger in the Library. For more 

information about Craig Russell and his books, please visit www. 

craigrussell.com. 

CAITLIN DAVIES 

The Ghost of Lily Painter 


price: 12.99 


pages: 352 

ISBN: 9780091937034 

A spellbinding novel which combines rich writing with a sinister period 

in London’s history 

It is rare to find a place that feels so instantly like home, but when Annie 

Sweet goes to a viewing of number 43 Stanley Street it is almost as if the 

house chooses her, speaking to her through the walls. She moves with her 

family into this dream address, yet all is not what it seems. 

Instead of bringing her family together the house seems to drive them 

apart. Her husband spends more and more time at work, while her young 

daughter becomes obsessed with acting, taking up numerous school 

auditions and leaving Annie alone in Stanley Street. 

She is soon consumed by the house and all those that have lived there 

before, especially the young and talented Lily Painter. As Lily, a heralded 

chorus girl, disappears from the papers and annals of the time Annie 

becomes engrossed in a famous Victorian crime, a case of baby-buying and 

infanticide. Mesmerised by the horrors uncovered she delves deeper and 

deeper into the history of her predecessors, discovering a dark and 

disturbing episode in London’s vibrant past. 

The Ghost of Lily Painter is a wonderfully poignant novel, one which spans 

the century and brings to life a shadowy truth from our past. With a fleet of 

extraordinary characters, and a beautiful insight into the way we lived then, 

this novel explores the extraordinary power of loss and redemption. 

Caitlin Davies lives in north London with her daughter, Ruby. She 

is a freelance journalist, regularly writing education features for the 

Independent. 

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RANDOM HOUSE BOOKS 

ELIZABETH BROWN 

Perfect Slow Cooking 

All you need to get it right first time 


price: 6.99 

size: B format 

pages: 160 

ISBN: 9781847946058 

- Would you like to get the most out of your slow cooker? 

- Do you want to create healthy home-cooked meals with the minimum of 

effort? 

- Do you want to save money and time without compromising on taste? 

Perfect Slow Cooking is an indispensable guide to this healthy and 

economical way of preparing meals. Covering everything from how to 

choose the right appliance to advice on the most affordable cuts of meat, 

it walks you through every aspect of the slow-cooking method and offers 

tried-and-tested tips that will help ensure all your meals taste fantastic. 

With a selection of mouth-watering recipes for soups, curries, roasts and 

desserts, alternative options for those occasions when you don’t have all the 

ingredients, and useful advice on finding the time to cook during a busy 

day, Perfect Slow Cooking has all you need to prepare delicious, healthy 

home-cooked meals on a budget. 

The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and 

straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing 

your baby’s name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested 

tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time. 

SMITA TALATI 

Perfect Money Saving 

All you need to know 


price: 5.99 


pages: 224 

ISBN: 9781847945969 

- Do you find you’re always strapped for cash at the end of the month? 

- Are you worried about paying your credit card bills? 

- Would you like some practical advice on how to make your money go 

further? 

Perfect Money Saving is the essential guide for anyone who wants to take 

control of their finances. Covering everything from home-made presents to 

cheaper mortgages, it gives step-by-step guidance on how to cut your costs 

without giving up the things you enjoy. With sections on debt 

management and your financial portfolio, as well as a month-by-month 

breakdown showing where and when to grab the best bargains, Perfect 

Money Saving has all you need to make the most of every penny. 

The Perfect series is a range of practical guides that give clear and 

straightforward advice on everything from getting your first job to choosing 

your baby’s name. Written by experienced authors offering tried-and-tested 

tips, each book contains all you need to get it right first time. 

Smita Talati is a freelance financial journalist. She wrote the popular 

‘Money Makeover’ column for the Sunday Times for five years and 

regularly contributes to the money pages of other newspapers and 

magazines, including the Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, Mail on 

Sunday and Cosmopolitan. Her two previous books are How to be a 

Financial Goddess and How to be a Property Goddess.

JONATHON GREEN 

Talking Crooked 


price: 12.99 


pages: 320 

ISBN: 9781847946287 

Britain’s expert on slang looks at the language of crime 

The language of crime has a long and venerable history – in fact, the first 

dictionary of words specifically used by criminals, Hye-Way to the 

Spittel House, dates from as early as 1531. Jonathon Green is our national 

expert on slang, and in Talking Crooked he looks at five hundred years of 

crooks and conmen, from the ‘upright men’ and ‘counterfeit cranks’ of the 

sixteenth century to the ‘blaggers’ and ‘blingers’ of the twenty-first. Not to 

mention a substantial detour behind bars into the world of prisons and, of 

course, the swag, the hideouts, the getaway vehicles and allied ‘tools of the 

trade’ – not forgetting the cops, the peelers, the fly cops and all the other 

varieties of the boys in blue. 

Arranged thematically, the book shows where particular words came from, 

how they have evolved and why they mean what they do. If you’ve ever 

wondered when the police were first referred to as ‘pigs’ (eighteenth 

century), why trouble-makers became known as ‘yobs’ (‘boy’ backwards), 

or what precisely the subtle art of ‘dipology’ involves (pickpocketing), then 

this book has all the answers. 

Jonathon Green is a writer and broadcaster and the nation’s expert on 

slang. His Dictionary of Slang first appeared in 1998 to huge critical 

acclaim, and his definitive three-volume work was published in autumn 

2010. He has also chronicled the world of the 1960s in two oral 

histories: Days in the Life and All Dressed Up. He lives in London and 

Paris. 

PAUL TALLING 

London’s Lost Rivers 


price: 9.99 

size: 155 x 136mm 

pages: 224 

ISBN: 9781847945976 

A beautifully illustrated guide to London’s secret rivers 

From the sources of the River Fleet in Hampstead’s ponds to the mouth of 

the Effra by Vauxhall Bridge, via the meander of the Westbourne through 

‘Knight’s Bridge’ and the Tyburn’s gentle curve along Marylebone Lane, 

London’s Lost Rivers unearths the hidden waterways that flow beneath the 

streets of the capital. 

Paul Talling investigates how the rivers shaped the city – forming borough 

boundaries, providing paths for railways to follow and being converted into 

canals to assist the capital’s industrial growth, or turned into underground 

sewers to make way for smart residential estates. 

He points out traces that are still visible today, such as steps descending 

an old riverbank in Bayswater, or a river-filled pipe passing above Sloane 

Square underground station. 

And he explains the watery history of some more familiar London sights – 

the impressive Holborn Viaduct, for example, constructed to span the Fleet 

Valley; and the Serpentine lake, formed when Queen Caroline wanted to 

dam the Westbourne where it flowed through Hyde Park. 

Explore another London under our feet. 

After witnessing the demolition of an abandoned candle factory in 

Wandsworth in 2003, Paul Talling was inspired to explore the world 

of derelict local landmarks and set up the website www.derelictlondon. 

com, which has received hundreds of thousands of visitors and won a 

Yahoo! Finds of the Year award. Originally a music promoter in north 

London, he now lives south of the river. 

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ANDREW WEBB 

Food Britannia 

A gastronomic portrait of the nation 


price: 25.00 


pages: 544 

ISBN: 9781847946232 

British food has not traditionally been regarded as one of the world’s great 

cuisines, and yet Stilton cheese, Scottish raspberries, Goosnargh duck and 

Welsh lamb are internationally renowned and celebrated. And then there 

are all those dishes and recipes that inspire passionate loyalty among the 

initiated: Whitby lemon buns and banoffi pie, for example; pan haggerty 

and Henderson’s relish. All are as integral a part of the country’s landscape 

as green fields, rolling hills and rocky coastline. 

In Food Britannia, Andrew Webb travels the country to bring together a 

treasury of regional dishes, traditional recipes, outstanding ingredients and 

heroic local producers. He investigates the history of saffron farming in the 

UK, tastes the first whisky to be produced in Wales for one hundred years, 

and tracks down the New Forest’s foremost expert on wild mushrooms. 

And along the way, he uncovers some historical surprises about our national 

cuisine. Did you know, for example, that the method for making clotted 

cream, that stalwart of the cream tea, was probably introduced from the 

Middle East? Or that our very own fish and chips may have started life as 

a Jewish-Portuguese dish? Or that Alfred Bird invented his famous custard 

powder because his wife couldn’t eat eggs? 

The result is a rich and kaleidoscopic survey of a remarkably vibrant food 

scene, steeped in history but full of fresh ideas for the future: proof, if proof 

were needed, that British food has come of age. 

Andrew Webb is a food journalist and photographer who has worked 

for Channel 4 and the BBC. He has also written for Waitrose Kitchen and 

Delicious magazine. He lives in London.

RAM CHARAN AND BILL CONATY 

The Talent Masters 


price: 15.99 


pages: 336 

ISBN: 9781847940728 

The how-to guide to developing talented leaders in your business 

The Talent Masters itself stems from a unique marriage of talents. Bill Conaty, 

in the course of a forty year career at General Electric, worked closely 

with CEOs Jack Welch and Jeff Immelt to build the company’s 

internationally renowned talent machine. Ram Charan is the legendary 

advisor to companies around the world. Here they combine their 

unparalleled experience and insight to create a blueprint for talent 

development, and to show how critical it is to the continuing and future 

success of every business. 

The essential skill that lasts. Why talent management guarantees future 

results in a way that short-term financial success and market share cannot. 

Secrets of the masters. How world-class companies achieve their stellar 

performance decade after decade by finding and nurturing leadership 

talent. 

The importance of knowledge. Why knowing and understanding your 

talent and reviewing it systematically is the foundation for creating a steady, 

self-renewing stream of leaders for all levels of your organisation – from 

first-line supervisors to the CEO. 

The Talent Masters tool kit. Specific guidelines that will help you assess and 

improve your company’s talent mastery capabilities. 

Bill Conaty, long recognized as a world leader in his field, recently 

retired as senior vice president for human resources at General Electric, 

the company consistently ranked as without peer in developing worldclass 

leaders. The management development and training programmes 

that Conaty engineered provided GE with one of the world’s most 

talent-rich management benches. Conaty has served as chairman of the 

National Academy of Human Resources and was named as a 

Distinguished Fellow, the organisation’s highest honour. He currently 

serves as a personal advisor to the CEOs of companies around the 

world, including P&G, Boeing, Dell, Goodyear, LG Electronics 

(Korea), and UniCredit Bank (Italy). 

Ram Charan is a highly sought after business advisor and speaker, 

famous among senior executives for his uncanny ability to solve their 

toughest business problems. For more than thirty years, Dr Charan has 

worked behind the scenes with top executives at some of the world’s 

most successful companies, providing advice that is down-to-earth and 

relevant and that takes into account the real-world complexities of 

business. Dr Charan is also the co-author of Execution, The Game- 

Changer, and Confronting Reality, and the author of What the CEO Wants 

You to Know, Know-How, and Leadership in the Era of Economic 

Uncertainty. 

CONOR WOODMAN 

Unfair Trade 


price: 11.99 


pages: 288 

ISBN: 9781847940698 

How big business and politics manipulate fair trade 

Everybody would agree that fair trade is a good thing. Farmers and 

suppliers in the developing world should be rewarded for their hard work. 

Profits should be equitably shared. 

If only it were that simple. 

RANDOM HOUSE BUSINESS 

Conor Woodman’s explosive new book shows how fair trade has become 

big business in itself. And, in the process, many of the principles of fair 

trade have become distorted. Companies sign up to fair trade schemes that 

yield few practical benefits in order to gain competitive advantage. Money 

that could go to suppliers gets wasted on bureaucracy. Schemes that would 

genuinely help get ditched in favour of ones that just look good on paper. 

To explore the practical effects of all this, Conor Woodman travels the 

world to witness things at first hand. He visits lobster fishermen in 

Nicaragua who are dying in their hundreds to keep the restaurant tables 

of the US well stocked. He visits farmers in the Congo who are failing to 

benefit from supposedly ethical trading initiatives. And he ventures into 

war-torn Afghanistan to show what extremes paying lip service to fair trade 

can lead to. 

Conor Woodman is a former City analyst. In 2009, Channel 4 

broadcast his four-part series, Around the World in 80 Trades, in which 

he sold his property and used £25,000 of the proceeds to kick-start his 

journey through thirteen countries. 

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WILLIAM HEINEMANN 

RUSS LITTEN 

Scream if You Want to Go Faster 


price: 11.99 


pages: 320 

ISBN: 9780434020706 

A bittersweet and abrasive white-knuckle ride of a novel following the 

intersecting lives of ten characters over a flood-soaked carnival weekend 

in Kingston-upon-Hull 

Hull Fair, October 2007. A city still drowning in the aftermath of summer 

floodwater prepares to wave farewell to Europe’s biggest travelling carnival. 

For six-year-old Billie, Walton Street is a magical playground of wide-eyed 

adventure. For David and Denise, the fading lights of the Fair signal the 

birth of a brand new kind of freedom. Rose, a sixty-year-old widow seeking 

a kindred spirit online, is dealt a hand she hadn’t bargained for, while for 

Michelle and Darren it’s the beginning of a haunted love affair that’s 

struggling to escape its own past. 

As the big wheel turns above them, and the sky comes alive with noise and 

colour, ten ordinary lives are brought together over a single weekend in the 

rain-soaked city below. Perfectly capturing the frenetic pace, heartbreaking 

poignancy and simmering aggression of modern urban life, Scream if You 

Want to Go Faster is a dark, funny, and abrasive novel from a stunning new 

voice in British fiction. 

‘A powerful debut: ambitious and mesmerising. Paints a kaleidoscopic - and 

heartbreakingly funny - portrait of where we are today.’ John Niven, author 

of Kill Your Friends 

‘Scream if You Want to Go Faster is a gem. Terse, truthful, and teeming with 

good old Yorkshire lyricism - Russ Litten effortlessly spins together the 

disparate lives of his characters, like the sharpest, bittersweet candy floss.’ 

Richard Milward, author of Apples and Ten Storey Love Song 

Russ Litten was born at the end of the sixties, grew up in the 

seventies and left school in the eighties. He spent the subsequent decade 

in a bewildering variety of jobs before becoming a freelance writer at 

the turn of the century. He has written drama for television, radio and 

film, and Scream if You Want to Go Faster is his first novel. He lives with 

his family in Kingston-upon-Hull. 

EDUARDO PORTER 

The Price of Everything 


price: 11.99 


pages: 304 

ISBN: 9780434019786 

An ingeniously thoughtful and provocative look at how people overlook 

and misunderstand the role prices play in their lives 

The Price of Everything starts with a simple premise: there is a price behind 

each choice we make —individual or collective. Whether we’re deciding to 

buy a cheeseburger, go to church, or enact health care reform, everything 

has its price. Eduardo Porter sets out to uncover the hidden logic of price 

and value that drives all our actions. 

The connections he uncovers are anything but simple—they are 

unexpected, sometimes shocking, always interesting, and ultimately highly 

enlightening. Porter’s inquiry takes him in some rather counterintuitive 

directions, such as: 

* Assigning a price tag to women and tracking how their rise in value relates 

to economic growth and development 

* Comparing the cost-per-vote in corrupt São Tomé to the supposedly lesscorrupt 

(and less efficient) campaign spending of U.S. politicians 

* Explaining why McDonald’s burger menu pricing encourages irrational 

behaviour 

The Price of Everything shows readers how prices, both explicit and 

unspoken, move people and societies. Porter’s wide-eyed approach brings 

new life to his subject, and his broad perspective leads him to draw 

unexpected connections bridging disparate disciplines and cultures. In this 

fascinating and elegant narrative, Porter proves just how important prices 

are, both to our individual lives and the general course of civilisation. 

Eduardo Porter writes about business and economics as a member of 

the New York Times’ editorial board. He has also worked as a journalist 

in Mexico City, Tokyo, London, Sao Paolo, and Los Angeles. He was 

editor of the Brazilian Edition of América Economía and covered the 

Hispanic population in the United States for the Wall Street Journal. He 

lives in New York.

V. S. RAMACHANDRAN 

The Tell-Tale Brain 


price: 20.00 


pages: 368 

ISBN: 9780434020232 

A groundbreaking, unique and unforgettable book about what we learn 

about human nature when the brain goes wrong, by one of the world’s 

leading neuroscientists 

V.S. Ramachandran has exploded the boundaries of modern science - so 

much so that he has been praised by Richard Dawkins as a latter-day Marco 

Polo. 

A specialist in brain damage, he is famous for an instinctive, intuitive 

approach to neurological disorders that has led him to successfully 

‘amputate’ phantom limbs, as well as solving the riddles of 

apotemnophilia (an obsession with self-amputation), and Capgrass 

syndrome (where patients who are in all other respects fully recovered 

become convinced that their loved ones are imposters). 

This new book will explore why the human brain is so unique and how it 

became so enchantingly complex. Taking us to the frontiers of neurology, 

he reveals what baffling and extreme case studies can tell us about human 

nature. Along the way we hear stories that are by turns moving, funny, 

tragic and disturbing, but always utterly fascinating. 

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran is Director of the Centre for the Brain at 

the University of California, San Diego. He has a PhD from Cambridge 

and many honours and awards including a fellowship from All Souls 

College, Oxford. He lectures widely on art, visual perception and the 

brain, gave the 2003 BBC Reith Lectures, and is the author of the 

critically acclaimed Phantoms in the Brain, which was the basis for a twopart 

series on Channel 4 TV. He has been compared to Galileo, Marco 

Polo, Paul Broca and Sherlock Holmes, and Newsweek recently named 

him one of the ‘hundred most prominent people to watch in the next 

century’. 

ANDREA WULF 

The Founding Gardeners 


price: 20.00 


pages: 384 

ISBN: 9780434019106 

A charming group biography of the Founding Fathers, exploring how 

their passion for gardening influenced the birth of the American nation 

A follow-up to the award-winning Andrea Wulf’s critically acclaimed 

history of how gardening became an English tradition, this is the story of 

how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James 

Madison’s passion for nature, plants, agriculture and gardens shaped the 

birth of America. 

We see the impetuous John Adams diving into a pile of manure in London’s 

Edgware Road, emerging only to declare, with delight, that it is inferior 

to his own; Thomas Jefferson, the visionary polymath, using not arms and 

ships but botanical weapons to prove the strength and vibrancy of the new 

nation; the victorious George Washington returning home and liberating 

his garden from the rigid corset of geometry just as he had freed his nation 

from the shackles of tyranny; and the diminutive but iron-willed Madison 

as the forgotten father of America’s environmentalism. 

Through a series of vignettes spanning the Declaration of Independence to 

the death of Adams and Jefferson exactly fifty years to the day afterwards 

- stories that weave the political, the personal and the botanical and are in 

turns funny, fascinating and moving - The Founding Gardeners shows that it 

is impossible to understand these visionary men and the American nation 

without considering their love of gardening. 

Andrea Wulf trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art 

and is the co-author (with Emma Gieben-Gamal) of This Other Eden 

and The Brother Gardeners, which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson 

Award. She has written for the Sunday Times, the Financial Times, The 

Garden, The Architects’ Journal, and regularly reviews for several 

newspapers, including the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement. 

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JASMIN DARZNIK 

The Good Daughter 


price: 12.99 


pages: 336 

ISBN: 9780434019083 

A poignant and beautifully written memoir of three generations of 

women, beginning in Iran nearly a century ago 

One day shortly after her father’s death, when Jasmin Darznik is helping 

her mother move house, a photograph falls from a stack of old letters. The 

girl in it is her mother. She is wearing a wedding veil, and at her side stands 

a man whom Jasmin has never seen before. 

Despite Jasmin’s pleas, her mother Lili refuses to say anything about the 

photograph, and Jasmin returns home frustrated and confused. But months 

later, she receives the first of ten cassette tapes from her mother revealing a 

wrenching hidden story of her family’s true origins in Iran: Lili’s troubled 

history of abuse and neglect, and a daughter she was forced to abandon in 

order to escape that life. The final tape reveals that Jasmin’s sister, Sara – the 

Good Daughter – is still living in Iran. 

In this sweeping, poignant and stunningly written memoir, Jasmin skilfully 

weaves the stories of three generations of Iranian women into a unique tale 

of one family’s struggle for freedom. The result is an enchanting and 

unforgettable story of secrets, betrayal, and the unbreakable 

mother-daughter bond. 

Jasmin Darznik was born in Tehran, Iran and received her PhD from 

Princeton University. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, 

Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and other 

publications. She has taught Iranian literature at the University of 

Virginia and is now a professor of English and creative writing at 

Washington and Lee University. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. 

HANNAH PITTARD 

The Fates Will Find Their Way 


price: 12.99 


pages: 256 

ISBN: 9780434020508 

A beautifully crafted literary debut told in haunting prose and 

reminiscent of Jeffrey Eugenides’ modern classic The Virgin Suicides 

Sixteen-year-old Nora Lindell is missing. And the neighbourhood boys she’s 

left behind are caught forever in the heady current of her absence. 

As the days and years pile up, the mystery of her disappearance grows 

kaleidoscopically. A collection of rumours, divergent suspicions, and 

tantalising what-ifs, Nora Lindell’s story is a shadowy projection of teenage 

lust, friendship, reverence, and regret, captured magically in the 

disembodied plural voice of the boys who still long for her. 

Told in haunting, percussive prose, Hannah Pittard’s beautifully crafted 

novel tracks the emotional progress of the sister Nora left behind, the other 

families in their leafy suburban enclave, and the individual fates of the boys 

in her thrall. Far more eager to imagine Nora’s fate than to scrutinise their 

own, the boys sleepwalk into an adulthood of jobs, marriages, families, 

homes and daughters of their own, all the while pining for a girl – and a life 

– that no longer exists, except in the imagination. 

A masterful literary debut that shines a light into the dream-filled space 

between childhood and all that follows, The Fates Will Find Their Way is a 

story about the stories we tell ourselves – of who we once were and might 

someday become. 

Hannah Pittard’s fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, the Oxford 

American, the Mississippi Review, BOMB, Nimrod, and StoryQuarterly, and 

was included in 2008 Best American Short Stories’ 100 Distinguished 

Stories. She is the recipient of the 2006 Amanda Davis Highwire 

Fiction Award and has taught fiction at the University of Virginia, 

where she was also a Henry Hoyns Fellow.

RICHARD MONTANARI 

The Echo Man 


price: 9.99 

size: Royal Ocatvo 

pages: 464 

ISBN: 9780434018918 

The compelling new thriller from the Sunday Times bestseller 

It is fall in Philadelphia and the mutilated body of a man is found in one 

of the poorest neighbourhoods of the city. The victim has been viciously 

tortured to death. It’s the work of a sadistic mind in free fall. 

When homicide detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano investigate, 

they soon realise that their crime scene is linked to the past. Eight years 

ago, another body was found in the same place, in the same position, killed 

in the same manner. That case was never closed. Apart from their killer’s 

unusual calling cards, the crime scene photos – past and present – are 

identical. 

As another brutalised body appears, then another, it becomes horrifyingly 

clear that someone is recreating unsolved murders from Philadelphia’s past 

in the most sinister of ways. And the killer is closer than they think… 

Richard Montanari is the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The 

Devil’s Garden, Play Dead, The Rosary Girls, The Skin Gods and Broken 

Angels, as well as the internationally acclaimed thrillers Kiss of Evil, 

Deviant Way and The Violet Hour. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio. To find 

out more about Richard Montanari visit his website at www.richardmontanari.com. 

TIM PEARS 

Disputed Land 


price: 12.99 


pages: 224 

ISBN: 9780434020812 

The breathtaking new novel from Tim Pears, author of Landed 

Young Theo Cannon and his parents journey through the Cotswolds to 

spend Christmas at his grandparents’ home. Upon arriving, Theo’s shyness 

gives way to the strength of his beloved grandparents and the rich 

characters that make up the rest of his family. During childhood games, 

stolen kisses and homemade bilberry jam, Theo finds himself a silent 

witness to the adult world around him. 

As the next few days unfold, Theo weaves his way through the striking 

countryside and many corridors of the old house discovering the fragility 

of family ties and subsequently confronting the tragic mystery of why they 

have all been summoned to the family home. 

Fifty years later Theo continues to observe the history threaded within the 

ancestral shadows of his memory and as a result peels back the layers of the 

human lifetimes that make up his own being. 

Tim Pears is the author of six novels: In the Place of Fallen Leaves (which 

won the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award), 

In a Land of Plenty, A Revolution of the Sun, Wake Up and Blenheim 

Orchard. In a Land of Plenty was made into a ten-part BBC TV series. 

Tim Pears has also received the Lannan Award in USA. He lives in 

Oxford. 

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KAHLIL GIBRAN 

The Prophet 


price: 12.99 

size: Other 

pages: 128 

ISBN: 9780434290819 

A bestselling masterpiece - the best-known and best-loved of Kahlil 

Gibran’s works 

The Prophet, a bestseller around the world and translated into over twenty 

languages, is the best-known and best-loved of Kahlil Gibran’s many 

writings. Inspired largely by the beauty and timelessness of nature, The 

Prophet speaks of love and marriage, joy and sorrow, reason and passion, 

beauty and death, and conveys the yearning for a Unity of Being that can 

only be achieved through love. 

Illustrated with his own enchanting and mystical drawings, The Prophet is 

a masterpiece, indeed perhaps the most famous work of religious fiction of 

the twentieth century, and a wonderful companion for anybody 

embarking on their own spiritual journey. 

Poet, philosopher and artist, Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 near 

Mount Lebanon, a region that has produced many prophets. His poetry 

has been translated into more than twenty languages. His drawings 

and paintings have been exhibited in the great capitals of the world 

and compared by Auguste Rodin to the work of William Blake. Kahlil 

Gibran died in 1931. 

HALEY TANNER 

Vaclav and Lena 


price: 12.99 


pages: 304 

ISBN: 9780434020430 

A timeless love story set in New York’s Russian émigré community from 

a stunningly gifted young novelist 

Vaclav and Lena, the children of Russian émigrés, are best friends and at 

the same time from radically different worlds. While Vaclav’s burgeoning 

love of performing magic is indulged by hardworking parents pursuing the 

American dream, troubled orphan Lena is caught in a domestic situation 

no child should suffer through. Taken in as one of her own by Vaclav’s bighearted 

mother, Lena might finally be able to blossom; in the naive young 

magician’s eyes, she is destined to be his ‘faithful assistant’... but after a 

horrific discovery, the two are ripped from each other without even a 

goodbye. Years later, they meet again. But will their past once more 

conspire to keep them apart? 

Haley Tanner was born in 1982 in New York. She holds an MFA from 

The New School and a BA from Clark University. She lives in Brooklyn 

with her two dogs and her boyfriend. This is her first novel.

JOHN NIVEN 

The Second Coming 


price: 12.99 


pages: 304 

ISBN: 9780434019564 

An outrageous, irreverent look at faith, religion, modern culture and 

what might happen to the Son of God if he ever came back to Earth... 

‘GOD’S COMING – LOOK BUSY!’ God really is coming, and he is 

going to be pissed... Having left his son in charge, God treats himself to a 

week off at the beginning of the seventeenth century. He returns to find out 

that things on earth haven’t gone quite to plan... 

A word about celestial time. Eternity isn’t really eternal. It’s just very slow. 

A day in heaven is the equivalent of 57 earth years. When He took His 

week off it was 1609, the height of the Renaissance – King Lear was being 

performed on the London stage and Galileo was squinting through his 

prototype telescope. A good time to go fishing. When He returns it is 2011. 

It has not been an uneventful 400 years, thinks God, as he asks ‘Where is 

the little bastard?’ 

After God has ripped Jesus a new asshole he calls a meeting of the Saints: 

the earth has become a human toilet. Genocide; starvation; people obsessed 

with vacuous celebrity culture ‘and,’ God points out, ‘there are fucking 

Christians everywhere.’ God hates Christians. What’s to be done? Peter 

argues for flushing the whole thing down the toilet and starting again. God 

points out the time and effort He put into his creation. (‘Have you any idea 

what it was like to sit through the Bronze Age? The main form of 

entertainment WAS BRONZE!’). In the end there is only one solution. 

They’re sending the kid back. 

Cut to New York City, where JC is a struggling musician and petty criminal 

trying to help people as best as he can and gathering disciples along the 

way: a motley collection of basket cases, stoners and alcoholics. He finally 

realises his best chance to win hearts and minds may lie in a TV talent 

contest – American Pop Star! It’s the number one show in America, the 

unholy creation of an English record executive called Steven Stelfox... 

John Niven was born in Irvine, Ayrshire. He is the author of the novella 

Music from Big Pink and the novels Kill Your Friends and The Amateurs. He 

lives in Buckinghamshire. 

LUKE HAINES 

Post Everything 


price: 12.99 


pages: 256 

ISBN: 9780434020096 

The sequel to 2009’s Bad Vibes, in which Luke Haines reveals what 

happened next... 

Luke Haines’ savage and hilarious Bad Vibes became a cult classic, the true 

story of that most idiotic and shameful of British diseases, ‘Britpop’. Now 

Haines returns to reveal what happened next, once the dust of the midnineties 

has settled. The Auteurs manage to limp on for a few years until 

their long-overdue demise, but out of the ashes comes a bold new group, 

Black Box Recorder, which will take over the world. Aggressive dwarfs are 

out, tiny annoying dogs are in. And there’s even time to appear on Top of 

the Pops, coordinate the First National Pop Strike, and have another stab at 

conquering America. 

Who misses the glamour of the old crowd when you have Bruce Lee, BIG 

and a frisky feline friend named Sam the Bad Cat to keep you company? 

Plus there’s still Bono (a moron), Chrissie Hynde (who calls you a nazi) and 

Philip from Rising Damp. Never mind that one of your songs is a reggae 

remix based on a sample of a seventies ditty called ‘Rape’. And sod it if the 

senescent music industry still doesn’t understand you. There’s always – 

always – musical theatre. 

Blisteringly funny and searingly scathing, Post Everything isn’t about what 

music, Britain and the Godfather of Britpop could have been at the dawn 

of the century – it’s about how they really turned out. 

Luke Haines learned guitar in the red light district of Portsmouth and 

subsequently formally studied music at the London College of Music. 

His band The Auteurs missed out on the 1992 Mercury Music Prize by 

one vote. His first memoir, Bad Vibes, was published in 2009. 

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BEN MEZRICH 

Sex on the Moon 


price: 11.99 


pages: 272 

ISBN: 9780434020799 

Ocean’s Eleven meets A Beautiful Mind … Sex on the Moon is the 

amazing true story of the 25-year-old genius who pulled off one of the 

most unique and significant heists in US history 

Thad Roberts led a pretty good life by his estimation. So how did it come 

about that this NASA-employed genius found himself in one of the most 

dangerous county prisons in the country, sworn to secrecy by NASA and 

the FBI, and concocting the next step in universal history? 

Despite his growing up in a strict Mormon household, Thad’s heart was, at 

a young age, stolen by astronomy. Soon enough he found himself accepted 

into NASA’s highly competitive Co-op program. Here he stood out both 

as a bright mind and as a popular figure. After catching a glimpse of moon 

rocks on a volunteer task within one of the most secure buildings at the 

NASA space station, Thad’s curiosity was captured. He became obsessed 

and on his third ‘tour’ at NASA’s Johnson Space Center Thad, after 

meticulous planning and at phenomenal risk, did the unthinkable and 

made off with a six hundred pound safe full of the world’s most precious 

substance – moon rocks. Illegal to own, given as gifts to heads of state by 

the President himself, the rocks are a national treasure of unimaginable 

value, something that had never been stolen before – something that can 

never, in fact, be replaced. 

From the unique and exotic locale of NASA’s Johnson Space Center to the 

dark, steel cells of the harshest prison in Florida, Sex on the Moon is the 

compelling story of how a young genius executed one of the biggest and 

most unique heists ever. 

Ben Mezrich, a Harvard graduate, has published ten books, 

including the New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House and 

most recently The Accidental Billionaires. He is a columnist for Boston 

Common and a contributor to Flush magazine. Ben lives in Boston with 

his wife, Tonya. 

JOHANNA SKIBSRUD 

The Sentimentalists 


price: 12.99 

size: B Format 

pages: 224 

ISBN: 9780434021420 

A remarkably poised novel about a young woman reckoning with her 

dying alcoholic father, a veteran of the Vietnam war living in Canada 

with the father of a fallen comrade 

Johanna Skibsrud’s debut novel connects the flooding of an Ontario town, 

the Vietnam War, a trailer in North Dakota, and an unfinished boat in 

Maine. Parsing family history, worn childhood memories, and 

the palimpsest of old misunderstandings, Skibsrud’s narrator maps her 

father’s past. Napoleon Haskell lives with Henry in the town of Casablanca, 

Ontario, on the shores of a man-made lake beneath which lie the remains 

of the former town. Henry is the father of Napoleon’s friend Owen, who 

died fighting in Vietnam. When her life comes apart, Napoleon’s daughter 

retreats to Casablanca and is soon immersed in the complicated family 

stories that lurk below the surface of everyday life. With its quiet mullings 

and lines from Bogart, The Sentimentalists captures a daughter’s wrestling 

with a heady family mythology. 

Johanna Skibsrud is the author of a poetry collection, Late Nights With 

Wild Cowboys, which was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award. 

Originally from Meadowville, Nova Scotia, Skibsrud lives in Montreal. 

The Sentimentalists is her first novel.

DONNA LEON 

Drawing Conclusions 


price: 16.99 


pages: 272 

ISBN: 9780434021437 

The new novel from Donna Leon, the Sunday Times bestselling author of 

A Question of Belief 

When Anna Maria Giusti returns from holiday to find her elderly 

neighbour Constanza Altavilla dead, with blood on the floor near her head, 

she immediately alerts the police. Commissario Brunetti is called to the 

scene and it seems the woman has suffered a fatal heart attack. Patta, the 

Vice-Questore, is eager to dismiss the case as a death from natural causes, 

but Brunetti believes that there is more to it. It soon transpires that there 

are some faint bruises around her neck and shoulders, indicating she may 

have been shaken. Could this have caused a heart attack? Was someone 

threatening her? 

Meanwhile, Brunetti meets Signora Altavilla’s son, Niccolini, who tells 

him that since her retirement she had been helping out at a nearby nursing 

home. Brunetti visits the home with Ispettore Vianello to try and find any 

information that might be connected to the case. While they speak to those 

she spent the most time with, it appears that there is some hostility between 

the residents which raises Brunetti’s suspicions. Once again, he enlists the 

help of Signorina Elettra, who discovers that Signora Altavilla was involved 

with an organisation that helped women at risk, providing them with a safe 

house. Could this have something to do with her death? 

As the investigation takes an unexpected twist in events, Brunetti needs to 

find out the truth before it gets buried within a community that seems to 

be slipping deeper and deeper into deception and lies. 

Donna Leon has lived in Venice for many years and previously lived 

in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Iran and China, where she worked as a 

teacher. Her previous novels featuring Commissario Brunetti have all 

been highly acclaimed; including Friends in High Places, which won the 

CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Through A Glass, Darkly, Suffer 

the Little Children, The Girl of His Dreams and, most recently, About Face. 

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PREFACE PUBLISHING 

TONY BLACK 

Truth Lies Bleeding 


price: 10.99 


pages: 320 

ISBN: 9781848091894 

Tony Black moves away from the noir of his Gus Dury novels with this 

terrific police procedural featuring Detective Inspector Rob Brennan, 

just back from psychiatric leave and on a mission 

Four teenagers find the mutilated corpse of a young girl stuffed into a 

dumpster in an Edinburgh alleyway. Who is she? Where did she come 

from? Who killed her and why? Above all, where is the baby to which she 

has obviously recently given birth? Inspector Rob Brennan, recently back 

from psychiatric leave, is still shocked by the senseless shooting of his 

only brother. His superiors think that the case of the dumpster girl will be 

perfect to get him back on track. But Rob Brennan has enemies within the 

force, stacks of unfinished business and a nose for trouble. What he 

discovers about the murdered girl blows the case – and his life – wide open. 

Tony Black is an award-winning journalist who has written for most of 

the national newspapers. He is the author of Paying for It, Gutted, Loss 

and Long Time Dead. For more information visit www.tonyblack.net. 

URSULA JAMES 

The Source 


price: 12.99 


pages: 224 

ISBN: 9781848092969 

The Source is an inspirational work of non-fiction that is destined to 

become a worldwide phenomenon 

The Source threads together two stories. The first is that of Ursula Sontheil, 

sometimes known as Mother Shipton, the sixteenth-century Yorkshire 

prophetess and healer who was burnt at the stake but whose spirit survived 

captive in a cave in North Yorkshire. She would have been trapped for ever 

but for the cave’s extraordinary power: objects left in the cave are turned to 

stone by the action of the lime-suffused waters from a nearby well. Mother 

Shipton used the powers of the waters to live again through the needs of 

those who came to the cave and called on her for healing. Each gift turned 

to stone by the waters lit another spark of life within her. Through the 

centuries many came for her help, enough for their needs to free her spirit 

to leave the cave and live again. 

The second story is that of another Ursula, Ursula James, a modern-day 

healer of minds. Mother Shipton shaped her childhood and, when she was 

ready to listen, came to her again when she was an adult and gave her the 

means to make magic happen. Through Mother Shipton’s prophecies and 

spells, Ursula James transformed her own life and taught her that magic 

must be shared or it is diminished, so she passes this knowledge on to 

others. As the magic began to grow it took on a life of its own and spread 

around the world. 

The Source is a book that comes out of time and is of this time. It is only 

now, after the world of commerce has been in free fall, that we are ready to 

listen and respond to Sister Moon and to heal Mother Earth. Each chapter 

has a ritual, rite or journey, to guide the reader on their path to the source 

of their own power. Part fable, part spell-book, The Source has true magic 

woven through it for those who read it well. 

Ursula James is one of the leading hypnotherapy practitioners and 

teachers in the UK, lecturing at eleven medical schools including 

Oxford and Cambridge. She is a Visiting Teaching Fellow at Oxford 

University Medical School and Honorary Lecturer at Barts and the 

London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Ursula is Patron of Anxiety 

UK and also the National Centre of Domestic Violence, as well as 

Chair of the Medical School Hypnosis Association, and she is actively 

involved in research into the effects of altered states of consciousness. 

Ursula is currently conducting her own PhD research in the fields of 

biomedical science and psychology.

MICHAEL WILLIAMS 

On The Slow Train Again 


price: 14.99 


pages: 272 

ISBN: 9781848092853 

In a follow-up to the hugely successful On The Slow Train, here are 

twelve more of the most beautiful and historic railway journeys in 

Britain. Extravagantly well-reviewed, the Daily Mail eulogised author 

Michael Williams’ ability to recreate ‘a magical world barely changed 

since the golden age of rail’ 

Michael Williams has spent the past year travelling along the fascinating rail 

byways of Britain for this new collection of journeys. Here is the ‘train to 

the end of the world’ running for more than four splendid hours through 

lake, loch and moorland from Inverness to Wick, the most northerly 

town in Britain. He discovers a perfect country branch line in London’s 

commuterland, and travels on one of the slowest services in the land along 

the shores of the lovely Dovey estuary to the far west of Wales. He takes 

the stopping train across the Pennines on a line with so few services that 

its glorious scenery is a secret known only to the regulars. Here, too, is the 

Bittern Line in Norfolk and the Tarka Line in North Devon as well as the 

little branch line to the fishing port of Looe in Cornwall, rescued from 

closure in the 1960s and now celebrating its 150th anniversary taking 

families on holiday to the seaside. From the most luxurious and historic – 

aboard the Orient Express – to the most futuristic – on the driverless trains 

of London’s Docklands Light Railway – here is a unique travel companion 

celebrating the treasures of our railway heritage from one of Britain’s most 

knowledgeable railway writers. 

Michael Williams writes widely on railways for many publications. He 

is a veteran Fleet Street journalist, having held many senior positions, 

including Deputy Editor of the Independent on Sunday, Executive 

Editor of the Independent and Head of News at the Sunday Times. He is 

currently Senior Lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media and 

Communication at the University of Central Lancashire. 

ROBERT SELLERS 

Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down 


price: 18.99 


pages: 400 

ISBN: 9781848092976 

Jaw-dropping tales of legendary excess and bad behaviour from the 

British stars of the 1950s and 60s, from the author of the bestselling 

Hellraisers and Hollywood Hellraisers 

Expanding on the winning formula that made Hellraisers such a success, 

this book explores the rise and camaraderie of that entire generation of 

hard-living, boozing actors who ripped apart the staid British theatre and 

film industry in a trail-blazing ten-year period from the mid-fifties to the 

mid-sixties. It features actors like Richard Harris, Sean Connery, Alan 

Bates, Tom Courtney, Albert Finney, Robert Stephens, Terence Stamp, Peter 

O’Toole, Robert Shaw and Michael Caine. Like David Kynaston’s Austerity 

Britain, this book takes a fresh approach to recent history. Britain of the 

fifties and sixties comes alive through the vibrant energy and exploits of this 

revolutionary generation of stars, these hard-drinking braggadocios who 

raised hell in Soho and the West End, then the film capitals of the world, 

holding an acting award in one hand and a bottle of vodka in the other. 

Robert Sellers is the author of the bestselling Hellraisers, Hollywood 

Hellraisers and An A-Z of Hellraisers. He has also written biographies on 

Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford and Sean Connery, Always Look on the Bright 

Side of Life, a history of the George Harrison/Monty Python film 

company HandMade, and the controversial Battle for Bond, which for 

a time was banned by the family of Ian Fleming. He was a regular 

contributor to Empire, Total Film, Independent, SFX and Cinema Retro and 

has contributed to a number of television documentaries, including 

Channel 4’s The 100 Best Family Films. 

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PETER CADDICK ADAMS 

Monty and Rommel: Parallel Lives 


price: 20.00 


pages: 592 

ISBN: 9781848091528 

The first comparative biography of two of the most charismatic, and 

strategically important, military leaders of the Second World War 

This is the story of two men with electrifying personal qualities who, 

between them, altered our understanding of leadership in battle. 

Peter Caddick Adams traces Montgomery and Rommel’s lives from their 

provincial upbringings, through to them facing each other across the 

trenches in the First World War, and to North Africa and Europe in the 

second. Both Montgomery and Rommel were on the periphery of the 

military establishment; both were in part creations of the propaganda of 

their own and that of their superiors. They were alike in many ways and 

they represent the first time military commanders proactively and 

systematically used (and were used by) the media as they came to 

prominence in the North Africa campaign. 

This book explores and compares their tactical talents and their 

personalities in battle. They each added something special to their 

respective commands. Rommel’s performance with the 7th Panzer in 1940 

was inspired. Montgomery is a gift for leadership gurus in the way he took 

over a demoralised Eighth Army in August 1942 and led it to victory just 

two months later - he brought with him an extraordinary personal 

charisma, not just 300 new American Sherman tanks. Both commanders 

also gave trusted subordinates room to use their initiative. And Caddick 

Adams explores their natural instinctive feel for combat - the German term 

for this (there is no direct translation) is fingerspitengefuhl. 

Peter Caddick Adams is a Lecturer at Cranfield Military Academy 

specialising in military history and media operations working alongside 

Richard Holmes. His special areas of interest are battlefield history and 

he researches in Military Doctrine and Leadership. He has led over 200 

visits to more than 50 battlefields around the world. He joined the 

Territorial Army in 1985 and currently serves as a military media 

advisor in the rank of major. Peter was educated at Shrewsbury School 

and Wolverhampton University, where he gained a First in War Studies. 

BEN KANE 

Soldier of Carthage 


price: 12.99 


pages: 432 

ISBN: 9781848092273 

The first in a brilliant new series set during the Second Punic War, from 

the bestselling author of The Forgotten Legion Chronicles 

In the First Punic War, the Roman legions defeated and humiliated 

Carthage, their only serious rival for power in the Mediterranean. Now a 

brilliant young Carthaginian general, called Hannibal, is out for revenge. 

Caught up in the maelstrom are two young boys, Hanno, the son of a 

distinguished soldier and confidant of Hannibal, and Quintus, son of a 

Roman equestrian and landowner. A disastrous adventure will see Hanno 

sold into slavery and bought by Quintus’s father. Although an unexpected 

friendship springs up between the two boys - and with Quintus’s sister, 

Aurelia - the fortunes of the two warring empires once again separates 

them. They find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict and an 

alliance forged through slavery will be played out to its stunning conclusion 

in battle. 

Ben Kane was born in Kenya and raised there and in Ireland. He 

studied veterinary medicine and University College, Dublin, but after 

that he travelled the world extensively, indulging in his passion for 

ancient history. He lives in North Somerset with his wife and two young 

children.

KIMBERLEY CHAMBERS 

The Victim 


price: 12.99 


pages: 352 

ISBN: 9781848092556 

The final instalment in the thrilling trilogy about the Mitchells and 

O’Haras 

Life is looking bleak for Frankie Mitchell – not only has she lost custody of 

her two children to their sadistic, gypsy-bred father, Jed O’Hara, she is also 

pregnant and banged up in Holloway awaiting trial for attempted murder. 

In Frankie’s absence, her father, underworld boss Eddie Mitchell, is 

determined to get his own back. He wants revenge not only for his 

daughter’s imprisonment, but also for the death of his beloved wife, Jessica. 

Determined to get his grandchildren back home where they belong, Eddie 

plans the O’Haras demise slowly and precisely. But then he finds out a 

secret and learns the real reason why his daughter is in the slammer and all 

hell breaks loose. 

Essex had never seen anything like the bloodbath that followed, but were 

either family actually capable of winning this long-running feud, or would 

they all become the victims of their own past mistakes? 

Kimberley Chambers lives in Romford and has been, at various times, a 

disc jockey and a street trader. She is now a full-time author. 

BRUCE DESSAU 

Comedy Babylon 


price: 18.99 


pages: 304 

ISBN: 9781848093201 

Comedians are not normal. If they were normal they wouldn’t want to 

go onstage and make thousands of strangers laugh every night. Comedy 

Babylon is the story of lives lived to excess: of alcohol, drugs, sex ... and 

running marathons 

Comedy Babylon is a celebration of comedy – one of the modern world’s 

most dominant and compelling art forms – but it is also the story of 

comedy’s dark side, homing in on the scandals that have surrounded some 

of light entertainment’s biggest stars, and telling it as it is, featuring quotes 

from those that were there at the time. How the devoted laughter of those 

fans onstage never seemed to be enough for these moody, prickly, egodriven 

entertainers. How they would constantly seek more thrills when the 

curtain came down. The offstage antics of certain comedians would make 

even rock stars blush. The number of comedians who have had to deal with 

paternity suits would make a book in itself. 

While Comedy Babylon explores the extremes of this world it also addresses 

another question. Are comedians naturally dysfunctional, or does the stress 

and pressure of the job make them dysfunctional? Ruby Wax once told me 

that she had builders in her house who were just as emotionally unstable 

as most stand-up comedians she had worked with. But they don’t want to 

go on stage and plead with an audience to love them. There is something 

about wanting to make strangers laugh for a living that is intrinsically, 

fundamentally, strange. Stand-up is doubly peculiar in that respect. It’s just 

the one person emotionally naked on the stage in front of maybe thousands 

of people. No safety net, no back up. It takes a particularly odd person to 

want to pursue comedy as a career. And, as Comedy Babylon will reveal, 

the behaviour of comedians once they are successful in their chosen career 

makes them even odder. Bruce Dessau is the only person who could write 

this book. From Russell Brand slashing his chest onstage to Jo Brand 

trashing a friend’s car on the motorway, he has heard it all. Bruce Dessau 

knows where the bodies are buried. 

Bruce Dessau is the king of comedy critics. He cut his critical teeth 

during the 1980s Alternative Comedy explosion in smoky rooms in the 

arse end of London, from Malcolm Hardee’s infamous Tunnel Club to 

The Comedy Store before it became part of the respectable 

establishment. He has chaired the Edinburgh Comedy Awards panel 

twice – once when it was the Perrier Award, once when it was the 

if.comedy Award – and has regularly served on the judging committee, 

spending dawn to dusk to dawn again seeing stand-up comedy. Bruce 

is the Studs Terkel, the Norman Mailer, the Cyril Connolly of comedy 

critics. He has reviewed them all on both sides of the Atlantic and after 

nearly thirty years can still usually be found after dark chasing laughs 

for the London Evening Standard, the Guardian and for his own 

amusement. 

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SUSAN LEWIS 

Stolen 


price: 11.99 


pages: 464 

ISBN: 9780099550655 

The powerful new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of 

Missing 

Lucy Winters’ parents have always been there for her. Loving, gentle and 

kind they have given her everything she could have wished for. Now, 

estranged from her husband, she has moved to the country to take over 

their thriving auction business. The moment she begins to prepare for her 

first sale she knows she’s made the right decision. And she dares to hope 

that at last she is living the life she has always dreamed of. 

But then, quite suddenly, her world is thrown into turmoil. She discovers 

a shocking truth, one that forces her to question everything she has ever 

known. And it becomes frighteningly possible that the very people who 

should have protected her are the ones who have betrayed her in the most 

devastating of ways. Can she ever forgive them? Can they ever forgive 

themselves…? 

Susan Lewis is the bestselling author of twenty-five novels. She is also 

the author of Just One More Day, a moving memoir of her childhood 

in Bristol. Having resided in France for many years she now lives in 

Gloucestershire. Her website address is www.susanlewis.com. 

BEN KANE 

The Road to Rome 


price: 6.99 


pages: 608 

ISBN: 9781848090163 

The third novel in The Forgotten Legion trilogy takes the main 

protagonists from North Africa back to Rome in the build-up to the 

assassination of Julius Caesar 

Having survived the perils of a journey across half the world, Romulus and 

Tarquinius are press-ganged into the legions, which are under imminent 

threat of annihilation by the Egyptians. Meanwhile in Rome, Romulus’s 

twin sister Fabiola lives in fear for her life, loved by Brutus, but wooed by 

Marcus Antonius, his deadly enemy. Soon after, Romulus fights at Zela, 

the vicious battle where Caesar famously said, ‘Veni, vidi, vici’. Tarquinius, 

separated from Romulus in the chaos of war, hides in Alexandria, searching 

for guidance. But mortal danger awaits them both. From the battlefields of 

Asia Minor and North Africa to the lawless streets of Rome and the 

gladiator arena, they face death daily, until on the Ides of March, the twins 

are reunited and must decide either to back or to betray Caesar on his day 

of destiny. 

Ben Kane was born in Kenya and raised there and in Ireland. He 

studied veterinary medicine at University College Dublin, and after 

that he travelled the world extensively, indulging his passion for ancient 

history. He now lives in North Somerset with his wife and family. For 

more information visit www.benkane.net.

JON OSBORNE 

Kill Me Once 


price: 6.99 


pages: 416 

ISBN: 9780099550921 

A thoroughly shocking, riveting, and startlingly inventive thriller from 

a chilling new voice 

Nathan Stiedowe is seeking perfection – and he has been learning from the 

best. Recreating some of the most sickening murders in history, his 

objective appears chillingly simple, but his true motive remains unclear. 

On the trail of this sadistic monster is FBI Special Agent Dana Whitestone. 

Driven by the brutal childhood slaying of her parents, Dana’s relentless 

pursuit of the most evil and twisted criminals has seen her profile many 

violent cases. But never has she encountered a maniac as demented as 

Stiedowe, or a mind as horrifyingly disturbed... 

Jon Osborne has been a newspaper reporter for a decade, most recently 

for the Naples Daily News in Florida, where he covered everything from 

bake sales to triple murders. He is a veteran of the United States Navy. 

He is currently at work on his second thriller. 

LULU TAYLOR 

Beautiful Creatures 


price: 6.99 


pages: 672 

ISBN: 9780099550457 

Another irresistibly glamorous blockbuster from Lulu Taylor, perfect 

for fans of Penny Vincenzi and Jilly Cooper 

Everyone has heard of the Beaufort twins, but few have ever seen them… 

On the eve of their 21st birthday, at one of the most lavish parties society 

has ever seen, Octavia and Flora Beaufort are launched into the world. 

For Octavia, it is one of the most thrilling nights of her life, an evening 

glittering with the promise of her future. But Flora shrinks from the 

limelight, fearful of what lies beyond the walls of her over-protective aunt’s 

house. 

As Octavia is swept into a whirlwind of lavish spending and fashionable 

society, she grasps eagerly at whatever she wants: clothes, houses, men… 

even a department store. But Flora yearns for security – and when she is 

rescued from harm by a kind stranger, she seems to have found the love and 

protection she craves. 

Prey to all kinds of dangers, the twins soon realise that without each other, 

they run the risk of losing everything. But is it already too late…? 

Lulu Taylor was brought up in the English countryside, educated at 

Oxford University, and has lived all over the world. Her novels are sexy, 

dramatic and enthralling depictions of modern high society. She is 

married and lives in London. 

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JANE MOORE 

Love is On the Air 


price: 6.99 


pages: 384 

ISBN: 9780099505532 

The warm, witty and insightful new novel about modern relationships 

from the Sun columnist and Sunday Times bestseller 

Cam Simpson has been going out with Dean for six years. It’s a 

comfortable, cosy life and Dean is everything she could possibly want – 

dependable, manly and generous. Or he once was. He seems more 

interested in football than her these days and, if she dared to admit it, their 

relationship has become a little predictable. But isn’t that what happens 

when you’ve been with someone for that long? Deciding all she needs is 

a holiday with the girls she sets off for Tenerife with her two best friends. 

Almost immediately she meets single-father Tom and rather disturbingly 

feels that lost spark ignite. But blaming the sun, sea and sangria, she returns 

home ready to recapture what she and Dean once had. 

Until one morning, over the radio, Cam hears ‘Tom has written in to the 

show. He came back from holiday in Tenerife a couple of weeks ago and 

wants to trace a lovely woman he met there. The woman’s name is Cam…’ 

With the man she’s decided to commit herself to sitting right there beside 

her, Cam knows she can’t brush this one under the carpet. And she is forced 

to finally ask herself the crucial question: should she settle for Mr Good 

Enough or risk it all for Mr Maybe He’s The One? 

Jane Moore is a columnist for the Sun and GQ magazine. She regularly 

presents investigative documentaries for Channel 4’s Dispatches, on 

subjects ranging from supermarket secrets and broiler chicken 

production, through to food labelling and Britain’s obesity crisis. She is 

also the author of the bestsellers Fourplay, The Ex-Files, Dot.Homme, The 

Second Wives Club and Perfect Match. She lives in London. To find out 

more about Jane Moore visit her website at www.janemoore.com. 

GUY DEUTSCHER 

Through the Language Glass 


price: 7.99 


pages: 320 

ISBN: 9780099505570 

A brilliant and provocative exploration of how the cultures we live in 

affect the languages we speak and how we think of the world around us 

‘Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about 

linguistics … he argues in a playful and provocative way, that our mother 

tongue does indeed affect how we think and, just as important, how we 

perceive the world.’ Observer 

*Does language reflect the culture of a society? 

*Is our mother tongue a lens through which we perceive the world? 

*Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? 

In Through the Language Glass, acclaimed author Guy Deutscher will 

convince you that, contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, 

the answer to all these questions is – yes. A delightful amalgam of cultural 

history and popular science, this book explores some of the most 

fascinating and controversial questions about language, culture and the 

human mind. 

Guy Deutscher is the author of The Unfolding of Language: The Evolution 

of Mankind’s Greatest Invention. Formerly a Fellow of St John’s College, 

Cambridge and of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, he is an 

honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. He lives in 

Oxford with his wife and two daughters.

DAPHNE KALOTAY 

Russian Winter 


price: 12.99 


pages: 416 

ISBN: 9780099553243 

An evocative story of passion, envy and betrayal set against the 

backdrop of the tumultuous and dangerous Soviet years 

Set in contemporary Boston and in Moscow after the Second World War, 

Russian Winter tells the story of Nina Revskaya, who rose through the ranks 

of the Bolshoi Ballet to become one of the Soviet Union’s greatest 

ballerinas, until her defection in 1952 on the heels of a terrible betrayal. 

Now confined to a wheelchair, Nina finds herself confronted by her 

haunting past in the form of a letter from Grigori Slonim, a professor of 

foreign languages who believes he may be Nina’s illegitimate son: he has 

enclosed a photograph of an amber pendant as evidence to support his 

claim. Prompted by the letter, Nina decides to auction her famed jewellery 

collection, including the matching amber earrings and bracelet she now 

feels compelled to divest, thus setting into motion a tale that weaves 

together a contemporary academic mystery with the long-ago tale of a 

group of friends whose ability to love and to create are tragically 

compromised by the repressions of the Stalinist regime. 

Daphne Kalotay is the author of Calamity and Other Stories, published 

by Doubleday in 2005 to much critical acclaim. She has an MA from 

Boston University’s Creative Writing Program and a PhD in Modern 

and Contemporary Literature. Her work has appeared in The Paris 

Review, Good Housekeeping and many literary magazines, and she has 

received fellowships from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, the 

Fondation de La Napoule, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Yaddo and 

the MacDowell Colony; she is a recipient of the W.K. Rose Fellowship 

in the Creative Arts from Vassar College. Daphne currently teaches in 

the Masters in Creative Writing programme at Boston University. 

KEVIN DUTTON 

Flipnosis 


price: 8.99 


pages: 400 

ISBN: 9780099505624 

Brilliant, funny and provocative exploration of instant persuasion, 

based on research with con-men, psychopaths, advertisers and many 

more 

‘What if I were to tell you that a psychopathic arsonist might also be the 

person most likely to save you from a burning building?’ 

*This book is about a special kind of persuasion: ‘flipnosis’. It has an 

incubation period of just seconds, and can instantly disarm even the most 

discerning mind. Flipnosis is black-belt mind control. It doesn’t just turn 

the tables, it kicks them over. 

*From the malign but fascinating powers of psychopaths, serial killers and 

con men to the political genius of Winston Churchill – via the grandmasters 

of martial arts, Buddhist monks, magicians, advertisers, salesmen, 

CEOs and frogs that mug each other – Kevin Dutton’s brilliantly original 

and revelatory book explores what cutting-edge science can teach us about 

the techniques of persuasion. 

Dr Kevin Dutton teaches social psychology at the University of 

Cambridge, where he is Research Fellow at the Faraday Institute of 

Science and Religion at St Edmund’s College. He is regularly published 

in leading international scientific journals and speaks at conferences 

around the world. Flipnosis is his first book. 

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DILLY COURT 

A Mother’s Secret 


price: 5.99 


pages: 496 

ISBN: 9780099538837 

The compelling new saga set in turn-of-the-twentieth-century London 

by the author of The Ragged Heiress 

When seventeen-year-old Belinda Phillips falls in love with a handsome 

Anglo-Indian officer, she knows that he is a man she can never hope to 

marry. When he is reported missing, believed killed in action, Belinda 

discovers that she is pregnant. Facing disgrace and ruin, she has no option 

other than to accept an arranged marriage with a middle-aged widower, 

knowing she must keep the secret of her child’s birth for ever. 

Reluctantly she sends her beloved daughter to a foster mother in 

Cripplegate, little realising she has entrusted Cassy’s care to Biddy 

Henchard, a woman who runs a notorious baby farm in an area full of 

poverty and disease. Despite her terrible upbringing, Cassy survives the old 

woman’s cruel neglect. All the while she dreams of a mother she has never 

known, hoping she will come and save her from her dreadful fate. But 

when Biddy dies suddenly, ten-year-old Cassy finds herself destitute and 

with little hope of ever finding the mother she so longs for... 

Dilly Court grew up in north-east London and began her career in 

television, writing scripts for commercials. She is married with two 

grown-up children and four grandchildren, and now lives in Dorset 

on the beautiful Jurassic Coast with her husband and a large, yellow 

Labrador called Archie. She is also the author of Mermaids Singing, The 

Dollmaker’s Daughters, Tilly True, The Best of Sisters, The Cockney Sparrow, 

A Mother’s Courage, The Constant Heart, A Mother’s Promise, The Cockney 

Angel, A Mother’s Wish and The Ragged Heiress. To find out more about 

Dilly Court visit her website at www.dillycourt.com. 

DONNA LEON 

A Question of Belief 


price: 7.99 


pages: 336 

ISBN: 9780099547624 

The new novel from Donna Leon, the Sunday Times bestselling author of 

About Face 

As Venice experiences a debilitating heatwave, Commissario Brunetti 

prepares to escape the city and spend time with his family in the 

mountains. For Ispettore Vianello, however, the weather is the last thing on 

his mind; it appears his aunt has become obsessed with horoscopes and has 

been withdrawing large amounts of money from the family business. Not 

knowing what to do, he consults Brunetti and asks permission to trail her. 

Meanwhile, Brunetti receives a visit from a friend who works at the 

Commune. It seems that discrepancies have been occurring at the 

Courthouse involving Judge Luisa Coltellini and Araldo Fontana, an usher 

with a flawless track record. Intrigued, Brunetti asks Signorina Elletra to 

find out what she can while he is away on his family holiday. 

But when news reaches Brunetti that Araldo Fontana has been murdered 

in a violent attack, he returns to the city to head up the investigation. Why 

would someone want a good man dead, and what might his death have to 

do with the discrepancies at the Courthouse? 

Donna Leon has lived in Venice for many years and previously lived 

in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Iran and China, where she worked as a 

teacher. Her previous novels featuring Commissario Brunetti have all 

been highly acclaimed; including Friends in High Places, which won the 

CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Through A Glass, Darkly, Suffer 

the Little Children, The Girl of His Dreams and, most recently, About Face.

MAVIS CHEEK 

Truth to Tell 


price: 7.99 


pages: 256 

ISBN: 9780099547525 

Mavis Cheek’s pacy, racy and thought-provoking new novel 

Nina Porter seems to have it all: husband, home, family and security. But 

her life turns upside down when a marital row over truthfulness sets her 

thinking. Isn’t she dishonest herself, always playing the good wife? The 

perfect mother and daughter? The supportive friend? Should she, instead, 

try to live without the little white lies that support us all? 

Her husband thinks it can’t be done. But he goes away on a business trip. 

And when a glamorous few days of research in Venice are suddenly on offer, 

there seems no reason for Nina to refuse them. Or to resist the attentions of 

the handsome Italian who wants to show her the city. 

As Nina entangles herself in a web of deceptions, it starts to look as though 

honesty might not always be the best policy... 

Mavis Cheek’s sparkling new novel is about shaking your life up, 

striking out and learning to be true to yourself. It’s told with all the brio 

and humour that her readers have come to love. 

Mavis Cheek was born and grew up in Wimbledon. She began her 

working life at Editions Alecto, the contemporary art publishers. She 

then attended Hillcroft College for Women from where she graduated 

in Arts. After her daughter Bella was born, she began her writing career 

in earnest; journalism and travel writing at first, then short stories, and 

eventually, in 1988, her novel Pause Between Acts was published by 

Bodley Head and won the She/John Menzies First Novel Prize. She is 

the author of thirteen novels including Mrs Fytton’s Country Life, Janice 

Gentle Gets Sexy and, most recently, Amenable Women, which was 

described in The Times as ‘a brilliantly funny, warm, intelligent read’. 

She now lives and writes in the heart of the English countryside. 

FELICITY EVERETT 

The Story of Us 


price: 6.99 


pages: 352 

ISBN: 9780099553694 

A fabulous new voice in women’s fiction in the style of Joanna Trollop 

and Rosie Thomas 

It is 1982 and Thatcher is in Downing Street, The Specials are in the charts 

and Brideshead Revisited is on the box, but the girls of Albacore Street are 

too busy chasing their dreams to notice. To Stella, the latest addition to the 

house, they are brainy, stylish, and oozing confidence, and for a while its 

all Film Soc and fabulousness; demos, parties and no-strings sex. Against 

a background of 1980s radicalism, Greenham Common and the Miner’s 

Strike, however, they are about to learn that ideals don’t always match up 

to reality. 

Damaged Nell pursues fame and fortune with disastrous consequences, 

while Vinnie, daughter of theatrical bluebloods, winds up pregnant on an 

East End estate. Maxine finds contentment living with another woman in 

Brighton and, after much heartache, has the child she has always wanted. 

Bridget and Stella move to London and stay close for a decade until an 

ill-judged affair shatters their friendship. 

Ten years on and they are juggling like mad, but dropping all the balls; 

their partners are straying, their daughters want boob jobs, and their 

cantankerous mothers just won’t go away. Living increasingly separate lives, 

the tie that binds them grows thinner. But an unexpected tragedy throws 

their dissatisfactions into stark perspective and is a chance to re-dedicate 

themselves to their friendship, their misdirected lives, their survival. 

Felicity Everett is the author of more than twenty fiction and nonfiction 

books for children. Having completed an MA in Creative 

Writing at Goldsmiths, she has now branched out into adult fiction and 

The Story of Us is her debut novel. 

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KEVIN BROOKS 

A Dance of Ghosts 


price: 6.99 


pages: 400 

ISBN: 9780099553816 

An utterly convincing and utterly compelling crime debut from a major 

new talent 

PI John Craine is struggling to cope with the weight of his past. Sixteen 

years ago his wife, Stacy, was brutally murdered. Craine found her body in 

their bed. And since then, to escape the pain and the unanswered questions, 

he has buried himself in work by day, and whisky by night. 

But one phone call changes everything. The mother of missing young 

woman Anna Gerrish calls on his services, and Craine soon finds himself 

at the centre of a sinister web of corruption and lies that leads back into 

the murky waters of the past - and to the night that Craine has spent over 

a decade trying to forget. As he delves deeper and deeper into the case 

everything gets increasingly, terrifyingly, personal. And it’s down to Craine 

to stop history from repeating itself... 

Kevin Brooks has written nine children’s novels and has won 

several awards including Canongate Prize for New Writing, Branford 

Boase Award, Kingston Youth Book Award, North East Book Award, 

Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis Jury Prize, Buxtehude Bulle, Golden 

Bookworm. A Dance of Ghosts is his first adult novel. He lives in 

Yorkshire with his wife, Sue. 

RACHAEL TREASURE 

Through the Fire 


price: 7.99 


pages: 400 

ISBN: 9781848090880 

Rachael Treasure’s fourth novel is a journey of love, determination and 

self-discovery 

Robust country girl Emily Flanagan has been raised in the rugged Dargo 

High Plains by her mountain cattleman father, but despite the beauty of 

her High Country heritage she feels lost in life. Trapped in an unhappy 

marriage, her music-star brother is being consumed in a world of drugs, 

money and wild women, whilst her father risks losing his family’s 

livelihood. 

Emily’s problems aren’t helped when she finds herself falling in love with 

the ‘enemy’, a government man, Luke Bradshaw. As the bill to evict the 

cattlemen from the mountains is about to be passed, their love seems 

doomed. And when a savage bushfire sweeps through the mountains, 

everything Emily knows is endangered. 

Rachael Treasure was born in Hobart in 1968 and now lives on a sheep 

farm in Tasmania with her husband John, her children, Rosie and 

Charlie, and a menagerie of farm animals, including working dogs 

from their Castleburn kelpie and border collie stud. Rachael began her 

working life as a jillaroo (trainee farmhand) before attending Orange 

Agricultural College in New South Wales. She was a rural journalist 

before becoming a full-time novelist. 

www.rachaeltreasure.com

ROBERT NEILL 

Mist Over Pendle 

The classic tale of witchcraft 


price: 6.99 


pages: 416 

ISBN: 9780099557036 

The Forest of Pendle during the early seventeenth century. A wild 

inaccessible corner of Lancashire where the ancient fear of demons and 

witches is still part of life - and death. 

When several local people die in mysterious circumstances, Squire Roger 

Nowell dismisses talk of witchcraft as superstition. But soon a series of 

hideous desecrations take place, and there are unmistakable signs that a 

black coven is assembling to plot a campaign of evil and destruction... 

Robert F. Neill is the author of several historical novels. Mist Over Pendle 

is his best known novel. 

ROBIN BAYLEY 

The Mango Orchard 


price: 7.99 


pages: 288 

ISBN: 9781848092242 

An extraordinary book which ranks up there with Sandra Cisneros’s 

Caramelo, Tim Butcher’s Blood River and even the great Bruce Chatwin 

As a child, Robin Bayley was enchanted by his grandmother’s stories of 

Mexican adventures: of bandits, wild jungle journeys, hidden bags of silver 

and a narrow escape from the bloody Mexican Revolution. But Robin 

sensed there was more to these stories than anyone knew, and so he set out 

to follow in the footsteps of his great-grandfather. 

The Mango Orchard is the story of parallel journeys, a hundred years apart, 

into the heart of Latin America. Undaunted by the passage of time and a 

paucity of information, Robin seeks out the places where his greatgrandfather 

Arthur ‘Arturo’ Greenhalgh travelled and lived, determined to 

uncover his legacy. Along the road Robin encounters witches, drug 

dealers, a gun-toting Tasmanian Devil and an ex-Nazi diamond trader. He 

is threatened with deportation, offered the protection of Colombian 

guerrilla fighters and is comforted by the blessings of los santos. He falls 

in love with a beautiful Guatemalan girl with mystical powers and almost 

gives up his quest, until a sense of destiny drives him on to western Mexico 

and the discovery of much, much more than he had bargained for. 

Following careers in advertising and children’s TV, Robin Bayley began 

the journey that has become The Mango Orchard. He now works as a 

full-time writer and lives in London. 

www.themangoorchard.com 

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MICHAEL WILLIAMS 

On the Slow Train 


price: 7.99 


pages: 272 

ISBN: 9781848092082 

This beautifully packaged book will take the reader on the slow train to 

another era when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the 

next, the journey meaning nothing but time lost in crowded carriages, 

condemned by broken timetables. On the Slow Train will reconnect with 

that long-missed need to lift our heads from the daily grind and reflect that 

there are still places in Britain where we can stop and stare. It will tap into 

many things: a love of railways, a love of history, a love of nostalgia. 

This book will be a paean to another age before milk churns, porters and 

cats on seats were replaced by security announcements and Burger King. 

These 12 spectacular journeys will help free us from what Baudelaire 

denounced as ‘the horrible burden of time’. 

Michael Williams writes widely on railways for many publications, 

including the Daily Mail, the Independent, the Independent on Sunday, the 

New Statesman, the Oldie and the railway specialist press. He is a veteran 

Fleet Street journalist, having held many senior positions, including 

Deputy Editor of the Independent on Sunday, Executive Editor of the 

Independent and Head of News at the Sunday Times. He is currently 

Senior Lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media and 

Communication at the University of Central Lancashire. He commutes 

regularly by train on the 440-mile return journey between his home in 

London’s Camden Town and his office at Preston in Lancashire. 

LISA JEWELL 

After the Party 


price: 7.99 


pages: 544 

ISBN: 9780099533689 

The brilliant new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of 

Ralph’s Party and The Truth About Melody Browne 

It’s eleven years since Jem Catterick and Ralph McLeary first got together. 

They thought it would be for ever, that they’d found their happy ending. As 

everyone agreed, they were the perfect couple. 

Then two became four, a flat became a house. Romantic nights out became 

sleepless nights in. And they soon found that life wasn’t quite so simple any 

more. But through it all Jem and Ralph still loved each other, of course they 

did. 

Now the unimaginable has happened. Two people who were so right 

together are starting to drift apart. And in the chaos of family life Ralph 

feels more and more as if he’s standing on the sidelines, and Jem that she’s 

losing herself. Something has to change. As they try to find a way back to 

each other, back to what they once had, they both become momentarily 

distracted - but maybe it’s not too late to recapture happily ever after… 

Lisa Jewell was born and raised in north London, where she lives with 

her husband and two daughters. Her first novel, Ralph’s Party, was the 

bestselling debut of 1999. She is also the author of Thirtynothing, One- 

Hit Wonder, Vince & Joy, A Friend of the Family and 31 Dream Street, and 

most recently The Truth About Melody Browne, all of which have been 

Sunday Times bestsellers. Her website address is www.lisa-jewell.co.uk.

LILY BAXTER 

We’ll Meet Again 


price: 5.99 


pages: 512 

ISBN: 9780099551027 

The enthralling new Second World War novel from the author of Poppy’s 

War 

It is April 1939 and, unaware that the German war machine is advancing 

towards the Channel Islands, seventeen-year-old Meg Colivet and her sister 

are enjoying a holiday in Oxford with their aunt. Here Meg meets 

charismatic German undergraduate Rayner Weiss and the couple fall 

passionately in love. But all too soon, Britain is at war with Germany, 

Guernsey has been occupied and Meg’s family home requisitioned by the 

German army. 

Meg insists on remaining with her father, determined to help save her 

beloved island from the ravages of war. And then she finds herself face 

to face with Rayner – now a German officer – once more and her life is 

thrown into turmoil as they risk their lives to meet in secret. As the conflict 

in Europe intensifies, basic provisions become scarce and soon the people 

Meg loves come under threat. Torn between her love for Rayner and her 

duty to her family and the island she grew up on, a heartbroken Meg has a 

terrible choice to make… 

Lily Baxter lives in Dorset. She is the author of Poppy’s War. She also 

writes under the name of Dilly Court. 

FRANCINE PASCAL 

Sweet Valley Confidential 


price: 6.99 


pages: 400 

ISBN: 9780099557739 

One of the most successful series of all time is back, and this time it’s 

for adults 

Haven’t you ever wondered what happened to Jessica and Elizabeth? 

It’s been ten years since we last caught up with the Wakefield twins, and a 

lot has happened. Jessica has married a millionaire, while Todd and 

Elizabeth have settled down to a life of quiet contentment in Sweet Valley. 

But when Jessica leaves her controlling and demanding husband and turns 

up on her sister’s doorstep, old passions are aroused, and the unthinkable 

happens. After all, didn’t Jessica go out with Todd first? 

Heartbroken, Elizabeth leaves Sweet Valley and tries to carve a name for 

herself as a theatre reviewer in New York. But she is burning with rage at 

what Jessica and Todd have done to her. For all of her life she’s been the 

good twin, the sweet twin, the play-by-the-rules twin. Now it’s time 

Elizabeth got her own back. 

But if she gives into the impulse for revenge, will she lose the second, 

unexpected chance at love that’s been waiting quietly for her in Sweet Valley 

for nearly ten years? 

Francine Pascal is one of the most popular fiction writers for teenagers 

today and the creator of several bestselling series, including Fearless and 

Sweet Valley High, which was also made into a television series. She has 

written several novels, including My First Love and Other Disasters, My 

Mother Was Never a Kid, and Love & Betrayal & Hold the Mayo. In writing 

her stories, Ms. Pascal is inspired by her own memories of growing up 

and by the experiences of her three daughters. Francine Pascal lives in 

New York and the south of France. 

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ALEX BERENSON 

The Midnight House 


price: 6.99 


pages: 400 

ISBN: 9780099536970 

‘Wells is an action hero, a close cousin of Jack Bauer of 24 fame’ 

Washington Post 

When members of a secret American interrogation squad that was running 

a black site in Poland in 2007 and 2008 and had since been disbanded are 

murdered, John Wells is asked to investigate. 

But his enquiries lead him to discover that while the squad came up with 

some very valuable intel, its tactics were questionable at best... 

Alex Berenson graduated from Yale University in 1994, with degrees in 

history and economics. After working at the Denver Post he joined the 

New York Times in 1999. In 2003 he spent three months reporting on 

the occupation in Iraq. He won the 2007 Edgar Award for Best First 

Novel By An American Author for his novel The Faithful Spy. He lives in 

New York City. 

CATHY WOODMAN 

The Sweetest Thing 


price: 6.99 


pages: 400 

ISBN: 9780099551638 

Katie Fforde meets James Herriott, Cathy Woodman’s gentle romances 

set in a fictional market town have been a huge success for Arrow 

Unexpectedly single at forty, Josie Copeland decides the only way to cope 

with life is to change it. So she gathers up her three children and moves 

them to the countryside where she buys a run-down barn, which she 

optimistically thinks she will do up. Life doesn’t turn out quite how she was 

expecting it, though, and to make ends meet Josie starts selling her 

delicious cakes and pastries in the farmers’ market at Talyton St George. 

They prove an immediate hit with the locals. 

If only Josie could say the same for her impact on local farmer Guy Barnes. 

He just seems amused and slightly scornful of her optimistic, townie ways. 

Still, Josie feels she’s getting the hang of country life, even if her house is 

falling down, her children are rebelling, and cows keep breaking into her 

garden. 

But when one of her children disappears on the coldest night of the year, 

it’s Guy Barnes she turns to... 

Cathy Woodman began her working life as a small animal vet before 

turning to writing fiction. She won the Harry Bowling First Novel 

Award in 2002 and is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association. 

She is also a sessional lecturer in Animal Management at a local college 

for land-based industries. Trust Me, I’m a Vet is the first of a series about 

Talyton St George, a fictional market town in beautiful East Devon 

where Cathy lived as a child. Cathy now lives with her husband, two 

children, two ponies, three exuberant Border Terriers and two cats in a 

village near Winchester, Hampshire.

JAMES CONAN 

The Coburg Conspiracy 


price: 7.99 


pages: 384 

ISBN: 9780099502180 

April, 1894 – one man has just eight days to stop the outbreak of war 

As a wave of anarchist violence sweeps through Europe’s capitals, royal 

circles believe that revolution may be imminent. 

But an international meeting of security chiefs in London decides such a 

thing is inconceivable. Complacently, they reject The Coburg Conspiracy, 

the one report that predicts the inevitable course of events. Its author is 

Thomas Ryder, former soldier and special political agent with the British 

Army in India. Ryder has dared think, and describe, the unthinkable: the 

simultaneous assassination of twenty-nine members of Europe’s most 

powerful extended royal family – the Saxe-Coburgs – including Kaiser 

Wilhelm II of Germany, the Tsar of Russia and Queen Victoria herself. If it 

happens, he argues, a world war will inevitably follow. 

When a bizarre murder desecrates the Royal Mausoleum at Windsor, Ryder 

is convinced that his nightmare scenario will become reality – in just eight 

days’ time. But he’s about to discover that the bigger the conspiracy the 

fewer the people who want to believe it... 

With Thomas Ryder, James Conan has created a most charismatic new 

character. Ryder is driven and dangerous: a hunter trained to track and kill, 

a loyal friend pursued by demons, a seeker of truth and liberty, an enemy 

who never gives up whatever the cost. A hero for all times. 

William Horwood was a city and feature editor with the London Daily 

Mail until 1978 when he wrote the first of his now classic Duncton 

Chronicles which became instant international bestsellers. His wideranging 

books since include his critically acclaimed memoir The Boy 

with No Shoes. Now, writing again as James Conan, he sets his new 

historical thriller in the city he first discovered and fell in love with as 

a Fleet Street journalist. William has been married three times, has six 

children and now lives in Oxford. 

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL 

Maya 


price: 7.99 


pages: 416 

ISBN: 9780099534648 

A novel from the acclaimed author of All in the Mind 

Maya Lowe is one of the world’s biggest movie stars. Steve Watkins is her 

lifelong friend. Both swear their relationship hasn’t changed since they 

shared a school desk as London teenagers. But can a friendship like theirs 

really survive a fame as great as Maya’s? Can a man like Steve, working 

away for a Heathrow logistics company, seriously remain part of her life? 

He certainly thinks so. But amid the twists and turns of Maya’s public and 

private lives, the gulf between what Steve thinks and what is actually true 

gets ever wider. And in a world where the obsession with celebrity seems to 

make everyone want to be one, truth is hard to find. 

Set in modern-day Britain, America and France, Alastair Campbell’s second 

novel is part psychological thriller, part exploration of the psychology of 

fame. Steve is a brilliantly ambiguous figure, narrating a story full of 

morally complex characters from the worlds of film, business, TV, 

journalism and private investigation. Whether through stars with a lovehate 

relationship with their public; agents milking the culture of celebrity; 

a media that cannot get enough because the public always want more, 

Campbell depicts a society feeding vainly on fame, and the dangerous 

consequences for those caught up in its frenzy. 

Alastair Campbell was born in Keighley, Yorkshire in 1957, the son of a 

vet. After graduating from Cambridge University in modern languages, 

his first chosen career was journalism, principally with the Mirror 

Group. When Tony Blair became leader of the Labour Party, he asked 

Campbell to be his press secretary. He worked for Blair - first in that 

capacity, then as official spokesman and director of communications 

and strategy - from 1994 to 2003, since when he has been engaged 

mainly in writing, public speaking and working for Leukaemia 

Research, where he is chairman of fundraising. He has continued to act 

as an advisor to Mr Blair and the Labour Party, including during the 

2005 election campaign. He lives in North London with his partner of 

25 years, Fiona Millar. They have three children. His interests include 

running, triathlon, bagpipes and Burnley Football Club. He is the 

author of the bestselling The Blair Years, extracts from his diaries, and 

the acclaimed novel All in the Mind. 

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JOHN FISHER 

The Tommy Cooper Joke Book 


price: 7.99 


pages: 192 

ISBN: 9781848091993 

Put the smile back into Christmas with the definitive Tommy 

Cooper Joke Book. Including the pick of Tommy’s own extensive gag 

library, favourite stories and photographs 

The other night I dreamt I was eating a ten-pound marshmallow. When I 

woke up the pillow had gone! 

I said to the doctor, ‘Doctor, I’m losing all sense of direction. What should 

I do?’ He said, ‘Get lost.’ 

I’ve got a dog, you know. I have. He’s a one-man dog. He only bites me. 

Tommy Cooper died on stage at Her Majesty’s Theatre, London, twentyfive 

years ago in April 1984 and is still revered today as probably the greatest 

comedian of the second half of the twentieth century. More than just a 

comedian, Tommy Cooper was a born entertainer. Working in a golden age 

of British comedy, Cooper stood - literally - head and shoulders above the 

crowd, and had a magical talent for humour that defied description. With a 

love of laughter stemming from a magic performance gone wrong when he 

was in his teens, Cooper enlisted in the army in 1939 and began to perfect 

his comic timing on his army colleagues in the Egyptian desert. The man 

with the fez was born. 

John Fisher has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a 

television producer and executive working for both the BBC and ITV. 

A recognised authority on the history of popular entertainment, he 

worked with Tommy Cooper on several occasions and includes the 

bestselling biography Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing 

amongst his published works. His critically acclaimed life of Cooper’s 

contemporary, Tony Hancock, was published last year. 

KATHY REICHS 

Mortal Remains 


price: 7.99 


pages: 384 

ISBN: 9780099492399 

The thirteenth Temperance Brennan thriller from international bestselling 

author, and world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs 

When Tempe is called to the scene of an autoerotic death, she has little idea 

of the tangled chain of events that will follow. Because the man whose body 

she is examining apparently died in a helicopter crash in Vietnam forty 

years before. So who is buried in the soldier’s grave? 

Tempe’s investigations take her to Honolulu where she is caught up not 

only in the mystery of the unidentified body in the soldier’s grave, but 

also dragged into investigating who, or what, killed the young men whose 

body parts have floated up onto a popular Hawaiian beach. And as Tempe 

gradually unravels the tangled threads of the mystery, it becomes clear that 

there are some who would rather the past stays dead and buried. And when 

Tempe proves difficult to frighten, they turn their attention to the person 

who means more to her than anyone else in the world. 

Kathy Reichs is forensic anthropologist for the Offices of the Chief 

Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratorie de 

Sciences Judiciaires et de M-decine L-gale for the province of Quebec. 

A professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at 

Charlotte, she divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal and is 

a frequent expert witness in criminal trials.

HOLLY MCQUEEN 

There Goes the Bride 


price: 6.99 


pages: 432 

ISBN: 9780099545767 

An hilarious tale of friendship and sisterhood, and what happens when 

friends interfere in each other’s lives 

Polly Atkins is getting married. 

And her older sister Bella couldn’t be more excited. Not only will Polly be 

home after five years in New York, but she’s coming back to marry the most 

perfect man on the planet, Dev. Dresses, cake, first dance … Bella can’t wait 

to get stuck into the arrangements. 

Polly’s best friend Grace is just as excited. She’s can’t wait to walk down 

the aisle behind her childhood ally, especially as the stylish Polly wouldn’t 

dream of dressing her bridesmaids in anything but the best, which will 

make a welcome change to the ‘mum-wear’ she’s adopted since her second 

child was born. 

The only person who doesn’t seem to be bursting with enthusiasm is Polly. 

Which is why, before things can get any more chaotic, she calls the whole 

thing off. And there’s no way she’s going to tell them why. Some secrets are 

best kept hidden. 

But she’s reckoned without Grace and Bella, who are determined to get 

Polly and Dev back together if it’s the last thing they do. After all, solving 

someone else’s problems has got to be better than dealing with their own? 

Holly McQueen has wanted to be a writer ever since discovering that 

the nuns at her junior school would let her off maths homework if she 

wrote a story instead. After unexpected detours via law, magazine 

journalism, and even musical theatre, she began writing her first novel 

in 2006. Holly lives with her husband in London. She still avoids 

maths. 

WILL CARVER 

Girl 4 


price: 6.99 


pages: 304 

ISBN: 9780099551034 

A major thriller launch from a chilling new voice in the genre 

Detective Inspector January David has always put his professional before his 

private life, but the two worlds are about to clash horrifically as he visits his 

latest crime scene. He is confronted by a lifeless figure suspended ten feet 

above a theatre stage, blood pouring from her face into a coffin below. This 

gruesome execution is the work of an elusive serial killer. 

Three women from three different London suburbs, each murdered with 

elaborate and chilling precision. And as January stares at the most beautiful 

corpse he’s ever seen, he detects the killer’s hallmark. 

But Girl 4 is different: she is alive – barely. And January recognises her… 

Will Carver is thirty years old. He is married and comes from Reading. 

Girl 4 is his first thriller. 

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TOM SHARPE 

The Wilt Inheritance 


price: 7.99 


pages: 336 

ISBN: 9780099493136 

Henry Wilt, Tom Sharpe’s beleaguered hero, returns again for another 

hilarious dose of quickfire farce 

Stuck in a job he doesn’t want – but can’t afford to lose – as nominal Head 

of the Communications Department at Fenland University, Wilt is still 

subject to the whims of The Powers That Be, both in and outside of work. 

The demands of his snobbish wife Eva, and the stupendous school fees of 

his despicable quadruplet daughters, cause him the biggest headaches… 

apart from the hangovers, that is. When Eva signs him up for a summer 

job, teaching the gun-toting idiot son of a lusty local aristocrat, Wilt is not 

amused. But, as circumstances unravel and the summer goes on, Wilt sees 

that the situation could be put to his financial advantage, as well as giving 

Eva some headaches of her own. 

With Tom Sharpe’s famous dark humour in full evidence, and an explosive 

plot which takes its readers to places they never realised they wanted to 

visit, The Wilt Inheritance is another instant classic from the British master 

of farce. 

Tom Sharpe was born in 1928 and educated at Lancing College and 

Pembroke College, Cambridge. He did his National Service in the 

Marines before going to South Africa in 1951, where he did social work 

before teaching in Natal. He had a photographic studio in 

Pietermaritzburg from 1957 until 1961. From 1963 to 1972 he was a 

lecturer in History at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. 

He is the author of sixteen bestselling novels, including Porterhouse Blue 

and Blott on the Landscape which were serialised on television, and Wilt 

which was made into a film and in 2010 he was awarded the 

inaugural BBK La Risa de Bilbao Prize. He is married and divides his 

time between Cambridge, England, and northern Spain. 

ALLIE SPENCER 

Summer Loving 


price: 6.99 


pages: 400 

ISBN: 9780099557050 

One villa, four friends, a whole heap of trouble... 

Beth, Ginny, Kirsten and Anna are all set for a holiday of sun, sea and 

frolics. The four have been friends since university and now, as Ginny is 

about to get married to Tony - Beth’s first love from university - it’s time to 

catch up, reminisce, and maybe indulge in a holiday romance or two. But 

the bars, clubs and beaches of their imaginings are a far cry from the slow, 

quiet pace of life on Liminaki, and with nothing better to do, the girls find 

themselves spending far too much time in each other’s company. As the 

tension rises, old rivalries are reignited and the truth about their lives begins 

to surface. Ginny really isn’t sure about Tony. Tony thinks he still loves 

Beth. Beth is falling in love with Greg. Kirsten refuses to tell Jack about her 

visa problems ... And Anna is finally convinced she has found true love. 

Can it all be sorted out in two short weeks? 

Allie Spencer is an author with many strings to her bow. She gained a 

BA in English and Related Literature and an MA in Medieval Studies 

before reading for the Bar. She completed pupillage in London with a 

leading set of family law barristers and then joined a firm of solicitors 

as a matrimonial specialist. 

She is the author of two novels: Tug of Love, which won the Romantic 

Novelists’ Association New Writers’ Scheme prize for the best debut of 

2009 and was shortlisted for the 2010 Melissa Nathan Award for 

Comedy Romance, and The Not-So-Secret Diary of a City Girl.

SUSAN LEWIS 

No Turning Back 


price: 11.99 


pages: 480 

ISBN: 9780099550686 

The compelling new novel from the bestselling author of Missing 

Eva believes she is alone in the apartment until she hears someone speaking 

her name. Turning around she finds a stranger standing in the middle of the 

room. He seems to know her, to think she left the door open for him, but 

she’s never seen him before. She begs him not to hurt her, to take whatever 

he wants, but his only interest is in her. He has found her at last and now, 

tonight, she will lose everything, her beauty, her career, her lover and the 

dazzling future that lay ahead of her. 

Sixteen years later Eva has managed to rebuild her life in a way that seemed 

impossible after the attack. Her home in Dorset, high on the cliffs overlooking 

the sea, is as elegant as Eva herself, but bears none of the scars. The 

love she shares with her husband, Don, has become the very mainstay of 

her existence. Her sister, Patty, lives nearby, and her adored niece, Olivia, is 

helping to run the exclusive boutique Eva owns. To an outsider Eva’s world 

seems perfect in every way, however behind the glamorous and privileged 

facade there is more tragedy and deceit than even she is aware of. All she 

knows is that her mother left when she was a child and never came back. 

And that sixteen years ago, when she had a child of her own, she made the 

biggest mistake of her life. 

It is when the past starts to invade the present that the greatest betrayal of 

all shatters Eva’s perfect world, and then shatters it again and again. She is 

left with almost nothing to hold onto, until fate performs another shocking 

twist and happiness is right there ready and willing to sweep her to safety if 

she’ll dare to go. 

Susan Lewis is the bestselling author of twenty-five novels. She is also 

the author of Just One More Day, a moving memoir of her childhood 

in Bristol. Having resided in France for many years she now lives in 

Gloucestershire. Her website address is www.susanlewis.com. 

EDITED BY MURRAY HEDGCOCK 

Wodehouse at the Wicket 

A Cricketing Anthology 


price: 7.99 


pages: 224 

ISBN: 9780099551362 

P.G. Wodehouse and cricket - the unbeatable combination of all things 

English! 

From his early days Wodehouse adored cricket, and references to the game 

run like a golden thread though his writings. He not only wrote about 

this glorious British pastime, but also played it well, appearing six times at 

Lords, where his first captain was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 

Illustrated with wonderful drawings and contemporary score-sheets, 

Wodehouse at the Wicket is the first ever compendium of Wodehouse’s 

writings on cricket. Edited by cricket historian Murray Hedgcock, this 

delightful book also contains fascinating facts about Wodehouse’s cricketing 

career and how it is reflected in his work. 

This is the perfect gift for Wodehouse readers and fans of all things cricket. 

The author of almost a hundred books and the creator of Jeeves, 

Blandings Castle, Psmith, Ukridge, Uncle Fred and Mr Mulliner, P.G. 

Wodehouse was born in 1881 and educated at Dulwich College. After 

two years with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank he became a fulltime 

writer, contributing to a variety of periodicals. As well as his novels 

and short stories, he wrote lyrics for musical comedies, and at one stage 

had five shows running simultaneously on Broadway. 

At the age of 93, in the New Year’s Honours List of 1975, he received a 

long-overdue Knighthood, only to die on St Valentine’s Day some 45 

days later. 

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ROSS KEMP 

Devil to Pay 


price: 6.99 


pages: 384 

ISBN: 9780099550563 

The blistering debut novel from the UK’s most renowned TV journalist 

Nick vowed he would never go back. 

His platoon torn apart and killed by a Taliban ambush, his best friend 

slaughtered, all because of military mistake, made Keen swear never to fight 

for Queen and Country ever again. 

While he struggles to adapt to life on Civvy Street, his vow is tested when 

the beautiful fiance of his best friend begs him to return to Afghanistan to 

recover his body. 

Despite the danger, and the pleas of his teenage daughter, Keen agrees to 

return. Back to the place that haunts his dreams. Back to the brutal country 

where he was forced to watch his men die. In search of a friend he thought 

of as a brother. 

This time he’s going alone. 

Yet not everything is what it seems. Keen’s bloody journey becomes a quest 

into the impenetrable heart of a war-ravaged nation and a brutal, thrilling 

struggle for the truth. 

Born in Essex in 1964, Ross Kemp is best known as one half of the 

infamous Mitchell brothers in BBC’s EastEnders. Most recently, Kemp 

has received international recognition as an investigative journalist for 

his critically acclaimed and award-winning documentary series, which 

include Ross Kemp on Gangs (2006) and Ross Kemp in Afghanistan (2008). 

Ross Kemp in Afghanistan came about when Ross heard that his father’s 

old regiment, 1st Battalion the Royal Anglian Regiment, were to be 

deployed in Helmand province. Filming took place over a year and 

followed the soldiers from their pre-deployment training to their return 

to the UK. The series won a Broadcast Award and was followed in 2009 

by Ross Kemp: Return to Afghanistan, where Ross spent time with the men 

of 5 Scots, 16 Air Assault and the Royal Marines 45 Commando. 

Ross lives in London, is a keen rugby fan and is a Patron of Help for 

Heroes. 

KATIE FLYNN 

The Lost Days of Summer 


price: 6.99 


pages: 480 

ISBN: 9780099550525 

The bestselling Katie Flynn returns with another heartwarming saga 

In September 1939, fourteen-year-old Vinny Matthews leaves Liverpool to 

go and live with an elderly aunt on the Isle of Anglesey. At first Vinny hates 

everything about Wales and the farm, and she especially dislikes her Aunt 

Non, an embittered former teacher who is determined to further Vinny’s 

education. 

Used to the busy life of Liverpool, Vinny wanders the island, spending long 

hours watching the comings and goings of a family who live on the cliffs. 

Life finally starts to improve for her as she begins a tentative friendship with 

one of the boys from the family. 

For Aunt Non, Vinny’s presence brings back memories of her own girlhood 

and she begins to relive her former happiness in Liverpool, and the events 

which led up to her marriage to a Welsh farmer and her isolation in the 

wilds of Anglesey. 

Katie Flynn has lived for many years in the north-west. A compulsive 

writer, she started with short stories and articles and many of her early 

stories were broadcast on Radio Merseyside. She decided to write her 

Liverpool series after hearing the reminiscences of family members 

about life in the city in the early years of the twentieth century. She also 

writes as Judith Saxton.




price: 12.99 


pages: 384 

ISBN: 9780099543770 

















decade – the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club and Detective Michael 

Bennett novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers 



James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by 

his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books 




at the Children’s Choice Book Awards. 

KATHY REICHS 

Virals 

YOUNG ARROW 


price: 12.99 


pages: 320 

ISBN: 9780099543930 

Fantastic new series of novels from the Sunday Times bestselling author 

Kathy Reichs 

When Tory Brennan’s mother dies suddenly she is sent to live with the 

father she has never met on a remote island in South Carolina. Tory might 

find getting to know her dad difficult, but she has no trouble making 

friends with the island’s other teenage inhabitants: Shelton, Hi and Ben. 

They quickly form their own gang, united against the snobby pupils of the 

high school they all attend. 

Things change dramatically for them, though, when they rescue a sick wolfdog 

puppy who they find locked in a secret cage in a research laboratory. 

The four nurse him through his illness in their bunker hideout, until he 

is better. But it’s not long before they all fall sick. Could their illness have 

something to do with the puppy? And why is the head of the laboratory so 

interested in their health? 

Sneaking back onto the island to try to find out what’s going on, the four 

are shocked to discover some long-buried human bones. But they are not 

the only ones wandering on the island that night, and when shots are fired 

the gang are forced to run for their lives. Suddenly Tory feels she could run 

all night. Shelton sees more sharply; Hi can smell odours he’s never noticed 

before. And Ben’s eyes have changed colour. 

Alarmed by the change in each other, they retreat to their bunker. It’s clear 

they have become involved in something fatally dangerous, and somehow 

they need to discover what is going on before somebody silences them for 

good. And if what they suspect is true, that somehow they have developed 

canine capabilities, then harnessing those powers could be the only way to 

save themselves. 

Kathy Reichs is forensic anthropologist for the Offices of the Chief 

Medical Examiner, State of North Carolina, and for the Laboratorie de 

Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Quebec. 

She divides her time between Charlotte and Montreal and is a frequent 

expert witness in criminal trials. 

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WINDMILL 

PAUL HARDING 

Tinkers 


price: 7.99 


pages: 192 

ISBN: 9780099538042 

WINNER OF THE 2010 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 

An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the 

walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their 

sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks, showering him with a 

lifetime of debris: newspaper clippings, old photographs, wool jackets, rusty 

tools, and the mangled brass works of antique clocks. Soon, the clouds 

from the sky above plummet down on top of him, followed by the stars, 

till the black night covers him like a shroud. He is hallucinating, in death 

throes from cancer and kidney failure. 

A methodical repairer of clocks, he is now finally released from the usual 

constraints of time and memory to rejoin his father, an epileptic, itinerant 

peddler, whom he had lost seven decades before. In his return to the 

wonder and pain of his impoverished childhood in the backwoods of 

Maine, he recovers a natural world that is at once indifferent to man and 

inseparable from him, menacing and awe-inspiring. 

Heartbreaking and life-affirming, Tinkers is an elegiac meditation on love, 

loss, and the fierce beauty of nature. 

Paul Harding has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has 

taught writing at Harvard and The University of Iowa. He lives near 

Boston with his wife and two sons. Tinkers is his first novel. 

HEATHER BROOKE 

The Silent State 


price: 8.99 


pages: 288 

ISBN: 9780099537625 

A modern classic of journalism and an iconic investigation of power in 

twenty-first-century Britain, by one of the country’s leading reporters 

Award-winning investigative journalist Heather Brooke exposes the 

shocking and farcical lack of transparency at all levels of government. At 

a time when the state knows more than ever about us, Brooke argues that 

without proper access to the information that citizens pay for, Britain can 

never be a true democracy. 

*SECRECY*: anonymous bureaucrats, clandestine courts, men in tights 

and the true cost of ‘public’ information. *PROPAGANDA*: spin, PR and 

bullshitting by numbers. The British government spent £38m more on 

advertising last year than their closest competitor, Proctor and Gamble – 

find out what they spent it on! *SURVEILLANCE*: discover the extent of 

Britain’s network of databases spying on ordinary citizens. *EXPENSES*: 

read, for the first time, the exclusive and definitive account of Brooke’s fiveyear 

campaign to have MPs’ expenses revealed, which rocked the nation and 

transformed Britain’s political landscape. 

Heather Brooke is a freelance journalist and Freedom of Information 

campaigner famous for uncovering the MPs’ expenses scandal. She is a 

visiting professor at City University’s Department of Journalism and is 

also the author of Your Right to Know. In 2009 she was named 

Reformer of the Year and won the Setting the Political Agenda Award 

from the Political Studies Association.

CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN 

The Day the Falls Stood Still 


price: 7.99 


pages: 320 

ISBN: 9780099533344 

From a remarkable new voice in fiction, a powerful debut novel set in 

Niagara Falls at the time of the First World War 

Niagara Falls, 1915 

When Bess Heath returns to her family home near the picturesque falls, it is 

to an unfamiliar scene – the elegance of the life she once knew has 

vanished. Her father is a broken man, jobless and losing hope, and her 

mother is struggling to keep the family afloat. Isabel, the lively, charismatic 

sister Bess has always relied on is almost unrecognisable. Her engagement 

called off, she languishes in her bedroom, brooding and refusing to eat. 

Through all of this Bess finds solace in Tom Cole, a man she met by chance 

the night she returned home. Constant, gentle and devoted to Bess, he 

understands better than anyone the awesome and potentially devastating 

power of the falls – and consoles her through a tragedy that nearly ruins 

her. But as their lives become more fully entwined, Bess is forced to make a 

painful choice between what she wants and what is best for her family... 

Cathy Marie Buchanan was born and raised in Niagara Falls and now 

lives in Toronto. A graduate of the Humber School of Writing, her 

fiction has appeared in many of Canada’s premier journals. The Day the 

Falls Stood Still is her first novel. 

AIMEE BENDER 

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake 


price: 11.99 


pages: 304 

ISBN: 9780099538271 

The US bestseller comes to the UK - the unforgettable story of a girl 

whose magical gift becomes a devastating curse 

On the eve of her ninth birthday Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of 

her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s homemade lemonchocolate 

cake and to her horror discovers that she can taste her mother’s 

emotions in the slice. And her mother - her cheerful, can-do mother – 

tastes of despair and desperation. 

Suddenly food becomes perilous. Anything can be revealed by any meal – 

truths about her mother’s life outside the home, her father’s strange 

detachment and her brother’s clash with the world. Yet as Rose grows up, 

she realises there are some secrets that even her taste buds cannot discern. 

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is a luminous tale about the 

heartbreak of loving those whom you know too much about. Aimee 

Bender’s writing illuminates the strangeness of everyday life. 

Aimee Bender is the author of the novel An Invisible Sign of My Own and 

of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Wilful Creatures. 

Her work has been widely anthologised and has been translated into 

ten languages. She lives in Los Angeles. Read more about Aimee Bender 

and her work at www.flammableskirt.com. 

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MIKE THOMAS 

Pocket Notebook 


price: 7.99 


pages: 288 

ISBN: 9780099537489 

A darkly humorous tale of an out-of-control policeman experiencing a 

spectacular breakdown 

Meet Jacob Smith, your good-old British policeman. But Jacob’s no 

ordinary beat bobby. He’s a tactical firearms officer; a handsome, popular, 

financially secure specialist. He’s a connoisseur of fine cinema, who also 

enjoys his expansive collection of do-it-yourself ‘art’ DVD’s (the latest of 

which was ‘borrowed’ during a drugs warrant). And he likes to keep himself 

in shape, hence the large steroid habit – and the even larger amount of 

money he owes his dealer. And did we mention he’s partial to women’s feet? 

The girlfriend who’s desperately trying to shrug him off? Or what about his 

parents’ dark past? 

And now his family and friends are starting to worry ... and his police 

superiors are increasingly taking notice of the way he conducts himself. 

Jake’s a very busy boy. And life is about to get even more complicated... 

Pocket Notebook is the brilliant debut novel from serving police officer Mike 

Thomas. An angry black comedy, it follows Jacob’s very public fall from 

grace, all of which he meticulously records in his police notebook. 

Mike Thomas is a 38-year-old serving police officer and has been a 

freelance writer for several years, publishing travel articles, web shorts 

and short fiction. Currently in the final throes of his Masters degree, he 

is married with two children. Pocket Notebook is his first novel. 

DAVID. R. DOW 

Killing Time 


price: 8.99 


pages: 288 

ISBN: 9780099537533 

A desperate race against time to save an innocent man 

Shortlisted for The CWA Gold Dagger for Non Fiction 

David Dow is a leading death-row attorney in Texas, where 99% of appeals 

are rejected. He knows his clients are guilty, but he defends them because 

he believes murder is wrong. 

Henry Quaker is a quiet man, charged with murdering his childhood 

sweetheart and their two children. All the evidence is against him: he’s 

mentally unstable, his gun is missing, his son’s blood was found in his car, 

and he’d taken out life insurance on his family immediately before their 

murder. But as Dow painstakingly pieces the case together, he gradually 

becomes convinced that Quaker – whose execution is just weeks away – is 

actually innocent. 

This is the real story of death row; of corrupt lawyers, judges who are hostile 

to the very idea of justice and executioners who rely on inmates for moral 

support. Killing Time is a modern classic; both a searing and 

haunting memoir, and a story that will have you holding your breath until 

the last page. 

David R. Dow is professor of law at the University of Houston Law 

Center and an internationally recognised figure in the fight against the 

death penalty. He is the founder and director of the Texas Innocence. 

He lives in Houston, Texas.

HEATHER CLAY 

Losing Charlotte 


price: 6.99 


pages: 272 

ISBN: 9780099445562 

An atmospheric, beautifully written and moving debut novel from a 

major new talent 

Losing Charlotte is the story of two sisters who grew up together on a horse 

ranch in Kentucky. Knox, the younger of the two girls, always lived in the 

shadow of her older sister Charlotte, who moved to New York City after 

college. But even as their lives go in different directions, the two sisters 

remain extremely close. 

At the age of 30, Charlotte meets and falls in love with Bruce, and they get 

engaged a few months later. When Charlotte becomes pregnant her family 

fly to New York to be with her during the birth, and they find she has just 

given birth to premature twins. Knox and Bruce see her briefly afterwards 

and are caught up in euphoria and delight. 

Then disaster strikes. Nothing could have prepared Knox for the loss of her 

sister. But the powerful bond remains, and she finds her loyalty to 

Charlotte tested more profoundly and fatefully than she could have 

imagined. As she starts to come to terms with her elusive sister’s life, Knox 

learns deeply moving lessons for her own... 

Heather Clay brings together themes of love, loss and the tangled threads of 

family relationships in this stylish and compelling debut. 

Heather Clay is a graduate of Middlebury College and Columbia 

University’s School of the Arts. She has published short fiction in The 

New Yorker’s debut fiction issue, and written for Parenting magazine. 

She lives in New York City with her husband and their two daughters. 

This is her first novel. 

TIM PEARS 

Landed 


price: 7.99 


pages: 240 

ISBN: 9780099537472 

The powerful and richly evocative new novel from acclaimed prizewinning 

author Tim Pears 

Brought up in the Anglo-Welsh borders by an affectionate but alcoholic and 

feckless mother, Owen Ithell’s sense of self is rooted in his long, vivid visits 

to his grandparents’ small farm in the hills. 

As an adult he moves to an English city where he builds a new life, working 

as a gardener. He meets Mel, they have children. He believes he has found 

happiness – and love – of a sort. 

But a tragic accident changes the course of his life and the lives of those 

he loves is changed forever. Owen is haunted by suicidal thoughts. In his 

despair, he resolves to reconnect with both his past and the natural world, 

and with his children he embarks on a long, fateful journey, walking to the 

Welsh borders of his childhood. 

Perfectly poised between the hope of redemption and the threat of 

irrevocable tragedy, Landed is Tim Pears’ most assured and beguiling novel 

to date. 

Tim Pears is the author of five novels: In the Place of Fallen Leaves (which 

won the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award), 

In a Land of Plenty, A Revolution of the Sun, Wake Up and Blenheim 

Orchard. In a Land of Plenty was made into a ten-part BBC TV series. 

Tim Pears has also received the Lannan Award in USA. He lives in 

Oxford. 

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ZAIBA MALIK 

We Are a Muslim, Please 


price: 8.99 


pages: 288 

ISBN: 9780099522270 

An enchanting and dramatic memoir of growing up in Bradford as a 

British Muslim in the seventies and eighties 

For Zaiba Malik, growing up in Bradford in the seventies and eighties 

certainly has its moments – staying up all night during Ramadan with her 

father; watching mad Mr Aziz searching for his goat during Eid; dancing 

along to Top of the Pops (so long as no one’s watching). And, of course, 

there’s her mother – whether she’s writing another ingratiating letter to the 

Queen or repeatedly referring to Tom Jones as ‘Thumb Jone’. 

But Zaiba’s story is also one of anxiety and seemingly irreconcilable 

opposites. Growing up she is constantly torn between two identities: 

‘British’ and ‘Muslim’. Alienated at school and confused at home, the 

racism she encounters as a child mirrors the horrors she experiences at the 

hands of Bangladeshi interrogators as a journalist years later. 

Six years after the 7/7 attacks galvanized debates about Muslim-British 

identity, We Are a Muslim, Please is a stirring and enchanting memoir. We 

see, through Zaiba’s childhood eyes, the poignancy of growing up in a 

world whose prejudices, contradictions and ambiguities are at once 

distressing and utterly captivating. 

Zaiba Malik is an award-winning investigative journalist who has 

worked on some of the BBC and Channel 4’s most acclaimed radio and 

TV documentaries, including ‘Sleepers: Undercover with the Racists’, 

‘Dispatches: Trouble at the Mosque’ and ‘Killing for Honour’. She 

writes for newspapers including the Guardian, and was recently named 

as one of the twenty most influential black and Asian women in the 

UK. 

ANNA QUINDLEN 

Every Last One 


price: 7.99 


pages: 320 

ISBN: 9780099537960 

The mesmerising and heart-rending new book from the No.1 New York 

Times bestselling novelist 

Mary Beth has built her life around her close knit and much loved family: 

husband Glen, their beautiful and talented 17-year-old daughter Ruby, and 

14-year-old twins Alex and Matt. The Lathams lead busy everyday lives 

only faintly troubled by Matt’s recent diagnosis of mild depression and 

Ruby’s split from her long-time boyfriend Kiernan. 

On New Year’s Eve the family goes to an annual neighbourhood party and 

Mary Beth and Glen return home in the early hours happy but slightly the 

worse for wear. They go to bed only to be disturbed by the noise of the children 

and Glen goes downstairs to investigate. The shocking violence of that 

night’s events shatters the family and Mary Beth is left to face an uncertain 

future and to try to somehow rebuild her life. 

Every Last One is an unforgettable portrait of a mother and a family and of 

the brutal consequences of seemingly inconsequential actions. 

Anna Quindlen is the author of five bestselling novels and has won a 

Pulitzer Prize for her New York Times column ‘Public and Private’. She 

lives with her family in New York City.

ANTHONY SATTIN 

A Winter on the Nile 


price: 8.99 


pages: 320 

ISBN: 9780099534082 

A brilliant account of Florence Nightingale’s life-changing journey 

down the Nile in 1849 

In the winter of 1849, Florence Nightingale was an unknown 29-year-old 

– beautiful, well-born and deeply unhappy. After clashing with her parents 

over her refusal to marry, she had been offered a lifeline by family friends 

who suggested a trip to Egypt, a country which she had always longed to 

visit. 

By an extraordinary coincidence, taking the same boat from Alexandria was 

an unpublished French writer, Gustave Flaubert. Like Nightingale, he was 

at the crossroads in his life that was to lead to future acclaim and literary 

triumph. As it did for her, Egypt for him represented escape and freedom 

as well as inspiration. But as a wealthy young man travelling with male 

friends, he had access to an altogether different Egpyt: where Nightingale 

sought out temples and dispensaries, Flaubert visited brothels and harems. 

Both of them were entranced, moved and liberated by the wonders of 

the Nile. As privileged early travellers, they saw an ancient landscape 

unchanged for centuries, and visited monuments still familiar to tourists 

today. And both wrote magnificently about the sights they saw. 

This is a book about a key moment in the life of Florence Nightingale, a 

tantalising portrait of a young woman on the brink of international fame. 

But it also wonderfully counterpoints her journey with that of a future 

French literary genius, and it provides fascinating insight into the early days 

of travel to one of the greatest tourist destinations on the planet. 

Anthony Sattin is the author of several highly acclaimed books, 

including Lifting the Veil, The Pharaoh’s Shadow and The Gates of Africa. 

He discovered and edited two exceptional manuscripts, Harriet Tytler’s 

unique memoir of the Indian Mutiny of 1857, and Florence 

Nightingale’s letters home from her journey of self-discovery up the 

Nile in 1849–1850. He has also edited a collection of stories, A House 

Somewhere, Tales of Life Abroad. 

NICK ARVIN 

The Reconstructionist 


price: 7.99 


pages: 240 

ISBN: 9780099538073 

‘Arvin is capable of sentences that stop you cold’ Newsweek 

At a loose end after college, Ellis Barstow drifts back to his home town and 

a strange profession: reconstructing fatal traffic accidents. He seems to take 

to the work immediately, and forms a bond with his boss and mentor, John 

Boggs, an intriguing character of few but telling words. 

Yet Ellis is harbouring a secret. He was drawn to the reconstructionist’s 

grisly world by the fatal crash that killed his half-brother Christopher 

and that still haunts him; in fact his life has been shaped by car accidents. 

Boggs, in his exacting way, would argue that ‘accident’ is not the right 

word, that if two cars meeting at an intersection can be called an accident 

then anything can – where we live, what we do, even who we fall in love 

with. 

For Ellis these things are certainly no accident. And he harbours a second, 

more dangerous secret, one that threatens to blow apart the men’s lives 

and which, as the story’s quiet momentum builds, leads to a desperate race 

towards confrontation, reconciliation and survival. 

Nick Arvin grew up in Michigan and has degrees in mechanical 

engineering from the University of Michigan and Stanford. A 

graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is the author of two books: 

In the Electric Eden: Stories and Articles of War, which was included in the 

Books of the Year in the Independent and Esquire magazine. His work has 

appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and the Rocky Mountain 

News, and his numerous awards include the Rosenthal Foundation 

Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Boyd Award 

from the American Library Association, the Colorado Book Award, 

and fellowships from the Michener-Copernicus Society, the Isherwood 

Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. 

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RAY ROBINSON 

Forgetting Zoe 


price: 7.99 


pages: 288 

ISBN: 9780099537632 

Intensely moving novel following Zoe’s kidnap, captivity and escape 

eight years later 

Zoë Nielsen was just like any other ten-year-old walking to school, not 

knowing that a chance encounter with Thurman Hayes would lead to her 

abduction and imprisonment in a converted nuclear bunker beneath a 

remote Arizona ranch house. 

Back home, 4,000 miles away on an island off the coast of Newfoundland, 

the press coverage surrounding Zoe’s mother, Ingrid, is rapidly turning 

sour. Even the arrest of a suspect and Ingrid’s newly established relationship 

with Zoë’s father isn’t enough to stop the nightmare from which there is no 

waking. 

Enslaved in her underground tomb, deprived of food and light and water, 

the girl Zoe once was steadily begins to disappear. Allowed to see and hear 

only what Thurman permits, she lives in a world that is all about his needs 

and wants being met… 

But over time Thurman will grow tired of the rapidly maturing Zoë. And 

when he decides it is time to get rid of her, Zoë must finally make her bid 

for freedom. 

Forgetting Zoë is a moving, epic tale of courage, survival, horror and loss, 

that explores how a bond of affection and intimacy can develop between 

captive and captor. 

Ray Robinson was born in North Yorkshire in 1971. After training as a 

graphic designer he spent many years teaching in Eastern Europe and 

Scandinavia. His prize-winning stories are widely published in literary 

journals and he is the author of two novels, The Man Without and 

Electricity, which was nominated for the James Tait Black Memorial 

Prize and the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award. He is a postgraduate 

of Lancaster University where he was awarded a PhD in 

Creative Writing in 2006 and is a Literary Mentor for The Literary 

Consultancy. He lives in Manchester. For more information visit the 

author’s website: www.themanwithout.com. 

JAMES ELLROY 

The Hilliker Curse 


price: 8.99 


pages: 224 

ISBN: 9780099537854 

A raw, explicit memoir as high-intensity and riveting as any of Ellroy’s 

novels. The theme: the author’s obsessive pursuit of women 

America’s greatest living crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir 

about his obsessive search for ‘atonement in women’. 

The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler 

husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years 

old. He hated and lusted for his mother and ‘summoned her dead’. She was 

murdered three months later. 

The Hilliker Curse is a predator’s confession, a treatise on guilt and the 

power of malediction, and above all a cri de cœur. Ellroy unsparingly 

describes his shattered childhood, his delinquent teens, his writing life, his 

love affairs and marriages, his nervous breakdown and the beginning of a 

relationship with an extraordinary woman who may just be the long-sought 

Her. 

A layered narrative of time and place, emotion and insight, sexuality and 

spiritual quest, The Hilliker Curse is a brilliant, soul-baring revelation of self. 

It is unlike any memoir you have ever read. 

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the 

acclaimed ‘LA Quartet’: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA 

Confidential and White Jazz. His most recent novel, Blood’s a Rover, 

completes the magisterial ‘Underworld USA trilogy’ - the first two 

volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were 

both Sunday Times bestsellers.

JAMES ELLROY 

The Best American Noir of the Century 


price: 9.99 


pages: 640 

ISBN: 9780099538257 

A magisterial anthology of American noir writing in the twentieth 

century 

In his introduction to the The Best American Noir of the Century, James 

Ellroy writes, ‘noir is the most scrutinised offshoot of the hard-boiled school 

of fiction. It’s the long drop off the short pier and the wrong man and the 

wrong woman in perfect misalliance. It’s the nightmare of flawed souls with 

big dreams and the precise how and why of the all-time sure thing that goes 

bad’. Offering the best examples of literary sure things gone bad, this 

collection ensures that nowhere else can readers find a darker, more 

thorough distillation of American noir fiction. 

James Ellroy and Otto Penzler, series editor of the annual The Best American 

Mystery Stories, mined one hundred years of writing—1910–2010—to find 

this treasure trove of thirty-nine stories. From noir’s twenties-era infancy 

come gems like James M. Cain’s ‘Pastorale’, and its post-war heyday boasts 

giants like Mickey Spillane and Evan Hunter. Packing an undeniable 

punch, diverse contemporary incarnations include Elmore Leonard, Dennis 

Lehane, Patricia Highsmith and William Gay, with many page-turners 

appearing in the last decade. 

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the 

acclaimed ‘LA Quartet’: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA 

Confidential and White Jazz. His most recent novel, Blood’s a Rover, 

completes the magisterial ‘Underworld USA trilogy’ - the first two 

volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were 

both Sunday Times bestsellers. 

RACHEL SIMON 

The Story of Beautiful Girl 


price: 11.99 


pages: 352 

ISBN: 9780099558378 

A devastatingly powerful and memorable novel for readers of The 

Memory Keeper’s Daughter 

The Story of Beautiful Girl is a first novel from Rachel Simon, whose 

memoir, Riding the Bus With My Sister, was a US bestseller, and told the 

story of Simon reconnecting as an adult with her mentally disabled sister 

over the course of one year. 

The novel opens in Pennsylvania in 1968. One night, Lynnie and her 

sweetheart Homan escape from The School for the Incurable and 

Feebleminded. They find refuge in the farmhouse of the widow Martha, a 

retired schoolteacher, where they reveal that Lynnie has a newborn baby. 

But moments later, the police are at the door. Homan manages to escape 

into the darkness, but as Lynnie is being taken back to the school, she 

whispers two words to Martha: ‘Hide her.’ And so begins a forty-year 

odyssey: of three people trying to keep their secrets and yet find their way 

back to each other; and a woman whose lonely life is forever changed by 

her promise. 

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Tick Tock 

Unabridged 

Read by Andre Braugher and Scott Sowers 


price: 10.76 

format: 6 CDs 

run time: 7 hours 

ISBN: 9781846572685 

The city has never been more terrified. NYC’s number one detective, 

Michael Bennett, has a huge problem – someone is recreating the 

crimes of infamous killers from New York’s history. 

A rash of horrifying crimes tears through the city, throwing it into complete 

chaos and terrorising everyone living there. Immediately, it becomes clear 

that they are not the work of an amateur, but of a calculating, efficient, and 

deadly mastermind. 

The city calls on Detective Michael Bennett, pulling him away from a 

seaside retreat with his ten adopted children, his grandfather, and their 

beloved nanny, Mary Catherine. Not only does it tear apart their first 

vacation since Michael’s wife Maeve died – it leaves the entire family open 

to attack. 

Bennett enlists the help of a former colleague, FBI Agent Emily Parker. As 

his affection for Emily grows into something stronger, his relationship with 

Mary Catherine takes an unexpected turn. All too soon, another appalling 

crime leads Bennett to a shocking discovery that exposes the killer’s pattern 

and the earth-shattering enormity of his plan. 













JAMES HENRY 

First Frost 

Abridged 

Read by David Jason 


price: 14.67 

format: 3 CDs 


ISBN: 9781846573033 

R.D. Wingfield’s unforgettable Detective Jack Frost returns in... First 

Frost 

Denton, 1981. Britain is in recession, the IRA is becoming increasingly 

active and the country’s on alert for an outbreak of rabies. 

Detective Sergeant Jack Frost is working under his mentor and inspiration 

DI Bert Williams, and coping badly with his increasingly strained marriage. 

Probably not helped by the fact that he never goes home… 

Superintendent Stanley Mullett has been at Denton for only six months, 

and is desperately trying to restore order within the chronically depleted 

ranks, while refurbishing the dilapidated Eagle Lane HQ. 

But DI Williams is nowhere to be seen, and DI Allen has failed to return 

from his walking holiday. So when a twelve-year-old girl goes missing from 

a department store changing room, Mullet has no option but to put DS 

Frost in charge of the investigation... 

James Gurbutt is a publisher at Constable & Robinson, R.D. 

Wingfield’s first publisher. 

Henry Sutton is the author of seven novels and Books Editor at the 

Daily Mirror. He also teaches creative writing at the UEA.

RONNIE CORBETT 

High Hopes 

Abridged 

Read by the author 


price: 9.79 

format: 3 CDs 


ISBN: 9781846573170 

Available on CD for the first time, the autobiography of one of Britain’s 

best-loved entertainers 

‘This is my autobiography, the exciting story of how I, Ronald Corbett, 

the son of an Edinburgh baker, became convinced that I had to seek my 

fortune and become an actor, of how I pursued that goal, found fame on 

television as one of The Two Ronnies, and managed to meet a fabulous cast 

of extraordinary people along the way. 

First I’ll take you back to my schooldays and reveal the technique I 

developed for estimating the height of a girl before daring to ask her to 

dance. Then, for the first time, I’ll fearlessly tell of my arrival in London 

and of my job of night club barman. I’ll explain how I first met David 

Frost, John Cleese and Michael Palin, and shamelessly reveal how I once 

played Othello to Danny La Rue’s Desdemona, having just had dinner with 

Laurence Olivier. 

And then there was The Two Ronnies, an incredibly successful television 

show with a man in glasses who, rather spookily, had the same first name 

as me. You can find out about how we tried to avoid becoming a double 

act, and why it was always goodnight from me and goodnight from him, 

but never ever goodnight from us. I’ll also tell you about the time I was 

suddenly struck down by a mysterious illness which destroyed my sense of 

balance and prevented me from going on stage for several years’. 

SIMON KERNICK 

The Payback 

Abridged 

Read by Daniel Weyman 


price: 14.67 

format: 3 CDs 


ISBN: 9781846573149 

Two cops. One city. No mercy. The new race-against-time bestseller by 

the UK Harlan Coben 

Dennis Milne is a man with a past, and a past that involves murder. A 

former cop, he’s earned his living killing the bad guys – drug-dealers, 

corrupt businessmen - people who, in his opinion, deserve to die. For the 

past two days, he’s been in Manila, waiting for his next target: a young 

woman who’s made herself some poor life-choices, and some even worse 

enemies. 

DI Tina Boyd is a woman on a mission. Tough, spiky and determined, she’s 

looking for the man she holds responsible for the death of her lover. She 

knows he’s ruthless. She knows he’s dangerous. But he’s in Manila, and she’s 

determined to find and kill him – before he kills her. 

Two cops with pasts that haunt them - and a present that could see them 

both dead. They are about to meet. 

And when they do, it’s payback time… 

Simon Kernick is one of Britain’s most exciting thriller writers. He 

arrived on the scene with his highly acclaimed debut novel The 

Business of Dying, and his big breakthrough came with his novel Relentless 

which became the bestselling thriller of 2007. Simon’s research is what 

makes his thrillers so authentic. He talks both on and off the record to 

members of Special Branch, the Anti-Terrorist Branch and the Serious 

and Organised Crime Agency, and hears first-hand what actually 

happens in the dark and murky underbelly of UK crime. To find out 

more about his thrillers, visit: www.simonkernick.com. 

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Unabridged 


price: 9.79 

format: 5 CDs 


ISBN: 9781846572616 



























JOANNA TROLLOPE 

Daughters-in-Law 

Abridged 


price: 17.61 

format: 5 CDs 


ISBN: 9781846573156 

Can a mother ever hand over her son to another woman? 

Rachel has always loved being at the centre of her large family. She has 

fiercely devoted herself to her three sons all their lives, and continues to do 

so even now they are all grown up. They are, of course, devoted to her – she 

and Anthony, their father, hold the family together at their big, beautiful, 

ramshackle house near the wide, bird-haunted coast of Suffolk. 

But when Luke, her youngest, gets married, Rachel finds that control is 

slipping away. Other people seem to be becoming more important to her 

children than she is, and she can no longer rely on her role as undisputed 

matriarch. A power struggle develops which can only end in unhappiness; 

her three daughters-in-law want to do things their own way, and so, to her 

grief, do her sons... 

Joanna Trollope is the author of fifteen highly acclaimed bestselling 

novels. She has also written a study of women in the British Empire, 

Britannia’s Daughters, as well as a number of historical novels. Born in 

Gloucesterhire, she now lives in London. She was appointed OBE in 

the 1996 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.


10th Anniversary 

Abridged 


price: 10.76 

format: 5 CDs 


ISBN: 9781846573026 

The sensational tenth novel in the number one bestselling Women’s 

Murder Club series 

Detective Lindsay Boxer has finally married her long-time boyfriend Joe. 

But she doesn’t even have time for a honeymoon before returning to work 

and a traumatic case. A fifteen-year-old girl is found lying unconscious in 

the street, naked but for a cheap plastic raincoat, and haemorrhaging badly 

after having given birth within the last 36 hours. But the baby is nowhere 

to be found. 

Meanwhile Yuki Castellano is trying a case against a woman accused of 

killing her husband. The evidence is overwhelming and Yuki is certain of 

winning a conviction. But the accused is a renowned heart surgeon and her 

attorney specialises in criminal defence of the wealthy. This case might not 

be a straightforward as Yuki had hoped. 

Lindsay and Yuki’s close friend and fellow member of the Women’s Murder 

Club reporter Cindy Thomas is investigating a terrifying story. Two women 

have reported recent sexual assaults, but neither can remember anything of 

the attacks. Are these two incidents linked? Will this be the start of a string 

of attacks? Cindy is determined to uncover the truth, but her headstrong 

approach can lead her straight into danger. 














Toys 

Unabridged 


price: 9.79 

format: 5 CDs 


ISBN: 9781846572647 

He was the perfect agent. But now he’s become their target 

In the future, humans will no longer rule the world. Elites have taken 

control of civilised society; humans exist merely to serve. Elites are 

genetically modified, technologically enhanced versions of humankind. 

Originally designed and created by man, they were intended to save 

humanity. Instead, they have slowly usurped humans from leadership and 

have made them their subjects. 

Animosity between Elites and humans is fierce, and many rebels fight back 

against Elite rule. Hays Baker is a high-ranking agent in the Elite forces and 

at the forefront of keeping the humans under control. However, Hays is 

unknowingly hiding a secret that will make him the greatest threat to the 

Elite regime, and their number one target. 

Now hunted by the people he used to work alongside, Hays searchs for the 

truth of his identity. But to understand this he must first learn of a greater 

truth, hidden within the rule of the Elite. 













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NICK ROBINSON 

Live From Downing Street 

Abridged 

Read by the author 


price: 17.61 

format: 5 CDs 


ISBN: 9781846573040 

The compelling story of the uneasy seventy-year relationship between 

politics and the broadcasting media 

2010 was the year that the relationship between politics and television came 

of age. In the last election politicians clashed live on TV in the first ever 

televised Prime Ministerial debate - an unprecedented event in the 

history of political broadcasting. It follows a year in which media 

coverage of politics has become more immediate, more intense, and far 

more personal. The 2010 election marked the culmination of the shift in 

politics from the street corner to the box in the corner. 

In Live From Downing Street, the BBC’s Political Editor, Nick Robinson, 

tells the inside story of the ‘troubled marriage’ which has forced politicians 

and broadcasters to live together, rarely in harmony, for over seventy years. 

With unprecedented access and insight he reveals how the key players, past 

and present, handle the portrayal of their role in the public eye with varying 

degrees of success. Coupled with an analysis of how the relationship 

between politics and instant broadcasting will develop further in the digital 

world, Live From Downing Street presents a fascinating and important story 

of politics and the media in our time. 

Nick Robinson studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford 

before joining the BBC in 1986. He has worked on numerous BBC 

programs including Crimewatch, On the Record and Panorama. He has 

been the BBC’s Political Editor since August 2005. Nick lives in 

London with his wife and three children. 


Private London 

Unabridged 


price: 9.79 

format: 6 CDs 


ISBN: 9781846573057 

A breathtaking thriller set in the London office of the world’s most 

exclusive private investigation agency 

Dan Carter is the head of the London office of Private, the world’s largest 

and most technologically advanced detective agency. Jack Morgan, Private’s 

owner and CEO, put his faith in Carter, and has entrusted him with some 

of Private’s most important assignments. 

None more important than Hannah Shapiro. The daughter of one of 

Private’s wealthiest and most valuable clients, Hannah and her mother were 

kidnapped when she was thirteen years old. Hannah survived; her mother 

didn’t. Hannah is now in London studying at one of the most prestigious 

universities in England, and it is Carter’s job to protect her. But disaster 

strikes as Hannah is kidnapped for the second time in her young life. 

Carter has all of Private’s extensive global resources at his disposal to use in 

the investigation of this kidnapping. But as time progresses and no word 

is received from the kidnappers, fears for Hannah’s safety mount. Recently 

there has been a string of unsolved murders involving young women. 

Carter is praying that Hannah is not another link in this particular chain. 












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