A Fatal Love
£18.99A gripping and compassionate novel that reimagines the life of the last woman to be executed in Britain.
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Etna
£14.99An unforgettable novel of a working dog, Etna, who, after a devastating war, embarks on an odyssey in the hopes of returning home.
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Vulture
£10.99A darkly funny, heart-wrenching satire that tears through the guts of the war news industry
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They Say a Girl Died Here
£22.00Anna was once the life and soul of the party – until a terrible night unravelled everything – a night she can’t remember, but can’t forget either. Moving with her family back to where Grandma grew up, Anna becomes obsessed with two murders that took place in the town – three years apart, with the third anniversary looming. The town of Harper’s Creek suffers through a drought – people talk, people pray, and people wait. As Anna’s trauma deepens, and Grandma’s Alzheimer’s worsens – they share a bond made of missing memories. They say both are, in their own ways, mad. But when Grandma speaks, Anna listens, and she understands – but above all she fears that the girls are in there, and they’re trying to tell her something.
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The Nine Lives of a Bookshop Cat
£14.99In his third life, Kinnosuke belonged to a famous author. Now, in his ninth, he wants nothing more to do with humans, who bring nothing but trouble and suffering. Drawn to the city in search of food, he comes across the Hokuto-do Bookshop, owned by a curious woman who has already given a home to four contented cats. Soon Kinnosuke begins to notice the shop’s quirks: there are few customers, but it never goes out of business. No stock is ordered, but it never runs out of books. And the other cats also belonged to famous authors in previous lives. If he wants to know more of its secrets, he will have to reveal his own about the life he shared with the author .At first, he is reluctant, but when a young aspiring writer faces tragedy, Kinnosuke is drawn into her struggle, confronting the bookshop’s hidden past to help keep her dream alive.
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The Stray Dogs
£9.99Since his marriage ended, Desmond Leaks has been stuck in rut. But living alone does have some upsides – for one, there’s no one to tell him that he’s ‘not allowed’ chocolate spread on his toast. And for Leona Lennox, a fresh start might just mean she can finally open that rescue centre for abandoned dogs she’s always dreamed of. That’s if she can learn to let people in occasionally – and accept help. Take this Desmond guy, he’s so nice that he’s offering to get his old band back together to play some fundraising gigs for the rescue centre. If only Leona could say yes, just this once. The Stray Dogs might actually be decent, right? But the band haven’t played together in years, and if they have any chance of making this work, Desmond will have to track down charismatic frontman Darcus McGuire. But how do you find someone who doesn’t want to be found?
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Killer Twist
£9.99Crime writer Aggie Catchlove can never forget how celebrity author Kit Stirling stole her famous ‘twist’. When fellow novelist Jakob Hök learns Kit’s next book is a rip-off of his long-running series at the Crème de la Crime festival, he and Aggie furiously plot the perfect murder of a man who is killing their careers. But when Kit Stirling is found dead for real, fingers point at Aggie and Jakob. They decide the only way to clear their names is to investigate. As the police lock down the event, Aggie and Jakob split up to double their efforts, but paranoia is a third wheel that destabilises their alliance. Both writers want to tell the story, not be the story. And, when push comes to shove, they’ll do anything to be the voice of the final chapter.
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The Rayburn Affair
£11.99By day, Dr Ruth Morgan lectures on ‘AI: the new frontier of storytelling’ at East Toronto University. By night, she toils away at a collection of short stories, fantasising about a literary career to rival that of the iconic Shelby Rayburn, internationally renowned and widely hailed as the voice of Ruth’s generation of women. When Shelby and her husband, Oscar, make an appearance at an annual faculty party, Ruth can’t believe her luck. The trio immediately hit it off, and an intoxicating intimacy develops between them, underwritten by a simmering sexual tension. Everything changes when Shelby makes Ruth an offer she can’t refuse – one that she can’t tell anyone about, including Oscar. As boundaries blur and secret alliances form, the dynamic becomes riddled with distrust and threatens to implode. Ruth and Shelby need each other, but each has their own agenda when it comes to friendship, love and literary stardom.
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Murder à La Mode
£9.99When Inspector Tibbett's niece – a model for a top fashion magazine – is at risk of being murdered, he has to act fast to save her life.
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Brain Damage
£9.99After years of hard work, Dr. Charly McKenna finally has it all. Prosperous career as a dermatologist? Check. Spacious apartment overlooking Central Park? Check. Handsome lawyer husband? Double check. Then one night, a bullet rips through the right side of her skull and she loses everything. As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realise that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her before he finishes the job he started.
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The Cozy Nook Bookshop
£10.99Emma Rogers Li’ is penniless, hopeless and adrift following her ex-fiancé bankrupting their publishing company then fleeing the country. Until a job listing to run a bookstore in the small town of Heart’s Hope Crossing, Vermont winds up in her inbox, that is. Emma may not believe in fate, but as she starts to spend time exploring the quirky small town with her handsome and enigmatic guide, she can’t help but feel like maybe she was meant to end up here after all. Gruff, bearded forest ranger Hunter Hall has his own ideas about fate. Mostly that it should keep its nose out of his business. He’s built a life of solitude for himself, one where he can avoid experiencing heartbreak like his parents did. And besides, local legend about what happens to those who meet at the intersection of Heart and Hope Street is just superstition anyway, worthy only of his best eye rolls. Right?
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The British Agent
£16.99A British weapons expert, codename Chuff, learns that British sophisticated surface-to-air missile have been stolen in the Ukraine, and are now on their way to the US, in a plot to shoot down Marine One over Washington – to assassinate the President. Hot on their trail, Chuff goes undercover in a far-right training camp in Florida, her actions guided by an octogenarian US intelligence official who has manufactured the plot as a pretext to launch a crackdown against extremist militias who threaten to bring down America.
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And I Am the Arrow
£12.99Chatterjee Mansion is a 1940s art-deco house in Calcutta with floors of polished marble and rooms filled with lies and omissions. In this house, late on a rain-soaked night, the turn of a single key unlocks a story that throws its women on a journey across the worlds of the living and the dead, and shatters all they know to be true. ‘And I Am The Arrow’ is a kaleidoscopic tale of flight and survival, of forbidden love and wasted ambition, and secrets that hide in plain sight. Trying to make sense of this world is Mishu, a young woman recently returned to India, just as Niyoti, her grandmother and the family matriarch, falls into a coma. As Mishu, her mother Ira, and their servant Bani wait to see if Niyoti wakes or leaves them forever, long-buried truths come to the surface, revealing a rich and dramatic story of India’s social and political struggles entwined with the family’s gains and sacrifices.
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The Salt King
£22.00Avelyn Brocken is a Jesuit at the Vatican. Originally from the salt mining town of Hreodwater in East Anglia, his only ambition is never to go back. But when rumours of miracles being performed there are followed by a bizarre video showing that someone trying to leave then enclave has been turn to salt, the Vatican foreign ministry summons him. The isolated Hreodwater salt mine has its own culture, its own language, and its own faith – the worship of the Salt King, the sleeping god of the mine. Any investigation into their miracles requires someone who understands all three. Avelyn must go. Returning to Hreodwater, with its unique salt light, and ability to destroy anything electronic within minutes, is personally challenging for Avelyn, who escaped the cult – and the Salt King – as a child. But eruptions of salt are happening all over the world. People are being turned into salt statues without warning, and their frequency is increasin
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Confusion
£10.99The third book in the landmark Cazalet Chronicles, beloved by generations of readers. Set in wartime Britain, Confusion follows the relationships of the Cazalet family and their lives, loves and losses.