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From the author of A Home of Her Own comes a gripping historical saga full of love, loss and hope, perfect for fans of Dilly Court, Anna Jacobs and Ellie Dean.1909, NorthumberlandWhen Shona Hardy''s husband is lost at sea, she finds herself alone in a village which has always seen her as an outsider.A world away, Harry Darling has achieved wealth and respectability, but he has never forgotten the poverty and hardship that he grew up in or the girl who saved his life.When tragedy strikes again and Shona''s father passes away on Harry''s doorstep, Harry finally has a chance to pay Shona back for her kindness. But as their pasts and presents collide, will their lives be altered for ever?''Elizabeth writes such strong female characters, who never fail to succeed in the face of adversity'' - Trisha Ashley''Elizabeth reminds us that there is always hope in the face of darkness'' - Katie Fforde

''If I had to choose between betraying my friend and betraying my country, I hope I should have the courage to betray my country.'' E. M. FORSTERPeople have betrayed their country, or their friends, for all kinds of different reasons - conscience, conviction, love, as well as pride, vengeance and greed. The stories in Traitors range from the faith-inspired terrorism of Guy Fawkes to the non-violent White Rose gang of students who defied Hitler; from patriotic rebels such as Roger Casement to ambivalent ideologues such as Lord Haw-Haw and the Cambridge spy Kim Philby; and from femmes fatales such as Mata Hari to unwitting victims such as Lady Jane Grey. Those found guilty of treason have usually faced the same penalty: death. But as these thoroughly researched and grippingly told tales of treachery show, one man''s traitor may sometimes be another man''s hero . . .

Adapted from the upcoming major U&alibi series created by Mark GatissLondon, 1946. Gabriel Book is an erudite and unconventional London bookseller married to Trottie, the owner of the wallpaper shop next door. He is also a sleuth who uses the chaotic riches of his stock to crack the puzzling cases that come his way. He does not work alone. Book''s shop is a magnet for waifs and strays - some of whom bring mysteries of their own to his door. There''s Nora, sometime bookseller and true crime enthusiast; Dog, connoisseur of ginger biscuits and then Jack, whose arrival at the shop forces Book to confront a loose end from his own past.Clever, endearing and entertaining, Bookish is a warm-hearted and unexpected mystery, about books, murder and the secrets we all keep.

''The perfect holiday read'' WOMAN''S WEEKLY''Uplifting, funny, a cracking read'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEW''A slice of escapism'' THE TIMES''A fantastic beach read'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ READER REVIEWThe dream holiday just got complicated . . .On the sun-drenched island of Kefalonia, the new arrivals at The Ionian Escape hotel are hoping for a break from everyday life. But some of them are bringing a lot of baggage . . .Disgraced TV star Miranda Vallance feels like the worst person in the world. Her sister won''t speak to her and her job''s on the line. She''s desperate to put things right, but how?Eighty-two-year-old Evelyn Chambers has come to fulfil a promise to the love of her life. If she can steel herself to go through with it, that is . . .And when celebrity chef Frank Neale checks in, rumours swirl around the hotel. But is it his wife, Leonora, who has more of a reason to escape to Greece?The Island Getaway is a big-hearted novel from the queen of bestselling fiction, celebrating second chances, true love and the life-affirming joy of unlikely friendships.''Intricate, colourful, beautifully told'' HAZEL PRIOR''A wonderful, warm tale of intertwined lives in a gorgeous Greek setting'' LULU TAYLORReaders love Lucy Diamond''I can''t wait for my next book from Lucy Diamond'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Fabulous story telling and the most wonderful reading experience . . . spellbinding'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Another book by Lucy Diamond that I couldn''t put down'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''I love all of Lucy''s books'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Lucy writes with such warmth and sympathy'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Praise for Lucy Diamond''Fabulous, uplifting and life-affirming'' MY WEEKLY''Lucy has a way of dropping you into the heart and minds of her characters'' FIONA PALMER''Warm, tender, but also funny'' THE SUN''No one does real life like Lucy Diamond'' VERONICA HENRY

''A fascinating, tragic and instructive story, vividly told'' Sunday TelegraphRoger Lewis, in his no-holds-barred biography, exposes a Peter Sellers the world little knows. Recognized as the greatest British comic since Charlie Chaplin, Sellers was the grand master of fifty-five films - from Dr. Strangelove, to Being There and the Pink Panther hits. But shadowing his phenomenal career was a history of increasingly bizarre behaviour involving psychotic violence, compulsive promiscuity, drug abuse and humiliating self-destructive obsessions with people including Princess Margaret, Sophia Loren, Liza Minnelli and each of his four wives (Ann Hayes, Britt Ekland, Miranda Quarry and Lynne Frederick). He alternately showered his wives and children with gifts and then threatened to kill them. Sellers'' fluidity as an actor made for a terrifying madness that grew like a slow metastasizing cancer throughout his adult life. The Life and Death of Peter Sellers concludes with his premature death at the age of 54, ''sick at heart and alone in those sunless hotel rooms'', so recoiled from intimacy that no one really knew him anymore.PRAISE FOR THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PETER SELLERS''It is a mad book - but then the subject is a madman. I love Lewis''s passion ... I recommend it'' Sunday Times''Reinventing the genre as well as reassessing its subject with formidable intelligence, this book is a remarkable achievement'' Literary Review

**A Times 19 Best Books of 2024****A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2024**** A Times 10 Best Crime and Mystery Books of 2024 so far**"A police procedural unlike anything else in contemporary crime fiction" Sunday Times"The greatest exponent of the policier at work today" Mark Sanderson, The TimesAdam Sirkis needs to flee Syria. A captain in Assad''s military police, he''s about to be exposed as a covert member of the Free Syrian Army, and he knows exactly what fate awaits him.His first move is to send his wife and daughter to Libya, where they can find a boat heading for Europe. Adam himself winds up in France in the Calais Jungle, the infamous camp for migrants seeking passage to the fabled Youké.Bastien Miller, a police lieutenant freshly transferred to the Calais police force, arrives at about the same time. His wife is drowning in grief for her late father and their teenage daughter may never forgive them for the move.When Adam risks his life to protect a young migrant, the two officers make a deal - information on Adam''s family in exchange for intel from the Jungle. Then a body is found in the camp, and the deal becomes an alliance, uniting them in a common cause to do one good deed in a world where vice is a virtue.Reader Reviews***** "This is an exceptional book, the best one I''ve read in 2024 so far and I''ve read a lot of excellent books this year by some very big name authors"Translated from the French by Nick Caistor

Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.''Moreno-Garcia is a deft enchantress - this is a ghost story in high Gothic style'' - M.L. Rio, author of If We Were Villains ''Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches'': that was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minerva - stories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps that''s why Minerva has become a graduate student focused on the history of horror literature and is researching the life of Beatrice Tremblay, an obscure author of macabre tales.In the course of assembling her thesis, Minerva uncovers information that reveals that Tremblay''s most famous novel, The Vanishing, was inspired by a true story: decades earlier, during the Great Depression, Tremblay attended the same university where Minerva is now studying and became obsessed with her beautiful and otherworldly roommate, who then disappeared under mysterious circumstances.As Minerva descends ever deeper into Tremblay''s manuscript, she begins to sense that the malign force that stalked Tremblay and the missing girl might still walk the halls of the campus. These disturbing events also echo the stories Nana Alba told about her girlhood in 1900s Mexico, where she had a terrifying encounter with a witch.Minerva suspects that the same shadow that darkened the lives of her great-grandmother and Beatrice Tremblay is now threatening her own in 1990s Massachusetts. An academic career can be a punishing pursuit, but it might turn outright deadly when witchcraft is involved. Readers love The Bewitching . . . ''An absolute masterpiece'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Hauntingly addictive'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Feels like being put under a spell'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Evocative and chilling'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Gothic fiction at its finest'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Had me enthralled from the first page until the last'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Blew my expectations out of the water . . . This may be the best gothic horror book of 2025'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

''A new star in the crime-writing firmament'' Elly GriffthsThe charming and delightfully cosy debut crime novel from Reverend Penny Stephens.Weddings can be murder . . .Reverend Clare Brakespear is used to a challenge. With a young family to wrangle, a parish to manage and a particularly excitable Golden Retriever by her side, life is never dull. But when she attends a wedding where one of the guests is fatally stabbed with a cake knife, even Clare admits that she might have been given too much to handle this time.As the police investigate the murder, they zero-in on one woman as their prime suspect, who they believe had the motive, means and opportunity to commit the crime. The trouble is, Clare is convinced that they have the wrong person. She might not understand forensic testing and finger-tip searches, but if there''s one thing Clare does know, it''s people and the complexities of their emotional lives. So she decides to take matters into her own hands. However, investigating a murder is no mean feat and Clare soon finds herself embroiled in a complex web of family secrets and deceptions. Is she in way over her head or can she find the real killer before an innocent woman is sent down?

The second Newcastle-set police thriller with a twist. DCI Jack Parker fights to hide his Early Onset Dementia while he continues to do the job he loves - investigating crimes and bringing villains to justice. Still haunted by the death of a colleague in a hit and run for which he blames himself, he pursues the case with a determination bordering on recklessness when he encourages her replacement, DS Emma Steel, to get close to a local gangster who knows more than he''s letting on, thereby endangering Emma and causing dissent among his team. Jack is called in to investigate the disappearance of a young woman, Maria, and her son who appear to have vanished off the face of the earth. His boss tells him to focus on her ex-husband, but though the evidence points in his direction, Jack has his doubts. The woman has form with toxic men and the husband is just the latest in a long line. As Jack''s plans to hide his condition become more challenging, he begins to wonder if Maria is really the innocent victim she''s been portrayed as - until a body turns up. As he starts to discover the truth in both these investigations, Jack comes to understand that nothing in this world is as black and white as it seems.

"Jacobsen can make almost anything catch the light . . . One of Norway''s greatest writers on the working class" Times Literary SupplementThey''re a gang without a name - Olav, Carl, Roar, Jan and Vidar - teenage boys growing up in a working-class area of Oslo under the shadow of Nazi occupation. They live in poverty but earn a crust by creatively swindling their fellow citizens, falsifying documents and stealing like magpies. And they don''t shy away from targeting the Enemy, either.But everything changes when Carl''s father hands him a secret map and a German password, just hours before he''s taken away by the Quisling police - only to return in a coffin. And when Olav''s father also disappears, the gang come to see that they are caught up in something far more serious than their usual petty crimes.Taking in love, death, betrayal and tragedy, The Unworthy is the latest masterpiece from Roy Jacobsen, author of the International Booker-shortlisted The Unseen. It shines a light on a brutal aspect of the war rarely explored in fiction, and every sentence is imbued with decades of accumulated wisdom from a writer who had his own brushes with the law in his youth.Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw

The Tree That Bends brings fresh ideas into the psychology of high performance.In this book, the award-winning psychologist Dr Ross G. White describes how anyone can maintain the high-performance habits that elite athletes, CEO''s and performers have. The Tree That Bends focuses on the importance of having a flexible mind by telling personal anecdotes and inspirational stories from a range of flexible thinkers from the worlds of business, sport and innovation. It is individuals with mental toughness and grit who are able to succeed at the highest levels in every area and Dr White is an expert at teaching you how they do it. Insights, tips and strategies are sprinkled throughout the book, providing multiple practicable ways for you to develop habits that last.

''A LABYRINTHINE MYSTERY OF EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY'' Jo Brand''DELIRIOUS AND REWARDING'' Guardian''UNMISSABLE'' Woman''s WeeklyFleeing Scotland in the wake of family disgrace, 16-year-old Ida Campbell secures a scholarship at a failing girls'' boarding school on a remote part of the south English coast. Despite the eccentricities of her new Headmistress, who warns her of the dangers of the Cold War and the ever-present threat of the bomb, St Anne''s seems like a refuge to Ida. But all this is about to change. For a start, her new room-mate is the infamous Louise Adler, potential arsonist and hardened outcast.Meanwhile, the geography teacher Eleanor Alston, in her late thirties, a disastrous love affair in her wake, faces the new term with weary resignation. But the fragile ecosystem of the school is disrupted by the arrival of a new teacher, Matthew Langfield. Eleanor has an uneasy feeling he is not who he says he is.And things only get worse when a mysterious sickness starts to spread throughout the school, causing strange limb jerks and seizures among the pupils. What is happening to the girls of St Anne''s? Could there be a poisoner among them? Is Ida''s scholarship really an escape, or is it instead a new nightmare?READERS ARE LOVING HAVOC:''Superb. Brilliantly funny, at times extremely poignant'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Another beautifully written book by Rebecca'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Utterly glorious, moving, enthralling and witty. I am so cross I have finished it'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''I absolutely loved the humour in this book. Bonus points for the Cold War references'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Entertaining and humorous'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

'Maunder's book is more than just a biography of the rise and fall of a complicated man . . . It is also a critique of the damage that myth-making and the media can do to an athlete; a study of what happens to a demigod when thrown from Mount Olympus' The TimesCharly Gaul is a forgotten cycling legend. Once a household name across Europe, the diminutive Luxembourger won the 1958 Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia twice. A unique rider, Gaul was supremely gifted at climbing and resilient even in the foulest weather. His pedalling style was smooth and swift, and he could set an unmatchable metronome rhythm on a mountain climb. 'Mozart on two wheels,' was how one contemporary writer described him; another dubbed him 'The Angel of the Mountains'. At the end of his cycling career Gaul disappeared, becoming a hermit living in a forest in Luxembourg. What drove Charly Gaul into a recluse's life? In Angel of the Mountains, Paul Maunder seeks to uncover the truth about Gaul, his psychology and the circumstances of his withdrawal from society. In rediscovering Gaul's enigmatic life, we find not only an unlikely hero but also a larger truth about the nature of sporting success.

The currents of History run deep and often unseen beneath the everyday ripple of events. But now and again the current rises to the surface, and the events of a single day shed an exceptional light on the meaning of the past. Such events are the subject of Days that Changed the World. Some of the 50 days described here mark the end of an era; others the start of something new. Many are the dates of bloody battles or murders; others of momentous decisions or breathtaking discoveries. All are remembered as powerful symbols of their time. Our story begins almost 2500 years ago on 28 September 480 before the Christian Era, when the Athenian navy destroyed the Persian invasion fleet in the Bay of Salamis. Had the Persians won we might never have heard the names of Plato, Aristotle or Alexander, nor recognize the word democracy. Charting 50 such defining moments, concluding with Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1990 and 9/11 a decade after, Days that Changed the World is a unique and fascinating way to portray the story of world history. Repackaged into a neat and striking format, with a brand new cover and an entirely narrative approach, it is bound to be anyone interested in History's favorite encyclopaedia.

Nick Cutter, author of #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop, returns with a heart-pounding novel of terror about a young woman searching for her missing friend and uncovering a shocking truth.On a sunny morning in June, Margaret Carpenter wakes up to find a new iPhone on her doorstep. She switches it on to find a text from her best friend, Charity Atwater. The problem is, Charity''s been missing for over a month. Most people in town - even the police - think she''s dead.Margaret and Charity have been lifelong friends. They share everything, know the most intimate details about one another . . . except for the destructive secret hidden from them both. A secret that will trigger a chain of events ending in tragedy, bloodshed, and death. And now Charity wants Margaret to know her story - the real story. In a narrative that takes place over one feverish day, Margaret follows a series of increasingly disquieting breadcrumbs as she forges deeper into the mystery of her best friend - a person she never truly knew at all . . .

Last week, Nina was a professor about to move into a gorgeous new apartment with her long-term boyfriend. Now, she''s single, unemployed, and living with her parents.Even more shocking is the fact that Quentin, her childhood neighbour (and okay, fine, crush), is also back in town - and wants to resume the treasure hunt that ended their friendship almost two decades ago. Hoping the reward promised to whoever finds the rumoured riches will help get her back on track, Nina agrees. And as they resume the hunt, Nina and Quentin begin to rediscover all the things they once loved best about each other.But unlike the treasure, the secrets that left them empty-handed (and broken-hearted) the first time refuse to stay buried. If there''s any hope of finding what they''re looking for - and for a future together - Nina and Quentin will have to be brave enough to excavate their past as well.Warm, funny and wildly sexy, FINDERS KEEPERS is a second chance romance perfect for fans of Katherine Center, Christina Lauren and Ashley Poston.READERS LOVE SARAH ADLER⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''Made me laugh, cry and swoon in equal measure''⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''So wonderful and funny and tender''⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''I am a Sarah Adler STAN''⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''Unique and fresh''⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''Absolutely loved it''