Aaron Shapiro

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Aaron Vallance

Aaron Young was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, and read Politics and Communications at The University of Liverpool. He is a BAFTA-nominated director, producer and executive producer with over 20 years of experience across projects for the BBC, PBS, Channel 4, Channel 5, UKTV, UK Film Council and Arts Council England. A long-time collaborator of acclaimed historian, James Holland, he is the producer and director of the BAFTA-shortlisted BBC titles ‘Battle of Britain: The Real Story’ and, ‘Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the German Dams’, as well as ‘The Battle for Malta’, ‘Normandy ’44: The Battle Beyond D-Day’, the RTS-nominated ‘Imphal &amp; Kohima: Britain’s Greatest Battle.’, and the 3-part series, 'Normandy '44: D-Day and the Battle for France. His most recent credits include 'Hidden Histories of WWII', 'Lost Temples of Cambodia', the RTS-winning ‘Lost Home Movies of Nazi Germany’, and ‘Prue Leith: Journey with My Daughter’. Aaron was named in the inaugural list of BAFTA ‘Brits to Watch.’ He is the co-owner of award-winning film and television production company, Bright Button Productions, and lives with his wife and children in Poundbury, Dorset.

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Abbe Prevost

Abbey Bryant is an NYC-based award-winning illustrator. With her BFA in Children's Book Illustration, her notable illustrated books include Nautilus award winner Hazel Mist, Hypnotist as well as an Enchanted Fairy House Kit with Scholastic's Klutz! 
 
As a queer illustrator, LGBTQ+ themes and stories hold a spot near to her heart. Most days she can be found around the city drawing New Yorkers or sketching trees at the park.

Abbey Bryant

Abbey Clancy is a model, television presenter and the host of chart-topping podcast The Therapy Crouch. She was the runner-up of Britain's Next Top Model in 2006, winner of Strictly Come Dancing in 2013 and went on to present Britain's Next Top Model. Later this year she will host Celebrity Homes on ITV.

Abbey Clancy

Abbie Greaves studied at Cambridge University before working in a literary agency for a number of years. She was inspired to write her first novel, The Silent Treatment, after reading a newspaper article about a boy in Japan who had never seen his parents speak to one another before. 
 
Abbie lives in Brighton with her boyfriend.

Abbie Greaves

Abbie Ross is a British author and psychotherapist. Her first book, Hippy Dinners, a funny and poignant memoir of her bohemian childhood in 1970s North Wales, has been optioned by Baby Cow, who are developing it into an 8-part television series. 
Before turning to writing, Abbie had a successful career as a producer at Aardman Animations, the acclaimed studios behind Wallace &amp; Gromit and the film Chicken Run. 
Today, she divides her time between her thriving psychotherapy practice in Bristol, and her writing, and finds that the two careers complement each other perfectly.

Abbie Ross

Abbie Spallen

Abbie Taylor lives in Dublin. She works as a doctor and has two daughters.

Abbie Taylor

Abby L Yates co-founded the Ghostbusters with Erin Gilbert. Ghosts from Our Past was her first book, now finally back in print.

Abby L Yates

Abby Lee

Abby Rawlinson is an integrative therapist with a private practice based in east London, UK. Her work mixes traditional psychotherapeutic theories with cutting-edge, evidence-based techniques into a style that feels relatable, down-to-earth, and compassionate. Abby regularly contributes to articles, including but not limited to Stylist, Elle, BBC, Harpers Bazaar, Sheerluxe, Women's Health, and Psychologies. She can be found on Instagram @therapywithabby or online at therapywithabby.co.uk

Abby Rawlinson

Abby Wambach is a two-time Olympic gold medallist, FIFA World Cup champion, six-time winner of the U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award and one of Time’s Most Influential People. She is a founder of Treat Media, an award-winning media company that makes art for humans who want to stay human. Abby is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wolfpack and the New York Times bestseller Forward. Named one of the ‘50 Most Powerful People in Podcasting,’ she is co-host of the chart-topping podcast We Can Do Hard Things, which has received over a half billion plays. Abby is an executive producer of the Sundance award-winning film Come See Me in the Good Light, part owner of the NWSL’s Angel City Football Club and sits on multiple boards. Her most recent book, We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life’s 20 Questions, created with Glennon Doyle, Amanda Doyle and Treat Media, is being hailed as ‘the guidebook for being alive.’

Abby Wambach

Abel &amp; Cole’s story starts in 1988 with Keith Abel flogging potatoes door-to-door. ‘Of course potatoes are organic,’ he thought, ‘they’re vegetables’. However, he quickly discovered how unnecessarily complicated our food system had become and, consequently, realised the huge benefits of going organic and never looked back. In fact, Abel &amp; Cole still get veg from the farm where Keith's first organic spuds came from. 
To this day, their priorities remain the same. Now, selling 100% organic produce, Abel &amp; Cole believe that organic farming (a holistic system that encourages biodiversity) is the very best way to go. It protects our countryside and the critters that inhabit it, insists on the very best animal welfare, supports your local community and, frankly, tastes heaps better. Abel &amp; Cole think so anyway.

Abel & Cole Limited

Abhijit Banerjee, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). In 2011, he was named one of Foreign Policy magazine’s top 100 global thinkers. Banerjee served on the U.N. Secretary-General’s High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.

Abhijit V. Banerjee

Abhishek Mukherjee, 30, is a Delhi-based journalist. He holds a bachelor's degree in English literature from Delhi University, a post-graduate diploma in journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Raipur. He also likes dogs.

Abhishek Mukherjee

Abi Elphinstone grew up in Scotland where she spent most of her childhood running wild across the moors, hiding in tree houses and building dens in the woods. After being coaxed out of her tree house, she studied English at Bristol University and then worked as an English teacher in Africa, Berkshire and London. She is the bestselling and multi-award shortlisted author of RUMBLESTAR (first in The Unmapped Chronicles), SKY SONG &amp; THE DREAMSNATCHER TRILOGY, published by S&amp;S. When she's not writing, Abi volunteers for Beanstalk, speaks in schools and travels the world looking for her next story.

Abi Elphinstone

Abi Falase is a Black British writer and director, reimagining fundamental societal concepts in inventive new worlds. Abi has written and directed a number of plays, including The Village and Rush with the Almedia Theatre, as well as Rift for Immediate Theatre and was shortlisted for the BBC Scriptworks ‘A Thousand Stories’ scriptwriting competition in 2021.

Abi Falase

Abi Titmuss

Abie Longstaff is the eldest of six children and grew up in Australia, Hong Kong and France. She knows all about squabbling, chaos and bossing younger sisters around. So she logically began her career as a barrister. She started writing when her children were born. Her favourite childhood books were Hating Alison Ashley, A Little Princess, Maura's Angel and The Black Stallion and she sneakily reads them again sometimes. Abie lives in Hove with her family.

Abie Longstaff

Abigail Ahern

Abigail is a Brighton-based writer, illustrator and creative producer. Original storytelling has always been at the heart of Abigail's career and she has spent a decade leading social media campaigns for some of the biggest TV &amp; entertainment clients in the world. Abigail also used to perform stand-up comedy and won several tiny trophies for her onstage humour; which involved life-size illustrations, ridiculous songs and rambling stories about her family.

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Abigail Docherty

Abigail Foster is a Chartered Accountant and founder of Elent Finance, a financial education company designed to demystify the world of finance and empower you to achieve financial wellbeing. 
 
Abigail has worked with leading financial institutions across the UK, including HMRC, the Bank of England and Downing Street, and global companies such as Google and Goldman Sachs. She hosts a weekly money segment on LBC radio and has also appeared as a finance expert on ITV, Channel 5 and Sky News.

Abigail Foster

Abigail Owen is the #1 New York Times and #1 USA Today bestselling author of 30+ books that range from upper YA (18+) epic romantasy to new adult modern mythic romantasy to super spicy adult paranormal romance. She loves magical worlds with plots that move hot and fast, feisty heroines with sass, heroes with heart, a dash of snark, and oodles of HEAs! Other titles include: wife, mother, Star Wars geek, ex-competitive skydiver, AuDHD, spreadsheet lover, Jeopardy! fanatic, organizational guru, true classic movie buff, linguaphile, wishful world traveler, and chocoholic. Abigail currently resides in Austin, Texas, with her own swoon-worthy hero, their (mostly) angelic teenagers, and an adorable fur baby.

Abigail Owen

Abigail Ulman was born and raised in Melbourne. She has a BA in Creative Arts from the University of Melbourne/VCA and was a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. This is her first book.

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Sophie Kinsella

Celebrate Christmas with the ultimate Shopaholic! A Sunday Times bestseller. 
 
The brilliant laugh-out-loud festive novel from the Number One bestselling author. 
 
Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) adores Christmas. It's always the same – Mum and Dad hosting, carols playing, Mum pretending she made the Christmas pudding, and the next-door neighbours coming round for sherry in their terrible festive jumpers. 
 
And now it's even easier with online bargain-shopping sites – if you spend enough you even get free delivery. Sorted! 
 
But this year looks set to be different. Unable to resist the draw of craft beer and smashed avocado, Becky's parents are moving to ultra-trendy Shoreditch and have asked Becky if she'll host Christmas this year. What could possibly go wrong? 
 
With sister Jess demanding a vegan turkey, husband Luke determined that he just wants aftershave again, and little Minnie insisting on a very specific picnic hamper – surely Becky can manage all this, as well as the surprise appearance of an old boyfriend and his pushy new girlfriend, whose motives are far from clear . . . 
 
Will chaos ensue, or will Becky manage to bring comfort and joy to Christmas? 
 
***** EVERYBODY LOVES CHRISTMAS SHOPAHOLIC: ***** 
 
'Becky and Christmas is just the perfect combination, and this book is funnier and more loveable than ever' Jenny Colgan 
 
'A perfect Christmas read, laced with humor, with plenty to empathise with. A joyful, funny novel' Catherine Alliott 
 
'As sparkly as a Christmas tree and full of festive joy, this one's a total cracker' Lucy Diamond 
 
'A brilliant, laugh-out-loud read' Woman's Weekly

Christmas Shopaholic

Curtis Sittenfeld

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From the bestselling author of ROMANTIC COMEDY, RODHAM, AMERICAN WIFE and YOU THINK IT, I'LL SAY IT. 
 
'Sittenfeld writes girls and women as they truly are, with shades of light and dark, with and without grace, apologetic as well as fearless' GUARDIAN 
 
'PREP might just be my favourite book' PANDORA SYKES 
 
'Sittenfeld shares with Salinger a knack of capturing, in effortless prose, a teenager mindset' THE TIMES 
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Lee Fiora is a shy fourteen-year-old when she leaves small-town Indiana for a scholarship at Ault, an exclusive boarding school in Massachusetts. Her head is filled with images from the school brochure of handsome boys in sweaters leaning against old brick buildings, girls running with lacrosse sticks across pristine athletics fields, everyone singing hymns in chapel. But as she soon learns, Ault is a minefield of unstated rules and incomprehensible social rituals, and Lee must work hard to find - and maintain - her place in the pecking order. 
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'PREP is more than a coming of age story - it's a study of social class ... and Sittenfeld renders it with astonishing deftness and clarity.' JENNIFER EGAN 
 
'Straightforward, serious, funny.' London Review of Books 
 
'Sharp, caustic and brilliantly observed' Observer

Prep

The startling coming-of-age novel by the Sunday Times bestselling author of AMERICAN WIFE

Emma Curtis

'Will keep you reading long into the night. I absolutely loved it.' Lesley Kara 
'Absolutely outstanding.' Lauren North 
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Jenny has just given birth to the baby she's always wanted. She's never been this happy. 
 
Her husband, Leo, knows this baby girl can't be his. He's never felt so betrayed. 
 
The same night, a vulnerable young woman, Hannah, wakes to find her newborn lifeless beside her. She's crazed with grief. 
 
When chance throws Hannah into Leo's path, they make a plan that will have shattering consequences for all of them. 
 
Years later, a sixteen-year-old girl reads an article in a newspaper, and embarks on a journey to uncover the truth about herself. But what she learns will put everything she has ever known - and her own life - in grave danger. Because some people will go to desperate lengths to protect the secrets their lives are built on . . . 
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'As always, Emma Curtis's clever skilful writing keeps the reader racing through the pages.' Jane Corry 
'A blood-chilling scenario that set my heart racing . . . Emma Curtis is the queen of the unputdownable thriller.' Nuala Ellwood 
 
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READERS CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT KEEP HER QUIET 
'Lots of twists and turns, suspense and heart-stopping moments' 
 'The type of book that you GENUINELY can't put down' 
 'Emma Curtis just gets better all the time' 
 'This book will suck you right in and you won't want to stop reading' 
 'With each page I turned the intensity of this psychological thriller increased'

Keep Her Quiet

The gripping new novel from ‘the queen of the unputdownable thriller’

Jane Sanderson

'This grown-up love story is gorgeously written and romantic without being sentimental' Good Housekeeping 
'This tender tale of second chances... is a nostalgic delight' Sunday Mirror 
 
You never forget the one that got away. 
 
Daniel was the first boy to make Alison a mix tape. 
 
But that was years ago and Ali hasn't thought about him in a very long time. Even if she had, she might not have called him 'the one that got away'; after all, she'd been the one to run. 
 
Then Dan's name pops up on her phone, with a link to a song from their shared past. 
 
For two blissful minutes, Alison is no longer an adult in Adelaide with temperamental daughters; she is sixteen in Sheffield, dancing in her skin-tight jeans. She cannot help but respond in kind. 
 
And so begins a new mix tape. 
 
Ali and Dan exchange songs - some new, some old - across oceans and time zones, across a lifetime of different experiences, until one of them breaks the rules and sends a message that will change everything... 
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Readers have fallen in love with Mix Tape! 
'I laughed, I cried, I listened to the music. I wanted to know the characters in real life.' ? ? ? ? ? 
'This book is beautiful. The writing is so emotive and evocative.' ? ? ? ? ? 
'I LOVED this book - the music in it brought back so many memories from my teenage years.' ? ? ? ? ? 
'Mix Tape is is my idea of story heaven. I loved it. Really loved it. I'm telling everyone I know about it.' ? ? ? ? ? 
'What a wonderful book! Tenderly written and with characters that are so different but all make their own mark.' ? ? ? ? ?

Mix Tape

Kate Atkinson

From the NUMBER 1 bestselling author of LIFE AFTER LIFE, SHRINES OF GAIETY and NORMAL RULES DON'T APPLY 
 
On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories. 
 
Nora, at first, recounts nothing that Effie really wants to hear, like who her father was - variously Jimmy, Jack, or Ernie. Effie tells of her life at college in Dundee, where she lives in a lethargic relationship with Bob, a student who never goes to lectures, seldom gets out of bed, and to whom the Klingons are as real as the French and the Germans (more real than the Luxemburgers). 
 
But strange things are happening. Why is Effie being followed? Why is everyone writing novels? Is someone killing the old people? And where is the mysterious yellow dog? 
 
'Sends jolts of pleasure off the page...Kate Atkinson's funniest foray yet...it is a work of Dickensian or even Shakespearean plenty' SCOTSMAN 
 
'A brilliant and profoundly original writer' DAILY TELEGRAPH

Emotionally Weird

The brilliant and profound second novel from the three-times Costa prizewinner and number one bestseller Kate Atkinson. 
 
'Vivid, richly imaginative, hilarious and frightening by turns' Observer 
 
Once it had been the great forest of Lythe. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor. 
 
But over the centuries the forest had been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees. The Fairfaxes have dwindled too; now they live in 'Arden' at the end of Hawthorne Close and are hardly a family at all. 
 
But Isobel Fairfax, who drops into pockets of time and out again, knows about the past. She is sixteen and waiting for the return of her mother - the thin, dangerous Eliza with her scent of nicotine, Arpège and sex, whose disappearance is part of the mystery that still remains at the heart of the forest.

Human Croquet

I can think of few writers who can make the ordinary collide with the extraordinary to such beguiling effect...left me so fizzing with admiration' Observer 
 
A stunning collection of short stories by the three-times Costa prizewinner 
 
Not the End of the World is Kate Atkinson's first collection of short stories. Playful and profound, they explore the world we think we know whilst offering a vision of another world which lurks just beneath the surface of our consciousness, a world where the myths we have banished from our lives are startlingly present and where imagination has the power to transform reality. 
 
From Charlene and Trudi, obsessively making lists while bombs explode softly in the streets outside, to gormless Eddie, maniacal cataloguer of fish, and Meredith Zane who may just have discovered the secret to eternal life, each of these stories shows that when the worlds of material existence and imagination collide, anything is possible.

Not The End Of The World

Rebecca Fleet

‘A mesmerising, beautifully-written domestic thriller that really stands out from the crowd. I flew through it.’ Mark Edwards, author of HERE TO STAY 
 
‘A domestic noir to race through’ Sunday Mirror 
 
'Enjoyably twisty, this is most impressive for its chilling insights into obsession and where it can lead' Observer 
 
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Everyone brings baggage to a new relationship. 
 
When Alex met Natalie she changed his life. After the tragic death of his first wife, which left him a single parent to teenage daughter Jade, he’s determined to build a happy family. 
 
But his new-found happiness is shattered when the family home is gutted by fire and his loyalties are unexpectedly tested. Jade insists she saw a man in the house on the night of the fire; Natalie denies any knowledge of such an intruder. 
 
Alex is faced with an impossible choice: to believe his wife or his daughter? And as Natalie’s story unravels, Alex realises that his wife has a past he had no idea about, a past that might yet catch up with her. 
 
But this time, the past could be deadly . . . 
 
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‘Beautifully written and well-crafted. I read it in two days, though I would have read it in one if I could’ Sandie Jones, author of THE OTHER WOMAN 
 
'Engrossing, original and hugely enjoyable' Emma Curtis, author of THE NIGHT YOU LEFT 
 
Praise for Rebecca Fleet: 
 
‘This is very much a heart-thumping, read-in-one-sitting story, and absolutely delivers on its smart and original hook’ Heat 
 
‘A fantastic thriller – dead-on domestic noir, full of tension and surprises. I loved it.’ Lee Child 
 
‘An enthralling thriller that lives up to its chilling premise.’ Renee Knight, author of Disclaimer 
 
‘Rebecca Fleet has created a perfectly contained cast of credible characters in a story so intriguing that you will be guessing right up to the last page. And it’s beautifully written too. I loved this book.’ Liz Nugent, author of Lying in Wait 
 
'Dark, smart, sexy, gripping, totally brilliant.’ Erin Kelly, author of He Said She Said 
 
'Sinister and compelling' Woman &amp; Home 
 
'You'll be whipping through the pages' Stylist

The Second Wife

A compelling, original and unputdownable psychological thriller

Barney Norris

'Shot through with compassion . . . this dreamlike, winding tale is a joy.' A. L. KENNEDY 
 'Moving and unconventionally wise.' Guardian 
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This was how I heard the most important story of my life, the thing that decided me, the story that determined who I was in the end. 
 
As snow begins to fall outside, two strangers meet by chance in a bar. She is trying to make sense of a life shaken by heartbreak and ruined dreams. He is on a desperate quest to find something he lost in his youth. 
 
From the blustery cliffs of Dover to the confines of a nuclear bunker; from the courtroom witness box to the West End stage, he flits from one life to another, never able to stand still. 
 
Extraordinary though his story is, the secret she is keeping is even more surprising, and will take them to a place neither of them - or you - expected. 
 
From the bestselling author of FIVE RIVERS MET ON A WOODED PLAIN comes this captivating novel about love, abandonment, and the power of stories to help us find our way in the world. 
 
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What readers are saying: 
 
***** 'I absolutely loved this book - it's beautifully written, very emotional and full of wonderful flights of imagination.' 
***** 'Unlike anything I've read before.' 
***** 'A deeply moving account of fragile memory and lost love.' 
***** 'A completely beautiful book . . . I adored it.'

The Vanishing Hours

Marc Elsberg

CORRUPT BIG BUSINESS, ECONOMY IN MELTDOWN, THE THRILLER THAT WARNED US ALL 
 
'Marc Elsberg is nothing if not prescient' GUARDIAN 
 
It’s the near future: the world economy is in freefall. Mass unemployment and hunger rage as banks, corporations and countries go bankrupt. But one group are doing just fine: the super-rich. 
 
Nobel prize-winning economist Herbert Thompson drives to an emergency summit in Berlin, to deliver his ground-breaking solution to the world’s elite: a formula that will reverse the downturn, transform the economy, and give everyone a share of the wealth. 
 
Thompson never arrives. He is killed in a car crash on the way. 
 
Jan, a keen cyclist out late, sees the incident. Convinced Thompson has been murdered, he vows to find out why. 
 
But there are powerful forces at work, who will stop at nothing to keep Jan silent. 
 
How far will they go to satisfy their greed? And who can stop them? 
 
A spine-chillingly realistic thriller on the horrors of freewheeling capitalism and the threat of human greed. 
 
By the global bestselling author of Blackout and Code Zero 
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PRAISE FOR MARC ELSBERG 
 
‘Fast, tense, thrilling, timely. This will happen one day’ LEE CHILD 
 
‘Dazzling’ Times Book of the Month 
 
'Both gripping and visionary' rbb Kulturradio 
 
'Elsberg succeeds in combining complex storylines into one breathtaking tale of suspense' BILD 
 
'Part Dan Brown-style chase and part eco-thriller, this debut will get people talking' BOOKLIST US

Greed

The page-turning thriller that warned of financial melt-down

Jo Baker

---A GUARDIAN BEST SUMMER READ--- 
 
'A very modern interrogation of violent fiction. Fiendishly readable' SARAH MOSS, GUARDIAN 
'Powerful and moving' ERIN KELLY, author of He Said/She Said 
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When a young writer accepts a job at a university in the remote countryside, it's meant to be a fresh start. But when one of her students starts sending in chapters from his novel that blur the lines between fiction and reality, the professor recognises herself as the main character in his book - and he has written her a horrific fate. 
 
Will she be able to stop life imitating art before it's too late? 
 
At once a breathless battle-of-wits and a disarming exploration of sexual politics, The Body Lies is an essential book for our times. 
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'Outstanding' CLARE MACKINTOSH 
 
'A literary exploration of consent, entitlement and how narratives can be bent, misappropriated and wrested back. I loved it' SARAH VAUGHAN 
 
'A propulsive #MeToo thriller.' GUARDIAN 
 
'Gripping. The perfect marriage of risky literary fiction and full-on thriller' MARIA SEMPLE 
 
'Page-turning thriller and examination of how women's bodies are treated, in life and in fiction.' THE BOOKSELLER 
 
'A novelist with a gift for intimate and atmospheric storytelling' FINANCIAL TIMES 
 
'Baker's heroine is one of the most believable I've seen on the page in a long time...nuanced, non-linear, lifelike' TLS 
 
'Gripping and fast-paced' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

The Body Lies

‘A propulsive #Metoo thriller’ GUARDIAN

Anna Hope

THE MUST-READ SUMMER 2020 RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 
 
'If you wished Normal People had tackled female friendship, try Expectation' GRAZIA 
'Profoundly intelligent and humane. Deserves to feature on many a prize shortlist' GUARDIAN 
'A brilliant exploration of friendship, feminism and thwarted ambition' PANDORA SYKES 
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What happened to the women we were supposed to become? 
 
Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry - and the promise of everything to come. They are electric. They are the best of friends. 
 
Ten years on, they are not where they hoped to be. Amidst flailing careers and faltering marriages, each hungers for what the others have. And each wrestles with the same question: what does it take to lead a meaningful life? 
 
The most razor-sharp and heartbreaking novel of the year, EXPECTATION is a novel about finding your way: as a mother, a daughter, a wife, a rebel. 
 
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'Thoughtful, beautifully written, honest. A sensual book. I URGE YOU TO READ IT' MARIAN KEYES 
 
'Beautiful, sharp, moving. I urge you to read it'' ELIZABETH DAY 
 
'A brilliant exploration of friendship, feminism and thwarted ambition' PANDORA SYKES 
 
'I loved it ... 10 out of 10' BRYONY GORDON 
 
'Will resonate with approximately 99% of women' RED MAGAZINE summer pick 
 
'One of the most intensely readable novels this year' METRO 
 
'One of our most gifted contemporary writers' WATERSTONES 
 
'SO GOOD. A 'What they did next' story of characters from a Sally Rooney novel' SARAH FRANKLIN 
 
'The story of 3 college friends, if you're a fan of Sally Rooney, you'll love EXPECTATION' IRISH EXAMINER 
 
'A must-read' FABULOUS MAGAZINE 
 
'A generation-defining book on motherhood, ambition and sex. Like NORMAL PEOPLE with female friendship under the microscope.' ERIN KELLY 
 
'Few novels leave me so genuinely breathless with their brilliance' HANNAH BECKERMAN 
 
'Sublime' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, Book of the Year 
 
'A marvellously tangy London novel' DAILY MAIL 
 
'A grown-up, honest take on female camaraderie. Packed with talking points' MAIL ON SUNDAY 
 
'Hugely absorbing, massively enjoyable' LISSA EVANS 
 
'Totally unputdownable, immersive, sharp, FAB' HARRIET EVANS 
 
'Beautifully observed study of female friendship and a moving account of the collision between aspiration and reality' DAILY MAIL MUST-READ 
 
'Fantastically well-realised portrait of female friendship's joys and pains from an exciting new voice in British fiction' DAILY TELEGRAPH

Expectation

The most razor-sharp and heartbreaking novel of the year

Melanie Cantor

From the author of The F**k It! List, the ultimate feelgood fiction which asks big questions: If your life was going to end tomorrow, what would you do today? 
 
'Brilliantly funny and thought-provoking - an absolute joy' Rosie Walsh, author of The Man Who Didn't Call 
 
'I LOVE this book! It is full of heart and hope' Cathy Kelly Cathy Kelly 
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Three letters. Two mistakes. One Last chance. 
When Jennifer Cole is told she has three months to live she decides to write three letters sharing the desires, fears and frustrations she has always kept to herself. And at first she finds that telling the truth makes her feel free and liberated. 
 
But three months later, Jennifer's secrets are alive and out in the world . . . and so is she. As she discovers, sometimes the truth has a way of surprising you . . . 
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Readers are falling in love with Life & Other Happy Endings! 
 
***** 'Incredibly funny and immensely moving.' 
***** 'I couldn't put this book down. Witty, touching and uplifting with a plot full of twists and turns.' 
***** 'This book was like a breath of fresh air from start to finish.' 
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Life & Other Happy Endings was first published as Death & Other Happy Endings

Life and other Happy Endings

The witty, hopeful and uplifting read for Summer

By the Sunday Times bestselling author of ROMANTIC COMEDY and PREP 
 
'Honest, wonderful and smart as hell' Guardian 
'Curtis Sittenfeld is in a league of her own' Observer 
 
All I did is marry him. You are the ones who gave him power. 
 
Quiet, bookish Alice Blackwell never dreamed of being First Lady. Much less to a President whose politics she doesn't believe in. On perhaps the most important day of her husband's presidency, Alice looks back on the strange and unlikely path that led her to the White House, and to a decision - both treacherous and long overdue - that could jeopardise everything. 
 
Taking inspiration from real life, AMERICAN WIFE is a remarkable portrait of a woman caught between her feelings for her husband, her country, and herself. 
 
'My favourite book of the century' HADLEY FREEMAN, GUARDIAN

American Wife

The acclaimed word-of-mouth bestseller

Tammy Cohen

'Chillingly believable and absolutely addictive. I read it in three days flat.' Incredible.' LISA JEWELL 
 
'Terrifying stuff, elegantly written' Financial Times 
 
Tess has always tried to be a good mother. Of course, there are things she wishes she'd done differently, but doesn't everyone feel that way? 
 
Then Emma, her youngest, is attacked on her way home from a party, plunging them into a living nightmare which only gets worse when the man responsible is set free. 
 
So when Tess sees the attacker in the street near their home, she is forced to take matters into her own hands. But blinded by her need to protect her daughter at any cost, might she end up putting her family in even greater danger? 
 
There's nothing she wouldn't do to make it right . . . but what if she makes it all worse? 
 
An unputdownable thriller, perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Heidi Perks and C L Taylor. 
 
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WHAT AUTHORS ARE SAYING: 
 
'I read this straight through, only stopping to sleep. I absolutely loved it.' JANE FALLON 
 
'An engrossing read.' LESLEY KARA, bestselling author of The Rumour 
 
'A realistic and modern thriller, with a totally relatable premise and a heroine you can't help but root for.' GILLIAN MACALLISTER 
 
'A chilling and completely gripping tale of obsession, shame and mother love.' JANE CASEY

Stop At Nothing

the mesmerising and suspenseful page-turner

Matias Faldbakken

Exquisitely observed and wickedly playful, The Waiter is a novel for lovers of food, wine, and of European sensibilities, but also for anyone who spends time in restaurants, on either side of the service. 
 
'Delicious.' New York Times 
 
'As if The Remains of the Day had been written by Kingsley Amis . . . brilliantly exquisite . . . This book is a meal you won't want to finish.' J. Ryan Stradal 
 
'A sly amuse bouche of a novel . . . its atmosphere and observations are deliciously rich.' Mail on Sunday 
 
Welcome to The Hills, Oslo's most esteemed restaurant, an institution stewed in tradition and clinging to the faded grandeur of old Europe. 
 
 A neurotic waiter tends to the desires of his clientele. Aristocrats and artistes, wealthy widows and roguish entrepreneurs, he observes all their dramas with a wit as sharp as a filleting knife. 
 
 At table ten sits the impeccable Mr Graham, impatiently awaiting a special guest. When at last she arrives - young, beautiful, mysterious - she will prove to be a challenging new flavour, threatening both our waiter's nerves, and the delicately balanced ingredients of the room.

The Waiter

Mahsuda Snaith

BBC RADIO 4 'BOOK AT BEDTIME' PICK 
 
‘Those who love Little Fires Everywhere and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine will love this’ My Weekly 
 
Molly has lived on the streets for nearly a decade. She has close friends but spends most of her nights sleeping rough in dangerous places. So when a new acquaintance invites her on a journey across the country, she decides to go along. He is searching for treasure while she is searching for hope. 
 
At every stop on their unusual quest, Molly senses something close behind her: the footsteps of an old enemy and the memories of a life she has tried to erase. And yet she must find the courage to continue if she’s ever going to discover a place that really feels like home. 
 
A vibrant, invigorating, and affecting novel and the inspiring portrait of a young homeless woman from Observer New Face of Fiction Mahsuda Snaith.

How To Find Home

Sarah Jasmon

'Absorbing and insightful . . . A gripping and tender exploration of family secrets and shame' Carys Bray, author of A Song for Issy Bradley 
 
A year ago, Charlie’s life seemed to be following a plan: she had a beautiful house, a lovable dog and an upcoming wedding. But she felt trapped. A few months before the big day, ignoring the warnings from her family, she abandoned her life and fled to the other side of the world in a bid for freedom. 
 
But when her mother unexpectedly falls ill, Charlie has to cut her trip short. She flies home, but by the time she gets to the hospital, it’s too late. 
 
Her mother is gone, but she’s left a mystery behind. Why did she buy a canal boat, and where did the money for it come from? As Charlie attempts to work through her grief and pick up the pieces of her life, she follows the threads of her mother’s secret past – but has she missed her chance to learn the truth? 
 
'A gorgeous family drama' Emma Curtis, author of The Night You Left 
 
'Utterly mesmerizing writing, an emotionally powerful story . . . I devoured it' Louise Beech, author of Call Me Star Girl 
 
'I loved this novel about journeys of discovery . . . Sarah Jasmon has a great eye for complex family dynamics and long-hidden secrets, as well as the detail of life on a narrowboat' Claire Fuller, author of Our Endless Numbered Days 
 
'A lyrical and compelling read . . . Jasmon writes skilfully about love, the unspoken and the subtle evasions around a family's painful past' Martine Bailey, author of The Almanack

You Never Told Me

A gripping and tender exploration of family secrets

The unforgettable, award-winning debut novel and modern classic from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Life After Life and Shrines of Gaiety. 
 
'Delivers its jokes and its tragedies as efficiently as Dickens...outrageously funny...will dazzle readers for years to come' - HILARY MANTEL, bestselling author of Wolf Hall 
 
Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D-cup that he wasn't married. 
 
Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but here she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster, with her children - sensible and sardonic Patricia aged five, greedy cross-patch Gillian who refused to be ignored, and Ruby... 
 
In Behind the Scenes at the Museum, young Ruby tells the story of ‘The Family’, from the end of the nineteenth century when a travelling French photographer catches frail beautiful Alice and her children, to the startling, witty, and memorable events of Ruby's own life. 
 
Praise for Behind the Scenes at the Museum, winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year: 
 
'An astounding book...without doubt one of the finest novels I have read for years' The Times 
 
'Little short of a masterpiece...Fizzing with wit and energy, Kate Atkinson's hilarious novel made me laugh and cry' Daily Mail 
 
‘A really gripping, emotionally satisfying family saga written with warmth and wit. I've re-read it countless times.’ Red 
 
‘A debut novel of astonishing confidence and skill...Acutely observant, overflowing with good jokes, it is the work of an author who loves her characters and sets them playing with gleeful energy’ Spectator 
 
‘Written so fluently and wittily that I sailed through it as though blown by an exhilarating wind… It lifted my spirits enormously. I loved it.’ Margaret Forster

Behind The Scenes At The Museum

The unforgettable prizewinning debut novel

Sue Rainsford

'A tangled, gnarled, wonderfully original, strange, beautiful beast of a book' 
DAISY JOHNSON, author of Everything Under 
 
'Beautiful and terrifying' SUNDAY TIMES 
 
'Seethingly assured debut fuses magical realism with critical and feminist theory' GUARDIAN 
 
In house in a wood, Ada and her father live peacefully, tending to their garden and the wildlife in it. They are not human though. Ada was made by her father from the Ground, a unique patch of earth with birthing and healing properties. Though perhaps he didn’t get her quite right. They spend their days healing the local human folk – named Cures - who visit them, suspiciously, with their ailments. 
 
When Ada embarks on a relationship with a local Cure named Samson, and is forced to choose between her old life with her father, and a new one with her human lover. Her decision will uproot the town – and the Ground itself – for ever. 
 
A poised and simmering tour-de-force, FOLLOW ME TO GROUND is a sinister vision of desire and freewill, voiced in earthy prose and eviscerating detail by an astoundingly original new writer. 
 
'Equal parts beauty and horror, and unlike anything you will read this year’ TEA OBREHT 
 
'Fierce, palpable, hynoptic. A dazzling, troubling dream' COLIN BARRETT 
 
'A writer to watch' METRO 
 
'An astonishing debut heralding the career of an exciting new writer. Strange, lyrical, and arresting, this novel will draw readers into its extraordinary spell.' KIRKUS starred review 
 
LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2019

Follow Me To Ground

Joseph Knox

Detective Aidan Waits is a troubled junior detective haunted by his past. Facing an uncertain future, and disconnected from his history, DC Waits and his partner, Detective Inspector Peter 'Sutty' Sutcliffe work on Manchester's streets to uncover the city's worst criminals among the grime of the underworld.

‘He said he didn’t remember killing them…’ 
 
As a series of rolling blackouts plunge the city into darkness, Detective Aidan Waits sits on an abandoned hospital ward, watching a mass murderer slowly die. Transferred from his usual night shift duties and onto protective custody, he has just one job… 
 
To extract the location of Martin Wick’s final victim before the notorious mass murderer passes away. 
 
Wick has spent over a decade in prison, in near-total silence, having confessed to an unspeakable crime that shocked the nation and earned him the nickname of The Sleepwalker. 
 
But when a daring premeditated attack leaves one police officer dead and another one fighting for his life, Wick’s whispered last words will send Waits on a journey into the heart of darkness… 
 
Manipulated by a reticent psychopath from his past, and under investigation from his new partner, Detective Constable Naomi Black, Waits realises too late that a remorseless contract killer is at work. 
 
Can Aidan Waits solve his last case before fleeing justice? 
 
Or will his name be next on the hit list?

The Sleepwalker

The dark and addictive thriller

Hazel Prior

From the author of no.1 ebook bestseller and Richard &amp; Judy Book Club pick Away with the Penguins. 
 
'Uplifting and full of heart, I couldn't put it down!' Jo Thomas, author of Celebrations at the Chateau 
 
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Sometimes it takes a chance encounter to discover what happiness really is . . . 
 
Meet Dan: Dan needs peace and order. He likes perfectly triangular sandwiches, the way coffee smells of sunshine and harvest, and the sound of birdsong that drifts into his harp-making workshop on Exmoor. His life is quiet, predictable, and safe from any danger of surprises. 
 
Meet Ellie: Ellie is a dreamer. But recently Ellie has stopped dreaming and her world has become very small. Her days are spent keeping a perfect home for her husband, Clive, and trying to keep him happy. 
 
When Ellie stumbles across Dan's workshop, they cannot imagine that their lives are about to change forever... 
 
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Readers love Ellie and the Harpmaker 
 
***** 'Without question this is one of the best books I have read and I read a lot' 
***** 'The perfect feel-good read!' 
***** 'Warm, touching and funny, it's a great read that will fill your heart with joy' 
***** 'A magical tale that leaves you feeling warm and hopeful' 
***** 'A beautifully written, tender love story ... I didn't want it to end but couldn't put it down'

Ellie and the Harpmaker

The uplifting feel-good read from the no. 1 Richard & Judy bestselling author

Natsu Miyashita

Philip Gabriel

OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD 
''A mesmerising reading experience for all of us seeking a meaningful life' JAPAN TIMES 
 
What he experienced that day wasn’t life-changing . . . It was life-making. 
 
Tomura is startled by the hypnotic sound of a piano being tuned in his school. It seeps into his soul and transports him to the forests, dark and gleaming, that surround his beloved mountain village. From that moment, he is determined to discover more. 
 
Under the tutelage of three master piano-tuners – one humble, one jovial, one ill-tempered – Tomura embarks on his training, never straying too far from a single, unfathomable question: do I have what it takes? 
 
Set in small-town Japan, this warm and mystical story is for the lucky few who have found their calling – and for the rest of us who are still searching. It shows that the road to finding one’s purpose is a winding path, often filled with treacherous doubts and, for those who persevere, astonishing moments of revelation. 
 
Mega-bestselling winner of the Japan Booksellers Award, selected by bookshop staff as the book they most wanted to hand-sell: A tender and uplifting novel for fans of A WHOLE LIFE by Robert Seethaler. 
 
[Contains 5 exquisite hand-drawn illustrations]

The Forest of Wool and Steel

Winner of the Japan Booksellers’ Award

Livia Franchini

'Shelf Life is whip-smart, slyly heartbreaking, and I felt the truth of it in my bones.’ Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure 
 
Ruth is thirty years old. She works as a nurse in a care home and her fiancé has just broken up with her. The only thing she has left of him is their shopping list for the upcoming week. 
 
Starting with six eggs, and working through spaghetti and strawberries, apples and tea bags, this inventive novel builds a picture of a woman defined by the people she serves; her patients, her friends, and, most of all, her partner of ten years. Without him, Ruth needs to find out – with conditioner and single cream and a lot of sugar – who she is when she stands alone. 
 
With her fresh unpredictable style, Franchini skewers modern relationships and toxic masculinity, moving effortlessly between humour and heartbreak to tell the story of a woman rebuilding herself on her own terms.

Shelf Life

Lucy Dillon

'Real, heart-breaking - I loved it.' Katie Fforde 
'My heart is smashed and repaired for reading this wonderfully romantic and strong piece of fiction.' Milly Johnson 
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What happens when 'I do' turns into 'I don't know'? 
 
Jeannie always wanted to fall in love, and now she's finally got the whirlwind romance she dreamed of. Dan's gorgeous, he's a successful young vet, and he flew her to New York and proposed on Brooklyn Bridge. Jeannie has to remind herself this is actually her life. It seems too perfect, too magical, to be real. Yet it is. 
 
But now she's on her way to the wedding she can't shake off the tight sensation crushing her chest. Is it just nerves . . . or is this all happening a bit too fast? 
 
Jeannie has one last chance to shout, 'Stop!' But just as she grabs it, a twist of fate throws everything she knows into the air like confetti. What Jeannie learns about Dan, about her own heart, and about the power of love itself, will change her world for ever . . . 
 
Pre-order Lucy's uplifting new novel, After the Rain, coming in spring 2022! 
___ 
 
Readers adore Unexpected Lessons in Love 
 
***** 'An absolute delight . . . I enjoyed every moment.' 
***** 'I couldn't put it down. Lovely story about finding love and being honest with a little twist.' 
***** 'A story of family, friendship, loyalty, relationships and new beginnings. This book made me smile but also broke my heart.'

Unexpected Lessons in Love

The heartwarming Sunday Times bestseller

Anne Youngson

**As read on BBC Radio Four** 
 
Uplifting, joyous, hopeful - a novel about late love and second chances, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and winner of the Paul Torday Memorial Prize 
 
'A moving tribute to friendship and love, to the courage of the ordinary, and to starting again' RACHEL JOYCE, author of Miss Benson's Beetle 
'Full of grace and humanity' Sunday Times 
________________________ 
 
This story begins with a letter 
From a housewife 
to the gentle curator 
Of an extraordinary museum 
Where lies peacefully 
An ancient exhibit 
That holds the key 
To Everything 
We are. 
 
Meet Me at the Museum tells of a connection made across oceans and against all the odds. Through intimate stories of joy, despair, and discovery, two people are drawn inexorably towards each other, until a shattering revelation pushes their friendship to the very edge. 
 
This deeply affecting debut novel by seventy-three year-old Anne Youngson won the Paul Torday Memorial Prize and was dramatized on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour 
 
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'Tender, wise and moving, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to cherish.' JOHN BOYNE 
 
'Insightful, emotionally acute and absorbing' DAILY EXPRESS 
 
'Beautiful and affecting' NINA STIBBE 
 
What readers are saying: 
'I loved this book. It was so different from anything else I have read'***** 
'I just loved this book and read it in one sitting. There were times when I felt like underlining the sentences that resonated with me'***** 
'I read this book one letter at a time, just to let the contents sink in. Tears came to my eyes'*****

Meet Me at the Museum

Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2018

Leona Deakin

WOMAN &amp; HOME'S BEST THRILLER OF THE YEAR 
 
'If you like a proper, twisty nerve-wracking thriller, here's one for you!' 
Emma Curtis, author of One Little Mistake 
 
Four strangers are missing. Left at their last-known locations are birthday cards that read: 
 
YOUR GIFT IS THE GAME. 
 DARE TO PLAY? 
 
The police aren’t worried – it’s just a game. But the families are frantic. As psychologist and private detective Dr Augusta Bloom delves into the lives of the missing people, she finds something that binds them all. 
 
And that something makes them very dangerous indeed. 
 
As more disappearances are reported and new birthday cards uncovered, Dr Bloom races to unravel the mystery and find the missing people. 
 
But what if, this time, they are the ones she should fear? 
 
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT GONE: 
 
'Sensational' ***** 
'I will say phenomenal. Although that doesn't cover how good this book is' ***** 
'Complete mind-twisting and gripping suspense' ***** 
'I raced through it desperate to get to the end while not wanting it to end' ***** 
'What a riveting psychological thriller' ***** 
'It is dark, riveting, twisty and cruel' ***** 
'Wow . . . this book was fabulous' ***** 
'Belter of a psychological thriller' ***** 
'Please write another novel soon, I need the adrenaline rush' *****

Gone

A riveting, mind-twisting thriller that's always one step ahead of you (Dr Bloom)

Lissa Evans

When Noel Bostock - aged ten, no family - is evacuated from London to escape the Blitz, he winds up in St Albans with Vera Sedge - thiry-six, drowning in debts. Always desperate for money, she's unscrupulous about how she gets it. 
 
The war's thrown up all manner of new opportunities but what Vee needs is a cool head and the ability to make a plan. On her own, she's a disaster. With Noel, she's a team. 
 
Together they cook up an idea. But there are plenty of other people making money out of the war and some of them are dangerous. Noel may have been moved to safety, but he isn't actually safe at all . . . 
 
Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, 2015

Crooked Heart

‘My book of the year’ Jojo Moyes

Jeff Noon

'Noon's storytelling is assured and compelling ... it's a belter' Guardian 
‘Constantly surprising’ Spectator 
 
A viciously occult murder. 
A curious clue left on the body. 
The soundtrack to the murder still playing... 
 
It is 1981 and Detective Inspector Henry Hobbes is still reeling in the aftermath of the fire and fury of the Brixton riots. The battle lines of society - and the police force - are being redrawn on a daily basis. 
 
With the certainties of his life already sorely tested, a brutal murder will shake his beliefs to their very core once more. The manner of the death and its staged circumstances pose many questions to which there are no obvious answers. 
 
To track the murderer, Hobbes must cross boundaries into a subculture hidden beneath the everyday world he thought he knew. His investigation takes him into a twisted reality, which is both seductive and devastating, and asks him the one question he has been dreading: How far will he go in pursuit of the truth? 
 
 
Jeff Noon is the author of six acclaimed novels, Vurt, Pollen, Automated Alice, Nymphomation, Needle in the Groove and Falling Out of Cars, as well as two collections of short fictions, and is also the crime fiction reviewer for The Spectator. He lives in Brighton.

Slow Motion Ghosts

Laura Madeleine

In the dead of night, with blood on her hands, she made her escape. 
 
Accused of murder, Alejandra flees her home, escaping to the southern edge of Spain, where she faces a life of poverty and destitution. 
 
Seduced by the power of the rich and the anonymity that waits across the water in Tangier, Ale makes a bid for a new start. But it will come at a cost: a life of deception. Because Ale's new friends want to know what she is running from, they want to know who she is and whether they can trust her. 
 
Fifty years later, a young American writer wanders the streets of Tangier, searching for inspiration. When he stumbles across a trace of Ale's life, he finds himself tangled in a story of scandal, love and danger that has not yet reached its end.

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