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FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General

Mickey Franklin was shot dead in his shower on a Saturday evening. Before long, his girlfriend - Sarah Longmore - was in custody. She had a gun and a key, and a witness placed her at the scene. Plus, she'd recently discovered that Mickey was screwing her sister: hardly a locked-room mystery, then, on the face of things. However, Sarah's case will prove to be far from straightforward, and Jack Irish's investigation far from quick and painless.

A journey through the most unlikely of gardens: the oases of peace people create in the midst of warIn this millennium, we have become war weary. From Afghanistan to Iraq, from Ukraine to South Sudan and Syria, from Kashmir to the West Bank, conflict is as contagious and poisonous as Japanese knotweed. Living through it are people just like us with ordinary jobs, ordinary pressures and ordinary lives. Against a new landscape of horror and viol...

THE TOP TEN BESTSELLER: The Inspirational Life of Finn, Britain's Bravest Dog, Winner of the 2017 Daily Mirror Animal Hero of the Year AwardHertfordshire, October 5th 2016. At around 2 a.m., PC Dave Wardell and his dog, PD Finn, were trying to apprehend a robbery suspect when he turned around and attacked them. Finn was stabbed with a ten-inch-bladed knife, both through his chest, via his armpit and then - the knife bound for Dave - through th...

Taking us on a journey that both him and his soon-to-be-wife took, Gopnik builds a portrait of New York during a time when it had become a pilgrimage site for the young and ambitious.

Investigator Lennox just can't stay out of trouble. Lennox is looking for legitimate cases - anything's better than working for the Three Kings, the crime bosses who run Glasgow's underworld. So when a woman comes into his office and hires him to follow her husband, it seems the perfect case. And, unusually for Lennox, it's legal. But this isn't a simple case of marital infidelity. When the people he's following start to track him, once more L...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018**WHO IS VERNON SUBUTEX?An urban legend.A fall from grace.The mirror who reflects us all.Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Bastille. His legend spread throughout Paris. But by the 2000s his shop is struggling. With his savings gone, his unemployment benefit cut, and the friend who had been covering his rent suddenly dead, Vernon Subutex finds himself...

For Commandant Verhoeven life is beautiful: he's happily married, and expectinghis first child with the lovely Irène.But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder so savage that even themost hardened officers on the force are shaken to the core. In the face of theseemingly motiveless horror, only Verhoeven makes the vital connection - thecrime scene resembles one described in a James Ellroy novel too closely forthere to be any coincidenc...

Bernie Gunther returns to find Berlin changed for the worse. Obliged to drop everything when Reinhard Heydrich of the SD orders him to Prague to spend a weekend at his country house, Bernie accepts reluctantly, especially when he learns that his fellow guests are all senior figures in the SS and SD. The weekend quickly turns sour when a body is found in a room locked from the inside. If Bernie fails to solve this impossible mystery, not only i...

The final instalment in the fantasy thriller series, Sigrud je Harkvaldsson is back, and this time he's out for vengeance.

Full of daring stunts, memorable characters and thrilling twists, the final episode in the League of Sharks trilogy will have you on the edge of your seat Junk has jumped through space and time to find his sister Ambeline .The final book finds Junk locked in a high security facility. Junk is determined to return home with his sister. After a hair-raising escape involving an express train, he discovers that Ambeline has been taken by a gang of ...

Paperback edition of the latest novel in the crime series featuring coroner Dr Siri. Dr Siri's wife Madame Daeng is put in danger when the French government declassify documents concerning their defeat at Dien Bein Phu. With appeal to fans of Alexander McCall Smith. 'The characters are endearing, and the exotic setting as interesting as in the first episode.' "Literary Review

1920. Having disobeyed the wishes of her aristocratic family, Lulu Pearson, a young and talented Tasmanian sculptress, finds herself alone in London. The future is looking bright until Lulu learns she has inherited a racing colt called OCEAN CHILD from a mysterious benefactor, and she must return to her homeland to claim him. However, a welcome return is more than she can hope for. Unbeknownst to Lulu, more than a few fortunes ride on OCEAN CH...

A compelling fantasy for readers of all ages, set in a world where animals no longer exist. 12 year old Kester is taken to a place where the last creatures in the land have survived, and together with a wise stag, he embarks on a great journey to save them. 'A darkly comic and hugely inventive adventure...it could be the next big thing' Eoin Colfer. Interesting author trivia: Piers is the son of Paul Torday, ("Salmon Fishing In The Yemen").

A novel based on fact, about a brilliant detective in war-time Berlin who becomes a mass murderer.

FICTION / Fantasy / General

Lissa and Lin are twins on the run... The edge-of-your-seat sequel to Linked.

A smart and quirky book blending sci-fi statistics with 101 stylish and memorable infographics.

In 1965, five teenage friends fled Glasgow for London to pursue their dream of musical stardom. Yet before year's end three returned, and returned damaged. In 2015, a brutal murder forces those three men, now in their sixties, to journey back to London and finally confront the dark truth they have run from for five decades.

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