Category Archives: Accessories
Sliver
Kay Norris, a successful book editor, moves into the affluent Carnegie Hill district of Manhattan, into an apartment in a slender high-rise. A man watches her. He watches her unpack, watches her make her bed. He owns the building: a shocking secret is concealed within the walls. Sliver is a sinuous, erotic thriller that explores
Pushing Up Daisies
Allotment wars! Lord Bellingham, Carsely`s biggest landholder, has enraged locals by saying he is going to sell off their allotments to make way for a new housing development. So when he turns up dead, poisoned by antifreeze, nobody mourns his passing. On another fine summer`s day Agatha visits Carsley`s allotments where everything looks peaceful and
The Bookshop Book
Every bookshop has a storyWe`re not talking about rooms that are just full of books.We`re talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old run-down train stations. Fold-out bookshops, undercover bookshops, this-is-the-best-place-I`ve-ever-been-to-bookshops.Meet Sarah and her Book Barge sailing across the sea to France;
Death or Ice Cream?
Larkin Mills: The Birthplace of Death! Larkin Mills is no ordinary town. It`s a place of contradictions and enigma, of secrets and mysteries. A place with an exquisite ice cream parlour, and an awful lot of death. An extraordinary mystery in Larkin Mills is beginning to take shape. First we meet the apparently healthy Albert
Bullet Catcher
A coming-of-age tale reimagined as a searing Western epic. In the small town of Sand, populated by gunslingers and surrounded by endless desert, Imma washes dishes and grieves for a life she never had. She and her brother, Nikko, dreamed of escaping to become bullet catchers, a legendary band of outlaws who can deflect bullets
Follow Me Back
A thrilling read, for fans of Gone Girl and We Were Liars. There was no sign of a struggle, they whisper to each other. She took her phone but left her laptop behind. Apparently, she`d met someone online, they write to each other in class, phones buzzing. She ran away. She was taken. The first
Flying Fergus 1: The Best Birthday Bike
The first in a fantastically fun, magical cycling adventure series from Sir Chris Hoy. Fergus Hamilton, a boy who always dreams big, gets a rusty old bike for his ninth birthday from his mum and granddad. It`s not the flashy Sullivan Swift he`d longed for – but when it`s all cleaned up and he takes
Flying Fergus 2: The Great Cycle Challenge
The second in Sir Chris Hoy`s fantastically fun, magical cycling adventure series. Fergus is a boy with a big imagination and a very special bike. He is also the first member of the Hercules Hopefuls cycling team, set up by Grandpa Herc to fight off their arch rivals, Wallace`s Wheels. Fergus`s friend Daisy would love
Our Chemical Hearts
A bittersweet, funny, sad story of friendship, first love, and heartache, all rolled into one spellbinding tale, from a stunning debut novelist. For fans of John Green, Rainbow Rowell and E. Lockhart. Henry Page, a hopeless romantic and film buff, is smitten as soon as Grace Town walks into his classroom. But Grace – who
Margot and Me
How can you hate someone in the present and love them in the past?Fliss`s mum needs peace and quiet to recuperate from a long illness, so they both move to the countryside to live with Margot, Fliss`s stern and bullying grandmother. Life on the farm is tough and life at school is even tougher, so
Genuine Fraud
Soon to be a major motion picture produced by stars of HBO series GIRLS, Lena Dunham and Jenni KonnerFrom the author of the unforgettable bestseller WE WERE LIARS comes a suspenseful new psychological thriller – the story of a young woman whose diabolical smarts are her ticket into a charmed life. But how many times
Special Forces Cadets 1: Siege
From the bestselling author of STRIKE BACK, Chris Ryan returns with a new action-packed series.Tough enough? Smart enough? Max will require all his skills just to stay alive as a Special Forces Cadet…A top-secret government programme needs a crack team of undercover military operators. They must have awesome levels of determination, endurance and fitness. They
Special Forces Cadets 2: Missing
From the bestselling author of STRIKE BACK, Chris Ryan returns with the second in his new action-packed series.Tough enough? Smart enough? Max will require all his skills just to stay alive as a Special Forces Cadet . . .In this second book, the cadets are sent to North Korea. A British agent investigating the rogue
The Red Ribbon
Rose, Ella, Marta and Carla. In another life we might all have been friends together. But this was Birchwood.For readers of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.As fourteen-year-old Ella begins her first day at work she steps into a world of silks, seams, scissors, pins, hems and trimmings. She
The Last Paper Crane
A Japanese teenager, Mizuki, is worried about her grandfather who is clearly desperately upset about something. He says that he has never got over something that happened in his past and gently Mizuki persuades him to tell her what it is.We are taken to 1945, Hiroshima, and Mizuki`s grandfather as a teenage boy chatting at
Thorn
Princess Alyrra has never enjoyed the security or power of her rank. Between her family`s cruelty and the court`s contempt, she has spent her life in the shadows. Forced to marry a powerful foreign prince, Alyrra embarks on a journey to meet her betrothed with little hope for a better future. But powerful men have
Wink
Ross Molloy just wants to be normal. He doesn`t want to lose his hair, or wear a weird hat, or deal with the disappearing friends who don`t know what to say to `the cancer kid`. But with his recent diagnosis of a rare eye cancer, simply blending in is no longer an option. Ross –
The Archers: Ambridge At War
The perfect novel for all Archers fans. `Intriguing, comforting and endearingly familiar` Katie Fforde It`s 1940 and war has broken out. It is midnight at the turn of the year, and Walter Gabriel speaks the same line that opened the very first radio episode – `And a Happy New Year to you all!` For Ambridge,
A Manual for Being Human: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER`Clear, accessible wise advice for modern minds.` Matt Haig`Dr Soph is the therapist and best friend that the world deserves. The world of therapy and professional help is still so inaccessible to so many people and this book is a crucial and life changing one that should be placed in everyone`s mental
Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy
Eleven-year-old Ophelia might not be brave, but she certainly is curious. Her family are still reeling from her mother`s death, and in a bid to cheer everyone up, her father has taken a job at a fantastically enormous and gothic museum in a city where it never stops snowing. Ophelia can`t wait to explore –
