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Children in Read 2024
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Neil Gaiman & David Mack
Neil Gaiman & David Mack
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A New Year's Wish written and signed by Neil, illustrated by David Mack
size: 8.5" x 11"
Signed : Dedication by Neil is available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Author:
Neil Gaiman's work has been honoured with many awards internationally, including the Newbery and Carnegie Medals. His books and stories have also been honoured with Hugos, Nebulas, the World Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Awards, Locus Awards, British SF Awards, British Fantasy Awards, Geffens, Mythopoeic Awards, and numerous others. He is a Professor in the Arts at Bard College.
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The Artist:
David Mack is a writer, artist, director, designer- Mack earned an Emmy Award nomination for the Jessica Jones Netflix opening titles, New York Times Best Selling Author & Artist of KABUKI, writer of MARVEL's Daredevil, Creator of ECHO (now making her screen debut in the new MARVEL Hawkeye series & starring in her own ECHO tv series on Disney+).
Cover artist of Neil Gaiman's American Gods, & Norse Mythology, Jessica Jones, & Fight Club 2 by Chuck Palahniuk. Artist on Jessica Jones opening titles & Captain America The Winter Soldier film titles & Cultural Ambassador for the US State Dept.
Mack created the character ECHO who is making her screen debut in the new Marvel Hawkeye series & starring in her own ECHO tv series.
Mack has signed on to direct the HBO Max tv series of COVER, adapted from the graphic novel which is inspired by his work overseas for the US State Dept. COVER was nominated for three Eisner Awards, Best Graphic Novel, Best Cover Artist, Best Painter.
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size: 8.5" x 11"
Signed : Dedication by Neil is available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Author:
Neil Gaiman's work has been honoured with many awards internationally, including the Newbery and Carnegie Medals. His books and stories have also been honoured with Hugos, Nebulas, the World Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Awards, Locus Awards, British SF Awards, British Fantasy Awards, Geffens, Mythopoeic Awards, and numerous others. He is a Professor in the Arts at Bard College.
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The Artist:
David Mack is a writer, artist, director, designer- Mack earned an Emmy Award nomination for the Jessica Jones Netflix opening titles, New York Times Best Selling Author & Artist of KABUKI, writer of MARVEL's Daredevil, Creator of ECHO (now making her screen debut in the new MARVEL Hawkeye series & starring in her own ECHO tv series on Disney+).
Cover artist of Neil Gaiman's American Gods, & Norse Mythology, Jessica Jones, & Fight Club 2 by Chuck Palahniuk. Artist on Jessica Jones opening titles & Captain America The Winter Soldier film titles & Cultural Ambassador for the US State Dept.
Mack created the character ECHO who is making her screen debut in the new Marvel Hawkeye series & starring in her own ECHO tv series.
Mack has signed on to direct the HBO Max tv series of COVER, adapted from the graphic novel which is inspired by his work overseas for the US State Dept. COVER was nominated for three Eisner Awards, Best Graphic Novel, Best Cover Artist, Best Painter.
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Website: https://davidmackarts.com
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Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman
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Lot 2
£ 70
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Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman
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A signed-by-Neil for his appearance in NYC last Dec as Charles Dickens reading A Christmas Carol in character-
Size: 8.5" x 14"
Signed: Dedication is available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Author:
Neil Gaiman's work has been honoured with many awards internationally, including the Newbery and Carnegie Medals. His books and stories have also been honoured with Hugos, Nebulas, the World Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Awards, Locus Awards, British SF Awards, British Fantasy Awards, Geffens, Mythopoeic Awards, and numerous others. He is a Professor in the Arts at Bard College.
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Size: 8.5" x 14"
Signed: Dedication is available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Author:
Neil Gaiman's work has been honoured with many awards internationally, including the Newbery and Carnegie Medals. His books and stories have also been honoured with Hugos, Nebulas, the World Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Awards, Locus Awards, British SF Awards, British Fantasy Awards, Geffens, Mythopoeic Awards, and numerous others. He is a Professor in the Arts at Bard College.
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Lot 3
£ 2,326
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Jessica Adams & Rachel Wells
Jessica Adams & Rachel Wells
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*A 45-minute psychic astrology Zoom reading with Jessica.
*A signed poster for The Aries Billionaire by Rachel Wells.
*A free audiobook - The Aries Billionaire read by Oliver Chris (Audible UK).
*A signed edition from Rachel Wells' Alfie bestseller series.
*A signed, uncorrected proof of Your Birthday (Hachette) by Jessica Adams and Rachel Wells. This is the only one in the world. The manuscript can be dedicated to anyone you wish.
*A limited-edition Your Birthday tote bag.
Title 1: Your Birthday
Genre: Children
Format: Rare uncorrected proof
Signed: Dedication is Available
Title 2: A Friend Called Alfie
Genre: Non-Fiction, Astrology
Format: Paperback
Signed: Dedication is Available
Title 3: The Aries Billionaire
Genre: Crime Mystery
Format: Audible Book
Signed: Dedication is Available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book: Your Birthday
Discover the magic and meaning of the day you were born with Your Birthday, a captivating and comprehensive guide to personality and destiny. Renowned astrologer Jessica Adams, along with Sunday Times bestselling author Rachel Wells, provide a global exploration of birthdays, drawing on Tarot, Western Astrology, Eastern Astrology, Vedic Astrology, Numerology, and more for all 365 days of the year.
What does the day of your birth mean-for your life, your personality, your strengths, and your dreams? What does your Indian moon sign tell you about your destiny? What does folklore and history say about the day you were born?
Uncover the answers within Your Birthday, your complete resource for understanding the role your birth date plays in every facet of life, using:
– Sun Signs in Western Astrology
– Asian Zodiac Signs
– Ancient Egyptian Decans
– Vedic Astrology
– Numerology
– Tarot Reading
The book’s first half incorporates monthly and day-by-day chapters, allowing for the study of birthdays from all angles. Each date-based entry also touches on the significance of the day in popular culture, showing not just the mystical but the social resonances of birthdays. Readers will discover celebrities who share their birthday month, day, and sign, as well as in-depth discussions of birthstones, birth flowers, emblematic animals, and Native American Moon correspondences for each month.
In the second half of the book, readers will gain a wholly unique understanding of their birthday through a nuanced and specific discussion of tarot. Each of the 78 cards is explored in-depth and contextualized within its appearance within birthday-specific tarot spreads. Further parallels are drawn between birthday readings and the specific imagery and history of Pamela Colman Smith’s iconic Rider-Waite-Smith deck.
Anyone looking to understand themselves, their friends, family, co-workers, and more will find endless insights within Your Birthday.
The Book: A Friend Called Alfie
The Sunday Times bestseller returns for a sixth book! Alfie and his mischievous kitten George are back for more adventures – this time with a puppy in tow…
At Christmas time we all need a friend…
Alfie and his kitten, George, have always known that a human is for life and not just for Christmas. So when George learns that one of the residents of Edgar Road has been taken into hospital, he realises it’s up to him to provide some comfort at this difficult time of year.
The only problem is that they now have a little puppy in tow – Pickles the Pug, who is convinced he can be a cat if only he sticks with his new found friends.
As George tries to do everything he can to make the world – and its humans – happier, Alfie struggles to keep Pickles in check and out of trouble. Because even the best laid plans can be destroyed by a well-meaning – but mischievous – little puppy…
The Audio Book: The Aries Billionaire
Aries billionaire Mike Kirby is celebrating his 50th birthday on his remote island with his unhappy wife, handpicked guests, a Blood Moon Eclipse and...a rocket launch.
A coma and a murder later, it’s down to astrologer Leo Moon to uncover the truth.
Join Mike, his wife Renee, her sister Rachel and Rachel’s husband Neil in their glamorous world of swimming pools, horoscopes and deadly secrets.
The Author: Jessica Adams
Jessica Adams is the author of Essential Astrology for Women (Harper Collins) and Handbag Horoscopes (Penquin).
Her astrology appears around the world in Vogue, Marie Claire. The Express, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and on ITV This Morning, also Channel 10 Studio Ten,
In 2023 Jessica launches The Leo Moon Mysteries with Rachel Wells on Audible UK,
The Author: Rachel Wells
Rachel Wells is a mother, writer and cat lover who lives in North Devon with her son, Xavier and her cat Lady A. She grew up in Devon but lived in London for a number of years, working in Marketing and living in a tiny flat with an elderly rescued cat, who she called Albert.
After having a child she moved back home and is currently juggling writing full time and being a single mum.
She has always had cats as pets, ever since she was a young child, and she has always loved writing. Delighted to have been able to combine her two main passions, ALFIE THE DOORSTEP CAT was her first cat novel. She has continued with A CAT CALLED ALFIE, ALFIE & GEORGE, ALFIE THE HOLIDAY CAT, ALFIE IN THE SNOW, A FRIEND CALLED ALFIE and ALFIE THE CHRISTMAS CAT. Delighted to be able to continue to bring Alfie’s adventures to life, Alfie has become a part of the family. She has also written two books for children about Alfie; ALFIE – CAT IN TROUBLE and ALFIE – FAR FROM HOME.
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachelwellsauthor
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/acatcalledalfie
Website: https://rachelwells.co
*A signed poster for The Aries Billionaire by Rachel Wells.
*A free audiobook - The Aries Billionaire read by Oliver Chris (Audible UK).
*A signed edition from Rachel Wells' Alfie bestseller series.
*A signed, uncorrected proof of Your Birthday (Hachette) by Jessica Adams and Rachel Wells. This is the only one in the world. The manuscript can be dedicated to anyone you wish.
*A limited-edition Your Birthday tote bag.
Title 1: Your Birthday
Genre: Children
Format: Rare uncorrected proof
Signed: Dedication is Available
Title 2: A Friend Called Alfie
Genre: Non-Fiction, Astrology
Format: Paperback
Signed: Dedication is Available
Title 3: The Aries Billionaire
Genre: Crime Mystery
Format: Audible Book
Signed: Dedication is Available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book: Your Birthday
Discover the magic and meaning of the day you were born with Your Birthday, a captivating and comprehensive guide to personality and destiny. Renowned astrologer Jessica Adams, along with Sunday Times bestselling author Rachel Wells, provide a global exploration of birthdays, drawing on Tarot, Western Astrology, Eastern Astrology, Vedic Astrology, Numerology, and more for all 365 days of the year.
What does the day of your birth mean-for your life, your personality, your strengths, and your dreams? What does your Indian moon sign tell you about your destiny? What does folklore and history say about the day you were born?
Uncover the answers within Your Birthday, your complete resource for understanding the role your birth date plays in every facet of life, using:
– Sun Signs in Western Astrology
– Asian Zodiac Signs
– Ancient Egyptian Decans
– Vedic Astrology
– Numerology
– Tarot Reading
The book’s first half incorporates monthly and day-by-day chapters, allowing for the study of birthdays from all angles. Each date-based entry also touches on the significance of the day in popular culture, showing not just the mystical but the social resonances of birthdays. Readers will discover celebrities who share their birthday month, day, and sign, as well as in-depth discussions of birthstones, birth flowers, emblematic animals, and Native American Moon correspondences for each month.
In the second half of the book, readers will gain a wholly unique understanding of their birthday through a nuanced and specific discussion of tarot. Each of the 78 cards is explored in-depth and contextualized within its appearance within birthday-specific tarot spreads. Further parallels are drawn between birthday readings and the specific imagery and history of Pamela Colman Smith’s iconic Rider-Waite-Smith deck.
Anyone looking to understand themselves, their friends, family, co-workers, and more will find endless insights within Your Birthday.
The Book: A Friend Called Alfie
The Sunday Times bestseller returns for a sixth book! Alfie and his mischievous kitten George are back for more adventures – this time with a puppy in tow…
At Christmas time we all need a friend…
Alfie and his kitten, George, have always known that a human is for life and not just for Christmas. So when George learns that one of the residents of Edgar Road has been taken into hospital, he realises it’s up to him to provide some comfort at this difficult time of year.
The only problem is that they now have a little puppy in tow – Pickles the Pug, who is convinced he can be a cat if only he sticks with his new found friends.
As George tries to do everything he can to make the world – and its humans – happier, Alfie struggles to keep Pickles in check and out of trouble. Because even the best laid plans can be destroyed by a well-meaning – but mischievous – little puppy…
The Audio Book: The Aries Billionaire
Aries billionaire Mike Kirby is celebrating his 50th birthday on his remote island with his unhappy wife, handpicked guests, a Blood Moon Eclipse and...a rocket launch.
A coma and a murder later, it’s down to astrologer Leo Moon to uncover the truth.
Join Mike, his wife Renee, her sister Rachel and Rachel’s husband Neil in their glamorous world of swimming pools, horoscopes and deadly secrets.
The Author: Jessica Adams
Jessica Adams is the author of Essential Astrology for Women (Harper Collins) and Handbag Horoscopes (Penquin).
Her astrology appears around the world in Vogue, Marie Claire. The Express, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and on ITV This Morning, also Channel 10 Studio Ten,
In 2023 Jessica launches The Leo Moon Mysteries with Rachel Wells on Audible UK,
The Author: Rachel Wells
Rachel Wells is a mother, writer and cat lover who lives in North Devon with her son, Xavier and her cat Lady A. She grew up in Devon but lived in London for a number of years, working in Marketing and living in a tiny flat with an elderly rescued cat, who she called Albert.
After having a child she moved back home and is currently juggling writing full time and being a single mum.
She has always had cats as pets, ever since she was a young child, and she has always loved writing. Delighted to have been able to combine her two main passions, ALFIE THE DOORSTEP CAT was her first cat novel. She has continued with A CAT CALLED ALFIE, ALFIE & GEORGE, ALFIE THE HOLIDAY CAT, ALFIE IN THE SNOW, A FRIEND CALLED ALFIE and ALFIE THE CHRISTMAS CAT. Delighted to be able to continue to bring Alfie’s adventures to life, Alfie has become a part of the family. She has also written two books for children about Alfie; ALFIE – CAT IN TROUBLE and ALFIE – FAR FROM HOME.
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Website: https://www.jessicaadams.com
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachelwellsauthor
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/acatcalledalfie
Website: https://rachelwells.co
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Jessica Adams & Rachel Wells
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Lot 4
£ 100
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Carol Drinkwater
Carol Drinkwater
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An unbelievable and unique lot of six audio CD books all narrated by Carol Drinkwater herself
They are signed and can be dedicated by Carol who will personally mail them to her successful bidder.
Postage is free Worldwide.
Title 1: An Act of Love
France, 1943.
Forced to flee war ravaged Poland, seventeen-year-old Sara and her parents find refuge in a dilapidated house in the French Alps. On first glance it seems the perfect hideaway.
But soon the Nazis close in, casting a shadow over Sara's blissful summer and her blossoming romance with handsome local villager Alain.
Eventually the family must make a harrowing choice, one that could drive them apart forever and risk several lives.
Will they make it through the summer?
Will the family find each other again?
And can Sara hold onto the love she has found with Alain?
Title 2: Hotel Paradise
Genevieve Bowles is an award-winning songwriter who visits the south of France to attend the Cannes film festival. The day after the renowned festival's closing ceremony, Genevieve is invited to visit the newly-refurbished Hotel Paradise. Genevieve knows the hotel well – in fact, her past life there has haunted her for over a decade...
Twelve years earlier, two travellers have met in Paris. Genevieve dreams of becoming a famous songwriter, while Paul is determined to be a professional photographer. Full of optimism, they hitch south to the Riviera where they answer an advertisement for live-in help at the Hotel Paradise, located on an island just off the French coast. There the young couple are seduced by the tranquility and magical beauty of the hotel and its setting. But the island has a darker side, with a history of bloodshed that fills Genevieve with foreboding. When a stranger arrives who threatens her future with Paul, Genevieve senses that events are about to spin out of control …
Title 3: The Girl in Room Fourteen
Striking, raven-haired Cecile produces the finest lemons on the Riviera. Her ice creams, pies, lemonades, sold on her stall at the internationally famous Cannes market, are as renowned as the Mediterranean city itself. Tourists travel from everywhere to meet her.
But Cecile is a woman who no one draws close to, a woman with a secret.
Cecile, when she was nineteen and a shy student, travelled south to a lemon festival on the borders of Italy and France. She was intending to let her hair down, to enjoy two crazy weeks of fun. She was not anticipating the enigmatic Italian who offered her a future beyond her wildest dreams. But at what cost?
The Girl in Room Fourteen is a heartrending love story set on the warm shores of the Mediterranean.
Title 4: The Love of a Stranger
Heartbroken and alone following the death of her partner, Justin, Susan Parks knows she needs to find a new life. Feeling too young for widowhood but too grief-stricken to love again, she leaves her life in England and moves to Cannes.
On the train south from Paris, Susan encounters three Frenchmen who are travelling together, including the enigmatic Gustave. Not long after that, she runs into Gustave again in Cannes. He seems intrigued by Susan, and begins a tactful but determined campaign to win her over. His attentions are flattering, and unexpected, but Susan’s emotions are too raw for a new romance. As they get to know one another, however, Susan learns more about Gustave’s story—his ambitious plans for the stunning château he owns with friends, his own tragic loss.
Susan can’t run from her growing feelings forever, but nor can she forget the devastating heartache that brought her to France—and Gustave. She has a choice to make: to hide in bittersweet memories of the past or to take a chance on love and life with a new man.
Title 5: The House on the Edge of the Cliff
No one else knows what happened that summer. Or so she believes . . .
Grace first came to France a lifetime ago. Young and full of dreams of adventure, she met two very different men.
She fell under the spell of one. The other fell under hers.
Until one summer night shattered everything . . .
Now, Grace is living an idyllic life with her husband, sheltered from the world in a magnificent Provençal villa, perched atop a windswept cliff.
Every day she looks out over the sea - the only witness to that fateful night years ago.
Until a stranger arrives at the house. A stranger who knows everything, and won't leave until he gets what he wants.
The past and present spectacularly collide in this gripping story of love and betrayal echoing across the decades.
Title 6: A Simple Act of Kindness
After a devastating car accident, Carole escapes from an oppressive marriage in England to begin again in rural France. Yet she is haunted by the knowledge that Paul, her husband, has tracked her down before and will do his best to do it again…
Afraid to share her fears with her new neighbours, Carole nonetheless finds herself drawn to a local farmer, who helps her start to create a new and independent life. But then she learns that Paul is on her trail and closing fast…
A Simple Act of Kindness is a story of obsessive love and the damage it can do. A powerful tale from the bestselling author of The Olive Farm and The Girl in Room Fourteen.
The Author:
Actress Carol Drinkwater is probably best known for her role as Helen Herriot in the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small. Also an accomplished novelist, she has achieved bestselling status with her much-loved memoirs of life on an olive farm in Provence.
Carol has been invited to work with UNESCO to help found an Olive Heritage Trail around the Mediterranean Basin. The aim is to create peace within the region and honour the heritage of this sacred tree.
She is also an ambassador for Children in Read an organisation in support of B.B.C. Children in Need
Follow:
X: https://x.com/Carol4OliveFarm
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/olive.farm
Website: https://www.caroldrinkwater.com
They are signed and can be dedicated by Carol who will personally mail them to her successful bidder.
Postage is free Worldwide.
Title 1: An Act of Love
France, 1943.
Forced to flee war ravaged Poland, seventeen-year-old Sara and her parents find refuge in a dilapidated house in the French Alps. On first glance it seems the perfect hideaway.
But soon the Nazis close in, casting a shadow over Sara's blissful summer and her blossoming romance with handsome local villager Alain.
Eventually the family must make a harrowing choice, one that could drive them apart forever and risk several lives.
Will they make it through the summer?
Will the family find each other again?
And can Sara hold onto the love she has found with Alain?
Title 2: Hotel Paradise
Genevieve Bowles is an award-winning songwriter who visits the south of France to attend the Cannes film festival. The day after the renowned festival's closing ceremony, Genevieve is invited to visit the newly-refurbished Hotel Paradise. Genevieve knows the hotel well – in fact, her past life there has haunted her for over a decade...
Twelve years earlier, two travellers have met in Paris. Genevieve dreams of becoming a famous songwriter, while Paul is determined to be a professional photographer. Full of optimism, they hitch south to the Riviera where they answer an advertisement for live-in help at the Hotel Paradise, located on an island just off the French coast. There the young couple are seduced by the tranquility and magical beauty of the hotel and its setting. But the island has a darker side, with a history of bloodshed that fills Genevieve with foreboding. When a stranger arrives who threatens her future with Paul, Genevieve senses that events are about to spin out of control …
Title 3: The Girl in Room Fourteen
Striking, raven-haired Cecile produces the finest lemons on the Riviera. Her ice creams, pies, lemonades, sold on her stall at the internationally famous Cannes market, are as renowned as the Mediterranean city itself. Tourists travel from everywhere to meet her.
But Cecile is a woman who no one draws close to, a woman with a secret.
Cecile, when she was nineteen and a shy student, travelled south to a lemon festival on the borders of Italy and France. She was intending to let her hair down, to enjoy two crazy weeks of fun. She was not anticipating the enigmatic Italian who offered her a future beyond her wildest dreams. But at what cost?
The Girl in Room Fourteen is a heartrending love story set on the warm shores of the Mediterranean.
Title 4: The Love of a Stranger
Heartbroken and alone following the death of her partner, Justin, Susan Parks knows she needs to find a new life. Feeling too young for widowhood but too grief-stricken to love again, she leaves her life in England and moves to Cannes.
On the train south from Paris, Susan encounters three Frenchmen who are travelling together, including the enigmatic Gustave. Not long after that, she runs into Gustave again in Cannes. He seems intrigued by Susan, and begins a tactful but determined campaign to win her over. His attentions are flattering, and unexpected, but Susan’s emotions are too raw for a new romance. As they get to know one another, however, Susan learns more about Gustave’s story—his ambitious plans for the stunning château he owns with friends, his own tragic loss.
Susan can’t run from her growing feelings forever, but nor can she forget the devastating heartache that brought her to France—and Gustave. She has a choice to make: to hide in bittersweet memories of the past or to take a chance on love and life with a new man.
Title 5: The House on the Edge of the Cliff
No one else knows what happened that summer. Or so she believes . . .
Grace first came to France a lifetime ago. Young and full of dreams of adventure, she met two very different men.
She fell under the spell of one. The other fell under hers.
Until one summer night shattered everything . . .
Now, Grace is living an idyllic life with her husband, sheltered from the world in a magnificent Provençal villa, perched atop a windswept cliff.
Every day she looks out over the sea - the only witness to that fateful night years ago.
Until a stranger arrives at the house. A stranger who knows everything, and won't leave until he gets what he wants.
The past and present spectacularly collide in this gripping story of love and betrayal echoing across the decades.
Title 6: A Simple Act of Kindness
After a devastating car accident, Carole escapes from an oppressive marriage in England to begin again in rural France. Yet she is haunted by the knowledge that Paul, her husband, has tracked her down before and will do his best to do it again…
Afraid to share her fears with her new neighbours, Carole nonetheless finds herself drawn to a local farmer, who helps her start to create a new and independent life. But then she learns that Paul is on her trail and closing fast…
A Simple Act of Kindness is a story of obsessive love and the damage it can do. A powerful tale from the bestselling author of The Olive Farm and The Girl in Room Fourteen.
The Author:
Actress Carol Drinkwater is probably best known for her role as Helen Herriot in the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small. Also an accomplished novelist, she has achieved bestselling status with her much-loved memoirs of life on an olive farm in Provence.
Carol has been invited to work with UNESCO to help found an Olive Heritage Trail around the Mediterranean Basin. The aim is to create peace within the region and honour the heritage of this sacred tree.
She is also an ambassador for Children in Read an organisation in support of B.B.C. Children in Need
Follow:
X: https://x.com/Carol4OliveFarm
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/olive.farm
Website: https://www.caroldrinkwater.com
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Three Book Bonanza
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Title 1: The Only Girl in the World
Genre: Children - Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
The Only Girl in the World is a gripping romance written for teenagers and younger readers set during the First World War. Dennis is an English soldier fighting in the trenches of the Western Front. When he is on leave he meets Helene, and it's love at first sight. But the shadow of the trenches hangs over him. His leave is over in a mere two weeks. When this battle is won; when this war is over, he says he will come back for her. Dare Helene fall in love with this foreigner? Will she ever see him again? Will he survive the trenches? The world can be ending around you, but if you're in love nothing else matters…
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Title 2: Nowhere to Run: A Second World War Refugee's Diary 1938-1943
Genre: Young Adult - Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
Set in the south of France during WWII. A young girl gets involved in helping Jewish children escape to safety abroad.
Becky Mortkowicz's family are Jewish refugees from Poland, while Claudette leads a happy carefree life in Paris. Two girls from very different backgrounds, but the horrors of the Nazi occupation will bring them dramatically together. Becky's family have been forced to flee Warsaw for France and are offered a home by Claudette's father. The friendship between the two girls blossoms, but Becky's safe haven is short lived as the Nazis edge ever nearer the French border. Her family are soon on the move again. But even in the so-called Free Zone there are murmurings that an invasion may be imminent. Will Becky survive the war to see Claudette again?
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Title 3: Suffragette
Genre: Children - Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
It's 1909. Dollie is swept up in the thrill of the campaign for Votes for Women. Against her guardian's wishes, she marches against Parliament with Emmeline Pankhurst and fellow suffragettes. Things turn violent, women are imprisoned and endanger their lives with hunger strikes. Dollie must decide how far she will go for 'Deeds, not words'...
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The Author:
Actress Carol Drinkwater is probably best known for her role as Helen Herriot in the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small. Also an accomplished novelist, she has achieved bestselling status with her much-loved memoirs of life on an olive farm in Provence.
Carol has been invited to work with UNESCO to help found an Olive Heritage Trail around the Mediterranean Basin. The aim is to create peace within the region and honour the heritage of this sacred tree.
She is also an ambassador for Children in Read an organisation in support of B.B.C. Children in Need
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Postage is free and bids are accepted worldwide.
Title 1: The Only Girl in the World
Genre: Children - Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
The Only Girl in the World is a gripping romance written for teenagers and younger readers set during the First World War. Dennis is an English soldier fighting in the trenches of the Western Front. When he is on leave he meets Helene, and it's love at first sight. But the shadow of the trenches hangs over him. His leave is over in a mere two weeks. When this battle is won; when this war is over, he says he will come back for her. Dare Helene fall in love with this foreigner? Will she ever see him again? Will he survive the trenches? The world can be ending around you, but if you're in love nothing else matters…
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Title 2: Nowhere to Run: A Second World War Refugee's Diary 1938-1943
Genre: Young Adult - Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
Set in the south of France during WWII. A young girl gets involved in helping Jewish children escape to safety abroad.
Becky Mortkowicz's family are Jewish refugees from Poland, while Claudette leads a happy carefree life in Paris. Two girls from very different backgrounds, but the horrors of the Nazi occupation will bring them dramatically together. Becky's family have been forced to flee Warsaw for France and are offered a home by Claudette's father. The friendship between the two girls blossoms, but Becky's safe haven is short lived as the Nazis edge ever nearer the French border. Her family are soon on the move again. But even in the so-called Free Zone there are murmurings that an invasion may be imminent. Will Becky survive the war to see Claudette again?
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Title 3: Suffragette
Genre: Children - Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
It's 1909. Dollie is swept up in the thrill of the campaign for Votes for Women. Against her guardian's wishes, she marches against Parliament with Emmeline Pankhurst and fellow suffragettes. Things turn violent, women are imprisoned and endanger their lives with hunger strikes. Dollie must decide how far she will go for 'Deeds, not words'...
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The Author:
Actress Carol Drinkwater is probably best known for her role as Helen Herriot in the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small. Also an accomplished novelist, she has achieved bestselling status with her much-loved memoirs of life on an olive farm in Provence.
Carol has been invited to work with UNESCO to help found an Olive Heritage Trail around the Mediterranean Basin. The aim is to create peace within the region and honour the heritage of this sacred tree.
She is also an ambassador for Children in Read an organisation in support of B.B.C. Children in Need
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Louise Minchin
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Title: Isolation Island
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Format: Hardback - First Edition
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IT’S A PRIZE ANYONE WOULD KILL TO WIN…
Ten celebrities have arrived to take part in the most gruelling – and lucrative – reality survival show ever devised: two weeks completely alone on a remote Scottish island, in the depths of winter.
With a production team that seems incapable of keeping them safe, a gathering storm and the unrelenting gaze of hidden cameras, the contestants are stretched to the limit as they try and outshine their fellow competitors and hide their darkest secrets.
The Author:
But when a contestant winds up dead, it soon becomes clear that the players are not just fighting for the prize, but for their lives.
Louise Minchin is most famous for her twenty-year stint on BBC Breakfast's red
sofa, but she has also been the main news anchor on the BBC News Channel and the
BBC's One O'clock News and presented The One Show, Five Live Drive, Real Rescues
and Missing Live. Her television career has also seen her participate in a number of
reality TV shows including ITV's I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, Channel 4's
Time Crashers and the BBC's Celebrity MasterChef.
Louise has also written non-fiction titles, Dare to Tri and Fearless, and she was Chair
of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023. Isolation Island is her debut novel.
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Genre: Psychological Thriller
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IT’S A PRIZE ANYONE WOULD KILL TO WIN…
Ten celebrities have arrived to take part in the most gruelling – and lucrative – reality survival show ever devised: two weeks completely alone on a remote Scottish island, in the depths of winter.
With a production team that seems incapable of keeping them safe, a gathering storm and the unrelenting gaze of hidden cameras, the contestants are stretched to the limit as they try and outshine their fellow competitors and hide their darkest secrets.
The Author:
But when a contestant winds up dead, it soon becomes clear that the players are not just fighting for the prize, but for their lives.
Louise Minchin is most famous for her twenty-year stint on BBC Breakfast's red
sofa, but she has also been the main news anchor on the BBC News Channel and the
BBC's One O'clock News and presented The One Show, Five Live Drive, Real Rescues
and Missing Live. Her television career has also seen her participate in a number of
reality TV shows including ITV's I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, Channel 4's
Time Crashers and the BBC's Celebrity MasterChef.
Louise has also written non-fiction titles, Dare to Tri and Fearless, and she was Chair
of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023. Isolation Island is her debut novel.
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Santa Montefiore
Santa Montefiore
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Book Title: Shadows in the Moonlight
Genre: Romance - Mystery
Format: Hardback (First Edition)
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The Book:
A FORBIDDEN LOVE.
AN IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE...
When Pixie Tate is summoned to the wild Cornish coast to unravel a curious mystery at the stately St Sidwell Manor, she knows that something quite extraordinary must be hiding in its shadows.
Over one hundred years ago, in the dark of night, a child vanished from his bed never to be seen again - and Pixie must now discover the truth of those final moonlit hours.
As she loses herself in the past, secrets are revealed, love affairs exposed and, ultimately, Pixie will be forced to make a devastating choice that will change her life forever...
Shadows in the Moonlight is the first novel of a planned trilogy following the character Pixie Tate.
The Author:
Santa Montefiore is the number one bestselling author of over thirty novels and has sold over six million copies worldwide. Her books have been translated into twenty-five languages and she won an RNA Award for The Temptation of Gracie in 2019, which is currently in development for film. Born in England in 1970, she grew up in Hampshire and now lives in London with her husband, writer Simon Sebag-Montefiore, their daughter Lilochka, son Sasha, and dog Simba.
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Genre: Romance - Mystery
Format: Hardback (First Edition)
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The Book:
A FORBIDDEN LOVE.
AN IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE...
When Pixie Tate is summoned to the wild Cornish coast to unravel a curious mystery at the stately St Sidwell Manor, she knows that something quite extraordinary must be hiding in its shadows.
Over one hundred years ago, in the dark of night, a child vanished from his bed never to be seen again - and Pixie must now discover the truth of those final moonlit hours.
As she loses herself in the past, secrets are revealed, love affairs exposed and, ultimately, Pixie will be forced to make a devastating choice that will change her life forever...
Shadows in the Moonlight is the first novel of a planned trilogy following the character Pixie Tate.
The Author:
Santa Montefiore is the number one bestselling author of over thirty novels and has sold over six million copies worldwide. Her books have been translated into twenty-five languages and she won an RNA Award for The Temptation of Gracie in 2019, which is currently in development for film. Born in England in 1970, she grew up in Hampshire and now lives in London with her husband, writer Simon Sebag-Montefiore, their daughter Lilochka, son Sasha, and dog Simba.
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£ 14
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Kirsty Ferry
Kirsty Ferry
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Title: Matilda's Summer of New Beginnings
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
A heartwarming story of friendship and new beginnings set in the sleepy village of Padcock.
What if your happy ending has been within your grasp all along?
Matilda Matthews has big dreams. But after being dumped via text and watching her rival get their artwork in a London exhibition before her, she's feeling awfully sorry for herself.
So she jumps at the chance to attend a birthday party in the idyllic village of Padcock. Because two famous artists are attending . . . And it can't hurt to hear their pearls of wisdom.
With a little extra help from Jay, her best friend's brother and dishy barman at the Spatchcock Inn, Matilda resolves to not give up on what she wants.
Then a shocking bombshell pushes her further into the embrace of Padcock . . . And Jay. But as Matilda settles into the quiet way of life in the little village, she begins to wonder if her London dream really is the true path to happiness.
Is it all just an impossible fantasy, or could Matilda get what she's always wanted and end up in the arms of the man of her dreams?
The Author:
Kirsty is from the North East of England and won the English Heritage/Belsay Hall National Creative Writing competition in 2009 with the ghostly tale 'Enchantment'.
Her timeslip novel, 'Some Veil Did Fall', a paranormal romance set in Whitby, was published by Choc Lit in Autumn 2014, and her books are now published by Joffe Books, winners of the IPG Trade Publisher of the Year in 2023. The experience of signing 'Some Veil Did Fall' in a quirky bookshop in the midst of Goth Weekend in Whitby, dressed as a recently undead person was one of the highlights of her writing career so far!
Kirsty's first timeslip novel 'The Memory of Snow', was commended in the Northern Writers' Awards, and she also writes Gothic Fiction under the pen name Cathryn Ramsay.
Kirsty has had articles and short stories published in various magazines and graduated from Northumbria University in December 2016, having achieved a Masters with Distinction in Creative Writing.
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Genre: Romantic Comedy
Format: Paperback
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Bids Accepted: UK Bids Only
The Book:
A heartwarming story of friendship and new beginnings set in the sleepy village of Padcock.
What if your happy ending has been within your grasp all along?
Matilda Matthews has big dreams. But after being dumped via text and watching her rival get their artwork in a London exhibition before her, she's feeling awfully sorry for herself.
So she jumps at the chance to attend a birthday party in the idyllic village of Padcock. Because two famous artists are attending . . . And it can't hurt to hear their pearls of wisdom.
With a little extra help from Jay, her best friend's brother and dishy barman at the Spatchcock Inn, Matilda resolves to not give up on what she wants.
Then a shocking bombshell pushes her further into the embrace of Padcock . . . And Jay. But as Matilda settles into the quiet way of life in the little village, she begins to wonder if her London dream really is the true path to happiness.
Is it all just an impossible fantasy, or could Matilda get what she's always wanted and end up in the arms of the man of her dreams?
The Author:
Kirsty is from the North East of England and won the English Heritage/Belsay Hall National Creative Writing competition in 2009 with the ghostly tale 'Enchantment'.
Her timeslip novel, 'Some Veil Did Fall', a paranormal romance set in Whitby, was published by Choc Lit in Autumn 2014, and her books are now published by Joffe Books, winners of the IPG Trade Publisher of the Year in 2023. The experience of signing 'Some Veil Did Fall' in a quirky bookshop in the midst of Goth Weekend in Whitby, dressed as a recently undead person was one of the highlights of her writing career so far!
Kirsty's first timeslip novel 'The Memory of Snow', was commended in the Northern Writers' Awards, and she also writes Gothic Fiction under the pen name Cathryn Ramsay.
Kirsty has had articles and short stories published in various magazines and graduated from Northumbria University in December 2016, having achieved a Masters with Distinction in Creative Writing.
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Sheryl Webster
Sheryl Webster
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Title: Kindness Rocks
Genre: Children
Format: Hardback - (First Edition)
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The Book;
A heartwarming self-discovery journey where a rock star learns that the path to true fulfillment is paved with acts of compassion and connection.
Meet Jonny Heart, a rock star whose melodies bring happiness to all who hear them. When offered stardom by the charismatic Fat Cat, Jonny dives into a whirlwind of fame, glitter, and music. Yet, amidst the glitz, Jonny begins to miss the simple joys of life. An unexpected encounter with Busky Soul, a homeless bear, sets Jonny on an extraordinary journey, as he bridges his passion for music with the power of compassion.
Author Sheryl Webster and illustrator Robert García beautifully unfold a heartwarming tale that inspires readers of all ages to spread joy through acts of kindness. Join Jonny on his quest of self-discovery, and let this enchanting story remind you that sometimes, the smallest gestures can create the most significant impact.
The Author:
Sheryl is a children's author from Liverpool, where she lives, not far from the River Mersey, with her husband and four children.
She writes books that are dynamic, witty and heartwarming, and that will empower, inspire and make a difference - by informing and creating awareness of important issues.
Before becoming a children’s author, she gained a degree in Psychology and English, then taught in elementary/primary schools for several years.
During a career break to have her first child, her first picture book was published. She now has over 30+ titles published and translated worldwide.
A big highlight for her was having her picture book, 'Kindness Rocks,' featured on a billboard in Times Square, NYC.
Now that her small brood of children are not so small, Sheryl writes full time, and is enjoying writing more than ever!
She finds inspiration for her stories in lots of things, but especially through music, which she feels is the universal language of us all.
Just like a good book, music can be a source of inspiration and expression!
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Genre: Children
Format: Hardback - (First Edition)
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The Book;
A heartwarming self-discovery journey where a rock star learns that the path to true fulfillment is paved with acts of compassion and connection.
Meet Jonny Heart, a rock star whose melodies bring happiness to all who hear them. When offered stardom by the charismatic Fat Cat, Jonny dives into a whirlwind of fame, glitter, and music. Yet, amidst the glitz, Jonny begins to miss the simple joys of life. An unexpected encounter with Busky Soul, a homeless bear, sets Jonny on an extraordinary journey, as he bridges his passion for music with the power of compassion.
Author Sheryl Webster and illustrator Robert García beautifully unfold a heartwarming tale that inspires readers of all ages to spread joy through acts of kindness. Join Jonny on his quest of self-discovery, and let this enchanting story remind you that sometimes, the smallest gestures can create the most significant impact.
The Author:
Sheryl is a children's author from Liverpool, where she lives, not far from the River Mersey, with her husband and four children.
She writes books that are dynamic, witty and heartwarming, and that will empower, inspire and make a difference - by informing and creating awareness of important issues.
Before becoming a children’s author, she gained a degree in Psychology and English, then taught in elementary/primary schools for several years.
During a career break to have her first child, her first picture book was published. She now has over 30+ titles published and translated worldwide.
A big highlight for her was having her picture book, 'Kindness Rocks,' featured on a billboard in Times Square, NYC.
Now that her small brood of children are not so small, Sheryl writes full time, and is enjoying writing more than ever!
She finds inspiration for her stories in lots of things, but especially through music, which she feels is the universal language of us all.
Just like a good book, music can be a source of inspiration and expression!
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£ 251
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Paige Toon
Paige Toon
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Title: What if I get over you?
Genre: Contemporary - Love Story Commercial Fiction
Format: Paperback (Rare Editor's Proof)
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Postage & Packaging: FREE
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
Website: https://www.paigetoon.com
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The Book;
Three days to fall in love. Six years to try to forget.
What if her heart can’t let go?
Ellie didn’t expect to fall in love while travelling in Europe. She also didn’t expect to meet a guy like Ash.
Three blistering days in Lisbon is all it takes to form an unforgettable connection – deep enough for them to plan to meet again in Madrid. But Ellie arrives late, and Ash is nowhere to be found.
Six years later, the memory of Ash and their time together still burns deeply in Ellie’s heart. She hopes that her new job as a gardener on a grand estate in Wales will bring the fresh start she needs.
But what if the universe has other plans?
The Author:
Paige Toon grew up between England, Australia and America and has been writing books set in sun-drenched locations around the world since 2007. She has written eighteen women's fiction novels, a three-part spin-off series for young adults and a collection of short stories. Her novels have sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide.
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Genre: Contemporary - Love Story Commercial Fiction
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Website: https://www.paigetoon.com
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The Book;
Three days to fall in love. Six years to try to forget.
What if her heart can’t let go?
Ellie didn’t expect to fall in love while travelling in Europe. She also didn’t expect to meet a guy like Ash.
Three blistering days in Lisbon is all it takes to form an unforgettable connection – deep enough for them to plan to meet again in Madrid. But Ellie arrives late, and Ash is nowhere to be found.
Six years later, the memory of Ash and their time together still burns deeply in Ellie’s heart. She hopes that her new job as a gardener on a grand estate in Wales will bring the fresh start she needs.
But what if the universe has other plans?
The Author:
Paige Toon grew up between England, Australia and America and has been writing books set in sun-drenched locations around the world since 2007. She has written eighteen women's fiction novels, a three-part spin-off series for young adults and a collection of short stories. Her novels have sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide.
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£ 70
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Trisha Ashley
Trisha Ashley
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*The Garden of Forgotten Wishes lot includes a signed copy of the book, a custom one off embroidered book bag with a garden theme, three new custom posters going into the design of the garden itself, four laser etched garden tags related to the plants in the book and other little gifts, all designed and made by Trisha’s costumier son Robin.*
Title: The Garden of Forgotten Wishes
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Format: Paperback
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Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book;
All Marnie wants is somewhere to call home. Mourning lost years spent in a marriage that has finally come to an end, she needs a fresh start and time to heal. Things she hopes to find in the rural west Lancashire village her mother always told her about.
With nothing but her two green thumbs, Marnie takes a job as a gardener, which comes with a little cottage to make her own. The garden is beautiful - filled with roses, lavender and honeysuckle - and only a little rough around the edges. Which is more than can be said for her next-door neighbour, Ned Mars.
Marnie remembers Ned from her college days but he's far from the untroubled man she once knew. A recent relationship has left him with a heart as bruised as her own.
Can a summer spent gardening help them recapture the forgotten dreams they've let get away?
The Author:
Trisha Ashley has written nineteen romantic comedies and her latest novel, The Garden of Forgotten Wishes, which is published by Transworld, is a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. Her novels have twice been shortlisted for the Melissa Nathan award for Romantic Comedy and Every Woman for Herself was nominated by magazine readers as one of the top three romantic novels of the last fifty years.
She is from St Helens in West Lancashire, and believes that her typically dark Lancashire sense of humour in adversity, crossed with a good dose of Celtic creativity from her Welsh grandmother, has made her what she is today...whatever that is. Several of her novels are set in rural West Lancashire, West Yorkshire and Wales. They frequently explore aspects of the three F's that are a constant in her own life: Food, Flowers and Friendship and include delicious recipes at the back.
Nowadays she lives in North Wales
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Title: The Garden of Forgotten Wishes
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
All Marnie wants is somewhere to call home. Mourning lost years spent in a marriage that has finally come to an end, she needs a fresh start and time to heal. Things she hopes to find in the rural west Lancashire village her mother always told her about.
With nothing but her two green thumbs, Marnie takes a job as a gardener, which comes with a little cottage to make her own. The garden is beautiful - filled with roses, lavender and honeysuckle - and only a little rough around the edges. Which is more than can be said for her next-door neighbour, Ned Mars.
Marnie remembers Ned from her college days but he's far from the untroubled man she once knew. A recent relationship has left him with a heart as bruised as her own.
Can a summer spent gardening help them recapture the forgotten dreams they've let get away?
The Author:
Trisha Ashley has written nineteen romantic comedies and her latest novel, The Garden of Forgotten Wishes, which is published by Transworld, is a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. Her novels have twice been shortlisted for the Melissa Nathan award for Romantic Comedy and Every Woman for Herself was nominated by magazine readers as one of the top three romantic novels of the last fifty years.
She is from St Helens in West Lancashire, and believes that her typically dark Lancashire sense of humour in adversity, crossed with a good dose of Celtic creativity from her Welsh grandmother, has made her what she is today...whatever that is. Several of her novels are set in rural West Lancashire, West Yorkshire and Wales. They frequently explore aspects of the three F's that are a constant in her own life: Food, Flowers and Friendship and include delicious recipes at the back.
Nowadays she lives in North Wales
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£ 95
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Trisha Ashley
Trisha Ashley
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*The Wedding book lot includes signed copies of the Wedding Dress Repair Shop and the new edition of Wedding Tiers, a custom one off embroidered book bag, a handmade pure silk wedding bag with Swarovski crystals and embroidery, laser etched wooden bookmarks and an etched slate coaster as well as a few other little gifts, designed and made by Trisha’s costumier son Robin, along with a wooden Welsh Love Spoon.*
Title 1: The Wedding Dress Repair Shop
Title 2: Wedding Tiers
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperbacks
Signed - Dedications are Available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book 1; The Wedding Dress Repair Shop
Can her heart be mended too? Garland Fairford has her dream job as a historical Costumier in London and is engaged to a handsome and successful playwright, Marco. Whilst working on an exhibition of dresses owned by a Victorian actress, Garland meets a long-lost relative - Honey Fairford. Garland, an orphan, is delighted, and intrigued to discover Honey is planning to open a wedding dress museum in Lancashire. When Garland loses her fiancé e and her job in the same week, she is excited to accept Honey's offer to work at the museum. Escaping London, and her old life, Garland is then shocked to be confronted with a ghost from her past - Thom. As Garland starts to repair the beautiful vintage wedding dresses for the museum, as well as her relationship with Thom, could this finally be the chance for her own happy-ever-after?
The Book 2: Wedding Tiers
The path of true love never runs smooth. But for some, it's one seriously bumpy ride! A heartwarming new romantic comedy from the bestselling author of A WINTER'S TALE. Growing up in the beautiful Lancashire village of Neatslake, Josie Gray and her childhood sweetheart, Ben Richards, always dreamt of living a life of rural bliss. And when Josie inherits her beloved Grandmother's cottage, it seems they might just have got what they wished for. Josie throws herself into her wedding cake business, whilst Ben gains increasing acclaim as an artist. But the tranquil village turns into a hive of activity when Josie's childhood friend, Libby Martin - now a wealthy widow - returns to the village, planning a lavish wedding to rival any celeb bash. The day goes with a bang, and soon Libby and Josie are hard at work at their fledgling wedding business, hiring out Libby's beautiful Elizabethan home for ceremonies, with Josie creating all manner of wonderful cakes. But amidst all this romance, Josie's fairytale relationship with Ben turns into a nightmare, and she quickly becomes Love's number one cynic - until charming wedding photographer Noah Sephton arrives in Neatslake with a very different outlook on love! Can this hopeless romantic persuade pessimistic Josie to give romance another try? Or will it be a case of always the cake maker, never the bride!? A charming, witty and feelgood novel, ideal for fans of Katie Fforde and Harriet Evans.
The Author:
Trisha Ashley has written nineteen romantic comedies and her latest novel, The Garden of Forgotten Wishes, which is published by Transworld, is a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. Her novels have twice been shortlisted for the Melissa Nathan award for Romantic Comedy and Every Woman for Herself was nominated by magazine readers as one of the top three romantic novels of the last fifty years.
She is from St Helens in West Lancashire, and believes that her typically dark Lancashire sense of humour in adversity, crossed with a good dose of Celtic creativity from her Welsh grandmother, has made her what she is today...whatever that is. Several of her novels are set in rural West Lancashire, West Yorkshire and Wales. They frequently explore aspects of the three F's that are a constant in her own life: Food, Flowers and Friendship and include delicious recipes at the back.
Nowadays she lives in North Wales
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Title 1: The Wedding Dress Repair Shop
Title 2: Wedding Tiers
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperbacks
Signed - Dedications are Available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book 1; The Wedding Dress Repair Shop
Can her heart be mended too? Garland Fairford has her dream job as a historical Costumier in London and is engaged to a handsome and successful playwright, Marco. Whilst working on an exhibition of dresses owned by a Victorian actress, Garland meets a long-lost relative - Honey Fairford. Garland, an orphan, is delighted, and intrigued to discover Honey is planning to open a wedding dress museum in Lancashire. When Garland loses her fiancé e and her job in the same week, she is excited to accept Honey's offer to work at the museum. Escaping London, and her old life, Garland is then shocked to be confronted with a ghost from her past - Thom. As Garland starts to repair the beautiful vintage wedding dresses for the museum, as well as her relationship with Thom, could this finally be the chance for her own happy-ever-after?
The Book 2: Wedding Tiers
The path of true love never runs smooth. But for some, it's one seriously bumpy ride! A heartwarming new romantic comedy from the bestselling author of A WINTER'S TALE. Growing up in the beautiful Lancashire village of Neatslake, Josie Gray and her childhood sweetheart, Ben Richards, always dreamt of living a life of rural bliss. And when Josie inherits her beloved Grandmother's cottage, it seems they might just have got what they wished for. Josie throws herself into her wedding cake business, whilst Ben gains increasing acclaim as an artist. But the tranquil village turns into a hive of activity when Josie's childhood friend, Libby Martin - now a wealthy widow - returns to the village, planning a lavish wedding to rival any celeb bash. The day goes with a bang, and soon Libby and Josie are hard at work at their fledgling wedding business, hiring out Libby's beautiful Elizabethan home for ceremonies, with Josie creating all manner of wonderful cakes. But amidst all this romance, Josie's fairytale relationship with Ben turns into a nightmare, and she quickly becomes Love's number one cynic - until charming wedding photographer Noah Sephton arrives in Neatslake with a very different outlook on love! Can this hopeless romantic persuade pessimistic Josie to give romance another try? Or will it be a case of always the cake maker, never the bride!? A charming, witty and feelgood novel, ideal for fans of Katie Fforde and Harriet Evans.
The Author:
Trisha Ashley has written nineteen romantic comedies and her latest novel, The Garden of Forgotten Wishes, which is published by Transworld, is a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. Her novels have twice been shortlisted for the Melissa Nathan award for Romantic Comedy and Every Woman for Herself was nominated by magazine readers as one of the top three romantic novels of the last fifty years.
She is from St Helens in West Lancashire, and believes that her typically dark Lancashire sense of humour in adversity, crossed with a good dose of Celtic creativity from her Welsh grandmother, has made her what she is today...whatever that is. Several of her novels are set in rural West Lancashire, West Yorkshire and Wales. They frequently explore aspects of the three F's that are a constant in her own life: Food, Flowers and Friendship and include delicious recipes at the back.
Nowadays she lives in North Wales
Follow:
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrishaAshleyBooks
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetrishaashley
Website: https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/237180/trisha-ashley
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Tamsin Winter
Tamsin Winter
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Book Title: Bad Influence
Genre: Teen Fiction (ages 10-14)
Format: Paperback
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Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book:
"So uplifting and powerful - so, so good." Cathy Cassidy
"Brave, honest, and heart-breakingly funny." Ben Miller
Amelia Bright wants to be the best at everything. But when it comes to popularity, she is dead last. No matter what she tries, she can't shake her reputation as a maggoty nobody.
When she meets cute new boy Evan, Amelia wonders if he can help her lose her loser status. And in a moment of hope, she agrees to something she quickly regrets - something that goes viral at school. Now she's not just called "maggot", she's a "bad influence" - and worse. But Amelia's determined not to let one mistake define her...she's so much more than the image everyone sees online.
A powerfully real and funny new story from the Queen of Teen, about first kisses, learning to be true to yourself and how one click can last for ever.
The Author: Tamsin Winter is a multi-award-winning author who writes fresh, funny and heartfelt fiction for readers aged 10+. Tamsin grew up in a Northamptonshire village where she spent her childhood reading books and writing stories. She studied English Literature and Creative Writing at university, and worked as an English teacher for many years.
Tamsin's debut novel Being Miss Nobody won multiple awards including the Awesome Book Award, the Brilliant Book Award, and the Leicester Teen Fiction Book of the Year. Tamsin's second novel, Jemima Small Versus the Universe was shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize and nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Girl (in Real Life), described as "a must have" by the Press Association, won the Booklings Award. Tamsin's latest novel, Bad Influence, has been shortlisted for multiple prizes including the Spellbinding Award and the Reading Rampage Award 2024. Tamsin lives in Leicestershire and is working on her next novel.
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Genre: Teen Fiction (ages 10-14)
Format: Paperback
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Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book:
"So uplifting and powerful - so, so good." Cathy Cassidy
"Brave, honest, and heart-breakingly funny." Ben Miller
Amelia Bright wants to be the best at everything. But when it comes to popularity, she is dead last. No matter what she tries, she can't shake her reputation as a maggoty nobody.
When she meets cute new boy Evan, Amelia wonders if he can help her lose her loser status. And in a moment of hope, she agrees to something she quickly regrets - something that goes viral at school. Now she's not just called "maggot", she's a "bad influence" - and worse. But Amelia's determined not to let one mistake define her...she's so much more than the image everyone sees online.
A powerfully real and funny new story from the Queen of Teen, about first kisses, learning to be true to yourself and how one click can last for ever.
The Author: Tamsin Winter is a multi-award-winning author who writes fresh, funny and heartfelt fiction for readers aged 10+. Tamsin grew up in a Northamptonshire village where she spent her childhood reading books and writing stories. She studied English Literature and Creative Writing at university, and worked as an English teacher for many years.
Tamsin's debut novel Being Miss Nobody won multiple awards including the Awesome Book Award, the Brilliant Book Award, and the Leicester Teen Fiction Book of the Year. Tamsin's second novel, Jemima Small Versus the Universe was shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize and nominated for the Carnegie Medal. Girl (in Real Life), described as "a must have" by the Press Association, won the Booklings Award. Tamsin's latest novel, Bad Influence, has been shortlisted for multiple prizes including the Spellbinding Award and the Reading Rampage Award 2024. Tamsin lives in Leicestershire and is working on her next novel.
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Nigella Lawson
Nigella Lawson
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Title: Cook. Eat, Repeat
Genre: Food & Drink
Format: Hardback
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Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book;
COOK EAT REPEAT is a delicious and delightful combination of recipes intertwined with narrative essays about food, all written in Nigella’s engaging and insightful prose. Whether talking about the evolution and meaning of the recipe in 'What is a Recipe?' – 'a recipe, much like a novel, is a living collaboration between writer and reader. And in both cases, it is the reader who keeps it alive' – or exploring the heinous notion of the guilty pleasure in 'Death to the Guilty Pleasure', Nigella is by turns characteristically informative, intelligent, thought-provoking and amusing.
'The recipes I write come from my life, my home', says Nigella, and in this book Nigella shares the rhythms and rituals of her kitchen through over fifty new recipes that make the most of her favourite ingredients. Dedicated chapters include 'A is for Anchovy' (a celebration of the bacon of the sea), 'Beetroot and Me', 'A Vegan Feast', a shout out for 'Brown Food', a very relatable 'How To Invite People for Dinner Without Hating Them (or Yourself)', plus new ideas for Christmas. Within these chapters are recipes for all seasons and tastes: Burnt Onion and Aubergine Dip; Butternut with Chilli, Ginger and Beetroot Yoghurt Sauce; Brown Butter Colcannon; Spaghetti with Chard and Anchovies; Beef Cheeks with Port and Chestnuts; Oxtail Bourguignon; and Wide Noodles with Lamb in Aromatic Broth, to name a few. Those with a sweet tooth will delight in Rhubarb and Custard Trifle; Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake; Rice Pudding Cake; and Cherry and Almond Crumble.
The Author:
Nigella Lawson is an English broadcaster, journalist television personality and food writer. She began work as a book reviewer and restaurant critic, and then embarked upon a career as a freelance journalist, writing for a number of newspapers and magazines. Her first cook book ‘How to Eat’ sold 300,000 copies and became a best-seller while her second book, ‘How to be a Domestic Goddess’, won her the British Book Award for Author of the Year. She hosted her own cooking show series, Nigella Bites, on Channel 4, accompanied by another best-selling cook book ‘Nigella Bites’. She hosted the Food Network's ‘Nigella Feasts’ in the United States, followed by a three-part BBC Two series, Nigella's Christmas Kitchen, in the UK, which led to the commissioning of Nigella Express on BBC Two.
Her book Cook, Eat, Repeat, was made into a massively popular 7 part T.V. Series for B.B.C Television, and can still be binged watched on B.B.C. I-Player.
Her dishes are known for their simplicity and do not require an elaborate preparation. Her warm and honest demeanour as well as her stunning beauty enables her to engage both male and female viewers. Described as the sexiest television chef ever to grace an apron, she continues to inspire men and women to cook.
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Genre: Food & Drink
Format: Hardback
Signed - Dedication is Available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book;
COOK EAT REPEAT is a delicious and delightful combination of recipes intertwined with narrative essays about food, all written in Nigella’s engaging and insightful prose. Whether talking about the evolution and meaning of the recipe in 'What is a Recipe?' – 'a recipe, much like a novel, is a living collaboration between writer and reader. And in both cases, it is the reader who keeps it alive' – or exploring the heinous notion of the guilty pleasure in 'Death to the Guilty Pleasure', Nigella is by turns characteristically informative, intelligent, thought-provoking and amusing.
'The recipes I write come from my life, my home', says Nigella, and in this book Nigella shares the rhythms and rituals of her kitchen through over fifty new recipes that make the most of her favourite ingredients. Dedicated chapters include 'A is for Anchovy' (a celebration of the bacon of the sea), 'Beetroot and Me', 'A Vegan Feast', a shout out for 'Brown Food', a very relatable 'How To Invite People for Dinner Without Hating Them (or Yourself)', plus new ideas for Christmas. Within these chapters are recipes for all seasons and tastes: Burnt Onion and Aubergine Dip; Butternut with Chilli, Ginger and Beetroot Yoghurt Sauce; Brown Butter Colcannon; Spaghetti with Chard and Anchovies; Beef Cheeks with Port and Chestnuts; Oxtail Bourguignon; and Wide Noodles with Lamb in Aromatic Broth, to name a few. Those with a sweet tooth will delight in Rhubarb and Custard Trifle; Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake; Rice Pudding Cake; and Cherry and Almond Crumble.
The Author:
Nigella Lawson is an English broadcaster, journalist television personality and food writer. She began work as a book reviewer and restaurant critic, and then embarked upon a career as a freelance journalist, writing for a number of newspapers and magazines. Her first cook book ‘How to Eat’ sold 300,000 copies and became a best-seller while her second book, ‘How to be a Domestic Goddess’, won her the British Book Award for Author of the Year. She hosted her own cooking show series, Nigella Bites, on Channel 4, accompanied by another best-selling cook book ‘Nigella Bites’. She hosted the Food Network's ‘Nigella Feasts’ in the United States, followed by a three-part BBC Two series, Nigella's Christmas Kitchen, in the UK, which led to the commissioning of Nigella Express on BBC Two.
Her book Cook, Eat, Repeat, was made into a massively popular 7 part T.V. Series for B.B.C Television, and can still be binged watched on B.B.C. I-Player.
Her dishes are known for their simplicity and do not require an elaborate preparation. Her warm and honest demeanour as well as her stunning beauty enables her to engage both male and female viewers. Described as the sexiest television chef ever to grace an apron, she continues to inspire men and women to cook.
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£ 36
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Milly Johnson
Milly Johnson
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A signed (and dedicated if required) hardback of The Happiest Ever After
with bookmark
A green jute bag
A seagull money box
Mint chocs
Mug
Notepad
Pen
Whipped soap
A pizza toy for the dog
Genre: Rom Com
Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book;
What if you could write your own perfect storyline…?
Polly Potter is surviving, not thriving. She used to love her job – until her mentor died and her new boss decided to make her life hell. She used to love her partner Chris – until he cheated on her, and now she can’t forget. The only place where her life is working is on the pages of the novel she is writing – there she can create a feistier, bolder, more successful version of herself – as the fictional Sabrina Anderson.
But what if it was possible to start over again? To leave everything behind, forget all that went before, and live the life you’d always dreamed of?
After a set of unforeseen circumstances, Polly ends up believing she really IS Sabrina, living at the heart of a noisy Italian family restaurant by the sea. Run by Teddy, the son of her new landlady Marielle, it’s a much-loved place, facing threat of closure as a rival restaurant moves in next door. Sabrina can’t remember her life as Polly, but she knows she is living a different life from the one she used to have.
But what if this new life could belong to her after all?
The Author:
Milly Johnson was born, raised and still lives in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. She is the author of 20 novels, 4 short story ebooks, a book of poetry and a Quick Reads Novella ('The Little Dreams of Lara Cliffe') and was an erstwhile leading copywriter for the greetings card industry. She is also a poem and joke-writer, a newspaper columnist and a seasoned after dinner speaker.
She won the RoNA for Best Romantic Comedy Novel of 2014 and 2016, the Yorkshire Society award for Arts and Culture 2015, the Romantic Novelist Association Outstanding Achievement award in 2020, the Goldsboro Books Contemporary Romantic Novel Award in 2021 and the Richard Whiteley Award for Inspiration to the County of Yorkshire in 2022.
She writes about love, life, friendships and the importance of community spirit. Her books champion women, their strength and resilience and celebrate her beloved Yorkshire.
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Website: https://millyjohnson.co.uk
with bookmark
A green jute bag
A seagull money box
Mint chocs
Mug
Notepad
Pen
Whipped soap
A pizza toy for the dog
Genre: Rom Com
Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book;
What if you could write your own perfect storyline…?
Polly Potter is surviving, not thriving. She used to love her job – until her mentor died and her new boss decided to make her life hell. She used to love her partner Chris – until he cheated on her, and now she can’t forget. The only place where her life is working is on the pages of the novel she is writing – there she can create a feistier, bolder, more successful version of herself – as the fictional Sabrina Anderson.
But what if it was possible to start over again? To leave everything behind, forget all that went before, and live the life you’d always dreamed of?
After a set of unforeseen circumstances, Polly ends up believing she really IS Sabrina, living at the heart of a noisy Italian family restaurant by the sea. Run by Teddy, the son of her new landlady Marielle, it’s a much-loved place, facing threat of closure as a rival restaurant moves in next door. Sabrina can’t remember her life as Polly, but she knows she is living a different life from the one she used to have.
But what if this new life could belong to her after all?
The Author:
Milly Johnson was born, raised and still lives in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. She is the author of 20 novels, 4 short story ebooks, a book of poetry and a Quick Reads Novella ('The Little Dreams of Lara Cliffe') and was an erstwhile leading copywriter for the greetings card industry. She is also a poem and joke-writer, a newspaper columnist and a seasoned after dinner speaker.
She won the RoNA for Best Romantic Comedy Novel of 2014 and 2016, the Yorkshire Society award for Arts and Culture 2015, the Romantic Novelist Association Outstanding Achievement award in 2020, the Goldsboro Books Contemporary Romantic Novel Award in 2021 and the Richard Whiteley Award for Inspiration to the County of Yorkshire in 2022.
She writes about love, life, friendships and the importance of community spirit. Her books champion women, their strength and resilience and celebrate her beloved Yorkshire.
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Website: https://millyjohnson.co.uk
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£ 75
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Milly Johnson
Milly Johnson
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A signed (and dedicated if required) pink paperback of The Happiest Ever After with bookmark
A pink jute bag
A mini scarecrow
Pink chocs
Pink sweeties
Mug
Notepad
Pen
Whipped soap
A seagull
Genre: Rom Com
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The Book;
What if you could write your own perfect storyline…?
Polly Potter is surviving, not thriving. She used to love her job – until her mentor died and her new boss decided to make her life hell. She used to love her partner Chris – until he cheated on her, and now she can’t forget. The only place where her life is working is on the pages of the novel she is writing – there she can create a feistier, bolder, more successful version of herself – as the fictional Sabrina Anderson.
But what if it was possible to start over again? To leave everything behind, forget all that went before, and live the life you’d always dreamed of?
After a set of unforeseen circumstances, Polly ends up believing she really IS Sabrina, living at the heart of a noisy Italian family restaurant by the sea. Run by Teddy, the son of her new landlady Marielle, it’s a much-loved place, facing threat of closure as a rival restaurant moves in next door. Sabrina can’t remember her life as Polly, but she knows she is living a different life from the one she used to have.
But what if this new life could belong to her after all?
The Author:
Milly Johnson was born, raised and still lives in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. She is the author of 20 novels, 4 short story ebooks, a book of poetry and a Quick Reads Novella ('The Little Dreams of Lara Cliffe') and was an erstwhile leading copywriter for the greetings card industry. She is also a poem and joke-writer, a newspaper columnist and a seasoned after dinner speaker.
She won the RoNA for Best Romantic Comedy Novel of 2014 and 2016, the Yorkshire Society award for Arts and Culture 2015, the Romantic Novelist Association Outstanding Achievement award in 2020, the Goldsboro Books Contemporary Romantic Novel Award in 2021 and the Richard Whiteley Award for Inspiration to the County of Yorkshire in 2022.
She writes about love, life, friendships and the importance of community spirit. Her books champion women, their strength and resilience and celebrate her beloved Yorkshire.
Follow:
X: https://x.com/millyjohnson
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MillyJohnsonAuthor
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themillyjohnson
Website: https://millyjohnson.co.uk
A pink jute bag
A mini scarecrow
Pink chocs
Pink sweeties
Mug
Notepad
Pen
Whipped soap
A seagull
Genre: Rom Com
Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book;
What if you could write your own perfect storyline…?
Polly Potter is surviving, not thriving. She used to love her job – until her mentor died and her new boss decided to make her life hell. She used to love her partner Chris – until he cheated on her, and now she can’t forget. The only place where her life is working is on the pages of the novel she is writing – there she can create a feistier, bolder, more successful version of herself – as the fictional Sabrina Anderson.
But what if it was possible to start over again? To leave everything behind, forget all that went before, and live the life you’d always dreamed of?
After a set of unforeseen circumstances, Polly ends up believing she really IS Sabrina, living at the heart of a noisy Italian family restaurant by the sea. Run by Teddy, the son of her new landlady Marielle, it’s a much-loved place, facing threat of closure as a rival restaurant moves in next door. Sabrina can’t remember her life as Polly, but she knows she is living a different life from the one she used to have.
But what if this new life could belong to her after all?
The Author:
Milly Johnson was born, raised and still lives in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. She is the author of 20 novels, 4 short story ebooks, a book of poetry and a Quick Reads Novella ('The Little Dreams of Lara Cliffe') and was an erstwhile leading copywriter for the greetings card industry. She is also a poem and joke-writer, a newspaper columnist and a seasoned after dinner speaker.
She won the RoNA for Best Romantic Comedy Novel of 2014 and 2016, the Yorkshire Society award for Arts and Culture 2015, the Romantic Novelist Association Outstanding Achievement award in 2020, the Goldsboro Books Contemporary Romantic Novel Award in 2021 and the Richard Whiteley Award for Inspiration to the County of Yorkshire in 2022.
She writes about love, life, friendships and the importance of community spirit. Her books champion women, their strength and resilience and celebrate her beloved Yorkshire.
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Cressida Cowell
Cressida Cowell
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Title: How to Train Your Dragon Dragon Tales Collection
Genre: Children - Fantasy
Format: Paperback - First Edition
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An unmissable collection of three How to Train Your Dragon stories, featuring new and exclusive short story WHEN THE WINDWALKER CHANGED.
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking with a longish name. The Hairy Hooligan tribe think he's totally useless, but Hiccup is brave enough to face his destiny, with the help of one tiny dragon.
This collection features three stories about Hiccup at different times in his life, including one BRAND-NEW tale:
1. Hiccup's dragon Toothless gives his best tips on training a human in HOW TO TRAIN YOUR VIKING
2. A deadly sea dragon stalks the Isle of Berk in THE DAY OF THE DREADER
3. And the BRAND-NEW WHEN THE WINDWALKER CHANGED, packed with action, adventure and grand reveals!
The Author:
Cressida Cowell is the author and the illustrator of the bestselling How to Train Your Dragon book series. Her latest book The Wizards of Once is an international bestseller. Cressida is also the author of the Emily Brown picture books, illustrated by Neal Layton.
How to Train Your Dragon has sold over 8 million books worldwide in 38 languages. It is also an award-winning DreamWorks film series, and a TV series shown on Netflix and CBBC. The first book in Cressida's new series, The Wizards of Once (also signed by DreamWorks), is a number one bestseller.
Cressida is an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and the Reading Agency and a founder patron of the Children's Media Foundation. She has won numerous prizes for her books, including the Gold Award in the Nestle Children's Book Prize, the Hay Festival Medal for Fiction, and Philosophy Now' magazine's 2015 Award for Contributions in the Fight Against Stupidity.
She grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland and she now lives in Hammersmith with her husband, three children and a dog called Pigeon.
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Title: How to Train Your Dragon Dragon Tales Collection
Genre: Children - Fantasy
Format: Paperback - First Edition
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The Book;
An unmissable collection of three How to Train Your Dragon stories, featuring new and exclusive short story WHEN THE WINDWALKER CHANGED.
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking with a longish name. The Hairy Hooligan tribe think he's totally useless, but Hiccup is brave enough to face his destiny, with the help of one tiny dragon.
This collection features three stories about Hiccup at different times in his life, including one BRAND-NEW tale:
1. Hiccup's dragon Toothless gives his best tips on training a human in HOW TO TRAIN YOUR VIKING
2. A deadly sea dragon stalks the Isle of Berk in THE DAY OF THE DREADER
3. And the BRAND-NEW WHEN THE WINDWALKER CHANGED, packed with action, adventure and grand reveals!
The Author:
Cressida Cowell is the author and the illustrator of the bestselling How to Train Your Dragon book series. Her latest book The Wizards of Once is an international bestseller. Cressida is also the author of the Emily Brown picture books, illustrated by Neal Layton.
How to Train Your Dragon has sold over 8 million books worldwide in 38 languages. It is also an award-winning DreamWorks film series, and a TV series shown on Netflix and CBBC. The first book in Cressida's new series, The Wizards of Once (also signed by DreamWorks), is a number one bestseller.
Cressida is an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust and the Reading Agency and a founder patron of the Children's Media Foundation. She has won numerous prizes for her books, including the Gold Award in the Nestle Children's Book Prize, the Hay Festival Medal for Fiction, and Philosophy Now' magazine's 2015 Award for Contributions in the Fight Against Stupidity.
She grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland and she now lives in Hammersmith with her husband, three children and a dog called Pigeon.
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Lorraine Kelly
Lorraine Kelly
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Title: The Island Swimmer
Genre: Historical Fiction - Romance
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
Once the tide turns, you can't hold it back...
When Evie's father falls desperately ill, she finally returns to the family home on Orkney and the wild landscape she left as a teenager, swearing never to return. Not everyone is happy at her arrival, particularly her estranged sister Liv, their relationship broken after a childhood trauma.
As Evie clears out her father's neglected house to prepare it for sale, lonely Evie finds herself drawn to a group of cold-water swimmers led by her old friend Freya, who find calmness beneath the waves. Together they help Evie face up to the mistakes in her past, unlocking a treasure of truths that will reverberate through the community, and shake her family to its core.
The Author:
Lorraine Kelly CBE has worked in breakfast TV for forty years, joining TVam as Scottish correspondent in 1984 and now presents Lorraine on ITV.
She is married to cameraman Steve and they have one daughter Rosie, a journalist and broadcaster.
Lorraine is a Dundee United fan and gets her best ideas when out for a walk with her beloved border terrier Angus.
She first visited Orkney in 1985 and goes back every year.
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Title: The Island Swimmer
Genre: Historical Fiction - Romance
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
Once the tide turns, you can't hold it back...
When Evie's father falls desperately ill, she finally returns to the family home on Orkney and the wild landscape she left as a teenager, swearing never to return. Not everyone is happy at her arrival, particularly her estranged sister Liv, their relationship broken after a childhood trauma.
As Evie clears out her father's neglected house to prepare it for sale, lonely Evie finds herself drawn to a group of cold-water swimmers led by her old friend Freya, who find calmness beneath the waves. Together they help Evie face up to the mistakes in her past, unlocking a treasure of truths that will reverberate through the community, and shake her family to its core.
The Author:
Lorraine Kelly CBE has worked in breakfast TV for forty years, joining TVam as Scottish correspondent in 1984 and now presents Lorraine on ITV.
She is married to cameraman Steve and they have one daughter Rosie, a journalist and broadcaster.
Lorraine is a Dundee United fan and gets her best ideas when out for a walk with her beloved border terrier Angus.
She first visited Orkney in 1985 and goes back every year.
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Tom Parker Bowles
Tom Parker Bowles
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Title: Cooking and the Crown: Royal recipes from Queen Victoria to King Charles III
Genre: Food & Drink
Format: Hardback
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The Book :
Blending history, monarchy, and gastronomy, Tom Parker Bowles guides the reader on an adventure across royal culinary history
From breakfasts, picnic lunches and dinners, to coronations and state banquets, Cooking and the Crown showcases an abundance of beloved royal recipes for all seasons and occasions. Sophisticated creations feature alongside dishes of surprising simplicity, combining historical insights with modern tastes.
Each chapter is accompanied by fascinating tales of royal kitchens, chefs and culinary traditions. Weaving together material from the royal archives, contemporary accounts and personal insight, Tom Parker Bowles paints a vivid picture of royal tastes and traditions, as far back as Victorian times.
CONTENTS INCLUDE:
Breakfast
Queen Camilla's porridge; Herrings fried in oatmeal; Kedgeree
Lunch
Salmon fishcakes; George V's curry; Buckingham Palace mutton pies
Tea
Queen Mary's birthday cake; Sandwiches a la Regance; Welsh teabread
Dinner
The King's wet martini; Oeufs drumkilbo; Sardine diable savouries
Pudding
Bombe Glacée Princess Elizabeth; Rod grod; Mango melba
The Author:
From 1997 until 2000, Parker Bowles was a junior publicist for Dennis Davidson Associates public relations firm. In 2001, he was one of the founders of the Quintessentially Group, a high end concierge service, which his cousin Ben Elliot co-founded and the same year became Tatler's food columnist.
From 2002 to date he has been a food writer, critic and broadcaster. He is a restaurant critic of The Mail on Sunday and food editor of Esquire. He is also a contributing editor to Conde Nast Traveller (UK and US), and Departures (US), as well as a regular contributor to Country Life, Harpers Bazaar and Town and Country. He was a contributor to Gordon Ramsay's The F Word.
From 2007 to 2010 he co-presented Market Kitchen on Good Food Channel, alongside Matthew Fort and Matt Tebbutt, and presented LBC Radio's Food and Drink Programme for a year. He was a judge on the ITV Food series Food Glorious Food and Channel nine Australian cooking series The Hot Plate. In 2017, he was judge, alongside Matt Moran and Anna Polyviou on Series 1 of Family Food Fight (Channel nine Australia) and filmed series two of Family Food Fight, which was broadcast in late 2018. He is also one of the regular critics on MasterChef (BBC 1). In 2014, Parker Bowles was named as one of the Top 10 most followed UK restaurant critics on Twitter.
Tom is the son of Queen Camilla , and Andrew Parker Bowles.
His stepfather and godfather is King Charles III.
He has one younger sister, Laura Lopes.
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Genre: Food & Drink
Format: Hardback
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Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book :
Blending history, monarchy, and gastronomy, Tom Parker Bowles guides the reader on an adventure across royal culinary history
From breakfasts, picnic lunches and dinners, to coronations and state banquets, Cooking and the Crown showcases an abundance of beloved royal recipes for all seasons and occasions. Sophisticated creations feature alongside dishes of surprising simplicity, combining historical insights with modern tastes.
Each chapter is accompanied by fascinating tales of royal kitchens, chefs and culinary traditions. Weaving together material from the royal archives, contemporary accounts and personal insight, Tom Parker Bowles paints a vivid picture of royal tastes and traditions, as far back as Victorian times.
CONTENTS INCLUDE:
Breakfast
Queen Camilla's porridge; Herrings fried in oatmeal; Kedgeree
Lunch
Salmon fishcakes; George V's curry; Buckingham Palace mutton pies
Tea
Queen Mary's birthday cake; Sandwiches a la Regance; Welsh teabread
Dinner
The King's wet martini; Oeufs drumkilbo; Sardine diable savouries
Pudding
Bombe Glacée Princess Elizabeth; Rod grod; Mango melba
The Author:
From 1997 until 2000, Parker Bowles was a junior publicist for Dennis Davidson Associates public relations firm. In 2001, he was one of the founders of the Quintessentially Group, a high end concierge service, which his cousin Ben Elliot co-founded and the same year became Tatler's food columnist.
From 2002 to date he has been a food writer, critic and broadcaster. He is a restaurant critic of The Mail on Sunday and food editor of Esquire. He is also a contributing editor to Conde Nast Traveller (UK and US), and Departures (US), as well as a regular contributor to Country Life, Harpers Bazaar and Town and Country. He was a contributor to Gordon Ramsay's The F Word.
From 2007 to 2010 he co-presented Market Kitchen on Good Food Channel, alongside Matthew Fort and Matt Tebbutt, and presented LBC Radio's Food and Drink Programme for a year. He was a judge on the ITV Food series Food Glorious Food and Channel nine Australian cooking series The Hot Plate. In 2017, he was judge, alongside Matt Moran and Anna Polyviou on Series 1 of Family Food Fight (Channel nine Australia) and filmed series two of Family Food Fight, which was broadcast in late 2018. He is also one of the regular critics on MasterChef (BBC 1). In 2014, Parker Bowles was named as one of the Top 10 most followed UK restaurant critics on Twitter.
Tom is the son of Queen Camilla , and Andrew Parker Bowles.
His stepfather and godfather is King Charles III.
He has one younger sister, Laura Lopes.
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Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris
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Book Title: The Moonlight Market
Genre: Fantasy
Format: Hardback
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The Book:
Have you ever felt as if you were not quite a part of this world? As if the reality you knew were only a shadow of something else, waiting to reveal itself, like a photographic negative? Have you ever been in love – a love beyond doubt, beyond question? A love that feels impossibly old, though her face is that of a stranger?
Tom Argent is a photographer. Orphaned, lonely, lost in his work, he has no intention of falling in love. And yet, love finds him in the shape of beautiful Vanessa, who lives a dangerous double life in the heart of London’s King’s Cross. Tom’s pursuit of Vanessa leads him to discover an alternate world, hiding in plain sight among the streets and rooftops of London; a world unseen by common folk and inhabited by strange and colourful beings, in which two warring factions – one nocturnal, one in the light – wage war for the sake of a long-lost love and a Prince of sun and starlight…
The Author:
Joanne Harris (OBE, FRSL) was born in Barnsley in 1964, of a French mother and an English father. She studied Modern and Mediaeval Languages at Cambridge and was a teacher for fifteen years, during which time she published three novels, including Chocolat (1999), which was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche .
Since then, she has written 19 more novels, plus novellas, short stories, game scripts, the libretti for two short operas, several screenplays, a stage musical (with Howard Goodall) and three cookbooks. Her books are now published in over 50 countries and have won a number of British and international awards. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, has honorary doctorates in literature from the universities of Sheffield and Huddersfield, and has been a judge for the Whitbread Prize, the Orange Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Betty Trask Award, the Prima Donna Prize and the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science, as well as for the Fragrance Foundation awards for perfume and perfume journalism (for which she also received an award in 2017). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.
She is a passionate advocate for authors’ rights, and was the Chair of the Society of Authors (SOA) for four years. She is currently a member of the Board of the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS).
Her hobbies are listed in Who’s Who as: “mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet subversion of the system”, although she also enjoys obfuscation, sleaze, rebellion, witchcraft, armed robbery, tea and biscuits. She is not above bribery and would not necessarily refuse an offer involving perfume, diamonds, foreign travel or pink champagne. She works from a shed in her garden, plays in the band she first joined when she was 16, and lives with her husband in a little wood in Yorkshire.
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Genre: Fantasy
Format: Hardback
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The Book:
Have you ever felt as if you were not quite a part of this world? As if the reality you knew were only a shadow of something else, waiting to reveal itself, like a photographic negative? Have you ever been in love – a love beyond doubt, beyond question? A love that feels impossibly old, though her face is that of a stranger?
Tom Argent is a photographer. Orphaned, lonely, lost in his work, he has no intention of falling in love. And yet, love finds him in the shape of beautiful Vanessa, who lives a dangerous double life in the heart of London’s King’s Cross. Tom’s pursuit of Vanessa leads him to discover an alternate world, hiding in plain sight among the streets and rooftops of London; a world unseen by common folk and inhabited by strange and colourful beings, in which two warring factions – one nocturnal, one in the light – wage war for the sake of a long-lost love and a Prince of sun and starlight…
The Author:
Joanne Harris (OBE, FRSL) was born in Barnsley in 1964, of a French mother and an English father. She studied Modern and Mediaeval Languages at Cambridge and was a teacher for fifteen years, during which time she published three novels, including Chocolat (1999), which was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche .
Since then, she has written 19 more novels, plus novellas, short stories, game scripts, the libretti for two short operas, several screenplays, a stage musical (with Howard Goodall) and three cookbooks. Her books are now published in over 50 countries and have won a number of British and international awards. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, has honorary doctorates in literature from the universities of Sheffield and Huddersfield, and has been a judge for the Whitbread Prize, the Orange Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Betty Trask Award, the Prima Donna Prize and the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science, as well as for the Fragrance Foundation awards for perfume and perfume journalism (for which she also received an award in 2017). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.
She is a passionate advocate for authors’ rights, and was the Chair of the Society of Authors (SOA) for four years. She is currently a member of the Board of the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS).
Her hobbies are listed in Who’s Who as: “mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet subversion of the system”, although she also enjoys obfuscation, sleaze, rebellion, witchcraft, armed robbery, tea and biscuits. She is not above bribery and would not necessarily refuse an offer involving perfume, diamonds, foreign travel or pink champagne. She works from a shed in her garden, plays in the band she first joined when she was 16, and lives with her husband in a little wood in Yorkshire.
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Daisy Dunn
Daisy Dunn
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Book Title: The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It
Genre: History; Non-Fiction
Format: Hardback (First Edition)
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For centuries, men have been writing histories of antiquity filled with warlords, emperors and kings. But when it comes to incorporating women aside from Cleopatra and Boudica, writers have been more comfortable describing mythical heroines than real ones. While Penelope and Helen of Troy live on in the imagination, their real-life counterparts have been relegated to the margins. In The Missing Thread, Daisy Dunn inverts this tradition and puts the women of history at the centre of the narrative.
These pages present Enheduanna, the earliest named author, the poet Sappho and Telesilla, who defended her city from attack. Here is Artemisia, sole female commander in the Graeco-Persian Wars, and Cynisca, the first female victor at the Olympic Games. Cleopatra may be the more famous, but Fulvia, Mark Antony's wife, fought a war on his behalf. Many other women remain nameless but integral. Through new examination of the sources combined with vivid storytelling Daisy Dunn shows us the ancient world through fresh eyes, and introduces us to an incredible cast of ancient women, weavers of an entire world.
The Author:
Daisy Dunn is an award-winning classicist and author of seven books. She read Classics at Oxford and received her PhD from UCL.
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The Book :
For centuries, men have been writing histories of antiquity filled with warlords, emperors and kings. But when it comes to incorporating women aside from Cleopatra and Boudica, writers have been more comfortable describing mythical heroines than real ones. While Penelope and Helen of Troy live on in the imagination, their real-life counterparts have been relegated to the margins. In The Missing Thread, Daisy Dunn inverts this tradition and puts the women of history at the centre of the narrative.
These pages present Enheduanna, the earliest named author, the poet Sappho and Telesilla, who defended her city from attack. Here is Artemisia, sole female commander in the Graeco-Persian Wars, and Cynisca, the first female victor at the Olympic Games. Cleopatra may be the more famous, but Fulvia, Mark Antony's wife, fought a war on his behalf. Many other women remain nameless but integral. Through new examination of the sources combined with vivid storytelling Daisy Dunn shows us the ancient world through fresh eyes, and introduces us to an incredible cast of ancient women, weavers of an entire world.
The Author:
Daisy Dunn is an award-winning classicist and author of seven books. She read Classics at Oxford and received her PhD from UCL.
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Theresa May
Theresa May
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Title: The Abuse of Power
Genre: Biography
Format: Paperback (First Edition)
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The Book;
As Prime Minister for three years and Home Secretary for six years, Theresa May confronted a series of issues in which the abuse of power led to devastating results for individuals and significantly damaged the reputation of, and trust in, public institutions and politicians. From the Hillsborough and Grenfell tragedies, to the Daniel Morgan case and parliamentary scandals, the powerful repeatedly chose to use their power not in the interests of the powerless but to serve themselves or to protect the organisation to which they belonged.
The Abuse of Power is a searing exposé of injustice and an impassioned call to exercise power for the greater good. Drawing on examples from domestic and international affairs she was personally involved in at the highest level, including Stop and Search and the Salisbury Poisonings, the former prime minister argues for a radical rethink in how we approach our politics and public life.
The Author:
Theresa has served as Member of Parliament for Maidenhead since 1997 and has held several positions within Parliament since. She was a member of the Shadow Cabinet from 1999 to 2010, and from 2002 to 2003 was the first female Chairman of the Conservative Party. In 2010, she was appointed Home Secretary, a position which she held for 6 years before becoming Prime Minister. She served as Prime Minister for three years, until July 2019.
Theresa had a varied education spanning both the state and private sectors, and both grammar school and comprehensive school. She read Geography at St Hugh’s College, Oxford University. She started her career at the Bank of England and went on to hold posts at the Association for Payment Clearing Services (APACS) as Head of the European Affairs Unit and Senior Adviser on International Affairs.
Theresa has been involved in politics at all levels for many years, starting out stuffing envelopes at her local Conservative Association before going on to be a councillor in the London Borough of Merton from 1986 to 1994. During that time she was Chairman of Education between 1988 and 1990 and Deputy Group Leader and Housing Spokesman between 1992 and 1994.
Theresa was elected Member of Parliament for Maidenhead in May 1997. She lives in the constituency and is an active local campaigner. Her local activity has included campaigns to improve the local train service, bring a minor injuries unit to St Marks Hospital, and improve Maidenhead town centre.
She has held several positions within Parliament since 1997. She was a member of the Shadow Cabinet from 1999 to 2010, and from 2002 to 2003 was the first female Chairman of the Conservative Party.
Theresa was appointed Home Secretary in May 2010 and became the longest-serving Conservative Home Secretary for over a century. During this time she oversaw reductions in crime, reform of the police, and the introduction of the landmark Modern Slavery Act.Following her election as Leader of the Conservative Party, Theresa was appointed Prime Minister in July 2016, a position she held until July 2019. As Prime Minister, she oversaw the largest ever cash boost to the NHS and the largest expansion of mental health services in a generation; launched a 25-Year Environment Plan and introduced legislation to end the UK’s contribution to global warming entirely; published a Modern Industrial Strategy to ensure that the jobs of the future are created across the whole country not just in London; and established the first ever Race Disparity Audit to shine a light on injustices. During her time in Downing Street, the UK’s national debt fell, there were more people in work than ever before, and taxes were cut for 32 million people.
Theresa was re-elected as the MP for Maidenhead in December 2019 and continues to speak regularly in the House of Commons on a range of local, national, and international issues.
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As Prime Minister for three years and Home Secretary for six years, Theresa May confronted a series of issues in which the abuse of power led to devastating results for individuals and significantly damaged the reputation of, and trust in, public institutions and politicians. From the Hillsborough and Grenfell tragedies, to the Daniel Morgan case and parliamentary scandals, the powerful repeatedly chose to use their power not in the interests of the powerless but to serve themselves or to protect the organisation to which they belonged.
The Abuse of Power is a searing exposé of injustice and an impassioned call to exercise power for the greater good. Drawing on examples from domestic and international affairs she was personally involved in at the highest level, including Stop and Search and the Salisbury Poisonings, the former prime minister argues for a radical rethink in how we approach our politics and public life.
The Author:
Theresa has served as Member of Parliament for Maidenhead since 1997 and has held several positions within Parliament since. She was a member of the Shadow Cabinet from 1999 to 2010, and from 2002 to 2003 was the first female Chairman of the Conservative Party. In 2010, she was appointed Home Secretary, a position which she held for 6 years before becoming Prime Minister. She served as Prime Minister for three years, until July 2019.
Theresa had a varied education spanning both the state and private sectors, and both grammar school and comprehensive school. She read Geography at St Hugh’s College, Oxford University. She started her career at the Bank of England and went on to hold posts at the Association for Payment Clearing Services (APACS) as Head of the European Affairs Unit and Senior Adviser on International Affairs.
Theresa has been involved in politics at all levels for many years, starting out stuffing envelopes at her local Conservative Association before going on to be a councillor in the London Borough of Merton from 1986 to 1994. During that time she was Chairman of Education between 1988 and 1990 and Deputy Group Leader and Housing Spokesman between 1992 and 1994.
Theresa was elected Member of Parliament for Maidenhead in May 1997. She lives in the constituency and is an active local campaigner. Her local activity has included campaigns to improve the local train service, bring a minor injuries unit to St Marks Hospital, and improve Maidenhead town centre.
She has held several positions within Parliament since 1997. She was a member of the Shadow Cabinet from 1999 to 2010, and from 2002 to 2003 was the first female Chairman of the Conservative Party.
Theresa was appointed Home Secretary in May 2010 and became the longest-serving Conservative Home Secretary for over a century. During this time she oversaw reductions in crime, reform of the police, and the introduction of the landmark Modern Slavery Act.Following her election as Leader of the Conservative Party, Theresa was appointed Prime Minister in July 2016, a position she held until July 2019. As Prime Minister, she oversaw the largest ever cash boost to the NHS and the largest expansion of mental health services in a generation; launched a 25-Year Environment Plan and introduced legislation to end the UK’s contribution to global warming entirely; published a Modern Industrial Strategy to ensure that the jobs of the future are created across the whole country not just in London; and established the first ever Race Disparity Audit to shine a light on injustices. During her time in Downing Street, the UK’s national debt fell, there were more people in work than ever before, and taxes were cut for 32 million people.
Theresa was re-elected as the MP for Maidenhead in December 2019 and continues to speak regularly in the House of Commons on a range of local, national, and international issues.
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Jane Hissey
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*A unique piece of artwork created by Jane Hissey herself.
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Title: Time for a Hug
Genre: Children
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This beautiful picture is kindly created specifically for Children in Read 2024 by Jane Hissey herself.
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Jane has always loved writing and drawing. Throughout much of her childhood she lived in Norfolk and wandered the fields and lanes with pencil and sketchbook.
She studied illustration and design in Brighton, where she met her husband, Ivan, who is also an illustrator. After college, they settled in Sussex and Jane taught art for a few years before leaving to have her first child, Owen. Since then she has had two more children; Alison and Ralph, and has written and illustrated over 20 picture books.
She prepares a dummy book of rough sketches before she begins the finished drawings. For these she draws first in pencil then, using coloured pencils, she builds up layers of colour, adding details towards the end. Each drawing takes many, many hours and a whole book can take a year.
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Jane has always loved writing and drawing. Throughout much of her childhood she lived in Norfolk and wandered the fields and lanes with pencil and sketchbook.
She studied illustration and design in Brighton, where she met her husband, Ivan, who is also an illustrator. After college, they settled in Sussex and Jane taught art for a few years before leaving to have her first child, Owen. Since then she has had two more children; Alison and Ralph, and has written and illustrated over 20 picture books.
She prepares a dummy book of rough sketches before she begins the finished drawings. For these she draws first in pencil then, using coloured pencils, she builds up layers of colour, adding details towards the end. Each drawing takes many, many hours and a whole book can take a year.
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Title: Old Bear 5 minute Stories
Genre: Children
Format: Hardback
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An enchanting treasury of teddy bear tales from Jane Hissey's beloved BAFTA award-winning Old Bear and Friends series!
This beautifully illustrated compendium of classic picture books features five of Jane Hissey most-loved stories: Old Bear, Little Bear's Trousers, Little Bear Lost, Jolly Tall and Jolly Snow. Perfect for bedtime reading, follow along as you rescue Old Bear from the attic, hunt for Little Bear's bright red trousers, investigate a mysterious parcel in the playroom, and create your very own indoor winter wonderland!
Nostalgia and heartfelt humour beam from each page in this brand new edition of Jane Hissey's beloved classic tales. Beautiful, photo-realistic artwork combines with funny, reassuring text, making this the perfect teddy bear tale to treasure for years to come.
The Author:
Jane has always loved writing and drawing. Throughout much of her childhood she lived in Norfolk and wandered the fields and lanes with pencil and sketchbook.
She studied illustration and design in Brighton, where she met her husband, Ivan, who is also an illustrator. After college, they settled in Sussex and Jane taught art for a few years before leaving to have her first child, Owen. Since then she has had two more children; Alison and Ralph, and has written and illustrated over 20 picture books.
She prepares a dummy book of rough sketches before she begins the finished drawings. For these she draws first in pencil then, using coloured pencils, she builds up layers of colour, adding details towards the end. Each drawing takes many, many hours and a whole book can take a year.
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The Book;
An enchanting treasury of teddy bear tales from Jane Hissey's beloved BAFTA award-winning Old Bear and Friends series!
This beautifully illustrated compendium of classic picture books features five of Jane Hissey most-loved stories: Old Bear, Little Bear's Trousers, Little Bear Lost, Jolly Tall and Jolly Snow. Perfect for bedtime reading, follow along as you rescue Old Bear from the attic, hunt for Little Bear's bright red trousers, investigate a mysterious parcel in the playroom, and create your very own indoor winter wonderland!
Nostalgia and heartfelt humour beam from each page in this brand new edition of Jane Hissey's beloved classic tales. Beautiful, photo-realistic artwork combines with funny, reassuring text, making this the perfect teddy bear tale to treasure for years to come.
The Author:
Jane has always loved writing and drawing. Throughout much of her childhood she lived in Norfolk and wandered the fields and lanes with pencil and sketchbook.
She studied illustration and design in Brighton, where she met her husband, Ivan, who is also an illustrator. After college, they settled in Sussex and Jane taught art for a few years before leaving to have her first child, Owen. Since then she has had two more children; Alison and Ralph, and has written and illustrated over 20 picture books.
She prepares a dummy book of rough sketches before she begins the finished drawings. For these she draws first in pencil then, using coloured pencils, she builds up layers of colour, adding details towards the end. Each drawing takes many, many hours and a whole book can take a year.
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Chris Riddell
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Title: Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Genre: Young Adult - Fantasy - Humour
Format: Hardback
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Chris Riddell's brilliant full-colour illustrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in a sumptuous hardback and jacketed edition. A perfect gift for families, children and all fans of this much-loved favourite classic.
First published by Macmillan more than 150 years ago, Lewis Carroll’s iconic story of a girl's journey into a world of tea parties, talking caterpillars, white rabbits and nonsense has been loved and enjoyed by generations of children.
This edition presents Lewis Carroll's complete text, with illustrations from Costa Award- and Kate Greenaway Medal-winner, and cartoonist for the Observer, Chris Riddell. Published 200 years after the birth of Alice’s first illustrator, Sir John Tenniel, also the political cartoonist of his time, Chris Riddell's illustrations set a new bar of excellence with his unique, rich and evocative interpretation of Carroll's world.
With the curious, quick-witted Alice at its heart, readers will not only rediscover characters such as the charming White Rabbit, the formidable Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter and the grinning Cheshire Cat but will find fresh and wonderful creations of these characters by a true master of his art; images that will live in our hearts and minds for generations to come.
'Riddell has reinstated its oddness with his glamorous, fantastical caricatures and super-skillful line' – The Times
The Author:
Chris Riddell is an author, illustrator and the political cartoonist for the Observer. He was appointed the UK’s Waterstones Children’s Laureate in 2015. Alongside his other collaborative work with Paul, Neil Gaiman and others, Chris also writes and illustrates the Ottoline series and the Costa Award winning Goth Girl series. Chris has won many awards for his work, including the Nestlé Gold Award, the UNESCO Award for Something Else and two Kate Greenaway Medals.
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Genre: Young Adult - Fantasy - Humour
Format: Hardback
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Chris Riddell's brilliant full-colour illustrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in a sumptuous hardback and jacketed edition. A perfect gift for families, children and all fans of this much-loved favourite classic.
First published by Macmillan more than 150 years ago, Lewis Carroll’s iconic story of a girl's journey into a world of tea parties, talking caterpillars, white rabbits and nonsense has been loved and enjoyed by generations of children.
This edition presents Lewis Carroll's complete text, with illustrations from Costa Award- and Kate Greenaway Medal-winner, and cartoonist for the Observer, Chris Riddell. Published 200 years after the birth of Alice’s first illustrator, Sir John Tenniel, also the political cartoonist of his time, Chris Riddell's illustrations set a new bar of excellence with his unique, rich and evocative interpretation of Carroll's world.
With the curious, quick-witted Alice at its heart, readers will not only rediscover characters such as the charming White Rabbit, the formidable Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter and the grinning Cheshire Cat but will find fresh and wonderful creations of these characters by a true master of his art; images that will live in our hearts and minds for generations to come.
'Riddell has reinstated its oddness with his glamorous, fantastical caricatures and super-skillful line' – The Times
The Author:
Chris Riddell is an author, illustrator and the political cartoonist for the Observer. He was appointed the UK’s Waterstones Children’s Laureate in 2015. Alongside his other collaborative work with Paul, Neil Gaiman and others, Chris also writes and illustrates the Ottoline series and the Costa Award winning Goth Girl series. Chris has won many awards for his work, including the Nestlé Gold Award, the UNESCO Award for Something Else and two Kate Greenaway Medals.
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Title: Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
Genre: Young Adult - Fantasy - Humour
Format: Hardback
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Chris Riddell's brilliant full-colour illustrated Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There is a gorgeous edition of the much-loved sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. A perfect gift for families, children and all fans.
First published by Macmillan more than 150 years ago, Lewis Carroll’s iconic stories about Alice have been loved and enjoyed by generations of children the world over.
Curious Alice's second story takes her through the looking-glass to a place even stranger than the Wonderland of her first adventure. Caught up in the great looking-glass chess game she sets off across the chequerboard landscape to become a queen on the final square. It isn't as easy as she expects: at every step she is hindered by unusual, funny and nonsense characters like Tweedledum, Tweedledee and Humpty Dumpty. Some of them insist on reciting poems to her and these poems – such as The Walrus and The Carpenter and Jabberwocky – are now as famous as the Alice stories themselves.
This edition presents Lewis Carroll's complete text, with illustrations from Costa Award- and Kate Greenaway Medal-winner, and cartoonist for the Observer, Chris Riddell. Published 200 years after the birth of Alice’s first illustrator, Sir John Tenniel, also an eminent political cartoonist of his time, Chris Riddell's illustrations set a new bar of excellence, with his unique, rich and evocative interpretation of Carroll's world.
'Hundreds of images, with Riddell’s rich sense of the fantastical, complement the narrative in this remarkable new edition of Carroll’s book' – Sunday Times
The Author:
Chris Riddell is an author, illustrator and the political cartoonist for the Observer. He was appointed the UK’s Waterstones Children’s Laureate in 2015. Alongside his other collaborative work with Paul, Neil Gaiman and others, Chris also writes and illustrates the Ottoline series and the Costa Award winning Goth Girl series. Chris has won many awards for his work, including the Nestlé Gold Award, the UNESCO Award for Something Else and two Kate Greenaway Medals.
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Genre: Young Adult - Fantasy - Humour
Format: Hardback
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Chris Riddell's brilliant full-colour illustrated Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There is a gorgeous edition of the much-loved sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. A perfect gift for families, children and all fans.
First published by Macmillan more than 150 years ago, Lewis Carroll’s iconic stories about Alice have been loved and enjoyed by generations of children the world over.
Curious Alice's second story takes her through the looking-glass to a place even stranger than the Wonderland of her first adventure. Caught up in the great looking-glass chess game she sets off across the chequerboard landscape to become a queen on the final square. It isn't as easy as she expects: at every step she is hindered by unusual, funny and nonsense characters like Tweedledum, Tweedledee and Humpty Dumpty. Some of them insist on reciting poems to her and these poems – such as The Walrus and The Carpenter and Jabberwocky – are now as famous as the Alice stories themselves.
This edition presents Lewis Carroll's complete text, with illustrations from Costa Award- and Kate Greenaway Medal-winner, and cartoonist for the Observer, Chris Riddell. Published 200 years after the birth of Alice’s first illustrator, Sir John Tenniel, also an eminent political cartoonist of his time, Chris Riddell's illustrations set a new bar of excellence, with his unique, rich and evocative interpretation of Carroll's world.
'Hundreds of images, with Riddell’s rich sense of the fantastical, complement the narrative in this remarkable new edition of Carroll’s book' – Sunday Times
The Author:
Chris Riddell is an author, illustrator and the political cartoonist for the Observer. He was appointed the UK’s Waterstones Children’s Laureate in 2015. Alongside his other collaborative work with Paul, Neil Gaiman and others, Chris also writes and illustrates the Ottoline series and the Costa Award winning Goth Girl series. Chris has won many awards for his work, including the Nestlé Gold Award, the UNESCO Award for Something Else and two Kate Greenaway Medals.
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Title: The Little Prince
Genre: Young Adult - Fantasy
Format: Hardback
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Chris Riddell's brilliant full-colour illustrated The Little Prince in a sumptuous hardback and jacketed edition. A perfect gift for families, children and all fans of this much-loved favourite classic.
After crash-landing in the Sahara Desert, a lonely pilot encounters a little prince who is visiting Earth from his own planet. Their strange and moving meeting illuminates many of life's universal truths, as he comes to learn what it means to be human from a child who is not.
With the loving, insightful, perplexed-by-grown-ups Little Prince at its heart, readers will not only rediscover characters such as The coquettish Rose, The knowledgeable Fox and The complex Lamplighter, but will find fresh and wonderful creations of these characters by a true master of his art; images that will live in our hearts and minds for generations to come.
The Author:
Chris Riddell is an author, illustrator and the political cartoonist for the Observer. He was appointed the UK’s Waterstones Children’s Laureate in 2015. Alongside his other collaborative work with Paul, Neil Gaiman and others, Chris also writes and illustrates the Ottoline series and the Costa Award winning Goth Girl series. Chris has won many awards for his work, including the Nestlé Gold Award, the UNESCO Award for Something Else and two Kate Greenaway Medals.
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Genre: Young Adult - Fantasy
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Chris Riddell's brilliant full-colour illustrated The Little Prince in a sumptuous hardback and jacketed edition. A perfect gift for families, children and all fans of this much-loved favourite classic.
After crash-landing in the Sahara Desert, a lonely pilot encounters a little prince who is visiting Earth from his own planet. Their strange and moving meeting illuminates many of life's universal truths, as he comes to learn what it means to be human from a child who is not.
With the loving, insightful, perplexed-by-grown-ups Little Prince at its heart, readers will not only rediscover characters such as The coquettish Rose, The knowledgeable Fox and The complex Lamplighter, but will find fresh and wonderful creations of these characters by a true master of his art; images that will live in our hearts and minds for generations to come.
The Author:
Chris Riddell is an author, illustrator and the political cartoonist for the Observer. He was appointed the UK’s Waterstones Children’s Laureate in 2015. Alongside his other collaborative work with Paul, Neil Gaiman and others, Chris also writes and illustrates the Ottoline series and the Costa Award winning Goth Girl series. Chris has won many awards for his work, including the Nestlé Gold Award, the UNESCO Award for Something Else and two Kate Greenaway Medals.
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*All five books in the Sweet Pea Series.
Now a TV series on Sky Atlantic starring Ella Purnell*
Genre: Crime Thriller - Dark Humour
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Title 1: SWEETPEA
he last person who called me Sweetpea ended up dead…
I haven’t killed anyone for three years, and I thought that when it happened again I’d feel bad. Like an alcoholic taking a sip of whiskey. But no. Nothing. I had a blissful night’s sleep. Didn’t wake up at all. And for once, no bad dream either. This morning I feel balanced. Almost sane, for once.
Rhiannon is your average girl next door, settled with her boyfriend and little dog…but she’s got a killer secret.
Although her childhood was haunted by a famous crime, Rhiannon’s life is normal now that her celebrity has dwindled. By day, her job as an editorial assistant is demeaning and unsatisfying. By evening, she dutifully listens to her friends’ plans for marriage and babies while secretly making a list.
A kill list.
From the man at the grocery checkout who always mishandles her apples, to the driver who cuts her off on her way to work, to the people who have it coming, Rhiannon is ready to get her revenge.
Because the girl everyone overlooks might be able to get away with murder…
Title 2: IN BLOOM
If only they knew the real truth. It should be my face on those front pages. My headlines. I did those things, not him. I just want to stand on that doorstep and scream it: IT WAS ME. ME. ME. ME. ME!
Rhiannon Lewis has successfully fooled the world and framed her cheating fiancé Craig for the depraved and bloody killing spree she committed. She should be ecstatic that she’s free.
Except for one small problem. She’s pregnant with her ex lover’s child. The ex-lover she only recently chopped up and buried in her in-laws garden. And as much as Rhiannon wants to continue making her way through her kill lists, a small voice inside is trying to make her stop.
But can a killer’s urges ever really be curbed?
Title 3: DEAD HEAD
Can a serial killer ever lose their taste for murder?
Since confessing to her bloody murder spree Rhiannon Lewis, the now-notorious Sweetpea killer, has been feeling out-of-sorts.
Having fled the UK on a cruise ship to start her new life, Rhiannon should be feeling happy. But it’s hard to turn over a new leaf when she’s stuck in an oversized floating tin can with the Gammonati and screaming kids. Especially when they remind her of Ivy – the baby she gave up for a life carrying on killing.
Rhiannon is all at sea. She’s lost her taste for blood but is it really gone for good? Maybe Rhiannon is realising that there’s more to life than death…
Title 4:THORN IN MY SIDE
Sometimes, you can be your own worst enemy…
Rhiannon Lewis thought she finally had it all: thanks to the pandemic she’s had to keep a much lower profile but has found happiness with her fiancé Rafael and his family. For once, she is surrounded by people who love her for who she is (or who they think she is).
After over 800 days without murdering anyone, the woman formerly known as the Sweetpea Killer thinks she might have finally turned over a new leaf.
That is until her soon-to-be sister-in-law has a run in with her abusive ex, and Rhiannon rediscovers her taste for revenge. This time, with a loving family in tow, the stakes are much higher. Wedded bliss and life as a normal person are finally within Rhiannon's reach, but you can never keep a good serial killer down.
Can you?
Title 5: THE BAD SEEDS
Sweetpea is coming home at last…
Newly married, with a loving family surrounding her, everything's coming up roses for ex-serial killer Rhiannon Lewis, right?
Wrong.
Her husband has just been shot, and the daughter she left behind in the UK is desperately ill. She’s got no choice but to flee the States and return home, back to her roots, where she’s in danger of being recognised and arrested at any moment.
Only nothing is quite as it seems…
With a series of bad choices in front of her, and the authorities right behind, Rhiannon's in a hell of a hole and she needs to dig herself out of it pronto. But help can come from the most unlikely places. And even more unlikely people…
The Author:
C.J. SKUSE is the author of the Young Adult novels PRETTY BAD THINGS, ROCKOHOLIC, DEAD ROMANTIC, MONSTER and THE DEVIANTS and the adult crime thrillers THE ALIBI GIRL and the SWEETPEA series of books. C.J. was born in 1980 in Weston-super-Mare, England and has First Class degrees in Creative Studies in English and Writing for Children and, aside from writing novels, works as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing.
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Now a TV series on Sky Atlantic starring Ella Purnell*
Genre: Crime Thriller - Dark Humour
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Title 1: SWEETPEA
he last person who called me Sweetpea ended up dead…
I haven’t killed anyone for three years, and I thought that when it happened again I’d feel bad. Like an alcoholic taking a sip of whiskey. But no. Nothing. I had a blissful night’s sleep. Didn’t wake up at all. And for once, no bad dream either. This morning I feel balanced. Almost sane, for once.
Rhiannon is your average girl next door, settled with her boyfriend and little dog…but she’s got a killer secret.
Although her childhood was haunted by a famous crime, Rhiannon’s life is normal now that her celebrity has dwindled. By day, her job as an editorial assistant is demeaning and unsatisfying. By evening, she dutifully listens to her friends’ plans for marriage and babies while secretly making a list.
A kill list.
From the man at the grocery checkout who always mishandles her apples, to the driver who cuts her off on her way to work, to the people who have it coming, Rhiannon is ready to get her revenge.
Because the girl everyone overlooks might be able to get away with murder…
Title 2: IN BLOOM
If only they knew the real truth. It should be my face on those front pages. My headlines. I did those things, not him. I just want to stand on that doorstep and scream it: IT WAS ME. ME. ME. ME. ME!
Rhiannon Lewis has successfully fooled the world and framed her cheating fiancé Craig for the depraved and bloody killing spree she committed. She should be ecstatic that she’s free.
Except for one small problem. She’s pregnant with her ex lover’s child. The ex-lover she only recently chopped up and buried in her in-laws garden. And as much as Rhiannon wants to continue making her way through her kill lists, a small voice inside is trying to make her stop.
But can a killer’s urges ever really be curbed?
Title 3: DEAD HEAD
Can a serial killer ever lose their taste for murder?
Since confessing to her bloody murder spree Rhiannon Lewis, the now-notorious Sweetpea killer, has been feeling out-of-sorts.
Having fled the UK on a cruise ship to start her new life, Rhiannon should be feeling happy. But it’s hard to turn over a new leaf when she’s stuck in an oversized floating tin can with the Gammonati and screaming kids. Especially when they remind her of Ivy – the baby she gave up for a life carrying on killing.
Rhiannon is all at sea. She’s lost her taste for blood but is it really gone for good? Maybe Rhiannon is realising that there’s more to life than death…
Title 4:THORN IN MY SIDE
Sometimes, you can be your own worst enemy…
Rhiannon Lewis thought she finally had it all: thanks to the pandemic she’s had to keep a much lower profile but has found happiness with her fiancé Rafael and his family. For once, she is surrounded by people who love her for who she is (or who they think she is).
After over 800 days without murdering anyone, the woman formerly known as the Sweetpea Killer thinks she might have finally turned over a new leaf.
That is until her soon-to-be sister-in-law has a run in with her abusive ex, and Rhiannon rediscovers her taste for revenge. This time, with a loving family in tow, the stakes are much higher. Wedded bliss and life as a normal person are finally within Rhiannon's reach, but you can never keep a good serial killer down.
Can you?
Title 5: THE BAD SEEDS
Sweetpea is coming home at last…
Newly married, with a loving family surrounding her, everything's coming up roses for ex-serial killer Rhiannon Lewis, right?
Wrong.
Her husband has just been shot, and the daughter she left behind in the UK is desperately ill. She’s got no choice but to flee the States and return home, back to her roots, where she’s in danger of being recognised and arrested at any moment.
Only nothing is quite as it seems…
With a series of bad choices in front of her, and the authorities right behind, Rhiannon's in a hell of a hole and she needs to dig herself out of it pronto. But help can come from the most unlikely places. And even more unlikely people…
The Author:
C.J. SKUSE is the author of the Young Adult novels PRETTY BAD THINGS, ROCKOHOLIC, DEAD ROMANTIC, MONSTER and THE DEVIANTS and the adult crime thrillers THE ALIBI GIRL and the SWEETPEA series of books. C.J. was born in 1980 in Weston-super-Mare, England and has First Class degrees in Creative Studies in English and Writing for Children and, aside from writing novels, works as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing.
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Whistledown Farm Adventures Books 1&2
Title 1: Finding Hope
Title 2: Rescuing Ruby
Genre: Children
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Finding Hope
The first book in a warm and beautifully observed farm adventure series from Nicola Baker, star of Our Farm in the Dales. Perfect for readers 8+ and fans of Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Morpurgo, Dick King Smith and The Snow Foal. With stunning illustrations from Rachael Dean throughout.
When ten-year-old Ava moves to Whistledown Farm while her parents are working abroad, she must swap city life for mud, wellies and animals. But as one catastrophe follows another, will Ava learn to love life on the farm and find hope in nature? And can a very special little lamb show Ava that when all might seem lost, hope can be found…
Rescuing Ruby
The second book in a warm and beautifully observed farm adventure series from Nicola Baker, star of Our Farm in the Dales.
Ten-year-old Ava has swapped city life for mud, wellies and animals on Whistledown Farm. With the arrival of Autumn and as the leaves begins to fall, she rescues a tawny owl called Ruby. As Ava helps Ruby, she soon realises that learning to love means letting go as well . . .
‘Baker is a gifted writer, and her bucolic adventure harks back to classic farm stories such as those written by Dick King Smith and Michael Morpurgo’ The Bookseller
The Author
Growing up, Nicola spent hours with her nose stuck in a book or filling notebooks with stories and sketches. After a successful career as a physiotherapist and raising two children she’s now come full circle and is writing again.
Nicola lives on a smallholding with her husband and two children. When she’s not mucking out chickens or feeding the sheep you’ll find her writing adventure stories for children.
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Title 1: Finding Hope
Title 2: Rescuing Ruby
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Finding Hope
The first book in a warm and beautifully observed farm adventure series from Nicola Baker, star of Our Farm in the Dales. Perfect for readers 8+ and fans of Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Morpurgo, Dick King Smith and The Snow Foal. With stunning illustrations from Rachael Dean throughout.
When ten-year-old Ava moves to Whistledown Farm while her parents are working abroad, she must swap city life for mud, wellies and animals. But as one catastrophe follows another, will Ava learn to love life on the farm and find hope in nature? And can a very special little lamb show Ava that when all might seem lost, hope can be found…
Rescuing Ruby
The second book in a warm and beautifully observed farm adventure series from Nicola Baker, star of Our Farm in the Dales.
Ten-year-old Ava has swapped city life for mud, wellies and animals on Whistledown Farm. With the arrival of Autumn and as the leaves begins to fall, she rescues a tawny owl called Ruby. As Ava helps Ruby, she soon realises that learning to love means letting go as well . . .
‘Baker is a gifted writer, and her bucolic adventure harks back to classic farm stories such as those written by Dick King Smith and Michael Morpurgo’ The Bookseller
The Author
Growing up, Nicola spent hours with her nose stuck in a book or filling notebooks with stories and sketches. After a successful career as a physiotherapist and raising two children she’s now come full circle and is writing again.
Nicola lives on a smallholding with her husband and two children. When she’s not mucking out chickens or feeding the sheep you’ll find her writing adventure stories for children.
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*Still in time for Christmas,
Title: Christmas with the Queen
Genre: Historical Fiction
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The Book :
The latest heartwarming historical romance from Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb, which opens 70 years ago in the Queen’s first year on the throne in 1952.
December 1952. As the young Queen Elizabeth II prepares to deliver the first of her traditional Christmas Messages, dedicated staff work behind the scenes to prepare for festive celebrations at the Sandringham Estate. Among the hard workers are Jack Devereaux and Olive Carter – old friends who are about to be reunited.
Over the course of five years, while Olive works as a royal correspondent and Jack is a chef in the Queen’s household, their paths will cross time and time again. But as the two grow closer, their relationship is threatened by a secret that Olivia is afraid to reveal.
December 1957. As the nation eagerly awaits the Queen’s first televised Christmas speech, there is one final gift for the Christmas season to deliver…
Available 22 October 2024 (USA/Canada) and 21 November (UK/Ireland).
The Author:
Hazel Gaynor is an award-winning New York Times, USA Today, Globe and Mail and Irish Times bestselling author known for her deeply moving historical novels which explore the defining events of the 20th century.
Her Titanic inspired debut, The Girl Who Came Home, won the 2015 RNA Historical Novel award, and her work has since been shortlisted for the 2019 HWA Gold Crown and for the Irish Book Awards in 2017, 2020 and 2023.
Her latest novel, The Last Lifeboat, was included as a Times of London historical novel of the month pick in June 2023, was shortlisted for the 2023 Irish Book Awards, and received the 2024 Audie Award for Best Fiction Narrator.
Hazel’s co-written historical novels with Heather Webb have all been published to critical acclaim, winning or being shortlisted for several international awards. Their latest collaboration, Christmas With the Queen, will be published in November 2024.
Hazel’s work is translated into twenty languages and is published in twenty-seven territories to date. She lives in Ireland with her family.
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*Still in time for Christmas,
Title: Christmas with the Queen
Genre: Historical Fiction
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The Book :
The latest heartwarming historical romance from Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb, which opens 70 years ago in the Queen’s first year on the throne in 1952.
December 1952. As the young Queen Elizabeth II prepares to deliver the first of her traditional Christmas Messages, dedicated staff work behind the scenes to prepare for festive celebrations at the Sandringham Estate. Among the hard workers are Jack Devereaux and Olive Carter – old friends who are about to be reunited.
Over the course of five years, while Olive works as a royal correspondent and Jack is a chef in the Queen’s household, their paths will cross time and time again. But as the two grow closer, their relationship is threatened by a secret that Olivia is afraid to reveal.
December 1957. As the nation eagerly awaits the Queen’s first televised Christmas speech, there is one final gift for the Christmas season to deliver…
Available 22 October 2024 (USA/Canada) and 21 November (UK/Ireland).
The Author:
Hazel Gaynor is an award-winning New York Times, USA Today, Globe and Mail and Irish Times bestselling author known for her deeply moving historical novels which explore the defining events of the 20th century.
Her Titanic inspired debut, The Girl Who Came Home, won the 2015 RNA Historical Novel award, and her work has since been shortlisted for the 2019 HWA Gold Crown and for the Irish Book Awards in 2017, 2020 and 2023.
Her latest novel, The Last Lifeboat, was included as a Times of London historical novel of the month pick in June 2023, was shortlisted for the 2023 Irish Book Awards, and received the 2024 Audie Award for Best Fiction Narrator.
Hazel’s co-written historical novels with Heather Webb have all been published to critical acclaim, winning or being shortlisted for several international awards. Their latest collaboration, Christmas With the Queen, will be published in November 2024.
Hazel’s work is translated into twenty languages and is published in twenty-seven territories to date. She lives in Ireland with her family.
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Peter James
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*Three Book Spectacular
Title 1: One of Us Is Dead
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Title 2: They Thought I Was Dead
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Title 3: Stop Them Dead
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Title 1: One of Us Is Dead
Roy Grace is about to find out just how dangerous a dead man can be…
When James Taylor arrives late for a funeral, he has to stand at the back of the small church. But, as the service progresses, Taylor notices a man six rows in front of him. At first he thinks he must be mistaken, but the more he looks at the man, the more convinced Taylor becomes that this is his old schoolfriend Rufus Rorke.
Except it couldn’t be him, could it? Because two years ago Taylor attended Rufus Rorke’s funeral. He even delivered Rufus’s eulogy.
On the other side of Brighton, at Police HQ, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace has been alerted to a number of suspicious deaths that he can’t get out of his mind. But how are they linked? And could they possibly be connected to Rufus Rorke?
One Of Us Is Dead is the latest race-against-time instalment of the award-winning Grace series by Peter James, now a major ITV show starring John Simm.
Title 2: They Thought I Was Dead
Peter James, the number one, multi-million copy bestselling author of the Grace series returns with a standalone novel with a difference.
Some will know how it begins . . .
Her name is Sandy. You might know her as the loving wife of Detective Superintendent Roy Grace.
But there’s more to her than meets the eye. A woman with a dubious past, a complicated present and
an uncertain future. Then she was gone.
Some will think they know how it ends . . .
Her disappearance caused a nationwide search. Even the best detective on the force couldn’t find her.
They thought she was dead.
But nobody knows this . . .
Where did she go? Why did she run? What would cause a woman to leave her whole life behind and simply vanish?
Title 3: Stop Them Dead
Creator of Her Majesty Queen Camilla’s favourite fictional detective.
23 million books sold.
‘Peter James is one of the best British crime writers, and therefore one of the best in the world’ - LEE CHILD, author of the Jack Reacher series
Discover the darkness that lurks around every corner in the latest instalment of the award-winning Grace series by Peter James, now a major ITV show starring John Simm.
A ruthless crime. A race against time.
In the dead of night, a farmer confronts the intruders of a break in, having no idea that the encounter will leave him dead. What’s more chilling is the truth of what the perpetrators were willing to kill for.
At the scene, DS Roy Grace senses that this is no mere botched robbery; it’s the tip of the iceberg of a nationwide crime epidemic. Ruthless gangs, operating with military precision, have discovered a new black market flourishing in the shadows – an unthinkable source of wealth even more profitable than drugs.
Grace’s investigation into this deadly trade pits him against people who will kill anyone who gets in their way.
The Author:
Peter James is a UK No.1 bestselling author, best known for his Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series, now a hit ITV drama starring John Simm as the troubled Brighton copper.
Much loved by crime and thriller fans for his fast-paced page-turners full of unexpected plot twists, sinister characters, and accurate portrayal of modern day policing, he has won over 40 awards for his work including the WHSmith Best Crime Author of All Time Award and Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Dagger.
To date, Peter has written an impressive total of 19 Sunday Times No. 1s, sold over 21 million copies worldwide and been translated into 38 languages. His books are also often adapted for the stage – the most recent being Looking Good Dead.
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Title 1: One of Us Is Dead
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Title 2: They Thought I Was Dead
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Title 3: Stop Them Dead
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Title 1: One of Us Is Dead
Roy Grace is about to find out just how dangerous a dead man can be…
When James Taylor arrives late for a funeral, he has to stand at the back of the small church. But, as the service progresses, Taylor notices a man six rows in front of him. At first he thinks he must be mistaken, but the more he looks at the man, the more convinced Taylor becomes that this is his old schoolfriend Rufus Rorke.
Except it couldn’t be him, could it? Because two years ago Taylor attended Rufus Rorke’s funeral. He even delivered Rufus’s eulogy.
On the other side of Brighton, at Police HQ, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace has been alerted to a number of suspicious deaths that he can’t get out of his mind. But how are they linked? And could they possibly be connected to Rufus Rorke?
One Of Us Is Dead is the latest race-against-time instalment of the award-winning Grace series by Peter James, now a major ITV show starring John Simm.
Title 2: They Thought I Was Dead
Peter James, the number one, multi-million copy bestselling author of the Grace series returns with a standalone novel with a difference.
Some will know how it begins . . .
Her name is Sandy. You might know her as the loving wife of Detective Superintendent Roy Grace.
But there’s more to her than meets the eye. A woman with a dubious past, a complicated present and
an uncertain future. Then she was gone.
Some will think they know how it ends . . .
Her disappearance caused a nationwide search. Even the best detective on the force couldn’t find her.
They thought she was dead.
But nobody knows this . . .
Where did she go? Why did she run? What would cause a woman to leave her whole life behind and simply vanish?
Title 3: Stop Them Dead
Creator of Her Majesty Queen Camilla’s favourite fictional detective.
23 million books sold.
‘Peter James is one of the best British crime writers, and therefore one of the best in the world’ - LEE CHILD, author of the Jack Reacher series
Discover the darkness that lurks around every corner in the latest instalment of the award-winning Grace series by Peter James, now a major ITV show starring John Simm.
A ruthless crime. A race against time.
In the dead of night, a farmer confronts the intruders of a break in, having no idea that the encounter will leave him dead. What’s more chilling is the truth of what the perpetrators were willing to kill for.
At the scene, DS Roy Grace senses that this is no mere botched robbery; it’s the tip of the iceberg of a nationwide crime epidemic. Ruthless gangs, operating with military precision, have discovered a new black market flourishing in the shadows – an unthinkable source of wealth even more profitable than drugs.
Grace’s investigation into this deadly trade pits him against people who will kill anyone who gets in their way.
The Author:
Peter James is a UK No.1 bestselling author, best known for his Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series, now a hit ITV drama starring John Simm as the troubled Brighton copper.
Much loved by crime and thriller fans for his fast-paced page-turners full of unexpected plot twists, sinister characters, and accurate portrayal of modern day policing, he has won over 40 awards for his work including the WHSmith Best Crime Author of All Time Award and Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Dagger.
To date, Peter has written an impressive total of 19 Sunday Times No. 1s, sold over 21 million copies worldwide and been translated into 38 languages. His books are also often adapted for the stage – the most recent being Looking Good Dead.
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Title: The Black Loch
Genre: Crime/Thriller
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A MURDER
The body of eighteen-year-old TV personality Caitlin is found abandoned on a remote beach at the head of An Loch Dubh - the Black Loch - on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis. A swimmer and canoeist, it is inconceivable that she could have drowned.
A SECRET
Fin Macleod left the island ten years earlier to escape its memories. When he learns that his married son Fionnlagh had been having a clandestine affair with the dead girl and is suspected of her murder, he and Marsaili return to try and clear his name.
A RECKONING
But nothing is as it seems, and the truth of the murder lies in a past that Fin would rather forget, and a tragedy at the cages of a salmon farm on East Loch Roag, where the tense climax of the story finds its resolution.
The Black Loch takes us on a journey through family ties, hidden relationships and unforgiving landscapes, where suspense, violent revenge and revelation converge in the shadow of the Black Loch.
The Author:
PETER MAY was born and raised in Scotland. He was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BBC, he
quit journalism and, during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland’s most successful television dramatists. He has won several literary awards in France, received the USA’s Barry Award for The Blackhouse – the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 Entry Island was awarded the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year, as well as the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year. May now lives in South-West France with his wife, writer Janice Hally.
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A MURDER
The body of eighteen-year-old TV personality Caitlin is found abandoned on a remote beach at the head of An Loch Dubh - the Black Loch - on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis. A swimmer and canoeist, it is inconceivable that she could have drowned.
A SECRET
Fin Macleod left the island ten years earlier to escape its memories. When he learns that his married son Fionnlagh had been having a clandestine affair with the dead girl and is suspected of her murder, he and Marsaili return to try and clear his name.
A RECKONING
But nothing is as it seems, and the truth of the murder lies in a past that Fin would rather forget, and a tragedy at the cages of a salmon farm on East Loch Roag, where the tense climax of the story finds its resolution.
The Black Loch takes us on a journey through family ties, hidden relationships and unforgiving landscapes, where suspense, violent revenge and revelation converge in the shadow of the Black Loch.
The Author:
PETER MAY was born and raised in Scotland. He was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BBC, he
quit journalism and, during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland’s most successful television dramatists. He has won several literary awards in France, received the USA’s Barry Award for The Blackhouse – the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 Entry Island was awarded the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year, as well as the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year. May now lives in South-West France with his wife, writer Janice Hally.
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Title: The Secrets of Filming Swallows & Amazons (1974)
Genre: TV & Film : Autobiography
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The behind the scenes filmography of the original movie directed by Claude Whatham.
In 1973, Sophie Neville was cast as Titty alongside Suzanna Hamilton and Dame Virginia McKenna in the EMI/Theatre Projects movie of 'Swallows & Amazons' (1974). Made before the advent of CGI or digital technology, the young actors lived out Arthur Ransome's epic adventure on location in the British Lake District.
As part of their schoolwork, the children were asked to keep diaries about their time spent filming. Meanwhile, the hip young crew from Elstree Studios were getting to grips with transforming 1970's Windermere in mid-holiday season into a 1929 idyll. They never guessed that their happy 'Woodstock-on-wheels' experience would become such an enduring worldwide success. We have been assure that 'Swallows and Amazons’ (1974) has been screened on television more times than any other British film and is currently streaming on Amazon Prime.
This heart-warming true life memoir is illustrated with taken at the time by Sophie's family. It delivers a double helping of nostalgia for fans of Arthur Ransome, and the groovy times of the early Seventies.
‘A “treasure trunk” of insights into the making of the film.’ Arthur Ransome Trust
‘I could not put it down! …I think the maps are brilliant, right in character….IT'S LOVELY!!! I’m enjoying it too much.’ Roger Wardale, biographer of Arthur Ransome
‘…It is wonderfully entertaining.’ Richard Pilbrow, Producer, 'Swallows & Amazons'
‘You write so well and have so much covered. I really, really laugh reading this! The missionary bit is superb. Moving. Quietly so.’ Suzanna Hamilton, Mate Susan in 'Swallows & Amazons'
'Sophie has reminded me of one of the happiest times I ever spent on a film. The fun that was had, the friendships forged, the challenges overcome, are all delightfully recalled with a freshness and sense of adventure that has made me smile all over again.’ Dame Virginia McKenna
The Author:
Award-winning author Sophie Neville became inadvertently well known as a child when she starred as Titty in the 1974 feature film of Arthur Ransome's book Swallows and Amazons.
After that sunshiny time she went on to work for the BBC behind the camera on television programmes such as Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals, Doctor Who and Eastenders. Having produced her own Inset series for BBC2 she was busy directing her second drama serial for children when disaster struck in the form of a mystery illness.
Fully recovered, Sophie now lives on the south coast of England with her husband. Every year she disappears for a while to ride in different parts of the world and has also been known to go sailing, but only when the sun shines.
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Title: The Secrets of Filming Swallows & Amazons (1974)
Genre: TV & Film : Autobiography
Format: Hardback - First Edition
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The behind the scenes filmography of the original movie directed by Claude Whatham.
In 1973, Sophie Neville was cast as Titty alongside Suzanna Hamilton and Dame Virginia McKenna in the EMI/Theatre Projects movie of 'Swallows & Amazons' (1974). Made before the advent of CGI or digital technology, the young actors lived out Arthur Ransome's epic adventure on location in the British Lake District.
As part of their schoolwork, the children were asked to keep diaries about their time spent filming. Meanwhile, the hip young crew from Elstree Studios were getting to grips with transforming 1970's Windermere in mid-holiday season into a 1929 idyll. They never guessed that their happy 'Woodstock-on-wheels' experience would become such an enduring worldwide success. We have been assure that 'Swallows and Amazons’ (1974) has been screened on television more times than any other British film and is currently streaming on Amazon Prime.
This heart-warming true life memoir is illustrated with taken at the time by Sophie's family. It delivers a double helping of nostalgia for fans of Arthur Ransome, and the groovy times of the early Seventies.
‘A “treasure trunk” of insights into the making of the film.’ Arthur Ransome Trust
‘I could not put it down! …I think the maps are brilliant, right in character….IT'S LOVELY!!! I’m enjoying it too much.’ Roger Wardale, biographer of Arthur Ransome
‘…It is wonderfully entertaining.’ Richard Pilbrow, Producer, 'Swallows & Amazons'
‘You write so well and have so much covered. I really, really laugh reading this! The missionary bit is superb. Moving. Quietly so.’ Suzanna Hamilton, Mate Susan in 'Swallows & Amazons'
'Sophie has reminded me of one of the happiest times I ever spent on a film. The fun that was had, the friendships forged, the challenges overcome, are all delightfully recalled with a freshness and sense of adventure that has made me smile all over again.’ Dame Virginia McKenna
The Author:
Award-winning author Sophie Neville became inadvertently well known as a child when she starred as Titty in the 1974 feature film of Arthur Ransome's book Swallows and Amazons.
After that sunshiny time she went on to work for the BBC behind the camera on television programmes such as Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals, Doctor Who and Eastenders. Having produced her own Inset series for BBC2 she was busy directing her second drama serial for children when disaster struck in the form of a mystery illness.
Fully recovered, Sophie now lives on the south coast of England with her husband. Every year she disappears for a while to ride in different parts of the world and has also been known to go sailing, but only when the sun shines.
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Print of Sophie as Titty in the classic film 'Swallows & Amazons'
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Sophie Neville Bio:
Award-winning author Sophie Neville became inadvertently well known as a child when she starred as Titty in the 1974 feature film of Arthur Ransome's book Swallows and Amazons.
After that sunshiny time she went on to work for the BBC behind the camera on television programmes such as Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals, Doctor Who and Eastenders. Having produced her own Inset series for BBC2 she was busy directing her second drama serial for children when disaster struck in the form of a mystery illness.
Fully recovered, Sophie now lives on the south coast of England with her husband. Every year she disappears for a while to ride in different parts of the world and has also been known to go sailing, but only when the sun shines.
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Sophie Neville Bio:
Award-winning author Sophie Neville became inadvertently well known as a child when she starred as Titty in the 1974 feature film of Arthur Ransome's book Swallows and Amazons.
After that sunshiny time she went on to work for the BBC behind the camera on television programmes such as Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals, Doctor Who and Eastenders. Having produced her own Inset series for BBC2 she was busy directing her second drama serial for children when disaster struck in the form of a mystery illness.
Fully recovered, Sophie now lives on the south coast of England with her husband. Every year she disappears for a while to ride in different parts of the world and has also been known to go sailing, but only when the sun shines.
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Richard Coles
Richard Coles
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Title 1: Murder Before Evensong
Genre: Cosy Crime
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Title 1: A Death in the Parish
Genre: Cosy Crime
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The Book 1;
Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton, where he lives alongside his widowed mother – opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey – and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda.
When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in the church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided: as lines are drawn, long-buried secrets come dangerously close to destroying the apparent calm of the village.
The Book 2:
Canon Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover takes respite at the monastery where he was a novice. However, it’s not long before a death occurs and Daniel thinks it might be murder. As dark secrets unfold, can he solve the mystery at the monastery without the help of Detective Sergeant Neil Vanloo?
The Author:
Richard Keith Robert Coles FRSA FKC (born 26 March 1962) is an English writer, radio presenter and Church of England clergyman who was the vicar of Finedon in Northamptonshire from 2011 to 2022. He first came to prominence as the multi-instrumentalist who partnered Jimmy Somerville in the 1980s band the Communards. They achieved three UK top ten hits, including the No. 1 record and best-selling single of 1986, a dance version of "Don't Leave Me This Way".
Coles frequently appears on radio and television as well as in newspapers and, from March 2011 until March 2023, was the co-host of BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live programme. He is a regular contributor to QI, Would I Lie to You? and Have I Got News for You. He is an author, Chancellor of the University of Northampton, Honorary Chaplain to the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers, and a patron of social housing project Greatwell Homes in Wellingborough.
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Title 1: Murder Before Evensong
Genre: Cosy Crime
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Title 1: A Death in the Parish
Genre: Cosy Crime
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The Book 1;
Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton, where he lives alongside his widowed mother – opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey – and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda.
When Daniel announces a plan to install a lavatory in the church, the parish is suddenly (and unexpectedly) divided: as lines are drawn, long-buried secrets come dangerously close to destroying the apparent calm of the village.
The Book 2:
Canon Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover takes respite at the monastery where he was a novice. However, it’s not long before a death occurs and Daniel thinks it might be murder. As dark secrets unfold, can he solve the mystery at the monastery without the help of Detective Sergeant Neil Vanloo?
The Author:
Richard Keith Robert Coles FRSA FKC (born 26 March 1962) is an English writer, radio presenter and Church of England clergyman who was the vicar of Finedon in Northamptonshire from 2011 to 2022. He first came to prominence as the multi-instrumentalist who partnered Jimmy Somerville in the 1980s band the Communards. They achieved three UK top ten hits, including the No. 1 record and best-selling single of 1986, a dance version of "Don't Leave Me This Way".
Coles frequently appears on radio and television as well as in newspapers and, from March 2011 until March 2023, was the co-host of BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live programme. He is a regular contributor to QI, Would I Lie to You? and Have I Got News for You. He is an author, Chancellor of the University of Northampton, Honorary Chaplain to the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers, and a patron of social housing project Greatwell Homes in Wellingborough.
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Gabby Hutchinson Crouch
Gabby Hutchinson Crouch
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Title: Cursed Under London
Genre: Magical Fantasy
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The hilarious first novel in a cosy and inclusive historical romantasy series by the writer of Horrible Histories
Two strangers.
Two Londons.
Two hearts that won’t stop beating…
In an alternative Elizabethan London, Fang awakes from his death to discover he is not quite human anymore. In fact, despite having somehow acquired the power of immortality, he’s also not quite vampire, zombie, werewolf or any of the other supernatural beings who roam the twin cities of Upper London and its underground counterpart, Deep London.
A jaded traveller from the Ming Empire, Fang is desperate to find a way to reverse the spell and get on with being dead when he stumbles upon Lazare de Quitte-Beuf, a theatrical Frenchman who is afflicted with the same mysterious condition. Thrown together by the curse they share, the two men set out to undo the strange magic that binds them. As they are drawn further into the shadowy world of Deep London, they unearth a dangerous plot which they appear to be right in the middle of…
And, surely, when in grave danger, the worst thing they could do would be to fall in love, wouldn’t it?
The Author:
Gabby Hutchinson Crouch (Horrible Histories, Newzoids, The News Quiz, The Now Show) has a background in satire, and with the global political climate as it is, believes that now is an important time to explore themes of authoritarianism and intolerance in comedy and fiction. The Darkwood Series does so in a funny, engaging way that never loses the warmth of humanity, even as its villainous Huntsmen try to dehumanise their victims as well as anonymising and dehumanising themselves. Drawing on inspiration from other satirical stories set in a magical universe such as Shrek and the Discworld novels, the Darkwood adventures create a world where readers can enjoy more grown-up versions of fairytales, while also holding up a mirror to our own society.
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Genre: Magical Fantasy
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The Book;
The hilarious first novel in a cosy and inclusive historical romantasy series by the writer of Horrible Histories
Two strangers.
Two Londons.
Two hearts that won’t stop beating…
In an alternative Elizabethan London, Fang awakes from his death to discover he is not quite human anymore. In fact, despite having somehow acquired the power of immortality, he’s also not quite vampire, zombie, werewolf or any of the other supernatural beings who roam the twin cities of Upper London and its underground counterpart, Deep London.
A jaded traveller from the Ming Empire, Fang is desperate to find a way to reverse the spell and get on with being dead when he stumbles upon Lazare de Quitte-Beuf, a theatrical Frenchman who is afflicted with the same mysterious condition. Thrown together by the curse they share, the two men set out to undo the strange magic that binds them. As they are drawn further into the shadowy world of Deep London, they unearth a dangerous plot which they appear to be right in the middle of…
And, surely, when in grave danger, the worst thing they could do would be to fall in love, wouldn’t it?
The Author:
Gabby Hutchinson Crouch (Horrible Histories, Newzoids, The News Quiz, The Now Show) has a background in satire, and with the global political climate as it is, believes that now is an important time to explore themes of authoritarianism and intolerance in comedy and fiction. The Darkwood Series does so in a funny, engaging way that never loses the warmth of humanity, even as its villainous Huntsmen try to dehumanise their victims as well as anonymising and dehumanising themselves. Drawing on inspiration from other satirical stories set in a magical universe such as Shrek and the Discworld novels, the Darkwood adventures create a world where readers can enjoy more grown-up versions of fairytales, while also holding up a mirror to our own society.
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Lucy Strange
Lucy Strange
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Title: Lockett & Wilde's Dreadfully Haunting Mysteries: The Ghosts of the Manor
Genre: Ghost Mysteries & Detective
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The Book;
A spirited series of “cosy gothic” ghostly mysteries set in the 1930s, starring supernatural sleuths, Lockett & Wilde.
Matilda Lockett is used to playing the role of Poor Dead Edna the Orphan on stage with her spirit-medium aunt, Signora Valentina, and theatrical uncle Barnabus – but when they all decamp to Beauchamp Manor to deal with a most dreadful haunting, she discovers she really can see ghosts! There she meets ghost boy, Edgar Wilde, who shares her love of supernatural snooping, and together they set about unravelling the case of The Ghosts of the Manor.
Classic spooky mystery reimagined for fans of cosy crime. You'd have to be DEAD not to love it...
Fully illustrated by Carnegie shortlisted illustrator Pam Smy
The Author:
Lucy Strange is an award-winning children’s author who lives in the heart of the Kent countryside with her partner and their young son.
Lucy’s books capture elements of classic children’s literature in a style that is engaging and accessible for today’s younger readers. Often inspired by folklore and fairy tales, Lucy combines historical settings with touches of magic and fantasy to create utterly convincing worlds in which anything might happen…
Lucy won the 2014 Montegrappa First Fiction Prize, and has gone on to publish four novels with Chicken House in the UK. Her first novel, The Secret of Nightingale Wood, was published in October 2016 and was the Waterstones Book of the Month, described as ‘startlingly good’ by The Daily Telegraph who placed it at Number 10 in the Top 50 Books of 2016. The US edition was launched in New York at the end of 2017 and was immediately chosen for Amazon’s list of the Best Children’s Books of the Year.
Her second novel, Our Castle by the Sea, was the Independent Booksellers’ Children’s Book of the Month, The Times Children’s Book of the Week, nominated for the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for the Waterstones Book Prize 2020. Lucy’s books are published by Scholastic in the US and have been translated into many languages including French, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Croatian, Russian, Farsi and Mandarin.
The Ghost of Gosswater was published in 2020 and was the Times Book of the Week and was chosen as one of The Times best children’s books of the year: “a classic gothic novel for beginners.”
Lucy’s latest books for young readers are the folk-horror fairy tale Sisters of the Lost Marsh (2021), which was described by Hilary McKay as her “book of the year”, and The Mermaid in the Millpond (2022). This is a short, dyslexia-friendly novel about friendship and freedom, set during the Industrial Revolution and published by Barrington Stoke.
Before becoming a professional writer, Lucy worked as an English teacher for fifteen years. Having also trained and worked as an actor, Lucy narrates her own audiobooks, winning the 2019 Audie Award for The Secret of Nightingale Wood.
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Genre: Ghost Mysteries & Detective
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The Book;
A spirited series of “cosy gothic” ghostly mysteries set in the 1930s, starring supernatural sleuths, Lockett & Wilde.
Matilda Lockett is used to playing the role of Poor Dead Edna the Orphan on stage with her spirit-medium aunt, Signora Valentina, and theatrical uncle Barnabus – but when they all decamp to Beauchamp Manor to deal with a most dreadful haunting, she discovers she really can see ghosts! There she meets ghost boy, Edgar Wilde, who shares her love of supernatural snooping, and together they set about unravelling the case of The Ghosts of the Manor.
Classic spooky mystery reimagined for fans of cosy crime. You'd have to be DEAD not to love it...
Fully illustrated by Carnegie shortlisted illustrator Pam Smy
The Author:
Lucy Strange is an award-winning children’s author who lives in the heart of the Kent countryside with her partner and their young son.
Lucy’s books capture elements of classic children’s literature in a style that is engaging and accessible for today’s younger readers. Often inspired by folklore and fairy tales, Lucy combines historical settings with touches of magic and fantasy to create utterly convincing worlds in which anything might happen…
Lucy won the 2014 Montegrappa First Fiction Prize, and has gone on to publish four novels with Chicken House in the UK. Her first novel, The Secret of Nightingale Wood, was published in October 2016 and was the Waterstones Book of the Month, described as ‘startlingly good’ by The Daily Telegraph who placed it at Number 10 in the Top 50 Books of 2016. The US edition was launched in New York at the end of 2017 and was immediately chosen for Amazon’s list of the Best Children’s Books of the Year.
Her second novel, Our Castle by the Sea, was the Independent Booksellers’ Children’s Book of the Month, The Times Children’s Book of the Week, nominated for the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for the Waterstones Book Prize 2020. Lucy’s books are published by Scholastic in the US and have been translated into many languages including French, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Croatian, Russian, Farsi and Mandarin.
The Ghost of Gosswater was published in 2020 and was the Times Book of the Week and was chosen as one of The Times best children’s books of the year: “a classic gothic novel for beginners.”
Lucy’s latest books for young readers are the folk-horror fairy tale Sisters of the Lost Marsh (2021), which was described by Hilary McKay as her “book of the year”, and The Mermaid in the Millpond (2022). This is a short, dyslexia-friendly novel about friendship and freedom, set during the Industrial Revolution and published by Barrington Stoke.
Before becoming a professional writer, Lucy worked as an English teacher for fifteen years. Having also trained and worked as an actor, Lucy narrates her own audiobooks, winning the 2019 Audie Award for The Secret of Nightingale Wood.
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Ramsey Campbell
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Title: RAMSEY CAMPBELL, proBably
Genre: Horror
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The Book;
The subjects range from the perils of authorship to the delights of amateur fiction and film, from drugs to nightmares, from the Highgate Vampire to the Dracula Society s marching song. Friends are remembered and so is Mary Whitehouse. A seminal study of schoolgirl spanking is brought up to date. Many thoughts on the history of horror fiction are included. And, at last, it is revealed why Harlan Ellison® is responsible.
May the reader variously laugh, weep, ponder, disagree and turn uneasily in bed.
The Author:
Ramsey Campbell has been writing for well over fifty years. Two of his novels have been filmed, both for non-English-speaking markets.
Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", and Robert Hadji has described him as "perhaps the finest living exponent of the British weird fiction tradition", while S. T. Joshi stated, "future generations will regard him as the leading horror writer of our generation, every bit the equal of Lovecraft or Blackwood."
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The subjects range from the perils of authorship to the delights of amateur fiction and film, from drugs to nightmares, from the Highgate Vampire to the Dracula Society s marching song. Friends are remembered and so is Mary Whitehouse. A seminal study of schoolgirl spanking is brought up to date. Many thoughts on the history of horror fiction are included. And, at last, it is revealed why Harlan Ellison® is responsible.
May the reader variously laugh, weep, ponder, disagree and turn uneasily in bed.
The Author:
Ramsey Campbell has been writing for well over fifty years. Two of his novels have been filmed, both for non-English-speaking markets.
Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", and Robert Hadji has described him as "perhaps the finest living exponent of the British weird fiction tradition", while S. T. Joshi stated, "future generations will regard him as the leading horror writer of our generation, every bit the equal of Lovecraft or Blackwood."
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Jane Fallon
Jane Fallon
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Title: Over Sharing
Genre: Contemporary Fiction - Humour
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Can you live a lie without spilling the truth? . . .
Once, Iris was happy. She had the home, the husband, the promise of a family. Now she's divorced and renting out her spare room to make ends meet. Life could be worse. But could have been better - if it hadn't been for Maddy: the woman who ruined her life . . .
Social influencer Maddy's brand is happy families. She preaches about loyalty and the sanctity of marriage, and is quickly becoming famous for her wholesome videos of life with her husband and adorable twin girls.
Iris doesn't believe a word of it. And she's going to prove it's all false.
Because if there's one thing that will bring back Iris's happiness, it's taking away Maddy's . . .
Jane Fallon's whip-smart new novel explores the murky truths behind the versions of ourselves we project online, the lengths we go to when we feel we've been wronged, and the often unlikely places we find true friendship.
The Author:
I was born in Harrow in North London and later moved out to Buckinghamshire where I attended St Bernard's Convent School in Slough before moving back up to London to read history at University College.
My first real job was working as a 'Girl Friday' in a small Theatrical and Literary Agency - (the same job that Rebecca has in 'Foursome'). As soon as I walked through the door I fell in love with the idea of working in drama in some capacity.
After three years I left to pursue a career in TV, starting as a freelance script reader and then working as a script editor on various shows including EastEnders where I was made a producer in 1994. The following year I started work producing a new low budget show for BBC2 - 'This Life'.
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Genre: Contemporary Fiction - Humour
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The Book;
Can you live a lie without spilling the truth? . . .
Once, Iris was happy. She had the home, the husband, the promise of a family. Now she's divorced and renting out her spare room to make ends meet. Life could be worse. But could have been better - if it hadn't been for Maddy: the woman who ruined her life . . .
Social influencer Maddy's brand is happy families. She preaches about loyalty and the sanctity of marriage, and is quickly becoming famous for her wholesome videos of life with her husband and adorable twin girls.
Iris doesn't believe a word of it. And she's going to prove it's all false.
Because if there's one thing that will bring back Iris's happiness, it's taking away Maddy's . . .
Jane Fallon's whip-smart new novel explores the murky truths behind the versions of ourselves we project online, the lengths we go to when we feel we've been wronged, and the often unlikely places we find true friendship.
The Author:
I was born in Harrow in North London and later moved out to Buckinghamshire where I attended St Bernard's Convent School in Slough before moving back up to London to read history at University College.
My first real job was working as a 'Girl Friday' in a small Theatrical and Literary Agency - (the same job that Rebecca has in 'Foursome'). As soon as I walked through the door I fell in love with the idea of working in drama in some capacity.
After three years I left to pursue a career in TV, starting as a freelance script reader and then working as a script editor on various shows including EastEnders where I was made a producer in 1994. The following year I started work producing a new low budget show for BBC2 - 'This Life'.
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Title: Worst Idea Ever
Genre: Contemporary Fiction - Humour
Format: Hardback
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Joni never thought she would try online dating but somehow - with the encouragement of her grown up daughter, Danielle - she's signed onto an app. After a few weeks of chatting to Ant, they really hit it off and agree to meet up. However Joni has been so nervous about the whole prospect of dating again that she's been using fake photos on the site.
She turns up to their date and sees Ant, but can't bring herself to come clean.
The problem now is that she can't stop thinking about him. They'd been getting on so well. And so she works out a way to 'meet' him without revealing herself as the person he's been talking to online.
But a few months in, she discovers not only is he still on the dating site but he's really active on it, too. She's hurt, and looks at his phone while he's in the shower one morning only to find intimate texts between him and two other women, Saff and Mary. At the same time, she is beginning to realise that the only thing Ant seems to have been honest about is his profile picture.
After a couple of drinks one night, Joni decides to call the two women. Their experiences sound identical to hers. And they're angry.
But how can they get their revenge? What can hurt a person who doesn't appear to be emotionally involved with any of them? What is it he's really looking for, and how can they catch him out?
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The Book;
Joni never thought she would try online dating but somehow - with the encouragement of her grown up daughter, Danielle - she's signed onto an app. After a few weeks of chatting to Ant, they really hit it off and agree to meet up. However Joni has been so nervous about the whole prospect of dating again that she's been using fake photos on the site.
She turns up to their date and sees Ant, but can't bring herself to come clean.
The problem now is that she can't stop thinking about him. They'd been getting on so well. And so she works out a way to 'meet' him without revealing herself as the person he's been talking to online.
But a few months in, she discovers not only is he still on the dating site but he's really active on it, too. She's hurt, and looks at his phone while he's in the shower one morning only to find intimate texts between him and two other women, Saff and Mary. At the same time, she is beginning to realise that the only thing Ant seems to have been honest about is his profile picture.
After a couple of drinks one night, Joni decides to call the two women. Their experiences sound identical to hers. And they're angry.
But how can they get their revenge? What can hurt a person who doesn't appear to be emotionally involved with any of them? What is it he's really looking for, and how can they catch him out?
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Lee McKenzie
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Title: Inside F1
Genre: Sport - Formula 1
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
On the frontline of one of the most watched sports on the planet and gaining the respect of F1 world champions with her tough but fair interview approach, Lee has shared experiences, hire cars, parties and friendships with a host of drivers from Michael Schumacher to Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel to Jenson Button.
Inside F1 tells the stories of the careers of seven stars of the sport using her personal contact and interviews throughout the years. Lee's unique perspective takes us through the highs and lows, the controversies and crashes that led to some of the biggest and most memorable interviews in recent years. Lee's close relationship with the drivers makes Inside F1 an enthralling behind-the- scenes account of one of the biggest sports in the world.
The Author:
From an early age, Lee McKenzie had access to a motorsport world that most are rarely allowed into. From spending time in the paddock as a teen to becoming a highly respected Formula One journalist and presenter, Lee has been at the heart of motorsport for almost twenty years.
Lee is a highly respected broadcast journalist and presenter who has covered some of the biggest news and sports events of recent times. She is best known for her work in Formula One, presenting and interviewing the drivers for Channel 4 and previously for the BBC. Lee has covered almost every series of motorsport around the world from sports cars to single-seaters.
Lee also presents international rugby and is part of ITV's 2023 Rugby World team.
She hosted the European Champions Cup for Channel 4 as well as the Paralympics.
For the BBC she presents on both the men's and women's Six Nations, the Olympics, Wimbledon and her own personal passion, equestrianism.
Lee has competed as a co-driver in rallying up to world championship level, became the first female to be the lead presenter on an F1 show in the UK and was the first female recipient of the prestigious Jim Clark Award.
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Genre: Sport - Formula 1
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On the frontline of one of the most watched sports on the planet and gaining the respect of F1 world champions with her tough but fair interview approach, Lee has shared experiences, hire cars, parties and friendships with a host of drivers from Michael Schumacher to Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel to Jenson Button.
Inside F1 tells the stories of the careers of seven stars of the sport using her personal contact and interviews throughout the years. Lee's unique perspective takes us through the highs and lows, the controversies and crashes that led to some of the biggest and most memorable interviews in recent years. Lee's close relationship with the drivers makes Inside F1 an enthralling behind-the- scenes account of one of the biggest sports in the world.
The Author:
From an early age, Lee McKenzie had access to a motorsport world that most are rarely allowed into. From spending time in the paddock as a teen to becoming a highly respected Formula One journalist and presenter, Lee has been at the heart of motorsport for almost twenty years.
Lee is a highly respected broadcast journalist and presenter who has covered some of the biggest news and sports events of recent times. She is best known for her work in Formula One, presenting and interviewing the drivers for Channel 4 and previously for the BBC. Lee has covered almost every series of motorsport around the world from sports cars to single-seaters.
Lee also presents international rugby and is part of ITV's 2023 Rugby World team.
She hosted the European Champions Cup for Channel 4 as well as the Paralympics.
For the BBC she presents on both the men's and women's Six Nations, the Olympics, Wimbledon and her own personal passion, equestrianism.
Lee has competed as a co-driver in rallying up to world championship level, became the first female to be the lead presenter on an F1 show in the UK and was the first female recipient of the prestigious Jim Clark Award.
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Callum McSorley
Callum McSorley
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Title: Squeaky Clean
Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Half the Glasgow copshop think DI Alison McCoist is bent. The other half just think she's a fuck-up.
No one thinks very much at all about carwash employee Davey Burnet, until one day he takes the wrong customer's motor for a ride.
One kidnapping later, he and the carwash are officially part of Glasgow's criminal underworld, working for a psychopath who enjoys playing games like 'Keep Yer Kneecaps' with any poor bastard who crosses him.
Can Davey escape from the gang's clutches with his kneecaps and life intact? Perhaps this polis Ally McCoist who keeps nosing around the carwash could help. If she doesn't get herself killed first.
The Author:
Callum McSorley is an author based in Glasgow. His short stories have appeared in Gutter, Shoreline of Infinity, and New Writing Scotland. His debut novel SQUEAKY CLEAN was published in March 2023 by Pushkin Vertigo and won The McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2023.
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The Book;
Half the Glasgow copshop think DI Alison McCoist is bent. The other half just think she's a fuck-up.
No one thinks very much at all about carwash employee Davey Burnet, until one day he takes the wrong customer's motor for a ride.
One kidnapping later, he and the carwash are officially part of Glasgow's criminal underworld, working for a psychopath who enjoys playing games like 'Keep Yer Kneecaps' with any poor bastard who crosses him.
Can Davey escape from the gang's clutches with his kneecaps and life intact? Perhaps this polis Ally McCoist who keeps nosing around the carwash could help. If she doesn't get herself killed first.
The Author:
Callum McSorley is an author based in Glasgow. His short stories have appeared in Gutter, Shoreline of Infinity, and New Writing Scotland. His debut novel SQUEAKY CLEAN was published in March 2023 by Pushkin Vertigo and won The McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2023.
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Katja Hoyer
Katja Hoyer
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Title: Beyond the Wall
Genre: History
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'Utterly brilliant . . . Authoritative, lively and profoundly human, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand post-World War II Europe' Julia Boyd
'One of the best young historians writing in English today. . . Well-researched, well-written and profoundly insightful, Beyond the Wall explodes many of the lazy Western cliches about East Germany' Andrew Roberts
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR presented a radically different German identity to anything that had come before, and anything that exists today. Socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was a Germany forged on the fault lines of ideology and geopolitics.
In Beyond the Wall, acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer offers a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country. Beginning with the bitter experience of German Marxists exiled by Hitler, she traces the arc of the state they would go on to create, first under the watchful eye of Stalin, and then in an increasingly distinctive German fashion. From the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, to the relative prosperity of the 1970s, and on to the creaking foundations of socialism in the mid-1980s, Hoyer argues that amid oppression and frequent hardship, East Germany was yet home to a rich political, social and cultural landscape, a place far more dynamic than the Cold War caricature often painted in the West.
Powerfully told, and drawing on a vast array of never-before-seen interviews, letters and records, this is the definitive history of the other Germany, the one beyond the Wall.
The Author:
Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian and journalist. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Katja is a Global Opinions columnist for the Washington Post and also writes for The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph, Die Welt and other newspapers on current political affairs in Germany and Europe. Her historical essays have featured in History Today and BBC History Extra. She hosts the podcast The New Germany together with The Times' Berlin correspondent Oliver Moody. Her debut book 'Blood and Iron' has been well-received by critics and academics alike. She was born in (East) Germany and read history at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena. Katja is now based in Sussex, UK.
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Genre: History
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The Book;
'Utterly brilliant . . . Authoritative, lively and profoundly human, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand post-World War II Europe' Julia Boyd
'One of the best young historians writing in English today. . . Well-researched, well-written and profoundly insightful, Beyond the Wall explodes many of the lazy Western cliches about East Germany' Andrew Roberts
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR presented a radically different German identity to anything that had come before, and anything that exists today. Socialist solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was a Germany forged on the fault lines of ideology and geopolitics.
In Beyond the Wall, acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer offers a kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country. Beginning with the bitter experience of German Marxists exiled by Hitler, she traces the arc of the state they would go on to create, first under the watchful eye of Stalin, and then in an increasingly distinctive German fashion. From the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, to the relative prosperity of the 1970s, and on to the creaking foundations of socialism in the mid-1980s, Hoyer argues that amid oppression and frequent hardship, East Germany was yet home to a rich political, social and cultural landscape, a place far more dynamic than the Cold War caricature often painted in the West.
Powerfully told, and drawing on a vast array of never-before-seen interviews, letters and records, this is the definitive history of the other Germany, the one beyond the Wall.
The Author:
Katja Hoyer is a German-British historian and journalist. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Katja is a Global Opinions columnist for the Washington Post and also writes for The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph, Die Welt and other newspapers on current political affairs in Germany and Europe. Her historical essays have featured in History Today and BBC History Extra. She hosts the podcast The New Germany together with The Times' Berlin correspondent Oliver Moody. Her debut book 'Blood and Iron' has been well-received by critics and academics alike. She was born in (East) Germany and read history at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena. Katja is now based in Sussex, UK.
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Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin
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Title: A Heart Full of Headstones
Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Paperback
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Book Blurb:
John Rebus stands accused: the once legendary detective is on trial, facing the rest of his life behind bars.
How does a hero turn villain?
Or have times changed, and the rules with them?
Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke tackles Edinburgh's most explosive case in years, as a corrupt cop harbouring huge secrets goes missing.
But is her loyalty to the police or the public? And who can she trust when nobody is truly innocent - including her former mentor Rebus - and a killer walks among them?
As the time comes to choose sides, it becomes clear: after a lifetime of lies, the truth will break your heart...
Author Bio:
Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature.
After university and before his success with his Rebus novels, Ian had a number of jobs including working as a grape-picker, a swineherd, a journalist for a hi-fi magazine, and a taxman. Following his marriage in 1986, he lived briefly in London where he worked at the National Folktale Centre, followed by a short time living in France, before returning to Edinburgh.
Ian’s first novel Summer Rites remains in his bottom drawer, but his second novel, The Flood, was published in 1986, while his first Rebus novel, Knots & Crosses, was published in 1987. The Rebus series is now translated into twenty-two languages and the books are bestsellers on several continents. In addition to his Rebus and Malcolm Fox novels, he has also written standalone novels including Doors Open, which was televised in 2012, short stories, a graphic novel – Dark Entries – and a play (with Mark Thomson, the Royal Lyceum Theatre’s Artistic Director) Dark Road, which premiered at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in September 2013. A second play, Long Shadows, starring John Rebus, was co-written with Rona Munro and staged in 2018. There are also a number of novels under the pseudonym ‘Jack Harvey’ and in 2005 he collaborated with singer Jackie Leven on a CD. His non-fiction book Rebus’s Scotland was published in 2005.
Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He is the recipient of four Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Awards including the prestigious Diamond Dagger in 2005. In 2004, Ian won America’s celebrated Edgar Award for Resurrection Men. He has also been shortlisted for the Edgar and Anthony Awards in the USA, and won Denmark’s Palle Rosenkrantz prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and Germany’s Deutscher Krimipreis.
Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Hull, Abertay, St Andrews and Edinburgh as well as The Open University. In 2019, he donated his archive of over 50 boxes of manuscripts, letters and paperwork to the National Library of Scotland.
A regular contributor to BBC2’s Newsnight Review, he also presented his own TV series, Ian Rankin’s Evil Thoughts on Channel 4 in 2002 and Rankin on the Staircase for BBC Four in 2005. In 2007, Rankin appeared in Ian Rankin’s Hidden Edinburgh and Ian Rankin Investigates Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde also for BBC Four. Ian has been the subject of ITV’s South Bank Show and BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs where his choice of music included Joy Division, The Rolling Stones and Van Morrison.
Ian has received an OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his wife and two sons.
Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Paperback
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Website: https://www.ianrankin.net
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Book Blurb:
John Rebus stands accused: the once legendary detective is on trial, facing the rest of his life behind bars.
How does a hero turn villain?
Or have times changed, and the rules with them?
Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke tackles Edinburgh's most explosive case in years, as a corrupt cop harbouring huge secrets goes missing.
But is her loyalty to the police or the public? And who can she trust when nobody is truly innocent - including her former mentor Rebus - and a killer walks among them?
As the time comes to choose sides, it becomes clear: after a lifetime of lies, the truth will break your heart...
Author Bio:
Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature.
After university and before his success with his Rebus novels, Ian had a number of jobs including working as a grape-picker, a swineherd, a journalist for a hi-fi magazine, and a taxman. Following his marriage in 1986, he lived briefly in London where he worked at the National Folktale Centre, followed by a short time living in France, before returning to Edinburgh.
Ian’s first novel Summer Rites remains in his bottom drawer, but his second novel, The Flood, was published in 1986, while his first Rebus novel, Knots & Crosses, was published in 1987. The Rebus series is now translated into twenty-two languages and the books are bestsellers on several continents. In addition to his Rebus and Malcolm Fox novels, he has also written standalone novels including Doors Open, which was televised in 2012, short stories, a graphic novel – Dark Entries – and a play (with Mark Thomson, the Royal Lyceum Theatre’s Artistic Director) Dark Road, which premiered at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in September 2013. A second play, Long Shadows, starring John Rebus, was co-written with Rona Munro and staged in 2018. There are also a number of novels under the pseudonym ‘Jack Harvey’ and in 2005 he collaborated with singer Jackie Leven on a CD. His non-fiction book Rebus’s Scotland was published in 2005.
Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He is the recipient of four Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Awards including the prestigious Diamond Dagger in 2005. In 2004, Ian won America’s celebrated Edgar Award for Resurrection Men. He has also been shortlisted for the Edgar and Anthony Awards in the USA, and won Denmark’s Palle Rosenkrantz prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and Germany’s Deutscher Krimipreis.
Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Hull, Abertay, St Andrews and Edinburgh as well as The Open University. In 2019, he donated his archive of over 50 boxes of manuscripts, letters and paperwork to the National Library of Scotland.
A regular contributor to BBC2’s Newsnight Review, he also presented his own TV series, Ian Rankin’s Evil Thoughts on Channel 4 in 2002 and Rankin on the Staircase for BBC Four in 2005. In 2007, Rankin appeared in Ian Rankin’s Hidden Edinburgh and Ian Rankin Investigates Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde also for BBC Four. Ian has been the subject of ITV’s South Bank Show and BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs where his choice of music included Joy Division, The Rolling Stones and Van Morrison.
Ian has received an OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his wife and two sons.
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Adam Kay
Adam Kay
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* Two Book Special*
Title 1: Undoctored
Title 2: NHS
Genre: Adult - Non-Fiction
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The Book 1: Undoctored
This Is Going to Hurt was the publishing phenomenon of the century, read by many millions, loved by at least fifty of them, and adapted into a major TV series. But it was only part of the story.
By turns hilarious, heartbreaking and humbling, Undoctored is about what happens when a doctor hangs up his scrubs, but medicine refuses to let go of him.
It's about an extraordinary medical school education.
It's about opening old wounds and examining the present-day scars.
It's about hospital admissions and personal ones.
It's about blowing up your life and stitching it back together.
It's about being a doctor and being a patient.
It's about 300 pages long.
Undoctored is Adam Kay's funniest and most moving book yet—an astonishing portrait of a life in and out of medicine, from one of Britain's finest storytellers.
The Book 2: NHS
The number one Sunday Times bestseller.
Features 75 stories narrated by their authors.
Curated and edited by Adam Kay (author of multi-million best seller This Is Going to Hurt), Dear NHS features household names telling their personal stories of the health service. Contributors include Paul McCartney, Emilia Clarke, Stephen Fry, Sir Trevor McDonald, Sir Michael Palin, Naomie Harris, Dame Emma Thompson, Joanna Lumley, Miranda Hart, Ed Sheeran, David Tennant, Dame Julie Walters, Emma Watson and many, many more.
The NHS is our single greatest achievement as a country. No matter who you are, no matter what your health needs are, and no matter how much money you have, the NHS is there for you. In Dear NHS, an amazing list of inspirational people come together to share their stories of how the national health service has been there for them and changed their lives in the process. By turns deeply moving, hilarious, hopeful and impassioned, these stories together become a love letter to the NHS and the 1.4 million people who go above and beyond the call of duty every single day - selflessly, generously, putting others before themselves, never more so than now.
They are all heroes, and this book is our way of saying thank you.
The Author:
Adam Kay is a BAFTA-winning author, TV writer, comedian and former junior doctor. His first book, This is Going to Hurt, spent over a year at number one in the Sunday Times bestseller list, was translated into 37 languages, won ten national awards, and sold over three million copies. His subsequent adult nonfiction books, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas and Undoctored were also Sunday Times number one bestsellers. He edited Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You, raising over £400,000 for charity. He is also one of the country's bestselling children's authors, with books including Kay's Anatomy (the fastest selling kids' non-fiction book of the decade), Kay's Marvellous Medicine, Kay's Brilliant Brains, Kay's Incredible Inventions and picture book Amy Gets Eaten. His books have sold over five million copies in total.
As a live performer, Adam has sold-out numerous West End seasons and UK tours. His tour of This is Going to Hurt was attended by over 300,000 people and Undoctored was the bestselling show of the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe.
Adam's awards for TV writing include BAFTA and Writers Guild awards for adapting This is Going to Hurt for the BBC and AMC. He is a columnist for the Sunday Times, and a proud patron of The Lullaby Trust, The Laura Hyde Foundation and Doctors in Distress, where he founded the National Memorial Tree Planting Campaign for healthcare workers who have lost their lives by suicide.
Website: https://www.adamkay.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amateuradam
Title 1: Undoctored
Title 2: NHS
Genre: Adult - Non-Fiction
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The Book 1: Undoctored
This Is Going to Hurt was the publishing phenomenon of the century, read by many millions, loved by at least fifty of them, and adapted into a major TV series. But it was only part of the story.
By turns hilarious, heartbreaking and humbling, Undoctored is about what happens when a doctor hangs up his scrubs, but medicine refuses to let go of him.
It's about an extraordinary medical school education.
It's about opening old wounds and examining the present-day scars.
It's about hospital admissions and personal ones.
It's about blowing up your life and stitching it back together.
It's about being a doctor and being a patient.
It's about 300 pages long.
Undoctored is Adam Kay's funniest and most moving book yet—an astonishing portrait of a life in and out of medicine, from one of Britain's finest storytellers.
The Book 2: NHS
The number one Sunday Times bestseller.
Features 75 stories narrated by their authors.
Curated and edited by Adam Kay (author of multi-million best seller This Is Going to Hurt), Dear NHS features household names telling their personal stories of the health service. Contributors include Paul McCartney, Emilia Clarke, Stephen Fry, Sir Trevor McDonald, Sir Michael Palin, Naomie Harris, Dame Emma Thompson, Joanna Lumley, Miranda Hart, Ed Sheeran, David Tennant, Dame Julie Walters, Emma Watson and many, many more.
The NHS is our single greatest achievement as a country. No matter who you are, no matter what your health needs are, and no matter how much money you have, the NHS is there for you. In Dear NHS, an amazing list of inspirational people come together to share their stories of how the national health service has been there for them and changed their lives in the process. By turns deeply moving, hilarious, hopeful and impassioned, these stories together become a love letter to the NHS and the 1.4 million people who go above and beyond the call of duty every single day - selflessly, generously, putting others before themselves, never more so than now.
They are all heroes, and this book is our way of saying thank you.
The Author:
Adam Kay is a BAFTA-winning author, TV writer, comedian and former junior doctor. His first book, This is Going to Hurt, spent over a year at number one in the Sunday Times bestseller list, was translated into 37 languages, won ten national awards, and sold over three million copies. His subsequent adult nonfiction books, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas and Undoctored were also Sunday Times number one bestsellers. He edited Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You, raising over £400,000 for charity. He is also one of the country's bestselling children's authors, with books including Kay's Anatomy (the fastest selling kids' non-fiction book of the decade), Kay's Marvellous Medicine, Kay's Brilliant Brains, Kay's Incredible Inventions and picture book Amy Gets Eaten. His books have sold over five million copies in total.
As a live performer, Adam has sold-out numerous West End seasons and UK tours. His tour of This is Going to Hurt was attended by over 300,000 people and Undoctored was the bestselling show of the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe.
Adam's awards for TV writing include BAFTA and Writers Guild awards for adapting This is Going to Hurt for the BBC and AMC. He is a columnist for the Sunday Times, and a proud patron of The Lullaby Trust, The Laura Hyde Foundation and Doctors in Distress, where he founded the National Memorial Tree Planting Campaign for healthcare workers who have lost their lives by suicide.
Website: https://www.adamkay.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amateuradam
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Two Book Special;
Title 1: Kay’s Incredible Inventions
Title 2: Dexter Procter: The 10 Year Old Doctor
Genre: Children - Comedy - Biological Sciences Teaching Aids
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The Book 1: Kay’s Incredible Inventions
Do you ever wonder where the stuff around you all came from? No, not from eBay. I mean, who had the amazing idea of making a mobile phone or the annoying idea of building a school? For example, did you know that Velcro was invented by a dog and WiFi by a movie star? (Spoiler alert - it wasn’t Zendaya.)
In the fourth laugh-out-loud book from Adam Kay and Henry Paker, you’ll learn all about the coolest, grossest and most ridiculous inventions in the world. You’ll meet the queen who used the first ever toilet, learn why margarine used to be full of maggots and find out why Ancient Greeks wiped their bums on dinner plates. Oh, and hopefully some slightly more useful facts as well…
An A to Kay to Z of the random, ridiculous and revolutionary inventions that changed our lives. (And some that definitely didn't . . .)
The book 2: Dexter Procter: The 10 Year Old Doctor
It was clear from an early age that Dexter Procter was different.
He started speaking at four seconds old. By the age of three, he had 87 A-levels, from Afrikaans to Zoology.
And by ten, he was working as a paediatrician at Lilydale General Hospital.
Despite a loving but annoying family and a couple of good friends (Rupi and Otto), Dexter's always struggled to fit in. Add to this a mortal enemy (Dr Drake) and a major problem at his old school (all the teachers struck down with awful diarrhoea) - will Dexter be able to save his job, save the school and find his place in the world? (Spoiler alert: yes!)
A laugh-out-loud new fiction series about the world's youngest doctor from the record-breaking Adam Kay and Henry Paker.
The Author:
Adam Kay is a BAFTA-winning author, TV writer, comedian and former junior doctor. His first book, This is Going to Hurt, spent over a year at number one in the Sunday Times bestseller list, was translated into 37 languages, won ten national awards, and sold over three million copies. His subsequent adult nonfiction books, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas and Undoctored were also Sunday Times number one bestsellers. He edited Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You, raising over £400,000 for charity. He is also one of the country's bestselling children's authors, with books including Kay's Anatomy (the fastest selling kids' non-fiction book of the decade), Kay's Marvellous Medicine, Kay's Brilliant Brains, Kay's Incredible Inventions and picture book Amy Gets Eaten. His books have sold over five million copies in total.
As a live performer, Adam has sold-out numerous West End seasons and UK tours. His tour of This is Going to Hurt was attended by over 300,000 people and Undoctored was the bestselling show of the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe.
Adam's awards for TV writing include BAFTA and Writers Guild awards for adapting This is Going to Hurt for the BBC and AMC. He is a columnist for the Sunday Times, and a proud patron of The Lullaby Trust, The Laura Hyde Foundation and Doctors in Distress, where he founded the National Memorial Tree Planting Campaign for healthcare workers who have lost their lives by suicide.
Website: https://www.adamkay.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amateuradam
Title 1: Kay’s Incredible Inventions
Title 2: Dexter Procter: The 10 Year Old Doctor
Genre: Children - Comedy - Biological Sciences Teaching Aids
Format: Hardbacks
Dedications Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK ONLY
The Book 1: Kay’s Incredible Inventions
Do you ever wonder where the stuff around you all came from? No, not from eBay. I mean, who had the amazing idea of making a mobile phone or the annoying idea of building a school? For example, did you know that Velcro was invented by a dog and WiFi by a movie star? (Spoiler alert - it wasn’t Zendaya.)
In the fourth laugh-out-loud book from Adam Kay and Henry Paker, you’ll learn all about the coolest, grossest and most ridiculous inventions in the world. You’ll meet the queen who used the first ever toilet, learn why margarine used to be full of maggots and find out why Ancient Greeks wiped their bums on dinner plates. Oh, and hopefully some slightly more useful facts as well…
An A to Kay to Z of the random, ridiculous and revolutionary inventions that changed our lives. (And some that definitely didn't . . .)
The book 2: Dexter Procter: The 10 Year Old Doctor
It was clear from an early age that Dexter Procter was different.
He started speaking at four seconds old. By the age of three, he had 87 A-levels, from Afrikaans to Zoology.
And by ten, he was working as a paediatrician at Lilydale General Hospital.
Despite a loving but annoying family and a couple of good friends (Rupi and Otto), Dexter's always struggled to fit in. Add to this a mortal enemy (Dr Drake) and a major problem at his old school (all the teachers struck down with awful diarrhoea) - will Dexter be able to save his job, save the school and find his place in the world? (Spoiler alert: yes!)
A laugh-out-loud new fiction series about the world's youngest doctor from the record-breaking Adam Kay and Henry Paker.
The Author:
Adam Kay is a BAFTA-winning author, TV writer, comedian and former junior doctor. His first book, This is Going to Hurt, spent over a year at number one in the Sunday Times bestseller list, was translated into 37 languages, won ten national awards, and sold over three million copies. His subsequent adult nonfiction books, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas and Undoctored were also Sunday Times number one bestsellers. He edited Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You, raising over £400,000 for charity. He is also one of the country's bestselling children's authors, with books including Kay's Anatomy (the fastest selling kids' non-fiction book of the decade), Kay's Marvellous Medicine, Kay's Brilliant Brains, Kay's Incredible Inventions and picture book Amy Gets Eaten. His books have sold over five million copies in total.
As a live performer, Adam has sold-out numerous West End seasons and UK tours. His tour of This is Going to Hurt was attended by over 300,000 people and Undoctored was the bestselling show of the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe.
Adam's awards for TV writing include BAFTA and Writers Guild awards for adapting This is Going to Hurt for the BBC and AMC. He is a columnist for the Sunday Times, and a proud patron of The Lullaby Trust, The Laura Hyde Foundation and Doctors in Distress, where he founded the National Memorial Tree Planting Campaign for healthcare workers who have lost their lives by suicide.
Website: https://www.adamkay.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amateuradam
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Kate Wiseman
Kate Wiseman
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Book Title: The Red Tunic
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: First edition paperback
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The Book;
History and gender are intertwined in this fast-paced arresting account of the First World War and its devastating impact on familial and romantic bonds.
As headstrong as her twin is gentle, Nina has never fit the womanly mould society expects of her. Alfie and Nina Mullins have always relied on their shared world of hope and make-believe for comfort, but as the pressure on Alfie to prove himself at the Front mounts, Nina is presented with more possibility than she had ever imagined and the two are pushed in wildly different directions.
Coming of age as the First World War breaks out, the Mullins twins’ fates are inextricably interlinked with the turmoil of conflict in this fascinating exploration of gender roles and the extremes to which war pushes us.
The Author:
Kate was a late developer, attending university to study English and Creative Writing in her late 30s. She was one of the real life 'Ritas' featured on the Radio 4 Woman's Hour Programme commemorating the anniversary of the play, Educating Rita. Kate is a dedicated and licenced mudlark who is never happier than when she is up to her eyes in mud. She has won several literary awards and this year judged the historical fiction and biography category of the prestigious Eyelands International Book Awards.
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The Book;
History and gender are intertwined in this fast-paced arresting account of the First World War and its devastating impact on familial and romantic bonds.
As headstrong as her twin is gentle, Nina has never fit the womanly mould society expects of her. Alfie and Nina Mullins have always relied on their shared world of hope and make-believe for comfort, but as the pressure on Alfie to prove himself at the Front mounts, Nina is presented with more possibility than she had ever imagined and the two are pushed in wildly different directions.
Coming of age as the First World War breaks out, the Mullins twins’ fates are inextricably interlinked with the turmoil of conflict in this fascinating exploration of gender roles and the extremes to which war pushes us.
The Author:
Kate was a late developer, attending university to study English and Creative Writing in her late 30s. She was one of the real life 'Ritas' featured on the Radio 4 Woman's Hour Programme commemorating the anniversary of the play, Educating Rita. Kate is a dedicated and licenced mudlark who is never happier than when she is up to her eyes in mud. She has won several literary awards and this year judged the historical fiction and biography category of the prestigious Eyelands International Book Awards.
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Liz Harris
Liz Harris
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Book Title: The Loose Thread
Genre: Historical Fiction
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The Book:
The Loose Thread is the first in the sweeping epic series Three Sisters, in which each book tells the story of one of the three Hammond girls.
The Loose Thread is Rose’s story.
Early in 1938, with the threat of WW2 little more than a shadow on the horizon, Rose Hammond marries Tom Benest, whom she hardly knows, and leaves London to go to live with Tom on his family’s farm in Jersey. There, she’s welcomed by his parents as she attempts to adjust to her new life, but meets with open hostility from Tom’s sister, Kathleen.
Less than two years later, the lives of the family are turned upside down when Jersey is cut loose from British protection. The Germans move in and seize control of the island, forcing the islanders into a perilous situation that will test their endurance and resourcefulness.
As the German Occupation tightens its grip on life on the island, Tom and Rose are torn apart in a situation of unimaginable heartbreak, which calls for the greatest of courage, and a powerful determination to survive.
A gripping, heart-breaking story of life in occupied Jersey during WWII from the author of Darjeeling Inheritance and The Road Back.
The Author:
Born in London, Liz Harris graduated from university with a Law degree, and then moved to California, where she led a varied life, from waitressing on Sunset Strip to working as secretary to the CEO of a large Japanese trading company.
Six years later, she returned to London and completed a degree in English, after which she taught secondary school pupils, first in Berkshire, then Cheshire, and then in Oxfordshire.
In addition to her nineteen published novels, she’s had several short stories in anthologies and magazines. Liz now lives in Windsor, Berkshire. An active member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and the Historical Novel Society, her interests are travel, the theatre, reading and cryptic crosswords.
To find out more about Liz, visit her website at: http://www.lizharrisauthor.com. You can sign up to her monthly newsletter from her website, and as a thank-you gift, you’ll receive a free book, Word Perfect, a romance set in California.
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Genre: Historical Fiction
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The Book:
The Loose Thread is the first in the sweeping epic series Three Sisters, in which each book tells the story of one of the three Hammond girls.
The Loose Thread is Rose’s story.
Early in 1938, with the threat of WW2 little more than a shadow on the horizon, Rose Hammond marries Tom Benest, whom she hardly knows, and leaves London to go to live with Tom on his family’s farm in Jersey. There, she’s welcomed by his parents as she attempts to adjust to her new life, but meets with open hostility from Tom’s sister, Kathleen.
Less than two years later, the lives of the family are turned upside down when Jersey is cut loose from British protection. The Germans move in and seize control of the island, forcing the islanders into a perilous situation that will test their endurance and resourcefulness.
As the German Occupation tightens its grip on life on the island, Tom and Rose are torn apart in a situation of unimaginable heartbreak, which calls for the greatest of courage, and a powerful determination to survive.
A gripping, heart-breaking story of life in occupied Jersey during WWII from the author of Darjeeling Inheritance and The Road Back.
The Author:
Born in London, Liz Harris graduated from university with a Law degree, and then moved to California, where she led a varied life, from waitressing on Sunset Strip to working as secretary to the CEO of a large Japanese trading company.
Six years later, she returned to London and completed a degree in English, after which she taught secondary school pupils, first in Berkshire, then Cheshire, and then in Oxfordshire.
In addition to her nineteen published novels, she’s had several short stories in anthologies and magazines. Liz now lives in Windsor, Berkshire. An active member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and the Historical Novel Society, her interests are travel, the theatre, reading and cryptic crosswords.
To find out more about Liz, visit her website at: http://www.lizharrisauthor.com. You can sign up to her monthly newsletter from her website, and as a thank-you gift, you’ll receive a free book, Word Perfect, a romance set in California.
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Pauline Tait
Pauline Tait
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Title: Faces Promise
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Format: Paperback -1st edition
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The Book:
Struggling to come to terms with losing her mother, Anna embarks on a journey to uncover the truth about her family and her mother’s hidden past.
And while a letter, a photograph and the Old Lodge lead her back to the Isle of Skye, Anna is shocked to discover the island she had holidayed on so often as a child has been quietly keeping the secrets her mother had left unsaid.
Hamish, handsome, quiet, and moody, seems unnerved by Anna’s presence. Ben, a city slicker, out of place and determined to help Anna in her quest, proves invaluable, but is his presence on the island merely coincidental?
Meanwhile, a newly discovered family member may not be a cause for celebration.
A riveting and unmissable novel about new beginnings and the power of love over loss.
The Author:
Pauline Tait is an award-winning and bestselling children’s author, romantic suspense novelist, and the voice behind Reluctant Readers, a weekly newsletter for parents and carers of children who are reluctant to read.
Based in Perthshire, Scotland, Pauline is currently midway through writing her latest bestselling romantic suspense series set on the Scottish Isle of Skye.
She is also a professional writing and publishing mentor for children’s authors. Her signature six-week programme, How to Write a Children’s Picture Book from Concept to Publication, has been praised for guiding aspiring authors smoothly toward publication, with her clients going on to win awards.
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Genre: Romantic Suspense
Format: Paperback -1st edition
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Struggling to come to terms with losing her mother, Anna embarks on a journey to uncover the truth about her family and her mother’s hidden past.
And while a letter, a photograph and the Old Lodge lead her back to the Isle of Skye, Anna is shocked to discover the island she had holidayed on so often as a child has been quietly keeping the secrets her mother had left unsaid.
Hamish, handsome, quiet, and moody, seems unnerved by Anna’s presence. Ben, a city slicker, out of place and determined to help Anna in her quest, proves invaluable, but is his presence on the island merely coincidental?
Meanwhile, a newly discovered family member may not be a cause for celebration.
A riveting and unmissable novel about new beginnings and the power of love over loss.
The Author:
Pauline Tait is an award-winning and bestselling children’s author, romantic suspense novelist, and the voice behind Reluctant Readers, a weekly newsletter for parents and carers of children who are reluctant to read.
Based in Perthshire, Scotland, Pauline is currently midway through writing her latest bestselling romantic suspense series set on the Scottish Isle of Skye.
She is also a professional writing and publishing mentor for children’s authors. Her signature six-week programme, How to Write a Children’s Picture Book from Concept to Publication, has been praised for guiding aspiring authors smoothly toward publication, with her clients going on to win awards.
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Michael Ball
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Title: Different Aspects
Genre: Autobiography
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UNLOCK THE MAGIC OF THEATRE THIS CHRISTMAS - GO BEHIND THE CURTAIN WITH WEST END LEGEND, MICHAEL BALL IN HIS FIRST MEMOIR
In 1989, a young Michael Ball landed the lead role in the musical Aspects of Love. It was a moment that changed his life forever. It was the first time he worked with legends of the stage like Andrew Lloyd Webber and Trevor Nunn; the show featured his smash hit song,Love Changes Everything, which rode high in the charts for 15 weeks; it was then, also, that he first met his long-term partner Cathy McGowan and battled back against the stage fright that had threatened his career. Over three decades later, Michael returned to a new production of the same show where he made his name, and with a lifetime's worth of stories to tell.
InDifferent Aspects, Michael takes us backstage inside the making of a West End hit, while also diving back into his memories to share untold anecdotes and explore a glittering career that has made him a household name - from his first stage experiences in Les Misérables and Phantom of the Opera, to delighting and shocking his audiences in equal measure in Hairspray and Sweeney Todd, as well as his chart-topping musical success (and some howlers too!). Exploring Michael's life, career and relationships alongside the pitfalls and pratfalls of modern theatre, Different Aspects is the story of a life lived on the stage. There will be laughter, tears and an abundance of heart. There's even some Roger Moore, though, famously, not quite enough.
Take your seats ladies and gentlemen, the lights are dimming, the performance is about to start.
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UNLOCK THE MAGIC OF THEATRE THIS CHRISTMAS - GO BEHIND THE CURTAIN WITH WEST END LEGEND, MICHAEL BALL IN HIS FIRST MEMOIR
In 1989, a young Michael Ball landed the lead role in the musical Aspects of Love. It was a moment that changed his life forever. It was the first time he worked with legends of the stage like Andrew Lloyd Webber and Trevor Nunn; the show featured his smash hit song,Love Changes Everything, which rode high in the charts for 15 weeks; it was then, also, that he first met his long-term partner Cathy McGowan and battled back against the stage fright that had threatened his career. Over three decades later, Michael returned to a new production of the same show where he made his name, and with a lifetime's worth of stories to tell.
InDifferent Aspects, Michael takes us backstage inside the making of a West End hit, while also diving back into his memories to share untold anecdotes and explore a glittering career that has made him a household name - from his first stage experiences in Les Misérables and Phantom of the Opera, to delighting and shocking his audiences in equal measure in Hairspray and Sweeney Todd, as well as his chart-topping musical success (and some howlers too!). Exploring Michael's life, career and relationships alongside the pitfalls and pratfalls of modern theatre, Different Aspects is the story of a life lived on the stage. There will be laughter, tears and an abundance of heart. There's even some Roger Moore, though, famously, not quite enough.
Take your seats ladies and gentlemen, the lights are dimming, the performance is about to start.
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Matthew Harffy
Matthew Harffy
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Title: Dark Frontier
Genre: Historical Fiction - Westren
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A thrilling historical western set in 1890s Oregon, from the author of the critically acclaimed Bernicia Chronicles. An English soldier turned policeman escapes to the American West for a new future, but life on the frontier proves far harder than he ever imagined...
A man can flee from everything but his own nature.
1890. Lieutenant Gabriel Stokes of the British Army left behind the horrors of war in Afghanistan for a role in the Metropolitan Police. Though he rose quickly through the ranks, the squalid violence of London's East End proved just as dark and oppressive as the battlefield.
With his life falling apart, and longing for peace and meaning, Gabriel leaves the grime of London behind and heads for the wilderness and wide open spaces of the American West.
He soon realises that the wilds of Oregon are far from the idyll he has yearned for. The Blue Mountains may be beautiful, but with the frontier a complex patchwork of feuds and felonies, and ranchers as vicious as any back alley cut-throat in London, Gabriel finds himself unable to escape his past and the demons that drive him. Can he find a place for himself on the far edge of the New World?
The Author:
Matthew Harffy is the author of critically acclaimed, action-packed, historically accurate novels. He has published nine novels in the Bernicia Chronicles series, set in seventh century Britain.
The Times called Matthew’s standalone novel, Wolf of Wessex, “a treat of a book”. His newest series, A Time for Swords, is set at the dawn of the Viking Age and follows the adventures of monk-turned-warrior, Hunlaf, who witnesses the first attack on the monastery of Lindisfarne and feels compelled to pick up a blade and organise the defence against the Norse raiders.
As well as writing, Matthew also presents the popular podcast, Rock, Paper, Swords! with fellow author Steven A. McKay.
Matthew lives in Wiltshire, with his wife, their two daughters and a slightly mad dog.
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Genre: Historical Fiction - Westren
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A thrilling historical western set in 1890s Oregon, from the author of the critically acclaimed Bernicia Chronicles. An English soldier turned policeman escapes to the American West for a new future, but life on the frontier proves far harder than he ever imagined...
A man can flee from everything but his own nature.
1890. Lieutenant Gabriel Stokes of the British Army left behind the horrors of war in Afghanistan for a role in the Metropolitan Police. Though he rose quickly through the ranks, the squalid violence of London's East End proved just as dark and oppressive as the battlefield.
With his life falling apart, and longing for peace and meaning, Gabriel leaves the grime of London behind and heads for the wilderness and wide open spaces of the American West.
He soon realises that the wilds of Oregon are far from the idyll he has yearned for. The Blue Mountains may be beautiful, but with the frontier a complex patchwork of feuds and felonies, and ranchers as vicious as any back alley cut-throat in London, Gabriel finds himself unable to escape his past and the demons that drive him. Can he find a place for himself on the far edge of the New World?
The Author:
Matthew Harffy is the author of critically acclaimed, action-packed, historically accurate novels. He has published nine novels in the Bernicia Chronicles series, set in seventh century Britain.
The Times called Matthew’s standalone novel, Wolf of Wessex, “a treat of a book”. His newest series, A Time for Swords, is set at the dawn of the Viking Age and follows the adventures of monk-turned-warrior, Hunlaf, who witnesses the first attack on the monastery of Lindisfarne and feels compelled to pick up a blade and organise the defence against the Norse raiders.
As well as writing, Matthew also presents the popular podcast, Rock, Paper, Swords! with fellow author Steven A. McKay.
Matthew lives in Wiltshire, with his wife, their two daughters and a slightly mad dog.
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Helena Fairfax
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Kate Mosse
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Title: The Map of Bones
Genre: Historical Fiction
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The stunning conclusion to The Joubert Family Chronicles has arrived.
A sweeping and epic story of adventure and courage, injustice and triumph, The Map Of Bones by Kate Mosse is the sequel to the number one bestselling The Ghost Ship.
Olifantshoek, Southern Africa, 1688. When the violent Cape wind blows from the south-east, they say the voices of the unquiet dead can be heard whispering through the deserted valley. Suzanne Joubert, a Huguenot refugee from war-torn France, is here to walk in her cousin’s footsteps. Louise Reydon-Joubert, the notorious she-captain and pirate commander, landed at the Cape of Good Hope more than sixty years ago, then disappeared from the record as if she had never existed. Suzanne has come to find her — to lay the stories to rest. But all is not as it seems...
Franschhoek, Southern Africa, 1862. Nearly one hundred and eighty years after Suzanne’s perilous journey, another intrepid and courageous woman of the Joubert family — Isabelle Lepard — has journeyed to the small frontier town once known as Oliftantshoek in search of her long-lost relations. A journalist and travel writer, intent on putting the women of her family back into the history books, she quickly discovers that the tragedies and crimes of the past are far from over. Isabelle faces a race against time if she is not only going to discover the truth but escape with her life...
Painstakingly researched and beautifully told, The Map Of Bones is the fourth — and final — novel of The Joubert Family Chronicles, following the bestselling The Burning Chambers, The City Of Tears and The Ghost Ship.
The Author:
Kate Mosse is a No 1 international bestselling novelist, playwright and non fiction writer, best known for her multi-million Languedoc Trilogy - Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel - and for her Gothic Fiction, including The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist’s Daughter, which she is adapting for film & stage. Her new novel The Burning Chambers - publishing May 2018 - is the first in an epic historical adventure series. Non fiction titles include The House: Behind the Scenes at the Royal Opera House and Chichester Festival Theatre at Fifty. Kate hosts the pre/post show interview series at CFT in Sussex and at the National Theatre in London, she is on the Executive Committee of Women of the World, the Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and Deputy Chair of the Royal National Theatre.
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The Book;
The stunning conclusion to The Joubert Family Chronicles has arrived.
A sweeping and epic story of adventure and courage, injustice and triumph, The Map Of Bones by Kate Mosse is the sequel to the number one bestselling The Ghost Ship.
Olifantshoek, Southern Africa, 1688. When the violent Cape wind blows from the south-east, they say the voices of the unquiet dead can be heard whispering through the deserted valley. Suzanne Joubert, a Huguenot refugee from war-torn France, is here to walk in her cousin’s footsteps. Louise Reydon-Joubert, the notorious she-captain and pirate commander, landed at the Cape of Good Hope more than sixty years ago, then disappeared from the record as if she had never existed. Suzanne has come to find her — to lay the stories to rest. But all is not as it seems...
Franschhoek, Southern Africa, 1862. Nearly one hundred and eighty years after Suzanne’s perilous journey, another intrepid and courageous woman of the Joubert family — Isabelle Lepard — has journeyed to the small frontier town once known as Oliftantshoek in search of her long-lost relations. A journalist and travel writer, intent on putting the women of her family back into the history books, she quickly discovers that the tragedies and crimes of the past are far from over. Isabelle faces a race against time if she is not only going to discover the truth but escape with her life...
Painstakingly researched and beautifully told, The Map Of Bones is the fourth — and final — novel of The Joubert Family Chronicles, following the bestselling The Burning Chambers, The City Of Tears and The Ghost Ship.
The Author:
Kate Mosse is a No 1 international bestselling novelist, playwright and non fiction writer, best known for her multi-million Languedoc Trilogy - Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel - and for her Gothic Fiction, including The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist’s Daughter, which she is adapting for film & stage. Her new novel The Burning Chambers - publishing May 2018 - is the first in an epic historical adventure series. Non fiction titles include The House: Behind the Scenes at the Royal Opera House and Chichester Festival Theatre at Fifty. Kate hosts the pre/post show interview series at CFT in Sussex and at the National Theatre in London, she is on the Executive Committee of Women of the World, the Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and Deputy Chair of the Royal National Theatre.
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Bernard Cornwell
Bernard Cornwell
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Title: Sharpe's Command
Genre: Action & Adventure
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The brand new novel from Bernard Cornwell in the global bestselling Sharpe series.
If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe …
Spain, 1812
If any man can do the impossible it’s Richard Sharpe. And that’s exactly what he’s asked to do when he’s dispatched on an undercover mission behind enemy lines.
For a remote village is about to become the centre of a battle for the future of Europe. And only Sharpe’s small group of men – with their cunning and courage to rely on – stand in their way.
Outnumbered, outgunned, with enemies on all sides – can Major Sharpe and his men save the day?
SHARPE’S COMMAND is the brand new novel in the bestselling historical series that has sold over 20 million copies worldwide.
The Author:
Bernard Cornwell was born in London and worked in television until he met his American wife and moved to the US. Denied a work permit, he wrote a novel and has been writing ever since.
A master storyteller with a passion for history, his current bestselling series, THE LAST KINGDOM, is centred around the creation of England. It is also a major TV series on Netflix, with Bernard playing a cameo role in season three. The fourth season is currently being filmed.
He is also the author of THE GRAIL QUEST series, set in the Hundred Years’ War, THE WARLORD chronicles, set in Arthurian Britain, a number of standalone novels, one non-fiction work on Waterloo and
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The Book;
The brand new novel from Bernard Cornwell in the global bestselling Sharpe series.
If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe …
Spain, 1812
If any man can do the impossible it’s Richard Sharpe. And that’s exactly what he’s asked to do when he’s dispatched on an undercover mission behind enemy lines.
For a remote village is about to become the centre of a battle for the future of Europe. And only Sharpe’s small group of men – with their cunning and courage to rely on – stand in their way.
Outnumbered, outgunned, with enemies on all sides – can Major Sharpe and his men save the day?
SHARPE’S COMMAND is the brand new novel in the bestselling historical series that has sold over 20 million copies worldwide.
The Author:
Bernard Cornwell was born in London and worked in television until he met his American wife and moved to the US. Denied a work permit, he wrote a novel and has been writing ever since.
A master storyteller with a passion for history, his current bestselling series, THE LAST KINGDOM, is centred around the creation of England. It is also a major TV series on Netflix, with Bernard playing a cameo role in season three. The fourth season is currently being filmed.
He is also the author of THE GRAIL QUEST series, set in the Hundred Years’ War, THE WARLORD chronicles, set in Arthurian Britain, a number of standalone novels, one non-fiction work on Waterloo and
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A.F. Steadman
A.F. Steadman
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Title: Skandar and the Skeleton Curse
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy & Supernatural
Format: Hardback First Edition
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As Skandar and his friends begin their fourth year at the Eyrie, the Island’s unicorns are struck by a terrible curse that threatens to change everything. Between a Commodore determined to eliminate the spirit element for good, and a sister hellbent on revenge, nowhere is safe for Skandar.
As more and more unicorns are affected by the curse, the clock is ticking for Skandar and his quartet, who find themselves literally racing for their lives. Can they stop the curse in its tracks before the Island is lost for ever?
Get ready for unlikely heroes, elemental magic, sky battles, ancient secrets and ferocious unicorns in this highly anticipated adventure that will keep you reading after lights out!
The Author:
A.F. Steadman grew up in the Kent countryside, getting lost in fantasy worlds and scribbling stories in notebooks.
In 2019, she was awarded a distinction in a creative writing masters from the University of Cambridge.
Before focusing on writing, she worked in law, until she realised that there wasn’t nearly enough magic involved.
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Genre: Young Adult Fantasy & Supernatural
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The Book:
As Skandar and his friends begin their fourth year at the Eyrie, the Island’s unicorns are struck by a terrible curse that threatens to change everything. Between a Commodore determined to eliminate the spirit element for good, and a sister hellbent on revenge, nowhere is safe for Skandar.
As more and more unicorns are affected by the curse, the clock is ticking for Skandar and his quartet, who find themselves literally racing for their lives. Can they stop the curse in its tracks before the Island is lost for ever?
Get ready for unlikely heroes, elemental magic, sky battles, ancient secrets and ferocious unicorns in this highly anticipated adventure that will keep you reading after lights out!
The Author:
A.F. Steadman grew up in the Kent countryside, getting lost in fantasy worlds and scribbling stories in notebooks.
In 2019, she was awarded a distinction in a creative writing masters from the University of Cambridge.
Before focusing on writing, she worked in law, until she realised that there wasn’t nearly enough magic involved.
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Louisa Treger
Louisa Treger
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Title: The Paris Muse
Genre: Biography - History
Format: Hardback - First Edition
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The Book;
'Living with him was like living at the centre of the universe. It was electrifying and humbling, blissful and destructive, all at the same time.'
Paris, 1936. When Dora Maar, a talented French photographer, painter and poet, is introduced to Pablo Picasso, she is mesmerized by his dark and intense stare. Drawn to his volcanic creativity, it isn't long before she embarks on a passionate relationship with the Spanish artist that sometimes includes sadism and masochism, and ultimately pushes her to the edge.
The Paris Muse is the fictionalized retelling of this disturbing love story, as we follow Dora on her journey of self-discovery and expression. Set in Paris and the French Riviera, where Dora and Pablo spent their holidays with their glamorous artist friends, it provides a fascinating insight into how Picasso was a genius who side-stepped the rules in his human relationships as he did in his art. Much to Dora's torment, he refused to divorce his wife and conducted affairs with Dora's friends. The Spanish Civil War made him depressed and violent, an angst that culminated in his acclaimed painting 'Guernica', which Dora documented as he painted.
As the encroaching darkness suffocates their relationship - a darkness that escalates once the Second World War begins and the Nazis invade the country - Dora has a nervous breakdown and is hospitalized.
Atmospheric, intense and moving, The Paris Muse is an astonishing read that ensures that this talented, often overlooked woman who gave her life to Picasso is no longer a footnote.
The Author:
Louisa Treger is the acclaimed author of four novels, The Lodger (2014), The Dragon Lady (2019) Madwoman (2022), a historical fiction Book of the Year in The Times and The Sunday Times, and a Book of the Month in the Independent, and The Paris Muse (2024). She has written for The Times, The Telegraph, Tatler, BBC History Magazine and English Heritage. Radio appearances include BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking Programme, and BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. Treger has a First Class degree and a PhD in English Literature from UCL, and currently lives in London.
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Title: The Paris Muse
Genre: Biography - History
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The Book;
'Living with him was like living at the centre of the universe. It was electrifying and humbling, blissful and destructive, all at the same time.'
Paris, 1936. When Dora Maar, a talented French photographer, painter and poet, is introduced to Pablo Picasso, she is mesmerized by his dark and intense stare. Drawn to his volcanic creativity, it isn't long before she embarks on a passionate relationship with the Spanish artist that sometimes includes sadism and masochism, and ultimately pushes her to the edge.
The Paris Muse is the fictionalized retelling of this disturbing love story, as we follow Dora on her journey of self-discovery and expression. Set in Paris and the French Riviera, where Dora and Pablo spent their holidays with their glamorous artist friends, it provides a fascinating insight into how Picasso was a genius who side-stepped the rules in his human relationships as he did in his art. Much to Dora's torment, he refused to divorce his wife and conducted affairs with Dora's friends. The Spanish Civil War made him depressed and violent, an angst that culminated in his acclaimed painting 'Guernica', which Dora documented as he painted.
As the encroaching darkness suffocates their relationship - a darkness that escalates once the Second World War begins and the Nazis invade the country - Dora has a nervous breakdown and is hospitalized.
Atmospheric, intense and moving, The Paris Muse is an astonishing read that ensures that this talented, often overlooked woman who gave her life to Picasso is no longer a footnote.
The Author:
Louisa Treger is the acclaimed author of four novels, The Lodger (2014), The Dragon Lady (2019) Madwoman (2022), a historical fiction Book of the Year in The Times and The Sunday Times, and a Book of the Month in the Independent, and The Paris Muse (2024). She has written for The Times, The Telegraph, Tatler, BBC History Magazine and English Heritage. Radio appearances include BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking Programme, and BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. Treger has a First Class degree and a PhD in English Literature from UCL, and currently lives in London.
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Caroline Dodds Pennock
Caroline Dodds Pennock
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Title: On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Genre: History
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In this groundbreaking new history, Caroline Dodds Pennock recovers the long-marginalised stories of the Indigenous Americans who - as enslaved people, diplomats, explorers, servants and traders - left a profound impact on European civilisation in the 'Age of Discovery'. On Savage Shores is a sweeping account of power and influence in America and Europe - one which could forever change the way we understand our global history.
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Caroline Dodds Pennock is a Senior Lecturer in International History at the University of Sheffield and the UK's only Aztec historian. Her first book, BONDS OF BLOOD: GENDER, LIFECYCLE AND SACRIFICE IN AZTEC CULTURE (Palgrave Macmillan) won the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize for 2008. She has appeared on TV programmes for broadcasters including the BBC, the Smithsonian Channel and Netflix, and has acted as a named historical consultant for several TV projects, as well as writing for popular publications including Scientific American, BBC History Magazine, BBC World Histories, BBC Knowledge Magazine and History Today.
Genre: History
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In this groundbreaking new history, Caroline Dodds Pennock recovers the long-marginalised stories of the Indigenous Americans who - as enslaved people, diplomats, explorers, servants and traders - left a profound impact on European civilisation in the 'Age of Discovery'. On Savage Shores is a sweeping account of power and influence in America and Europe - one which could forever change the way we understand our global history.
Author Bio:
Caroline Dodds Pennock is a Senior Lecturer in International History at the University of Sheffield and the UK's only Aztec historian. Her first book, BONDS OF BLOOD: GENDER, LIFECYCLE AND SACRIFICE IN AZTEC CULTURE (Palgrave Macmillan) won the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize for 2008. She has appeared on TV programmes for broadcasters including the BBC, the Smithsonian Channel and Netflix, and has acted as a named historical consultant for several TV projects, as well as writing for popular publications including Scientific American, BBC History Magazine, BBC World Histories, BBC Knowledge Magazine and History Today.
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Elizabeth Fremantle
Elizabeth Fremantle
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Title: Firebrand
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
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IREBRAND IS NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ALICIA VIKANDER AND JUDE LAW
For fans of Wolf Hall and the BBC's The White Queen
Dive into Elizabeth Fremantle's vivid Tudor England and meet the woman who survived Henry VIII
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My name is Katherine Parr.
I’m thirty-one years old – already twice widowed.
I love a man I can’t have.
I’m to wed a man no one would want.
He has cast aside two wives and watched another die in childbirth.
Two more have had their heads struck from their bodies, on his order.
What will become of me as Henry VIII’s sixth wife?
I will have the king’s ear. With that comes power.
But power means danger in the Tudor court.
Many have fallen.
Will I fall too?
The Author:
ELIZABETH FREMANTLE is the author of seven historical novels. Her first, QUEEN'S GAMBIT is about the last wife of Henry VIII and has been adapted into the feature film FIREBRAND starring Alicia Vikander and Jude Law. A new edit of the novel titled FIREBRAND is available to tie-in with the film.
Elizabeth's most recent novel DISOBEDIENT recounts a year (1611) in the life of the young Roman painter Artemisia Gentileschi and the terrifying obstacles she was forced to overcome in order to become the foremost female painter of the Renaissance. The brilliant Emma D'Arcy of House of the Dragon has recorded the audiobook.
Following on from QUEEN'S GAMBIT are three further Tudor set novels that follow on from each other: SISTERS OF TREASON, WATCH THE LADY and THE GIRL IN THE GLASS TOWER, all focusing on noted women whose lives were shaped and endangered by their proximity to the Tudor throne.
As EC FREMANTLE she has published two Stuart period thrillers: THE POISON BED & THE HONEY AND THE STING.
She lives in London.
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IREBRAND IS NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ALICIA VIKANDER AND JUDE LAW
For fans of Wolf Hall and the BBC's The White Queen
Dive into Elizabeth Fremantle's vivid Tudor England and meet the woman who survived Henry VIII
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My name is Katherine Parr.
I’m thirty-one years old – already twice widowed.
I love a man I can’t have.
I’m to wed a man no one would want.
He has cast aside two wives and watched another die in childbirth.
Two more have had their heads struck from their bodies, on his order.
What will become of me as Henry VIII’s sixth wife?
I will have the king’s ear. With that comes power.
But power means danger in the Tudor court.
Many have fallen.
Will I fall too?
The Author:
ELIZABETH FREMANTLE is the author of seven historical novels. Her first, QUEEN'S GAMBIT is about the last wife of Henry VIII and has been adapted into the feature film FIREBRAND starring Alicia Vikander and Jude Law. A new edit of the novel titled FIREBRAND is available to tie-in with the film.
Elizabeth's most recent novel DISOBEDIENT recounts a year (1611) in the life of the young Roman painter Artemisia Gentileschi and the terrifying obstacles she was forced to overcome in order to become the foremost female painter of the Renaissance. The brilliant Emma D'Arcy of House of the Dragon has recorded the audiobook.
Following on from QUEEN'S GAMBIT are three further Tudor set novels that follow on from each other: SISTERS OF TREASON, WATCH THE LADY and THE GIRL IN THE GLASS TOWER, all focusing on noted women whose lives were shaped and endangered by their proximity to the Tudor throne.
As EC FREMANTLE she has published two Stuart period thrillers: THE POISON BED & THE HONEY AND THE STING.
She lives in London.
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Title: SAS Great Escapes Three: Gripping True Escape Stories Executed by World War Two Heroes
Genre: History
Format: Hardback - First Edition
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'Now that's a Great Escape! How 34 members of the SAS evaded 5,000 Nazi troops in blizzard conditions, after wreaking havoc in Italian mountain ambush ... The full gripping story of Operation Galia and the incredible escape that followed.' Mail Online
'It's an incredible secret that has lain hidden behind the heroics of Normandy, but Allied forces had planned to invade the beaches of Brittany if the D-Day landings had failed ... Author and historian Damien Lewis uncovered the details, while researching the story of a remarkable SAS hero for his new book, SAS Great Escapes Three.' Sunday Express
FIVE OF THE MOST DARING ESCAPES CARRIED OUT BY THE SAS DURING WORLD WAR TWO
SAS Great Escapes Three recounts how warriors of the world's most famous fighting force, the SAS, carried out five of the most daring escapes of World War Two. Ranging from the very birth of the SAS, to the post D-Day battles for Nazi-occupied Europe, these gripping true stories cover some of the most iconic operations of the regiment, and its key characters, while also including untold tales of courage and endurance beyond compare.
Told in classic Damien Lewis style, each account plunges the reader into the escapees' experiences - sharing the most terrifying yet astounding moments of their lives. They include unimaginable accounts of survival in the face of staggering odds, episodes of nerve-wracking bluff and deception, plus knife-edge ambushes with
enemy forces hell-bent on wreaking vengeance.
In this new volume of incredible special forces feats, bestselling author Damien Lewis has worked closely with World War Two veterans and the families of those portrayed, accessing wartime diaries, letters, mission reports, interrogation transcripts and more, to relate how the men of the SAS were hunted by the enemy and forced to fight their way out of certain death or capture. Around every corner, upon every decision and every movement lurked the possibility of discovery.
Yet with every step, breath and turn taken, these fugitives epitomized the do-or-die spirit of the SAS to overcome.
The Author:
For two decades Damien Lewis worked as a war and conflict reporter for major broadcasters, reporting from across Africa, South America, the Middle and Far East, during which time he won numerous awards for his journalism.
In 2001 he wrote his first book, Slave, which was an international bestseller translated into some forty languages, and which was made into a film (I Am Slave) and a stage play (Slave). In 2003 he wrote his first book about elite military operations, Operation Certain Death, which was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller, followed by the number one bestseller Zero Six Bravo.
Since then Lewis has penned a dozen related bestsellers, including Operation Relentless, the story of the DEA’s hunt for the world’s most-wanted arms-dealer, Russian billionaire Viktor Bout (presently being made into a TV drama series).
He presently has several other books in various stages of development as TV drama series or movies, including a trilogy of films being scripted by Paramount Pictures.
In addition, his own life story as a war reporter is being developed as a TV drama series by foremost British-based TV and film company. He has scripted some of his own work and is performing the role of Executive Producer on some of his film projects.
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The Book;
'Now that's a Great Escape! How 34 members of the SAS evaded 5,000 Nazi troops in blizzard conditions, after wreaking havoc in Italian mountain ambush ... The full gripping story of Operation Galia and the incredible escape that followed.' Mail Online
'It's an incredible secret that has lain hidden behind the heroics of Normandy, but Allied forces had planned to invade the beaches of Brittany if the D-Day landings had failed ... Author and historian Damien Lewis uncovered the details, while researching the story of a remarkable SAS hero for his new book, SAS Great Escapes Three.' Sunday Express
FIVE OF THE MOST DARING ESCAPES CARRIED OUT BY THE SAS DURING WORLD WAR TWO
SAS Great Escapes Three recounts how warriors of the world's most famous fighting force, the SAS, carried out five of the most daring escapes of World War Two. Ranging from the very birth of the SAS, to the post D-Day battles for Nazi-occupied Europe, these gripping true stories cover some of the most iconic operations of the regiment, and its key characters, while also including untold tales of courage and endurance beyond compare.
Told in classic Damien Lewis style, each account plunges the reader into the escapees' experiences - sharing the most terrifying yet astounding moments of their lives. They include unimaginable accounts of survival in the face of staggering odds, episodes of nerve-wracking bluff and deception, plus knife-edge ambushes with
enemy forces hell-bent on wreaking vengeance.
In this new volume of incredible special forces feats, bestselling author Damien Lewis has worked closely with World War Two veterans and the families of those portrayed, accessing wartime diaries, letters, mission reports, interrogation transcripts and more, to relate how the men of the SAS were hunted by the enemy and forced to fight their way out of certain death or capture. Around every corner, upon every decision and every movement lurked the possibility of discovery.
Yet with every step, breath and turn taken, these fugitives epitomized the do-or-die spirit of the SAS to overcome.
The Author:
For two decades Damien Lewis worked as a war and conflict reporter for major broadcasters, reporting from across Africa, South America, the Middle and Far East, during which time he won numerous awards for his journalism.
In 2001 he wrote his first book, Slave, which was an international bestseller translated into some forty languages, and which was made into a film (I Am Slave) and a stage play (Slave). In 2003 he wrote his first book about elite military operations, Operation Certain Death, which was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller, followed by the number one bestseller Zero Six Bravo.
Since then Lewis has penned a dozen related bestsellers, including Operation Relentless, the story of the DEA’s hunt for the world’s most-wanted arms-dealer, Russian billionaire Viktor Bout (presently being made into a TV drama series).
He presently has several other books in various stages of development as TV drama series or movies, including a trilogy of films being scripted by Paramount Pictures.
In addition, his own life story as a war reporter is being developed as a TV drama series by foremost British-based TV and film company. He has scripted some of his own work and is performing the role of Executive Producer on some of his film projects.
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Two Book Special
Title 1: Psychopathic Cultures and Toxic Empire
Genre: Scientific Psychology & Psychiatry
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Title 2: Veneer of Civilisation
Genre: Scientific Psychology & Psychiatry
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The Book 1; Psychopathic Cultures and Toxic Empire
This is the revised edition of Will Black's classic book. Estimates of the percentage of psychopaths and sociopaths in society range from 1% to 4%. The proportion of those with psychopathic traits is greater in certain professions, including banking, law and the media. This is not surprising as psychopaths are attracted to environments where they can maximise their influence and rewards. Many people imagine psychopaths to be like serial killers in films. While it is true that some killers are psychopathic, it is also true that many more people in 'respectable' jobs have psychopathic qualities. Indicators include self esteem being derived from personal gain, power and pleasure, lack of concern for feelings, needs and suffering of others and a tendency to exploit, deceive and coerce. They may appear charming but this is superficial and used to manipulate as, ultimately, other people are prey. There has been greater focus in recent years on psychopaths who avoid being imprisoned or diagnosed and who gain positions of power. These are particularly dangerous because - as well as having a detrimental impact on those around them - they are are in a position to shape society and create what I term 'psychopathic cultures'. Pathological cultures can be found in families and small networks, larger institutions, global corporations and governments. Once a pathological culture has been established, it can expand and infect healthy cultures - whether directly led by psychopaths or not. Long after a psychopath who infected an institution has moved on, the culture may remain toxic - which is harmful to those working within in. Because the need to conform is so strong, decent people can end up emulating psychopathic traits if they find themselves within a pathological culture. A range of environments are discussed in this book, using the terms psychopathic, pathological and toxic cultures. The mention of individuals linked to particular organisations does not imply that those people are being defined as psychopathic. It is for clinicians and perhaps history to define individuals as psychopaths, but it is for society to decide if the systems surrounding us are pathological or not.
The Book 2: Veneer of Civilisation
Bringing together politics, psychology, literature and anthropology,
Will Black discusses ways in which the veneer of civilisation can be eroded by events or dramatically torn away, and considers paradoxes such as nations claiming to be civilised even as they drop bombs on other countries’ civilians.
The potential erosion of civilisation in the US and Europe by the far-right, who exploit the violence of groups like Daesh to justify racist narratives, is examined. This includes a focus on Anders Breivik and his attempt to spark a Europe-wide civil war, Jo Cox’s killer Thomas Mair, the banned Nazi group National Action and attempts to rebrand the far-right with the term ‘alt-right’.
Events in Charlottesville and the far-right’s embracing of Donald Trump as their hero are covered. The background, value and pitfalls of globalisation and neoliberalism are discussed in the context of notions of utopia and dystopia, and the recognition that one person’s heaven can be another’s hell.
The Author:
Will Black is an anthrojournalist with a background working in specialist psychiatric services. His latest book, Veneer of Civilisation, brings together anthropology, politics and psychology to examine vulnerabilities of human civilisation. He is also the author of Psychopathic Cultures and Toxic Empires, which drew on clinical experience and an anthropological perspective, and Beyond the End of the World, which was based on postgraduate research into apocalyptic movements and cults. Will lives in Cambridge
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Title 1: Psychopathic Cultures and Toxic Empire
Genre: Scientific Psychology & Psychiatry
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Title 2: Veneer of Civilisation
Genre: Scientific Psychology & Psychiatry
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The Book 1; Psychopathic Cultures and Toxic Empire
This is the revised edition of Will Black's classic book. Estimates of the percentage of psychopaths and sociopaths in society range from 1% to 4%. The proportion of those with psychopathic traits is greater in certain professions, including banking, law and the media. This is not surprising as psychopaths are attracted to environments where they can maximise their influence and rewards. Many people imagine psychopaths to be like serial killers in films. While it is true that some killers are psychopathic, it is also true that many more people in 'respectable' jobs have psychopathic qualities. Indicators include self esteem being derived from personal gain, power and pleasure, lack of concern for feelings, needs and suffering of others and a tendency to exploit, deceive and coerce. They may appear charming but this is superficial and used to manipulate as, ultimately, other people are prey. There has been greater focus in recent years on psychopaths who avoid being imprisoned or diagnosed and who gain positions of power. These are particularly dangerous because - as well as having a detrimental impact on those around them - they are are in a position to shape society and create what I term 'psychopathic cultures'. Pathological cultures can be found in families and small networks, larger institutions, global corporations and governments. Once a pathological culture has been established, it can expand and infect healthy cultures - whether directly led by psychopaths or not. Long after a psychopath who infected an institution has moved on, the culture may remain toxic - which is harmful to those working within in. Because the need to conform is so strong, decent people can end up emulating psychopathic traits if they find themselves within a pathological culture. A range of environments are discussed in this book, using the terms psychopathic, pathological and toxic cultures. The mention of individuals linked to particular organisations does not imply that those people are being defined as psychopathic. It is for clinicians and perhaps history to define individuals as psychopaths, but it is for society to decide if the systems surrounding us are pathological or not.
The Book 2: Veneer of Civilisation
Bringing together politics, psychology, literature and anthropology,
Will Black discusses ways in which the veneer of civilisation can be eroded by events or dramatically torn away, and considers paradoxes such as nations claiming to be civilised even as they drop bombs on other countries’ civilians.
The potential erosion of civilisation in the US and Europe by the far-right, who exploit the violence of groups like Daesh to justify racist narratives, is examined. This includes a focus on Anders Breivik and his attempt to spark a Europe-wide civil war, Jo Cox’s killer Thomas Mair, the banned Nazi group National Action and attempts to rebrand the far-right with the term ‘alt-right’.
Events in Charlottesville and the far-right’s embracing of Donald Trump as their hero are covered. The background, value and pitfalls of globalisation and neoliberalism are discussed in the context of notions of utopia and dystopia, and the recognition that one person’s heaven can be another’s hell.
The Author:
Will Black is an anthrojournalist with a background working in specialist psychiatric services. His latest book, Veneer of Civilisation, brings together anthropology, politics and psychology to examine vulnerabilities of human civilisation. He is also the author of Psychopathic Cultures and Toxic Empires, which drew on clinical experience and an anthropological perspective, and Beyond the End of the World, which was based on postgraduate research into apocalyptic movements and cults. Will lives in Cambridge
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Sue Hendra & Paul Linnet
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* Nine Book Spectacular
Genre: Children
Format: Picture Books
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The Books;
A collection of nine fantastic books all signed and dedicated by both
Sue & Paul
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The Author/Illustrator: Sue Hendra
Sue Hendra grew up in Wimbledon and has always loved making up stories and drawing pictures. Her favourite book as a child was Mr Silly. She graduated from Brighton University in 1994 and has been creating picture books ever since. In 2006 she met Paul Linnet and could instantly see that she’d met a fellow nitwit who liked talking nonsense. They went on to create many bestselling books together,
Sue loves swimming, and can swim up and down for a very long time. Her favourite book is still Mr Silly.
The Author/Illustrator: Paul Linnet
Paul Linnet was born in Brighton and grew up in the Midlands, reading Tintin and playing classic 80s video games, before becoming obsessed with scribbling, writing, guitars and motorcycles. He studied Graphic Design at Derby University, and later moved back to Brighton where he met Sue Hendra. They made up a story about a fish with fingers and then a slug with a doughnut for a shell, and now no one can stop them from writing more and more frankly ridiculous books.
Paul still loves scribbling, writing, guitars and motorcycles.
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A collection of nine fantastic books all signed and dedicated by both
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The Author/Illustrator: Sue Hendra
Sue Hendra grew up in Wimbledon and has always loved making up stories and drawing pictures. Her favourite book as a child was Mr Silly. She graduated from Brighton University in 1994 and has been creating picture books ever since. In 2006 she met Paul Linnet and could instantly see that she’d met a fellow nitwit who liked talking nonsense. They went on to create many bestselling books together,
Sue loves swimming, and can swim up and down for a very long time. Her favourite book is still Mr Silly.
The Author/Illustrator: Paul Linnet
Paul Linnet was born in Brighton and grew up in the Midlands, reading Tintin and playing classic 80s video games, before becoming obsessed with scribbling, writing, guitars and motorcycles. He studied Graphic Design at Derby University, and later moved back to Brighton where he met Sue Hendra. They made up a story about a fish with fingers and then a slug with a doughnut for a shell, and now no one can stop them from writing more and more frankly ridiculous books.
Paul still loves scribbling, writing, guitars and motorcycles.
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Tracey Corderoy
Tracey Corderoy
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Title: Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: Train Trouble
Genre: Children
Format: Hardback - Picture Book
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All aboard for an exciting new Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam escapade!
When Shifty and Sam are asked to bake on board the Pawrient Express, travelling to Venice for Carnival night, they find themselves caught up in a robbery. A sneaky thief has stolen the posh passengers’ gems and she’s making her escape in a getaway gondola! The doggy detectives are hot on her tail, but can they unmask that kitty-cat criminal and save the day?
The Author:
Tracey grew up in South Wales, on a council estate firmly sandwiched between the steel and chemical works.
She’s a trained teacher but now writes stories in an ancient cottage in the woods. A multi award-winning author, her first book was published in 2010, and in March 2022, her 73rd.
As a young child, Tracey owned few books. But thanks to an ancient set of encyclopaedias and a Ladybird copy of Cinderella, her passion for nosing into other people’s ‘stories’ began early on.
Some years later, one very special teacher fed Tracey more and more books. Between their pages real magic then started to happen. Books made her laugh and cry and think.
They made her feel that – maybe she could do things…
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All aboard for an exciting new Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam escapade!
When Shifty and Sam are asked to bake on board the Pawrient Express, travelling to Venice for Carnival night, they find themselves caught up in a robbery. A sneaky thief has stolen the posh passengers’ gems and she’s making her escape in a getaway gondola! The doggy detectives are hot on her tail, but can they unmask that kitty-cat criminal and save the day?
The Author:
Tracey grew up in South Wales, on a council estate firmly sandwiched between the steel and chemical works.
She’s a trained teacher but now writes stories in an ancient cottage in the woods. A multi award-winning author, her first book was published in 2010, and in March 2022, her 73rd.
As a young child, Tracey owned few books. But thanks to an ancient set of encyclopaedias and a Ladybird copy of Cinderella, her passion for nosing into other people’s ‘stories’ began early on.
Some years later, one very special teacher fed Tracey more and more books. Between their pages real magic then started to happen. Books made her laugh and cry and think.
They made her feel that – maybe she could do things…
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Title: Drawn To The Garden
Genre: Home & Garden
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Find solace in your outdoor space in this delightful horticultural journey with actress Caroline Quentin, as she draws on her life-long passion for gardening.
Through the pages of this gift book, Caroline shows how much joy she gets from spending time in her garden, whether it be grappling with the best way to grow plants and vegetables, or raising seeds in her potting shed. Though she now has a large following on her Instagram account, @CQGardens, her attitude to gardening is the same as it has always been – expertise helps but is not essential. Gardening should be fun and enjoyable, filled with the simple pleasures of planning, planting, harvesting and cooking. It is also a meditative and restorative pastime, and a great way to lift your spirits.
Written in a warm and engaging way that reflects her personality, Caroline tells stories of growing chillies from seed in her greenhouse, berating the thieving blackbirds in her fruit cage, and swimming in her pond singing to dragon flies and flag irises. Over the years, she has come to realise that gardening, just like life, is a series of happy accidents, unplanned successes, and baffling and frustrating failures.
Illustrated by Caroline herself, this gorgeous book mixes personal stories of her life and experiences in the garden, with practical tips, recipes for food and drink, and even the occasional favourite poem. As she likes to misquote Dorothy Parker: ‘Take to horticulture, it’s cheaper than a shrink’.
The Author:
Caroline Quentin is a renowned figure in British comedy, well known for her lead roles in the award-winning British sitcom Men Behaving Badly and crime drama Jonathan Creek. Aside from her career as an actress, she has been a passionate gardener for many years. She grew up in Reigate, Surrey, but now lives in a country farmhouse in Devon, where she grows her own vegetables, and has a large orchard. Her dedicated Instagram account, @cqgardens, shows her love for gardening in pictures, and is wildly popular in its own right. From rhubarb to kale sprouts, she shows off her cultivation skills in all their leafy green goodness.
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Genre: Home & Garden
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
Find solace in your outdoor space in this delightful horticultural journey with actress Caroline Quentin, as she draws on her life-long passion for gardening.
Through the pages of this gift book, Caroline shows how much joy she gets from spending time in her garden, whether it be grappling with the best way to grow plants and vegetables, or raising seeds in her potting shed. Though she now has a large following on her Instagram account, @CQGardens, her attitude to gardening is the same as it has always been – expertise helps but is not essential. Gardening should be fun and enjoyable, filled with the simple pleasures of planning, planting, harvesting and cooking. It is also a meditative and restorative pastime, and a great way to lift your spirits.
Written in a warm and engaging way that reflects her personality, Caroline tells stories of growing chillies from seed in her greenhouse, berating the thieving blackbirds in her fruit cage, and swimming in her pond singing to dragon flies and flag irises. Over the years, she has come to realise that gardening, just like life, is a series of happy accidents, unplanned successes, and baffling and frustrating failures.
Illustrated by Caroline herself, this gorgeous book mixes personal stories of her life and experiences in the garden, with practical tips, recipes for food and drink, and even the occasional favourite poem. As she likes to misquote Dorothy Parker: ‘Take to horticulture, it’s cheaper than a shrink’.
The Author:
Caroline Quentin is a renowned figure in British comedy, well known for her lead roles in the award-winning British sitcom Men Behaving Badly and crime drama Jonathan Creek. Aside from her career as an actress, she has been a passionate gardener for many years. She grew up in Reigate, Surrey, but now lives in a country farmhouse in Devon, where she grows her own vegetables, and has a large orchard. Her dedicated Instagram account, @cqgardens, shows her love for gardening in pictures, and is wildly popular in its own right. From rhubarb to kale sprouts, she shows off her cultivation skills in all their leafy green goodness.
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Graeme Hall
Graeme Hall
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Title: Does My Dog Love Me
Genre: Education : Animal Behaviour Science
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
Have you ever wondered what your dog is really thinking?
Our dogs mean the world to us and as owners we do our best to make sure they feel happy and loved, whilst also keeping them in line when needed. But wouldn’t it be so much easier if we spoke the same language and could ask what they were thinking or feeling?
In his latest book, top dog trainer, Graeme Hall, reveals the secrets to understanding what your furry companion is trying to say and how they see the world. Drawing on 15 years of experience training over 5,000 dogs, and backed up with scientific evidence, he tackles all the tricky questions you’ve ever wanted to ask, such as ‘how do I tell my dog he’s been naughty?’ and ‘how long does a dog remember?’.
Sharing his own personal stories and practical tips, Graeme demonstrates how to interpret your dog's body language and use that knowledge to build a stronger, more rewarding relationship, as well as how to avoid common mistakes. Whether you're a seasoned dog owner or a new pup parent, this book will change the way you think about your four-legged best friend.
The Author:
‘UK’s best dog trainer’ (Telegraph)
‘That dog man off the telly’ (Bloke filling up white van. Esso, A421, Buckingham)
Graeme grew up in a Yorkshire market town. He went to University in Hull (Hispanic Studies. He’s a dab hand at ‘Una cerveza, por favor’). He set off one sunny day in 1987 with his worldly possessions zipped into an old MG Midget to make his fortune Down South.
Down South, as Yorkshire folk know, starts at Doncaster. Graeme overshot and ended up in Northants where he lived happily for 25 years. He didn’t make a fortune, but he did make a lot of breakfast cereal, with his teams, as a manager in the food industry.
Leaving (to make his fortune), he followed his passion for dogs and set up Dogfather Training in 2008. Graeme developed his own way of doing things which struck a chord with owners. Soon, he was working around the UK, sometimes abroad. Australia is the furthest ‘Down South’ to date.
5000 dogs later, in 2016, TV producers called. Since then, his show Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly has aired around the world.
Having written in Countryside mag since 2012, a book was a natural next step. All Dogs Great and Small (Feb 2021) is the result.
Graeme is still trying to make his fortune. You can help. A very small percentage of proceeds from every book sold will be donated to this very worthy cause.
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Genre: Education : Animal Behaviour Science
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The Book;
Have you ever wondered what your dog is really thinking?
Our dogs mean the world to us and as owners we do our best to make sure they feel happy and loved, whilst also keeping them in line when needed. But wouldn’t it be so much easier if we spoke the same language and could ask what they were thinking or feeling?
In his latest book, top dog trainer, Graeme Hall, reveals the secrets to understanding what your furry companion is trying to say and how they see the world. Drawing on 15 years of experience training over 5,000 dogs, and backed up with scientific evidence, he tackles all the tricky questions you’ve ever wanted to ask, such as ‘how do I tell my dog he’s been naughty?’ and ‘how long does a dog remember?’.
Sharing his own personal stories and practical tips, Graeme demonstrates how to interpret your dog's body language and use that knowledge to build a stronger, more rewarding relationship, as well as how to avoid common mistakes. Whether you're a seasoned dog owner or a new pup parent, this book will change the way you think about your four-legged best friend.
The Author:
‘UK’s best dog trainer’ (Telegraph)
‘That dog man off the telly’ (Bloke filling up white van. Esso, A421, Buckingham)
Graeme grew up in a Yorkshire market town. He went to University in Hull (Hispanic Studies. He’s a dab hand at ‘Una cerveza, por favor’). He set off one sunny day in 1987 with his worldly possessions zipped into an old MG Midget to make his fortune Down South.
Down South, as Yorkshire folk know, starts at Doncaster. Graeme overshot and ended up in Northants where he lived happily for 25 years. He didn’t make a fortune, but he did make a lot of breakfast cereal, with his teams, as a manager in the food industry.
Leaving (to make his fortune), he followed his passion for dogs and set up Dogfather Training in 2008. Graeme developed his own way of doing things which struck a chord with owners. Soon, he was working around the UK, sometimes abroad. Australia is the furthest ‘Down South’ to date.
5000 dogs later, in 2016, TV producers called. Since then, his show Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly has aired around the world.
Having written in Countryside mag since 2012, a book was a natural next step. All Dogs Great and Small (Feb 2021) is the result.
Graeme is still trying to make his fortune. You can help. A very small percentage of proceeds from every book sold will be donated to this very worthy cause.
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DogfatherTraining
Website: https://www.dogfather.co.uk
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Jessica Bull
Jessica Bull
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Title: Miss Austen Investigates
Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Hardback
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that every good mystery is in need of a brilliant sleuth . . .
Welcome to Hampshire, 1795, where a young Jane Austen has her sights set on securing a marriage proposal from the dashing Tom Lefroy at a local ball.
But when a shocking discovery is made - a milliner's lifeless body tucked away in a linen closet - Jane finds herself embroiled in an unexpected murder mystery.
As she races against the clock to clear her beloved brother Georgy's name, Jane uses her sharp wits to navigate the treacherous waters of society, unmasking secrets and unearthing hidden motives along the way. With every twist and turn, Jane's determination to solve the case deepens. And if she fails, her brother will face the ultimate punishment - the hangman's noose . . .
Join Jane on her quest for justice as she faces down danger, deceit, and scandal amidst her own friends and neighbours. Will she uncover the truth in time, or will the real killer go free? One thing's for certain - in Hampshire, nothing is as it seems . . .
*** BETWEEN THE MATCH-MAKING AND MATRIMONY LIES MURDER . . . . ***
The Author:
Jessica Bull lives in South East London with her husband and two daughters. A former librarian and communications consultant, she studied English literature at Bristol University and information science at City, University of London. Miss Austen Investigates, The Hapless Milliner is her debut novel.
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Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that every good mystery is in need of a brilliant sleuth . . .
Welcome to Hampshire, 1795, where a young Jane Austen has her sights set on securing a marriage proposal from the dashing Tom Lefroy at a local ball.
But when a shocking discovery is made - a milliner's lifeless body tucked away in a linen closet - Jane finds herself embroiled in an unexpected murder mystery.
As she races against the clock to clear her beloved brother Georgy's name, Jane uses her sharp wits to navigate the treacherous waters of society, unmasking secrets and unearthing hidden motives along the way. With every twist and turn, Jane's determination to solve the case deepens. And if she fails, her brother will face the ultimate punishment - the hangman's noose . . .
Join Jane on her quest for justice as she faces down danger, deceit, and scandal amidst her own friends and neighbours. Will she uncover the truth in time, or will the real killer go free? One thing's for certain - in Hampshire, nothing is as it seems . . .
*** BETWEEN THE MATCH-MAKING AND MATRIMONY LIES MURDER . . . . ***
The Author:
Jessica Bull lives in South East London with her husband and two daughters. A former librarian and communications consultant, she studied English literature at Bristol University and information science at City, University of London. Miss Austen Investigates, The Hapless Milliner is her debut novel.
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Amanda Geard
Amanda Geard
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Book Title: The Moon Gate
Genre: Historical/Contemporary Mystery with a touch of romance
Format: Paperback
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A faded photograph. An abandoned house. A wartime mystery. . .
1939: On the eve of war, young English heiress Grace Grey travels from London to the wilderness of Tasmania. Coaxed out of her shell by the attentions of her Irish neighbour, Daniel - Grace finally learns to live. But when Australian forces are called to the frontline, and Daniel with them, he leaves behind a devastating secret which will forever bind them together.
1975: Artist Willow Hawkins, and her new husband, Ben, can't believe their luck when an anonymous benefactor leaves them a house on the remote Tasmanian coast. Confused and delighted, they set out to unmask Towerhurst's previous owner - unwittingly altering the course of their lives.
2004: Libby Andrews has always been sheltered from the truth behind her father Ben's death. When she travels to London and discovers a faded photograph, a long-buried memory is unlocked, and she begins to follow an investigation that Ben could never complete. But will she realise that some secrets are best left buried . . .?
For fans of Kate Morton, Lucinda Riley and Santa Montefiore.
The Autor:
Amanda Geard is the bestselling author of The Midnight House and The Moon Gate, with over 200,000 copies sold worldwide. Her novels have been translated into seven languages and The Midnight House was a Richard & Judy book club pick. The Moon Gate is her latest book, and very close to her heart; a novel that is set in three locations she loves: Tasmania (where she grew up); London (where she lived in a houseboat); and County Kerry, Ireland, where she now lives with her family.
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Genre: Historical/Contemporary Mystery with a touch of romance
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
A faded photograph. An abandoned house. A wartime mystery. . .
1939: On the eve of war, young English heiress Grace Grey travels from London to the wilderness of Tasmania. Coaxed out of her shell by the attentions of her Irish neighbour, Daniel - Grace finally learns to live. But when Australian forces are called to the frontline, and Daniel with them, he leaves behind a devastating secret which will forever bind them together.
1975: Artist Willow Hawkins, and her new husband, Ben, can't believe their luck when an anonymous benefactor leaves them a house on the remote Tasmanian coast. Confused and delighted, they set out to unmask Towerhurst's previous owner - unwittingly altering the course of their lives.
2004: Libby Andrews has always been sheltered from the truth behind her father Ben's death. When she travels to London and discovers a faded photograph, a long-buried memory is unlocked, and she begins to follow an investigation that Ben could never complete. But will she realise that some secrets are best left buried . . .?
For fans of Kate Morton, Lucinda Riley and Santa Montefiore.
The Autor:
Amanda Geard is the bestselling author of The Midnight House and The Moon Gate, with over 200,000 copies sold worldwide. Her novels have been translated into seven languages and The Midnight House was a Richard & Judy book club pick. The Moon Gate is her latest book, and very close to her heart; a novel that is set in three locations she loves: Tasmania (where she grew up); London (where she lived in a houseboat); and County Kerry, Ireland, where she now lives with her family.
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Christina Gabbitas
Christina Gabbitas
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Two Book Special
* Christina is adding a half day school visit to any primary or secondary school in Britain
Title 1: No More Knives or County Lines
Genre: Children (Age 10) + - Education
Title 2: Trapped in County Lines
Genre: Children (Age 12) + - Education
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Trapped in County Lines
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Educating children and young people on the topic of county lines, exploitation and carrying knives.
Christina has been working in partnership with North Yorkshire Police & Humberside Police ( who both commissioned the stories) funded by the North Yorkshire Police, Fire & Crime Commissioners Office & Humberside Police & Crime Commissioners Office.
The Author:
Christina Gabbitas is an award-winning children’s author, Honorary Member of the NSPCC Council, Coronation Champion, and founder of the Children Literature Festivals charity, who was awarded a Prime Ministers Points of Light Award in 2023.Her impactful writing commissions include collaborations with organisations such as Humberside Police & Crime Commissioners Office, amongst other organisations and charities. Notably, her recent work, “Trapped in County Lines,” commissioned by North Yorkshire Police and the North Yorkshire Fire & Crime Commissioners Office, reflects her dedication to educating children and young people about the signs of exploitation. Christina actively partners with various Police Forces, contributing to her transformative impact on children’s literature and safety education. Christina has visited over 200 schools delivering early intervention sessions to over 30,000 students with her work surrounding county lines.
Christina’s safeguarding stories are in the NSPCC Library, and shop. Trapped in County Lines was book of the week at the NSPCC in October 2023
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* Christina is adding a half day school visit to any primary or secondary school in Britain
Title 1: No More Knives or County Lines
Genre: Children (Age 10) + - Education
Title 2: Trapped in County Lines
Genre: Children (Age 12) + - Education
Format: Paperbacks
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Trapped in County Lines
& No More Knives or County Lines
Educating children and young people on the topic of county lines, exploitation and carrying knives.
Christina has been working in partnership with North Yorkshire Police & Humberside Police ( who both commissioned the stories) funded by the North Yorkshire Police, Fire & Crime Commissioners Office & Humberside Police & Crime Commissioners Office.
The Author:
Christina Gabbitas is an award-winning children’s author, Honorary Member of the NSPCC Council, Coronation Champion, and founder of the Children Literature Festivals charity, who was awarded a Prime Ministers Points of Light Award in 2023.Her impactful writing commissions include collaborations with organisations such as Humberside Police & Crime Commissioners Office, amongst other organisations and charities. Notably, her recent work, “Trapped in County Lines,” commissioned by North Yorkshire Police and the North Yorkshire Fire & Crime Commissioners Office, reflects her dedication to educating children and young people about the signs of exploitation. Christina actively partners with various Police Forces, contributing to her transformative impact on children’s literature and safety education. Christina has visited over 200 schools delivering early intervention sessions to over 30,000 students with her work surrounding county lines.
Christina’s safeguarding stories are in the NSPCC Library, and shop. Trapped in County Lines was book of the week at the NSPCC in October 2023
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http://nomoreknifecrime.co.uk
http://christinagabbitas.com
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Christina Gabbitas
Christina Gabbitas
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3 Books Bonanza
Title 1: Roo & Sarge : To The Rescue
Genre: Children
Format: Picture Book
Title 2: Save Us
Genre: Children - Education - Enviroment
Format: Picture Book
Title 3: Mohna Lot
Genre: Children
Format: Picture Book
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The Book 1: Roo & Sarge : To The Rescue
Roo the Cockapoo and Sarge the German Shepherd who used to help his detective owner with his police work, live at Springfield Dogs Home. The inseparable friends dream that pne day someone will adopt and welcome them into their new home. Will their dream come true? A story about lasting friendships and overcoming challenges.
The Book 2: Save Us
Save Us' is a wonderful story about a Seal, Whale and Sea Turtle that addresses the problem of plastic causing problems to our sea creatures.
The inspiration for writing this story is a result of watching the BBC Blue Planet 2 with David Attenborough. Plastic pollution is set to treble in a decade unless action is taken to deal with the problem. I feel that it is vitally important that we educate our children from a young age to help look after our Oceans and environment.
The Book 3: Mohna Lot
Monah's moans are a cry for help. A great way of helping children to learn how to express their feelings, show kindness and realise that we are all different.
The Author:
Christina Gabbitas is a children’s author, poet, storyteller and voiceover artist, who always loved to read rhyming books and poetry in my early years. She penned some stories that she stored away in a box file twenty years ago, thinking that one day she would do something with them. Welcome to the World of Felicity Fly was born in 2012. The series has taken her into the final of the People's Book Prize 2014-2018, winning Best Achievement Award in May 2019.
Born in Blackburn, Lancashire where she spent the first twenty two years of her life, before moving to various parts of Yorkshire, where she now lives. (passports for both)
Christina is founder and trustee of Children's Literature Festivals charity, her patrons and ambassadors include musician Michael Bradley of The Undertones and Actress Jenny Agutter.
As a child she loved to read anything that rhymed. One of her earliest recollections of fun poetry was Spike Milligan’s Granny and also On The Ning Nang Nong. She loves Spike Milligan’s book Silly Verse For Kids.
She has always had a love of music and used to help the headmaster of her primary school tune the piano. She spent some of her teenage years playing saxophone and percussion with a band and supported a popular indie band at that time called The Chameleons. They played around venues in Lancashire and admits that she did look at little freaky!
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Title 1: Roo & Sarge : To The Rescue
Genre: Children
Format: Picture Book
Title 2: Save Us
Genre: Children - Education - Enviroment
Format: Picture Book
Title 3: Mohna Lot
Genre: Children
Format: Picture Book
Signed - Dedications are Available
Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book 1: Roo & Sarge : To The Rescue
Roo the Cockapoo and Sarge the German Shepherd who used to help his detective owner with his police work, live at Springfield Dogs Home. The inseparable friends dream that pne day someone will adopt and welcome them into their new home. Will their dream come true? A story about lasting friendships and overcoming challenges.
The Book 2: Save Us
Save Us' is a wonderful story about a Seal, Whale and Sea Turtle that addresses the problem of plastic causing problems to our sea creatures.
The inspiration for writing this story is a result of watching the BBC Blue Planet 2 with David Attenborough. Plastic pollution is set to treble in a decade unless action is taken to deal with the problem. I feel that it is vitally important that we educate our children from a young age to help look after our Oceans and environment.
The Book 3: Mohna Lot
Monah's moans are a cry for help. A great way of helping children to learn how to express their feelings, show kindness and realise that we are all different.
The Author:
Christina Gabbitas is a children’s author, poet, storyteller and voiceover artist, who always loved to read rhyming books and poetry in my early years. She penned some stories that she stored away in a box file twenty years ago, thinking that one day she would do something with them. Welcome to the World of Felicity Fly was born in 2012. The series has taken her into the final of the People's Book Prize 2014-2018, winning Best Achievement Award in May 2019.
Born in Blackburn, Lancashire where she spent the first twenty two years of her life, before moving to various parts of Yorkshire, where she now lives. (passports for both)
Christina is founder and trustee of Children's Literature Festivals charity, her patrons and ambassadors include musician Michael Bradley of The Undertones and Actress Jenny Agutter.
As a child she loved to read anything that rhymed. One of her earliest recollections of fun poetry was Spike Milligan’s Granny and also On The Ning Nang Nong. She loves Spike Milligan’s book Silly Verse For Kids.
She has always had a love of music and used to help the headmaster of her primary school tune the piano. She spent some of her teenage years playing saxophone and percussion with a band and supported a popular indie band at that time called The Chameleons. They played around venues in Lancashire and admits that she did look at little freaky!
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChristiGabbitas
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChristinaGabbitas
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Website: https://www.christinagabbitas.com
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Madalyn Morgan
Madalyn Morgan
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Title: Confession
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Ena Dudley‘s day takes a shocking turn when she sees a familiar face in the bustling foyer of Selfridges department store.
A woman she had mourned as dead, Freida Voight, stands before her, locked in a passionate embrace with a mysterious man. Ena’s mind races with questions, casting doubts on the reality she thought she knew.
Desperate to share her discovery, Ena confides in her husband Henry, an MI5 agent. However, Henry dismisses her claims, reminding her that they attended Freida’s funeral years ago. Yet Ena’s doubts persist and she embarks on a covert investigation. Was Freida’s funeral a cover-up orchestrated by one of the intelligence agencies?
Delving into MI5 archives and later the classified files of the German Nationals Department, Ena faces an unexpected twist when she discovers evidence of a mysterious imposter posing as her, who has been gathering sensitive information from government officials.
Amidst the chaos, a body is discovered in shocking circumstances. With the odds stacked against her, Ena must confront the dangerous truths of her time in the war, what happened to Freida and its lasting repercussions.
As secrets collide and loyalties are tested – Ena’s marriage, reputation and very life hang in the balance.
A captivating tale of World War Two secrets that will leave readers breathless until the final, spine-tingling revelation.
The Author:
I was bought up in a busy pub in a market town called Lutterworth. For as long as I remember, I wanted to be an actress and writer. I was offered a television role when I was sixteen, but my mother wanted me to have a 'proper' job, so I did a hairdressing apprenticeship instead. Eight years later, aged twenty-four, I sold two successful businesses for a place at East 15 Drama College and a career as an actress, working in Repertory theatre, the West End, film and http://television.In 2000 I gave up acting, taught myself to touch type, completed a two-year college course and began writing articles and presenting radio. In 2010, after living in London for thirty-six years, I returned to Lutterworth, swapping two window boxes and a mortgage for a garden and the freedom to write - and I loved it. Since then, I have written a series of ten novels. The first four books, set in World War Two, introduce the Dudley sisters. Three post-war books follow, and then three mystery, crime and spy thrillers take the Dudley sisters to 1960. Each story stands alone but is interwoven with the other stories.
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Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Ena Dudley‘s day takes a shocking turn when she sees a familiar face in the bustling foyer of Selfridges department store.
A woman she had mourned as dead, Freida Voight, stands before her, locked in a passionate embrace with a mysterious man. Ena’s mind races with questions, casting doubts on the reality she thought she knew.
Desperate to share her discovery, Ena confides in her husband Henry, an MI5 agent. However, Henry dismisses her claims, reminding her that they attended Freida’s funeral years ago. Yet Ena’s doubts persist and she embarks on a covert investigation. Was Freida’s funeral a cover-up orchestrated by one of the intelligence agencies?
Delving into MI5 archives and later the classified files of the German Nationals Department, Ena faces an unexpected twist when she discovers evidence of a mysterious imposter posing as her, who has been gathering sensitive information from government officials.
Amidst the chaos, a body is discovered in shocking circumstances. With the odds stacked against her, Ena must confront the dangerous truths of her time in the war, what happened to Freida and its lasting repercussions.
As secrets collide and loyalties are tested – Ena’s marriage, reputation and very life hang in the balance.
A captivating tale of World War Two secrets that will leave readers breathless until the final, spine-tingling revelation.
The Author:
I was bought up in a busy pub in a market town called Lutterworth. For as long as I remember, I wanted to be an actress and writer. I was offered a television role when I was sixteen, but my mother wanted me to have a 'proper' job, so I did a hairdressing apprenticeship instead. Eight years later, aged twenty-four, I sold two successful businesses for a place at East 15 Drama College and a career as an actress, working in Repertory theatre, the West End, film and http://television.In 2000 I gave up acting, taught myself to touch type, completed a two-year college course and began writing articles and presenting radio. In 2010, after living in London for thirty-six years, I returned to Lutterworth, swapping two window boxes and a mortgage for a garden and the freedom to write - and I loved it. Since then, I have written a series of ten novels. The first four books, set in World War Two, introduce the Dudley sisters. Three post-war books follow, and then three mystery, crime and spy thrillers take the Dudley sisters to 1960. Each story stands alone but is interwoven with the other stories.
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Title: Secrets
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
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Ena picks up her glass and sips her wine thoughtfully, remembering the words of her boss at the Home Office. “The things we have to do to keep our country safe, Ena. They’re not always morally right, but they’re always necessary…”
Ena Dudley slips quietly away from the Foxden Hotel and heads back to London to see her husband Henry. Things have been difficult between them recently – though she still loves him as much as ever. Arriving home, she’s shocked to discover that he’s missing – having last been seen being led away by two mysterious men.
Ena soon learns that Henry has been connected to a recently murdered woman, Helen Crowther. Ena knows her husband is no killer and – determined to clear Henry’s name – she and her sisters meet in a small room in a West End theatre, once used to hide Jewish refugees in the war.
As Ena, Bess, Margot and Claire piece together the puzzle, they come to realise that Henry could be entangled in a much larger conspiracy than just Helen Crowther’s murder, one that reaches far back into the past, when the world was still at war. With danger lurking at every turn, the women must summon all their courage and resourcefulness to navigate the treacherous waters of espionage, betrayal, and murder.
Ena’s determination to uncover the truth and exonerate Henry becomes a race against time, as the Dudley sisters find themselves confronting powerful enemies who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets…
An absolutely gripping historical read, full of wartime secrets, love and betrayal.
The Author:
I was bought up in a busy pub in a market town called Lutterworth. For as long as I remember, I wanted to be an actress and writer. I was offered a television role when I was sixteen, but my mother wanted me to have a 'proper' job, so I did a hairdressing apprenticeship instead. Eight years later, aged twenty-four, I sold two successful businesses for a place at East 15 Drama College and a career as an actress, working in Repertory theatre, the West End, film and http://television.In 2000 I gave up acting, taught myself to touch type, completed a two-year college course and began writing articles and presenting radio. In 2010, after living in London for thirty-six years, I returned to Lutterworth, swapping two window boxes and a mortgage for a garden and the freedom to write - and I loved it. Since then, I have written a series of ten novels. The first four books, set in World War Two, introduce the Dudley sisters. Three post-war books follow, and then three mystery, crime and spy thrillers take the Dudley sisters to 1960. Each story stands alone but is interwoven with the other stories.
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Genre: Historical Fiction
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Ena picks up her glass and sips her wine thoughtfully, remembering the words of her boss at the Home Office. “The things we have to do to keep our country safe, Ena. They’re not always morally right, but they’re always necessary…”
Ena Dudley slips quietly away from the Foxden Hotel and heads back to London to see her husband Henry. Things have been difficult between them recently – though she still loves him as much as ever. Arriving home, she’s shocked to discover that he’s missing – having last been seen being led away by two mysterious men.
Ena soon learns that Henry has been connected to a recently murdered woman, Helen Crowther. Ena knows her husband is no killer and – determined to clear Henry’s name – she and her sisters meet in a small room in a West End theatre, once used to hide Jewish refugees in the war.
As Ena, Bess, Margot and Claire piece together the puzzle, they come to realise that Henry could be entangled in a much larger conspiracy than just Helen Crowther’s murder, one that reaches far back into the past, when the world was still at war. With danger lurking at every turn, the women must summon all their courage and resourcefulness to navigate the treacherous waters of espionage, betrayal, and murder.
Ena’s determination to uncover the truth and exonerate Henry becomes a race against time, as the Dudley sisters find themselves confronting powerful enemies who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets…
An absolutely gripping historical read, full of wartime secrets, love and betrayal.
The Author:
I was bought up in a busy pub in a market town called Lutterworth. For as long as I remember, I wanted to be an actress and writer. I was offered a television role when I was sixteen, but my mother wanted me to have a 'proper' job, so I did a hairdressing apprenticeship instead. Eight years later, aged twenty-four, I sold two successful businesses for a place at East 15 Drama College and a career as an actress, working in Repertory theatre, the West End, film and http://television.In 2000 I gave up acting, taught myself to touch type, completed a two-year college course and began writing articles and presenting radio. In 2010, after living in London for thirty-six years, I returned to Lutterworth, swapping two window boxes and a mortgage for a garden and the freedom to write - and I loved it. Since then, I have written a series of ten novels. The first four books, set in World War Two, introduce the Dudley sisters. Three post-war books follow, and then three mystery, crime and spy thrillers take the Dudley sisters to 1960. Each story stands alone but is interwoven with the other stories.
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Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo
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Title: Cobweb
Genre: Children - Middle Grade
Format: Hardback
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A powerful, moving adventure inspired by the extraordinary true story of the French Drummer Boy of Waterloo, COBWEB is a stunning tale of courage and kindness – a book about humanity, animals, and the heartbreak of war, from a writer at the height of his powers.
“They call me Cobweb. I’ll tell you why later. I may be a dog, but I know and understand a lot more than people think I do.”
Britain. 1815. After years of loss and sacrifice, the end of the war with Napoleon is approaching.
Cobweb knows nothing of the war – he loves being a young puppy and playing with his owner, Bethan, exploring the countryside and chasing rabbits.
But when he is taken away from Bethan and sold, Cobweb must learn to become a Drover’s Dog – herding sheep and cattle for hundreds of miles on the long, treacherous journey to London.
And after the Napoleonic wars finally come to an end with the Battle of Waterloo, Cobweb meets an unexpected stranger with an incredible tale to tell on his journey home . . .
The Author:
Michael Morpurgo is one of Britain's best-loved children's book writers. He has written more than 100 books and has won the Smarties Prize, the Whitbread Award, and most recently the Blue Peter Book Award for PRIVATE PEACEFUL. He is also the author of WAR HORSE, which has been made into a Tony Award-winning Broadway play and a Golden Globe-nominated film. Michael was Writer in Residence at The Savoy Hotel from January to March 2007, and previously he was Children's Laureate from 2003-2005, a role that took him across Britain to inspire a love of reading in children.
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Genre: Children - Middle Grade
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A powerful, moving adventure inspired by the extraordinary true story of the French Drummer Boy of Waterloo, COBWEB is a stunning tale of courage and kindness – a book about humanity, animals, and the heartbreak of war, from a writer at the height of his powers.
“They call me Cobweb. I’ll tell you why later. I may be a dog, but I know and understand a lot more than people think I do.”
Britain. 1815. After years of loss and sacrifice, the end of the war with Napoleon is approaching.
Cobweb knows nothing of the war – he loves being a young puppy and playing with his owner, Bethan, exploring the countryside and chasing rabbits.
But when he is taken away from Bethan and sold, Cobweb must learn to become a Drover’s Dog – herding sheep and cattle for hundreds of miles on the long, treacherous journey to London.
And after the Napoleonic wars finally come to an end with the Battle of Waterloo, Cobweb meets an unexpected stranger with an incredible tale to tell on his journey home . . .
The Author:
Michael Morpurgo is one of Britain's best-loved children's book writers. He has written more than 100 books and has won the Smarties Prize, the Whitbread Award, and most recently the Blue Peter Book Award for PRIVATE PEACEFUL. He is also the author of WAR HORSE, which has been made into a Tony Award-winning Broadway play and a Golden Globe-nominated film. Michael was Writer in Residence at The Savoy Hotel from January to March 2007, and previously he was Children's Laureate from 2003-2005, a role that took him across Britain to inspire a love of reading in children.
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£ 28
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Anthony Horowitz
Anthony Horowitz
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Title: Nightshade Revenge
Genre: Action & Adventure
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The world's bestselling teenage spy takes on a new and daring mission. This much-awaited new book in the bestselling Alex Rider series continues Alex's fight against the deadly assassins encountered in the last book, Nightshade. Alex still has unfinished business with this sinister group made up of brainwashed children, not least trying to reunite MI6 chief Mrs Jones, along with her long lost son and daughter. The adventure takes us deep into the life-changing world of augmented reality, where even Alex will struggle to succeed against the technology. A thrilling new challenge for the world's best-loved teen superspy.
The Author:
Anthony is one of the most prolific and successful writers working in the UK – and is unique for working across so many media. Anthony is a born polymath; juggling writing books, TV series, films, plays and journalism. Anthony has written over 50 books including the bestselling teen spy series Alex Rider, which is estimated to have sold 21 million copies worldwide and has been turned into a hugely successful TV series by Amazon Freevee. A third series has just been filmed and the fourteenth Alex Rider novel, Nightshade: Revenge will be published in 2023.
Anthony is also an acclaimed writer for adults and was commissioned to write two new Sherlock Holmes novels The House of Silk and Moriarty. He was commissioned by the Ian Fleming Estate to write continuation novels for James Bond with Trigger Mortis and Forever and Day, published in 2015 and 2018 respectively. A third novel in the series With a Mind to Kill was published in May 2022.
Anthony’s award-winning novel Magpie Murders was published in October 2016 to critical acclaim and was serialised on BritBox at the beginning of 2022 with Lesley Manville in the lead role. It will be televised on the BBC in 2023. The sequel, Moonflower Murders, will begin filming in September 2023. His new series featuring Detective Hawthorne and a sidekick called Anthony Horowitz has four books so far: The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, A Line to Kill and the recently published The Twist of a Knife. Anthony has just started work on a fifth: Close to Death.
Anthony is responsible for creating and writing some of the UK’s most beloved and successful television series, producing the first seven episodes (and the title) of Midsomer Murders. He is the writer and creator of award-winning drama series Foyle’s War, which was the Winner of the Lew Grade Audience award for BAFTA.
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Genre: Action & Adventure
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The Book;
The world's bestselling teenage spy takes on a new and daring mission. This much-awaited new book in the bestselling Alex Rider series continues Alex's fight against the deadly assassins encountered in the last book, Nightshade. Alex still has unfinished business with this sinister group made up of brainwashed children, not least trying to reunite MI6 chief Mrs Jones, along with her long lost son and daughter. The adventure takes us deep into the life-changing world of augmented reality, where even Alex will struggle to succeed against the technology. A thrilling new challenge for the world's best-loved teen superspy.
The Author:
Anthony is one of the most prolific and successful writers working in the UK – and is unique for working across so many media. Anthony is a born polymath; juggling writing books, TV series, films, plays and journalism. Anthony has written over 50 books including the bestselling teen spy series Alex Rider, which is estimated to have sold 21 million copies worldwide and has been turned into a hugely successful TV series by Amazon Freevee. A third series has just been filmed and the fourteenth Alex Rider novel, Nightshade: Revenge will be published in 2023.
Anthony is also an acclaimed writer for adults and was commissioned to write two new Sherlock Holmes novels The House of Silk and Moriarty. He was commissioned by the Ian Fleming Estate to write continuation novels for James Bond with Trigger Mortis and Forever and Day, published in 2015 and 2018 respectively. A third novel in the series With a Mind to Kill was published in May 2022.
Anthony’s award-winning novel Magpie Murders was published in October 2016 to critical acclaim and was serialised on BritBox at the beginning of 2022 with Lesley Manville in the lead role. It will be televised on the BBC in 2023. The sequel, Moonflower Murders, will begin filming in September 2023. His new series featuring Detective Hawthorne and a sidekick called Anthony Horowitz has four books so far: The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, A Line to Kill and the recently published The Twist of a Knife. Anthony has just started work on a fifth: Close to Death.
Anthony is responsible for creating and writing some of the UK’s most beloved and successful television series, producing the first seven episodes (and the title) of Midsomer Murders. He is the writer and creator of award-winning drama series Foyle’s War, which was the Winner of the Lew Grade Audience award for BAFTA.
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£ 50
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Emma Cowell
Emma Cowell
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Three Book Spectacular
Title 1: One Last Letter from Greece
Title 2: The Island Love Song
Title 3: The House in the Olive Grove
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Format: Paperbacks
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Book 1: One Last Letter from Greece
Will walking in her mother’s footsteps help Sophie discover who she was meant to be all along…?
Devastated by her mother’s death, Sophie longs to get away from an empty house full of memories and a life that hasn’t quite turned out as she had imagined.
So when a chance discovery among her mother’s belongings hints at a past Sophie knows nothing of, she jumps at the opportunity for escape and a chance to heal. The magical, idyllic Greek town of Methoni awaits…
But Sophie – determined to uncover her mother’s secrets – is about to discover so much more. Among the tranquil waters and cosy tavernas, Methoni’s locals offer Sophie the answers she craves, along with unexpected romance and, if she’ll take it, a chance at her own happiness…
Book 2: The Island Love Song
Escape to the beautiful Greek Island of Hydra with this moving novel, filled with family secrets and romance
Emma Cowell, author of THE HOUSE IN THE OLIVE GROVE, returns with her brand new, emotional and romantic novel set on an idyllic Greek Island.
Hydra, the picturesque Greek island, is a paradise for most, yet for sisters Ella and Georgia, it is a place where their darkest secrets dwell. And now the time has come for them to confront their past as they return to Greece to scatter their mother’s ashes.
Ella is haunted by a love song that was written for her by the man who broke her heart years earlier and she longs to find peace so she can move on with her life.
Georgia pretends everything in her life is perfect, but she is plagued with guilt. If what she’s kept hidden for decades was revealed, their family would never be the same again.
The island is urging the sisters to confront the truth, but can they build a future on the ruins of their past?
Book 3: The House in the Olive Grove
Will one week in Greece change their lives for ever?
Chef Maria is running a successful cookery school in her home village of Petalidi, Greece – but she is also running from the secrets of her past.
Food journalist Kayla thought this was going to be just another work trip. But right before she leaves for Greece, she discovers that her whole life is built on a lie.
Jewellery-maker Alessandra has always lived according to her own rules – despite what it has cost her to do so. But she has just had some devastating news.
As these three very different women come together at the house in the olive grove, unlikely friendships blossom and a season of self-discovery begins. Will the sumptuous flavours, sapphire waters and golden sands of Greece give each of them the answers they so desperately seek?
The Author:
Emma lives in Cornwall with her husband, Tony who is also a writer. A former actress and BBC presenter, segueing from being paid to talk for a living into writing was a natural progression, since story telling has been at the heart of her career to date. Outside of work, Emma is a keen angler and is attempting to learn Greek to maintain her love affair with the country where she has set her novels. She is yet to achieve a level of proficiency outside of tavernas and bakeries.
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Title 1: One Last Letter from Greece
Title 2: The Island Love Song
Title 3: The House in the Olive Grove
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Format: Paperbacks
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Book 1: One Last Letter from Greece
Will walking in her mother’s footsteps help Sophie discover who she was meant to be all along…?
Devastated by her mother’s death, Sophie longs to get away from an empty house full of memories and a life that hasn’t quite turned out as she had imagined.
So when a chance discovery among her mother’s belongings hints at a past Sophie knows nothing of, she jumps at the opportunity for escape and a chance to heal. The magical, idyllic Greek town of Methoni awaits…
But Sophie – determined to uncover her mother’s secrets – is about to discover so much more. Among the tranquil waters and cosy tavernas, Methoni’s locals offer Sophie the answers she craves, along with unexpected romance and, if she’ll take it, a chance at her own happiness…
Book 2: The Island Love Song
Escape to the beautiful Greek Island of Hydra with this moving novel, filled with family secrets and romance
Emma Cowell, author of THE HOUSE IN THE OLIVE GROVE, returns with her brand new, emotional and romantic novel set on an idyllic Greek Island.
Hydra, the picturesque Greek island, is a paradise for most, yet for sisters Ella and Georgia, it is a place where their darkest secrets dwell. And now the time has come for them to confront their past as they return to Greece to scatter their mother’s ashes.
Ella is haunted by a love song that was written for her by the man who broke her heart years earlier and she longs to find peace so she can move on with her life.
Georgia pretends everything in her life is perfect, but she is plagued with guilt. If what she’s kept hidden for decades was revealed, their family would never be the same again.
The island is urging the sisters to confront the truth, but can they build a future on the ruins of their past?
Book 3: The House in the Olive Grove
Will one week in Greece change their lives for ever?
Chef Maria is running a successful cookery school in her home village of Petalidi, Greece – but she is also running from the secrets of her past.
Food journalist Kayla thought this was going to be just another work trip. But right before she leaves for Greece, she discovers that her whole life is built on a lie.
Jewellery-maker Alessandra has always lived according to her own rules – despite what it has cost her to do so. But she has just had some devastating news.
As these three very different women come together at the house in the olive grove, unlikely friendships blossom and a season of self-discovery begins. Will the sumptuous flavours, sapphire waters and golden sands of Greece give each of them the answers they so desperately seek?
The Author:
Emma lives in Cornwall with her husband, Tony who is also a writer. A former actress and BBC presenter, segueing from being paid to talk for a living into writing was a natural progression, since story telling has been at the heart of her career to date. Outside of work, Emma is a keen angler and is attempting to learn Greek to maintain her love affair with the country where she has set her novels. She is yet to achieve a level of proficiency outside of tavernas and bakeries.
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£ 40
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Emma Cowell
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* A Rare Editors' Proof - Under The Lemon Tree is not Released until May 2025
Title: Under The Lemon Tree
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
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Details to follow.
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Emma lives in Cornwall with her husband, Tony who is also a writer. A former actress and BBC presenter, segueing from being paid to talk for a living into writing was a natural progression, since story telling has been at the heart of her career to date. Outside of work, Emma is a keen angler and is attempting to learn Greek to maintain her love affair with the country where she has set her novels. She is yet to achieve a level of proficiency outside of tavernas and bakeries.
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Title: Under The Lemon Tree
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Emma lives in Cornwall with her husband, Tony who is also a writer. A former actress and BBC presenter, segueing from being paid to talk for a living into writing was a natural progression, since story telling has been at the heart of her career to date. Outside of work, Emma is a keen angler and is attempting to learn Greek to maintain her love affair with the country where she has set her novels. She is yet to achieve a level of proficiency outside of tavernas and bakeries.
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Lot 75
£ 20
7
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Claire Sheldon
Claire Sheldon
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Title 1: Perfect Lie
Title 2: A Silent Child
Genre: Crime Thriller
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Title 1: Perfect Lie
What is ‘perfect’ trying to hide?
Jen Garner tries her best to be ‘wife and mother of the year’. She helps organise school plays and accompanies her husband to company dinners, all with a big smile on her face.
But Jen has started to receive strange gifts in the post ... first flowers, then a sympathy card. It could just be a joke; that’s what she tells herself. But then the final ‘gift’ arrives, and Jen has to question why somebody is so intent on shattering her life into pieces ...
Title 2: A Silent Child
The Streets are no place for a child ...
After a traumatic event that almost ripped Jen Garner’s family apart, life is finally starting to get back to normal.
Then a woman’s body is found in the river. Shortly afterwards, a young boy is discovered wandering the streets. He refuses to speak to anyone, just repeats one name over and over, to the confusion of most of the local authorities – but Jen knows exactly who he’s asking for, and it’s enough to make her blood run cold ...
The Author:
Claire lives in Nottingham with her family, and a dog called Podrick.
Claire suffers from Multiple Sclerosis but that doesn’t stop her writing, releasing her Perfect Lie in 2020 with A Silent Child and A Burning Lie later following.
When Claire isn't working, she enjoys reading crime novels and listening to music - the band Jimmy Eat World is her biggest muse! But she’s really Swiftie at heart.
The inspiration for her novels comes from the hours spent watching The Bill with her grandparents and auntie; then later, Spooks and other detective programmes like Morse, A Touch of Frost and Midsummer Murders.
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Title 1: Perfect Lie
What is ‘perfect’ trying to hide?
Jen Garner tries her best to be ‘wife and mother of the year’. She helps organise school plays and accompanies her husband to company dinners, all with a big smile on her face.
But Jen has started to receive strange gifts in the post ... first flowers, then a sympathy card. It could just be a joke; that’s what she tells herself. But then the final ‘gift’ arrives, and Jen has to question why somebody is so intent on shattering her life into pieces ...
Title 2: A Silent Child
The Streets are no place for a child ...
After a traumatic event that almost ripped Jen Garner’s family apart, life is finally starting to get back to normal.
Then a woman’s body is found in the river. Shortly afterwards, a young boy is discovered wandering the streets. He refuses to speak to anyone, just repeats one name over and over, to the confusion of most of the local authorities – but Jen knows exactly who he’s asking for, and it’s enough to make her blood run cold ...
The Author:
Claire lives in Nottingham with her family, and a dog called Podrick.
Claire suffers from Multiple Sclerosis but that doesn’t stop her writing, releasing her Perfect Lie in 2020 with A Silent Child and A Burning Lie later following.
When Claire isn't working, she enjoys reading crime novels and listening to music - the band Jimmy Eat World is her biggest muse! But she’s really Swiftie at heart.
The inspiration for her novels comes from the hours spent watching The Bill with her grandparents and auntie; then later, Spooks and other detective programmes like Morse, A Touch of Frost and Midsummer Murders.
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Maria Whitehead
Maria Whitehead
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Title: Embellish With Relish
Genre: Food and Drink
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Embellish With Relish shows how easy it can be to cook and prepare delicious food for your nearest and dearest. The book brings together simple but satisfying meals packed full of flavour, including family favourites, tried and tested classics, inventive creations and a selection of contemporary dishes with a twist so there’s something for everyone. Recipes for Spiced Garlic Kiev and Tex-Mex Cottage Pie provide savoury inspiration, alongside some seriously tempting sweet treats such as Salted CaramelBrownies and Raspberry Bakewell which put Hawkshead Relish creations like Raspberry & Vanilla Jam, Salted Caramel Sauce and Hot Garlic Pickle to good use.
Gift Bag:
The perfect foodie gift!
Treat the foodie in your life with this delicious NEW selection of bestselling preserves along with our ‘Embellish With Relish’ Cookbook. The book brings together over 50 simple but satisfying meals packed full of flavour, including family favourites, tried and tested classics, inventive creations and a selection of contemporary dishes with a twist so there’s something for everyone. Recipes for Spiced Garlic Kiev and Tex-Mex Cottage Pie provide savoury inspiration, alongside some seriously tempting sweet treats such as Salted Caramel Brownies and Raspberry Bakewell which put Hawkshead Relish creations like Raspberry & Vanilla Jam, Salted Caramel Sauce and Hot Garlic Pickle to good use.
"Hawkshead Relish has the most amazing range of products, but the story of this family business is also extraordinary. Their products are so versatile and are truly part of the cook’s armoury. They are creative but above all really tasty, and the business is a great ambassador for Cumbria." – Dave Myers, Hairy Biker
The recipes in Embellish With Relish are inspired by Mark and Maria’s travels around the world, as well as their family dinner table, and of course the relishes they produce from their 16th century barn on the shores of Esthwaite Water. They want to share the delights of the great food they’ve enjoyed along the way, and inspire people to embellish with relish!
The Author:
LAKE DISTRICT CAFÉ
(1999) we had a busy café in the Lake District Town of Hawkshead and made a small range of Chutney, Relish and Preserves to go with the meals served to our customers. People enjoyed the preserves so much they would ask to buy a jar to take home with them. Gradually we found we were producing more and more jars of preserves to sell.
We believe the reason why our products are so successful and why people love them is because we care about the ingredients we use. Where other producers will sometimes use cheaper ingredients to bulk out their products, we only use quality ingredients that add to the flavour and you can really taste the difference in the quality.
Having started with a small range of 2-3 products, we found out Mark had the knack for coming up with great new recipe ideas. He would come up with recipes that work well but were not run of the mill. As our range was growing, we found we had 20, 30, 50… 100 products. Mark’s imaginative and great tasting products lead to Hawkshead Relish also winning over 60 Great Taste Awards.
All our products are still made by hand using traditional open pans and are free from Nuts, Gluten, Additives and Preservatives as well as all being suitable for vegetarians and most are vegan friendly.
‘Flavour is the key ingredient using the best quality produce, if it doesn’t add flavour or texture, it doesn’t go in the jar!’
Maria Whitehead MBE
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Title: Embellish With Relish
Genre: Food and Drink
Format: Paperback
Signed - Dedication is Available
Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book;
Embellish With Relish shows how easy it can be to cook and prepare delicious food for your nearest and dearest. The book brings together simple but satisfying meals packed full of flavour, including family favourites, tried and tested classics, inventive creations and a selection of contemporary dishes with a twist so there’s something for everyone. Recipes for Spiced Garlic Kiev and Tex-Mex Cottage Pie provide savoury inspiration, alongside some seriously tempting sweet treats such as Salted CaramelBrownies and Raspberry Bakewell which put Hawkshead Relish creations like Raspberry & Vanilla Jam, Salted Caramel Sauce and Hot Garlic Pickle to good use.
Gift Bag:
The perfect foodie gift!
Treat the foodie in your life with this delicious NEW selection of bestselling preserves along with our ‘Embellish With Relish’ Cookbook. The book brings together over 50 simple but satisfying meals packed full of flavour, including family favourites, tried and tested classics, inventive creations and a selection of contemporary dishes with a twist so there’s something for everyone. Recipes for Spiced Garlic Kiev and Tex-Mex Cottage Pie provide savoury inspiration, alongside some seriously tempting sweet treats such as Salted Caramel Brownies and Raspberry Bakewell which put Hawkshead Relish creations like Raspberry & Vanilla Jam, Salted Caramel Sauce and Hot Garlic Pickle to good use.
"Hawkshead Relish has the most amazing range of products, but the story of this family business is also extraordinary. Their products are so versatile and are truly part of the cook’s armoury. They are creative but above all really tasty, and the business is a great ambassador for Cumbria." – Dave Myers, Hairy Biker
The recipes in Embellish With Relish are inspired by Mark and Maria’s travels around the world, as well as their family dinner table, and of course the relishes they produce from their 16th century barn on the shores of Esthwaite Water. They want to share the delights of the great food they’ve enjoyed along the way, and inspire people to embellish with relish!
The Author:
LAKE DISTRICT CAFÉ
(1999) we had a busy café in the Lake District Town of Hawkshead and made a small range of Chutney, Relish and Preserves to go with the meals served to our customers. People enjoyed the preserves so much they would ask to buy a jar to take home with them. Gradually we found we were producing more and more jars of preserves to sell.
We believe the reason why our products are so successful and why people love them is because we care about the ingredients we use. Where other producers will sometimes use cheaper ingredients to bulk out their products, we only use quality ingredients that add to the flavour and you can really taste the difference in the quality.
Having started with a small range of 2-3 products, we found out Mark had the knack for coming up with great new recipe ideas. He would come up with recipes that work well but were not run of the mill. As our range was growing, we found we had 20, 30, 50… 100 products. Mark’s imaginative and great tasting products lead to Hawkshead Relish also winning over 60 Great Taste Awards.
All our products are still made by hand using traditional open pans and are free from Nuts, Gluten, Additives and Preservatives as well as all being suitable for vegetarians and most are vegan friendly.
‘Flavour is the key ingredient using the best quality produce, if it doesn’t add flavour or texture, it doesn’t go in the jar!’
Maria Whitehead MBE
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Catherine Cooper
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Title: The Island
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
The perfect escape, or the perfect trap?
When a select group of influencers and journalists receive an exclusive invitation to a luxury resort in the Maldives, it seems like the ultimate press trip.
But when the island is cut off during a storm and people start dying, it looks like someone has murder in mind.
Are the guests really who they seem to be, or does each one of them have a secret to hide?
Something they would kill for?
Lose yourself in the latest twisty page-turner from the queen of glamorous crime, Catherine Cooper.
The Author:
I am a freelance journalist living in the South of France with my husband and two teenage children. We moved from London in 2009 so that the children could grow up bilingual and we could all ski more, and to enjoy a more relaxed pace of life.
I learned to ski on a school trip when I was 14 and have loved it ever since.
I'm an avid thriller reader and have been since I discovered Agatha Christie as a child.
Other than skiing and reading I love travel, theme parks (the pic on this page was taken on a rollercoaster in Spain) and I spend far too much time on social media. Some of my other favourite things include Alan Partridge, sparkly flip flops and salt and vinegar crisps.
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Genre: Psychological Thriller
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The Book;
The perfect escape, or the perfect trap?
When a select group of influencers and journalists receive an exclusive invitation to a luxury resort in the Maldives, it seems like the ultimate press trip.
But when the island is cut off during a storm and people start dying, it looks like someone has murder in mind.
Are the guests really who they seem to be, or does each one of them have a secret to hide?
Something they would kill for?
Lose yourself in the latest twisty page-turner from the queen of glamorous crime, Catherine Cooper.
The Author:
I am a freelance journalist living in the South of France with my husband and two teenage children. We moved from London in 2009 so that the children could grow up bilingual and we could all ski more, and to enjoy a more relaxed pace of life.
I learned to ski on a school trip when I was 14 and have loved it ever since.
I'm an avid thriller reader and have been since I discovered Agatha Christie as a child.
Other than skiing and reading I love travel, theme parks (the pic on this page was taken on a rollercoaster in Spain) and I spend far too much time on social media. Some of my other favourite things include Alan Partridge, sparkly flip flops and salt and vinegar crisps.
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Title: The Cruise
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
‘Intense and claustrophobic’ HEAT
‘Agatha Christie with glamour’ SUNDAY TIMES
A glamorous ship
During a New Year’s Eve party on a large, luxurious cruise ship in the Caribbean, the ship’s dancer, Lola, goes missing.
Everyone on board has something to hide
Two weeks later, the ship is out of service, laid up far from land with no more than a skeleton crew on board. And then more people start disappearing…
No one is safe
Why are the crew being harmed? Who is responsible? And who will be next?
The Author:
I am a freelance journalist living in the South of France with my husband and two teenage children. We moved from London in 2009 so that the children could grow up bilingual and we could all ski more, and to enjoy a more relaxed pace of life.
I learned to ski on a school trip when I was 14 and have loved it ever since.
I'm an avid thriller reader and have been since I discovered Agatha Christie as a child.
Other than skiing and reading I love travel, theme parks (the pic on this page was taken on a rollercoaster in Spain) and I spend far too much time on social media. Some of my other favourite things include Alan Partridge, sparkly flip flops and salt and vinegar crisps.
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Genre: Psychological Thriller
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
‘Intense and claustrophobic’ HEAT
‘Agatha Christie with glamour’ SUNDAY TIMES
A glamorous ship
During a New Year’s Eve party on a large, luxurious cruise ship in the Caribbean, the ship’s dancer, Lola, goes missing.
Everyone on board has something to hide
Two weeks later, the ship is out of service, laid up far from land with no more than a skeleton crew on board. And then more people start disappearing…
No one is safe
Why are the crew being harmed? Who is responsible? And who will be next?
The Author:
I am a freelance journalist living in the South of France with my husband and two teenage children. We moved from London in 2009 so that the children could grow up bilingual and we could all ski more, and to enjoy a more relaxed pace of life.
I learned to ski on a school trip when I was 14 and have loved it ever since.
I'm an avid thriller reader and have been since I discovered Agatha Christie as a child.
Other than skiing and reading I love travel, theme parks (the pic on this page was taken on a rollercoaster in Spain) and I spend far too much time on social media. Some of my other favourite things include Alan Partridge, sparkly flip flops and salt and vinegar crisps.
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Lynn Johnson
Lynn Johnson
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Two Book Bonanza
Title 1: The Girl from the Workhouse
Title 2: Wartime with the Tram Girls
Genre: Historical Saga
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Book 1: The Girl from the Workhouse (Book 1 in The Potteries Girls series)
Even in the Darkest of times, she never gave up hope.
Staffordshire, 1911. Ginnie Jones’s childhood is spent in the shadow of the famous Potteries. But with money in short supply and no hope in sight, Ginnie is sent to Haddon Workhouse.
Separated from her family, Ginnie has to grow up fast. When she meets Clara and Sam, she hopes that she has met friends for life… until tragedy snatches away her new-found joy.
Leaving Haddon three years later, Ginnie misses her friends – especially Sam, now a handsome young man. When Sam and Ginnie are reunited, their bond is as strong as ever – until Sam is sent to fight in WW1. Faced with uncertainty, will Ginnie finally find the happiness she’s never had?
In the darkness of the Great War, can she create a brighter future?
Book 2: Wartime with the Tram Girls (Book 2 in The Potteries Girls series)
While the men are off fighting, the women keep the country moving.
July 1914: Britain is in turmoil as WW1 changes the world. While the men head off to battle, the women at home take on traditionally male jobs.
Hiding her privileged background and her suffragette past, Constance Copeland signs up as a Clippie – collecting money and giving out tickets – on the trams.
Constance, now known as Connie, soon makes friends with fellow clippies, Betty and Jean, while growing closer to Inspector Robert Caldwell.
But Connie is haunted by a secret and if it comes out, it could destroy her new life.
After war ends, can Connie return to her previous existence? Or has she been changed forever by seeing a new world through the tram windows?
An uplifting and moving saga.
Author Bio:
Lynn Johnson left school with no qualifications. With determination and hard work, she ended her career as a Human Resources Manager with a large county council. She studied in her own time and achieved an Open University degree and a postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies. Writing short stories became part of her life and she joined the wonderful Romantic Novelists Association graduating from their fantastic New Writers Scheme. She writes The Potteries Girls series of books and is working on her fifth book. Born and raised in Stoke-on-Trent, she now lives in Orkney with her husband and six cats.
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Title 1: The Girl from the Workhouse
Title 2: Wartime with the Tram Girls
Genre: Historical Saga
Format Paperbacks
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Book 1: The Girl from the Workhouse (Book 1 in The Potteries Girls series)
Even in the Darkest of times, she never gave up hope.
Staffordshire, 1911. Ginnie Jones’s childhood is spent in the shadow of the famous Potteries. But with money in short supply and no hope in sight, Ginnie is sent to Haddon Workhouse.
Separated from her family, Ginnie has to grow up fast. When she meets Clara and Sam, she hopes that she has met friends for life… until tragedy snatches away her new-found joy.
Leaving Haddon three years later, Ginnie misses her friends – especially Sam, now a handsome young man. When Sam and Ginnie are reunited, their bond is as strong as ever – until Sam is sent to fight in WW1. Faced with uncertainty, will Ginnie finally find the happiness she’s never had?
In the darkness of the Great War, can she create a brighter future?
Book 2: Wartime with the Tram Girls (Book 2 in The Potteries Girls series)
While the men are off fighting, the women keep the country moving.
July 1914: Britain is in turmoil as WW1 changes the world. While the men head off to battle, the women at home take on traditionally male jobs.
Hiding her privileged background and her suffragette past, Constance Copeland signs up as a Clippie – collecting money and giving out tickets – on the trams.
Constance, now known as Connie, soon makes friends with fellow clippies, Betty and Jean, while growing closer to Inspector Robert Caldwell.
But Connie is haunted by a secret and if it comes out, it could destroy her new life.
After war ends, can Connie return to her previous existence? Or has she been changed forever by seeing a new world through the tram windows?
An uplifting and moving saga.
Author Bio:
Lynn Johnson left school with no qualifications. With determination and hard work, she ended her career as a Human Resources Manager with a large county council. She studied in her own time and achieved an Open University degree and a postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies. Writing short stories became part of her life and she joined the wonderful Romantic Novelists Association graduating from their fantastic New Writers Scheme. She writes The Potteries Girls series of books and is working on her fifth book. Born and raised in Stoke-on-Trent, she now lives in Orkney with her husband and six cats.
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Anna Brooke
Anna Brooke
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Title 1: Monster Bogey
Genre: Children
Format: Paperback
Title 2: Monster Stink
Genre: Children
Format: Paperback
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Postage & Packaging; FREE
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/AE_Brooke
Book 1 Blurb:
Dear Nose-Pickers, are you well? Good. Then come closer. For I'm about to tell you a right slimer of a tale ...
In it, there's a bogey monster, two best friends, four daredevil slugs, a neighbour so wicked she'll give you the willy-willy-woo-woos and a castle with secret chambers.
Will it end happily?
No ... Yes ... Sorry, I don't know!
You'd better ask the cabaret-singing spider ...
Book 2 Blurb:
The stinkingly brilliant sequel to Anna Brooke’s hit debut, Monster Bogey!
When the mysterious Stink appears, there’s a fart pandemic in the village – plus, Bogey has morphed into a dangerous, dripping sixty-foot goo monster, attracting the attention of Snotland Yard. Can Frank, Tiffany and the Snozzlers save the day?
Author Bio:
Anna’s writing career started in journalism as a film critic for Time Out Paris and the author of seven travel guidebooks for Frommer’s. She has written for multiple publications, including the Financial Times, The Times and The Sunday Times Travel Magazine, where she was the long-standing Paris expert. Her debut novel, Monster Bogey, was a SCBWI Undiscovered Voices winner and longlisted for the Bath Children’s Novel Award. When not writing, she has been an actress, a cabaret singer and an electro-pop artist, performing on stage and composing songs for films and commercials. Raised in Birmingham and Yorkshire, she now lives in Paris with her French-Canadian husband and son.
Genre: Children
Format: Paperback
Title 2: Monster Stink
Genre: Children
Format: Paperback
Dedications Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AE_Brooke
Book 1 Blurb:
Dear Nose-Pickers, are you well? Good. Then come closer. For I'm about to tell you a right slimer of a tale ...
In it, there's a bogey monster, two best friends, four daredevil slugs, a neighbour so wicked she'll give you the willy-willy-woo-woos and a castle with secret chambers.
Will it end happily?
No ... Yes ... Sorry, I don't know!
You'd better ask the cabaret-singing spider ...
Book 2 Blurb:
The stinkingly brilliant sequel to Anna Brooke’s hit debut, Monster Bogey!
When the mysterious Stink appears, there’s a fart pandemic in the village – plus, Bogey has morphed into a dangerous, dripping sixty-foot goo monster, attracting the attention of Snotland Yard. Can Frank, Tiffany and the Snozzlers save the day?
Author Bio:
Anna’s writing career started in journalism as a film critic for Time Out Paris and the author of seven travel guidebooks for Frommer’s. She has written for multiple publications, including the Financial Times, The Times and The Sunday Times Travel Magazine, where she was the long-standing Paris expert. Her debut novel, Monster Bogey, was a SCBWI Undiscovered Voices winner and longlisted for the Bath Children’s Novel Award. When not writing, she has been an actress, a cabaret singer and an electro-pop artist, performing on stage and composing songs for films and commercials. Raised in Birmingham and Yorkshire, she now lives in Paris with her French-Canadian husband and son.
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Anna Brooke
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Title: Two Little Dicky Birds
Genre: Children
Format: Paperback / Hardback
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The Book;
Two little dicky birds, sitting on the wall, "Hello, Peter, hello . . . wait, where did Paul go?!"
Help Peter rescue Paul in this interactive story! Tickle dragon's nose to save Paul from being gobbled up, cast a spell to get him out of the witch’s house, and find a way to help him escape a dark, scary cave – all while a hapless Paul is completely oblivious to the danger he’s in! Can you help Peter save Paul and get him back to their wall safely?
The Author:
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Genre: Children
Format: Paperback / Hardback
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The Book;
Two little dicky birds, sitting on the wall, "Hello, Peter, hello . . . wait, where did Paul go?!"
Help Peter rescue Paul in this interactive story! Tickle dragon's nose to save Paul from being gobbled up, cast a spell to get him out of the witch’s house, and find a way to help him escape a dark, scary cave – all while a hapless Paul is completely oblivious to the danger he’s in! Can you help Peter save Paul and get him back to their wall safely?
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£ 20
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Laura Shepperson
Laura Shepperson
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Title: The Heir of Venus
Genre: Myths & Legends
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The Book;
Aeneas, the son of Venus, is destined for greatness, prophesised to father a people who will one day rule the world.
But behind every great man are the women the prophecies forget.
Creusa, Dido and Lavinia will never meet, yet they are united by the ambitions of one man whose life is pre-ordained to collide irreparably with theirs.
But if their destiny remains unwritten, can they determine the future for themselves?
This is the story of Rome's origins as it's never been told before, through the eyes of three women whose choices changed history.
The Author:
Laura Shepperson was born in the UK and has always been fascinated by myths and myth retellings, studying Classical Studies at the University of Auckland. Her first novel, The Heroines, was a Sunday Times bestseller. In 2017 she was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Prize for Fiction. Laura holds a Master of Studies in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge.
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Genre: Myths & Legends
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The Book;
Aeneas, the son of Venus, is destined for greatness, prophesised to father a people who will one day rule the world.
But behind every great man are the women the prophecies forget.
Creusa, Dido and Lavinia will never meet, yet they are united by the ambitions of one man whose life is pre-ordained to collide irreparably with theirs.
But if their destiny remains unwritten, can they determine the future for themselves?
This is the story of Rome's origins as it's never been told before, through the eyes of three women whose choices changed history.
The Author:
Laura Shepperson was born in the UK and has always been fascinated by myths and myth retellings, studying Classical Studies at the University of Auckland. Her first novel, The Heroines, was a Sunday Times bestseller. In 2017 she was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Prize for Fiction. Laura holds a Master of Studies in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge.
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Title: The Twyford Code
Genre: Crime Thriller - Mystery
Format: Paperback - First Edition
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Can you crack the Twyford Code?
Edith Twyford was once a world-famous children's author, but now her only legacy is the rumoured existence of the Twyford Code: a series of clues hidden in her books leading to... what? No one knows - but that hasn't stopped the speculation.
Steve Smith can trace nearly all the bad things in his life back to Edith Twyford. As a child he found one of her books, covered in strange symbols. He showed it to his teacher, Miss Iles, who was convinced it held the key to the code. Within weeks Miss Iles had disappeared, and Steve has no idea if she is dead or alive - or if she was right. Now he's determined to find out.
But the Twyford Code hides secrets some would do anything to possess, and Steve isn't the only one on its trail. The race is on to solve the mystery of the century. Could you get there first?
The Author:
Janice Hallett is the author of three best-selling novels. Her debut, The Appeal, was awarded the CWA Debut Dagger of 2021 and was a Sunday Times’ Bestseller, Waterstones’ Thriller of the Month and Sunday Times’ Crime Book of the Month. Her second novel The Twyford Code was named Crime & Thriller Book of the Year in the British Book Awards 2023. It was also a Sunday Times’ Bestseller and a Financial Times book of the year. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels was an instant Times and Sunday Times bestseller on its launch in January 2023 and a Richard & Judy Book Club pick.
The Christmas Appeal, a fast, fun and festive novella, was launched in October 2023. It was a Times and Sunday Times bestseller.
Her next novel is The Examiner, released on 29 August 2024.
Her first novel for children aged 8-12 is A Box Full of Murders, released in March 2025.
Janice is a former magazine editor, award-winning journalist, and government communications writer. As a playwright and screenwriter, she penned the feminist Shakespearean stage comedy NetherBard and co-wrote the feature film Retreat.
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Can you crack the Twyford Code?
Edith Twyford was once a world-famous children's author, but now her only legacy is the rumoured existence of the Twyford Code: a series of clues hidden in her books leading to... what? No one knows - but that hasn't stopped the speculation.
Steve Smith can trace nearly all the bad things in his life back to Edith Twyford. As a child he found one of her books, covered in strange symbols. He showed it to his teacher, Miss Iles, who was convinced it held the key to the code. Within weeks Miss Iles had disappeared, and Steve has no idea if she is dead or alive - or if she was right. Now he's determined to find out.
But the Twyford Code hides secrets some would do anything to possess, and Steve isn't the only one on its trail. The race is on to solve the mystery of the century. Could you get there first?
The Author:
Janice Hallett is the author of three best-selling novels. Her debut, The Appeal, was awarded the CWA Debut Dagger of 2021 and was a Sunday Times’ Bestseller, Waterstones’ Thriller of the Month and Sunday Times’ Crime Book of the Month. Her second novel The Twyford Code was named Crime & Thriller Book of the Year in the British Book Awards 2023. It was also a Sunday Times’ Bestseller and a Financial Times book of the year. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels was an instant Times and Sunday Times bestseller on its launch in January 2023 and a Richard & Judy Book Club pick.
The Christmas Appeal, a fast, fun and festive novella, was launched in October 2023. It was a Times and Sunday Times bestseller.
Her next novel is The Examiner, released on 29 August 2024.
Her first novel for children aged 8-12 is A Box Full of Murders, released in March 2025.
Janice is a former magazine editor, award-winning journalist, and government communications writer. As a playwright and screenwriter, she penned the feminist Shakespearean stage comedy NetherBard and co-wrote the feature film Retreat.
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Book Title: Pandora and the Story Forge
Genre: Picture Book
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Discover the magical world of storyteller Pandora, adorer of brave and beautiful words, weaver and forger of tales.
Pandora is an explorer, a collector of words (even ones that misbehave). Once she has the words she needs, she watches them flower and then forges them into the most magical stories. Friend to all the story-starved children, Pandora knows a secret: once read, a story unfurls in your heart. Enter her world and you’ll never see words in quite the same way again.
The Author:
Gaynor Andrews is the author of children’s stories and poems. Her debut rhyming picture book, Pandora and the Story Forge, illustrated by the award-winning French artist Marie-Alice Harel, celebrates the power of words and the magic of stories.
Originally from Wales, she now lives in the north of Scotland. The epic landscape of her childhood and her adventures teaching around the world can be seen in her incredibly accomplished writing.
French artist Marie-Alice Harel won the Folio Illustration Competition in 2019 and has illustrated many books for The Folio Society. Her ethereal watercolours capture the imagination.
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Discover the magical world of storyteller Pandora, adorer of brave and beautiful words, weaver and forger of tales.
Pandora is an explorer, a collector of words (even ones that misbehave). Once she has the words she needs, she watches them flower and then forges them into the most magical stories. Friend to all the story-starved children, Pandora knows a secret: once read, a story unfurls in your heart. Enter her world and you’ll never see words in quite the same way again.
The Author:
Gaynor Andrews is the author of children’s stories and poems. Her debut rhyming picture book, Pandora and the Story Forge, illustrated by the award-winning French artist Marie-Alice Harel, celebrates the power of words and the magic of stories.
Originally from Wales, she now lives in the north of Scotland. The epic landscape of her childhood and her adventures teaching around the world can be seen in her incredibly accomplished writing.
French artist Marie-Alice Harel won the Folio Illustration Competition in 2019 and has illustrated many books for The Folio Society. Her ethereal watercolours capture the imagination.
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Sarah Morgan
Sarah Morgan
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Title: The Christmas Cottage
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Format: Paperback
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Will this Christmas finally bring comfort and joy?
A PAINFUL SECRET
Imogen loves her job as an events organiser, and her colleagues are in awe of her. But Imogen isn’t the person she pretends to be, and she’s hiding painful truths about her past. But as long as she can keep on top of her work, Imogen can put everything else to one side.
AN ACT OF KINDNESS
And then Imogen makes a catastrophic mistake at work, and finally realises it's time to reset. When her favourite client, Dorothy, invites her to spend Christmas with her and her family, in her cottage in the Cotswolds, it sounds like the perfect way for Imogen to take stock.
FINDING HAPPINESS AT CHRISTMAS
Imogen soon settles into idyllic cottage life, especially with the prospect of a new romance on the horizon … but when long-buried secrets and unwanted faces from the past resurface, Imogen’s new peace is threatened. Will Imogen end up alone this Christmas, or can she find it in her heart to forgive and move on?
The Author:
USA Today bestselling author Sarah Morgan writes lively, sexy contemporary stories for Harlequin. Romantic Times has described her as 'a magician with words' and nominated her books for their Reviewer's Choice Awards and their 'Top Pick' slot. In 2012 Sarah received the prestigious RITA® Award from the Romance Writers of America. She lives near London with her family. Find out more at http://www.sararahmorgan.co
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Will this Christmas finally bring comfort and joy?
A PAINFUL SECRET
Imogen loves her job as an events organiser, and her colleagues are in awe of her. But Imogen isn’t the person she pretends to be, and she’s hiding painful truths about her past. But as long as she can keep on top of her work, Imogen can put everything else to one side.
AN ACT OF KINDNESS
And then Imogen makes a catastrophic mistake at work, and finally realises it's time to reset. When her favourite client, Dorothy, invites her to spend Christmas with her and her family, in her cottage in the Cotswolds, it sounds like the perfect way for Imogen to take stock.
FINDING HAPPINESS AT CHRISTMAS
Imogen soon settles into idyllic cottage life, especially with the prospect of a new romance on the horizon … but when long-buried secrets and unwanted faces from the past resurface, Imogen’s new peace is threatened. Will Imogen end up alone this Christmas, or can she find it in her heart to forgive and move on?
The Author:
USA Today bestselling author Sarah Morgan writes lively, sexy contemporary stories for Harlequin. Romantic Times has described her as 'a magician with words' and nominated her books for their Reviewer's Choice Awards and their 'Top Pick' slot. In 2012 Sarah received the prestigious RITA® Award from the Romance Writers of America. She lives near London with her family. Find out more at http://www.sararahmorgan.co
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Title: Scandalous Women
Genre: Historical Fiction
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Mad Men meets the world of publishing in international bestselling author Gill Paul’s new novel about Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann, two dynamic, groundbreaking writers renowned for their scandalous and controversial novels, and the beleaguered young editorial assistant who introduces them.
1966, NYC: Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls hits the bookstores and she is desperate for a bestseller. It’s steamy, it’s a page-turner, but will it make the big money she needs? In London, Jackie Collins’s racy The World Is Full of Married Men launches her career. But neither author is prepared for the price they will pay for being women who dare to write about sex.
Jacqueline and Jackie are lambasted by the literary establishment, deluged with hate mail, and even condemned by feminists. In public, both women shoulder the outcry with dignity; in private, they are crumbling—particularly since they have secrets they don’t want splashed across the front pages.
1965, NYC: College graduate Nancy White is excited to take up her dream job at a Manhattan publishing house, but she could never be prepared for the rampant sexism she will encounter. While working on Valley of the Dolls, she becomes friends with Jacqueline Susann, and, after reaching out to Jackie Collins about a US deal, she is responsible for the two authors meeting.
Will the two Jackies clash as they race to top the charts? Will Nancy achieve her ambition of becoming an editor, despite all the men determined to hold her back? Three women struggle to succeed in a man’s world, while desperately trying to protect those they love the most.
The Author:
Gill Paul is the bestselling author of twelve historical novels, many of them about real women from the past whom she thinks have been marginalized or misjudged by historians. Her novels have reached the top of the USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Toronto Globe & Mail charts, and have been translated into twenty-two languages.
Gill also writes historical non-fiction, including A History of Medicine in 50 Objects and series of Love Stories. Published around the world, this series includes Royal Love Stories, World War I Love Stories and Titanic Love Stories.
Gill was born in Scotland and grew up there, apart from an eventful year at school in the US when she was ten. She studied Medicine at Glasgow University, then English Literature and History (she was a student for a long time), before moving to London to work in publishing. Her first novel was written at weekends, but she has now given up the ‘day job’ to write fiction full-time. She also writes short stories for magazines and speaks at libraries and literary festivals about subjects ranging from Dorothy Parker to the Romanovs, and about writing itself.
Gill swims daily, year-round in a wild pond and loves vintage clothes, old movies, and poking around in bookshops.
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Genre: Historical Fiction
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The Book;
Mad Men meets the world of publishing in international bestselling author Gill Paul’s new novel about Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann, two dynamic, groundbreaking writers renowned for their scandalous and controversial novels, and the beleaguered young editorial assistant who introduces them.
1966, NYC: Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls hits the bookstores and she is desperate for a bestseller. It’s steamy, it’s a page-turner, but will it make the big money she needs? In London, Jackie Collins’s racy The World Is Full of Married Men launches her career. But neither author is prepared for the price they will pay for being women who dare to write about sex.
Jacqueline and Jackie are lambasted by the literary establishment, deluged with hate mail, and even condemned by feminists. In public, both women shoulder the outcry with dignity; in private, they are crumbling—particularly since they have secrets they don’t want splashed across the front pages.
1965, NYC: College graduate Nancy White is excited to take up her dream job at a Manhattan publishing house, but she could never be prepared for the rampant sexism she will encounter. While working on Valley of the Dolls, she becomes friends with Jacqueline Susann, and, after reaching out to Jackie Collins about a US deal, she is responsible for the two authors meeting.
Will the two Jackies clash as they race to top the charts? Will Nancy achieve her ambition of becoming an editor, despite all the men determined to hold her back? Three women struggle to succeed in a man’s world, while desperately trying to protect those they love the most.
The Author:
Gill Paul is the bestselling author of twelve historical novels, many of them about real women from the past whom she thinks have been marginalized or misjudged by historians. Her novels have reached the top of the USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Toronto Globe & Mail charts, and have been translated into twenty-two languages.
Gill also writes historical non-fiction, including A History of Medicine in 50 Objects and series of Love Stories. Published around the world, this series includes Royal Love Stories, World War I Love Stories and Titanic Love Stories.
Gill was born in Scotland and grew up there, apart from an eventful year at school in the US when she was ten. She studied Medicine at Glasgow University, then English Literature and History (she was a student for a long time), before moving to London to work in publishing. Her first novel was written at weekends, but she has now given up the ‘day job’ to write fiction full-time. She also writes short stories for magazines and speaks at libraries and literary festivals about subjects ranging from Dorothy Parker to the Romanovs, and about writing itself.
Gill swims daily, year-round in a wild pond and loves vintage clothes, old movies, and poking around in bookshops.
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Philip Gray
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Title: Two Storm Wood
Genre: Historical Thriller
Format: Hardback US Edition
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1919. On the battlefields of northern France, the guns of the Great War are silent. Special battalions now face the task of gathering up the dead for mass burial.
Amy Vanneck's fiancé is one soldier lost amongst many. She heads to France, determined to discover what became of the man she loved.
Meanwhile, Captain Mackenzie cannot bring himself to go home until his fallen comrades are laid to rest. His task is upended when a gruesome discovery is made beneath the ruins of a German strongpoint.
It soon becomes clear that what Mackenzie has uncovered is a war crime of inhuman savagery. As the dark truth leaches out, both he and Amy are drawn into the hunt for a psychopath, one for whom the atrocity at Two Storm Wood is not an end, but a beginning.
Author Bio:
Philip studied modern history at Cambridge University, and went on to work as a journalist in Madrid, Rome and Lisbon. He has tutored in crime writing at City University in London and serves as a director at an award-winning documentary film company, specialising in science and history.
Philip's grandfather was a captain in the Lancashire Fusiliers and fought through the First World War from start to finish, losing his closest friends along the way. Years after his death, Philip came across a cache of trench maps and military documents that his grandfather had kept, and in which he had recorded the events that befell his unit. Philip was inspired to write his thriller Two Storm Wood when the pull of his grandfather's legacy felt too strong to ignore.
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1919. On the battlefields of northern France, the guns of the Great War are silent. Special battalions now face the task of gathering up the dead for mass burial.
Amy Vanneck's fiancé is one soldier lost amongst many. She heads to France, determined to discover what became of the man she loved.
Meanwhile, Captain Mackenzie cannot bring himself to go home until his fallen comrades are laid to rest. His task is upended when a gruesome discovery is made beneath the ruins of a German strongpoint.
It soon becomes clear that what Mackenzie has uncovered is a war crime of inhuman savagery. As the dark truth leaches out, both he and Amy are drawn into the hunt for a psychopath, one for whom the atrocity at Two Storm Wood is not an end, but a beginning.
Author Bio:
Philip studied modern history at Cambridge University, and went on to work as a journalist in Madrid, Rome and Lisbon. He has tutored in crime writing at City University in London and serves as a director at an award-winning documentary film company, specialising in science and history.
Philip's grandfather was a captain in the Lancashire Fusiliers and fought through the First World War from start to finish, losing his closest friends along the way. Years after his death, Philip came across a cache of trench maps and military documents that his grandfather had kept, and in which he had recorded the events that befell his unit. Philip was inspired to write his thriller Two Storm Wood when the pull of his grandfather's legacy felt too strong to ignore.
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Title 1: Unsolved
Title 2: Unburied
Title 3: Unsound
Genre: Crime Fiction
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Book 1: UNSOLVED
He won’t rest until he finds out the truth…
Cal Lovett is obsessed with finding justice for the families of missing people. His true crime podcast is his way of helping others, even if he can’t help himself.
His sister, Margot, disappeared when he was a child. Only one man seems to know something. But he’s behind bars and can’t be trusted.
So when the family of a missing Scottish woman begs for his help, he heads to Aberdeenshire in search of the truth.
Does Cal have what it takes to unearth the secrets hiding in the hills? And what if he finds something that leads him back to the heart of his own family’s past?
Book 2: UNBURIED
‘The police. They’re digging in the scrapyard.’
Cal Lovett has spent half his life telling other people’s stories on his true crime podcast. But the police are close to solving the mystery of his sister’s disappearance – now he might finally get to tell Margot’s story.
A desperate relative begs for his help.
Cal seeks respite on a holiday in the Scottish Highlands, but is dragged into a new cold case: an unsolved murder that shattered a family fourteen years ago.
An isolated community wary of outsiders.
Eyes follow Cal everywhere. And someone makes it very clear that they don’t want him snooping around…
How far will he go to find justice? And how far is far enough?
Book 3: UNSOUND
He left for university… and never came back
Arran went missing in Edinburgh twenty years ago. The last time his parents saw him he was withdrawn and on edge where he’d once been happy and carefree. Still searching for their son, they turn to their last hope, true crime podcaster Cal Lovett.
Cal begins looking for answers, but is distracted by his sister’s murder trial. He’s so close to getting the justice Margot deserves. Can he finally leave the past – and Margot – behind?
As Cal unearths disturbing evidence about Arran’s fate, he suspects the young man’s close-knit group of university friends are keeping secrets to protect each other. It seems old loyalties don’t die easily. But they can’t all stay silent forever…
The Author:
Heather Critchlow grew up in rural Aberdeenshire and trained as a business journalist after studying history and social science at university. Published by Canelo in May 2023, her debut novel Unsolved is the first in a series about true crime podcaster Cal Lovett, and was shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize.
Unburied was published in January 2024. It will be followed by Unsound in September and a further two in the Cal Lovett series. Heather’s first speculative crime thriller The Tomorrow Project will be out in hardback in Spring 2025. She now lives in Hertfordshire.
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Title 2: Unburied
Title 3: Unsound
Genre: Crime Fiction
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Book 1: UNSOLVED
He won’t rest until he finds out the truth…
Cal Lovett is obsessed with finding justice for the families of missing people. His true crime podcast is his way of helping others, even if he can’t help himself.
His sister, Margot, disappeared when he was a child. Only one man seems to know something. But he’s behind bars and can’t be trusted.
So when the family of a missing Scottish woman begs for his help, he heads to Aberdeenshire in search of the truth.
Does Cal have what it takes to unearth the secrets hiding in the hills? And what if he finds something that leads him back to the heart of his own family’s past?
Book 2: UNBURIED
‘The police. They’re digging in the scrapyard.’
Cal Lovett has spent half his life telling other people’s stories on his true crime podcast. But the police are close to solving the mystery of his sister’s disappearance – now he might finally get to tell Margot’s story.
A desperate relative begs for his help.
Cal seeks respite on a holiday in the Scottish Highlands, but is dragged into a new cold case: an unsolved murder that shattered a family fourteen years ago.
An isolated community wary of outsiders.
Eyes follow Cal everywhere. And someone makes it very clear that they don’t want him snooping around…
How far will he go to find justice? And how far is far enough?
Book 3: UNSOUND
He left for university… and never came back
Arran went missing in Edinburgh twenty years ago. The last time his parents saw him he was withdrawn and on edge where he’d once been happy and carefree. Still searching for their son, they turn to their last hope, true crime podcaster Cal Lovett.
Cal begins looking for answers, but is distracted by his sister’s murder trial. He’s so close to getting the justice Margot deserves. Can he finally leave the past – and Margot – behind?
As Cal unearths disturbing evidence about Arran’s fate, he suspects the young man’s close-knit group of university friends are keeping secrets to protect each other. It seems old loyalties don’t die easily. But they can’t all stay silent forever…
The Author:
Heather Critchlow grew up in rural Aberdeenshire and trained as a business journalist after studying history and social science at university. Published by Canelo in May 2023, her debut novel Unsolved is the first in a series about true crime podcaster Cal Lovett, and was shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize.
Unburied was published in January 2024. It will be followed by Unsound in September and a further two in the Cal Lovett series. Heather’s first speculative crime thriller The Tomorrow Project will be out in hardback in Spring 2025. She now lives in Hertfordshire.
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£ 16
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Steve Lenton - Andy Day
Steve Lenton - Andy Day
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Two Book Bonanza
Title1: Dino Dad
Title 2: Dino Dad - Ice Age
Genre: Children
Format: Picturebook
Signed - Dedications are Available
Bids Accepted: UK Only
Book 1; Dino Dad
A fantastic new magical dino-tastic adventure series from CBeebies superstar Andy Day, paired with illustration powerhouse Steven Lenton!
What if YOUR dad could change into a dinosaur?
Hi, I’m Ruby! And I’ve got a big secret . . . everyone thinks my dad is an amazing dinosaur expert at our local museum. And he totally is! But he’s also . . . a POOPA! And so am I!
What’s a POOPA? Well, it means he’s a Protector Of Our Prehistoric Allies. When me and Dad touch his special, magic ammonite shell, we travel to an incredible island, full of dinosaurs who live just like us humans do. And when we go there, we turn into dinosaurs too!
We have so many amazing adventures . . . and I can’t wait for you to join us!
Book 2: Dino Dad - Ice Age
A magical dino-tastic adventure series from children's TV superstar Andy Day, with amazing illustrations from illustrator powerhouse Steven Lenton!
What if YOUR dad could change into a dinosaur?
Hello! It's me, Ruby Thumb. You might remember me and my dad - we're famous POOPAs. What do you mean you've not heard of us? And you don't know what a POOPA is?! It means we're Protector Of Our Dinosaur Allies - obviously!
Me and my dad have loads of amazing adventures in Dinotropolis - an incredible island, full of dinosaurs who live just like us humans do. And when we go there using our special magic Ammonite shell, we turn into dinosaurs too!
I can't wait to tell you all about our amazing frozen adventure. We had to rescue a baby woolly mammoth, and make sure it got back safely to its mummy - as well as un-freeze Dinotropolis! It was pretty roarsome - now let me tell you all about it!
A hilarious and brilliantly illustrated easy-to-read story peppered with real dino facts - perfect for any young dinosaur-lover!
The Author:
Andy is a beloved children’s TV presenter and the star of multiple children’s TV shows, most notably his Andy’s Adventures, which span from dinosaurs, safari and ‘aquatic’. He is also the star of Andy and the Band, which features Andy’s real-life pop band, Andy and the Odd Socks.
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The Illustrator:
Steven Lenton is a multi-award winning illustrator, originally from Cheshire, now working from his studios in Brighton and London with his dog, Big Eared Bob. He has illustrated many children’s books including ‘Head Kid’ and ‘The Taylor Turbochaser’ by David Baddiel, ‘The Hundred And One Dalmatians’ adapted by Peter Bently, the ‘Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam’ series by Tracey Corderoy and the Sainsbury’s Prize winning ‘The Nothing To See Here Hotel’ series written by Steven Butler. He has illustrated two World Book Day titles and regularly appears at literary festivals and live events across the UK. Steven has his own ‘Draw-along’ YouTube Channel, showing how to draw a range of his characters. Steven has also written his own picture book ‘Princess Daisy and the Dragon and the Nincompoop Knights’ and his new illustrated fiction series ‘Genie and Teeny’.
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Title1: Dino Dad
Title 2: Dino Dad - Ice Age
Genre: Children
Format: Picturebook
Signed - Dedications are Available
Bids Accepted: UK Only
Book 1; Dino Dad
A fantastic new magical dino-tastic adventure series from CBeebies superstar Andy Day, paired with illustration powerhouse Steven Lenton!
What if YOUR dad could change into a dinosaur?
Hi, I’m Ruby! And I’ve got a big secret . . . everyone thinks my dad is an amazing dinosaur expert at our local museum. And he totally is! But he’s also . . . a POOPA! And so am I!
What’s a POOPA? Well, it means he’s a Protector Of Our Prehistoric Allies. When me and Dad touch his special, magic ammonite shell, we travel to an incredible island, full of dinosaurs who live just like us humans do. And when we go there, we turn into dinosaurs too!
We have so many amazing adventures . . . and I can’t wait for you to join us!
Book 2: Dino Dad - Ice Age
A magical dino-tastic adventure series from children's TV superstar Andy Day, with amazing illustrations from illustrator powerhouse Steven Lenton!
What if YOUR dad could change into a dinosaur?
Hello! It's me, Ruby Thumb. You might remember me and my dad - we're famous POOPAs. What do you mean you've not heard of us? And you don't know what a POOPA is?! It means we're Protector Of Our Dinosaur Allies - obviously!
Me and my dad have loads of amazing adventures in Dinotropolis - an incredible island, full of dinosaurs who live just like us humans do. And when we go there using our special magic Ammonite shell, we turn into dinosaurs too!
I can't wait to tell you all about our amazing frozen adventure. We had to rescue a baby woolly mammoth, and make sure it got back safely to its mummy - as well as un-freeze Dinotropolis! It was pretty roarsome - now let me tell you all about it!
A hilarious and brilliantly illustrated easy-to-read story peppered with real dino facts - perfect for any young dinosaur-lover!
The Author:
Andy is a beloved children’s TV presenter and the star of multiple children’s TV shows, most notably his Andy’s Adventures, which span from dinosaurs, safari and ‘aquatic’. He is also the star of Andy and the Band, which features Andy’s real-life pop band, Andy and the Odd Socks.
Follow:
X: https://x.com/AndyDayTV
The Illustrator:
Steven Lenton is a multi-award winning illustrator, originally from Cheshire, now working from his studios in Brighton and London with his dog, Big Eared Bob. He has illustrated many children’s books including ‘Head Kid’ and ‘The Taylor Turbochaser’ by David Baddiel, ‘The Hundred And One Dalmatians’ adapted by Peter Bently, the ‘Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam’ series by Tracey Corderoy and the Sainsbury’s Prize winning ‘The Nothing To See Here Hotel’ series written by Steven Butler. He has illustrated two World Book Day titles and regularly appears at literary festivals and live events across the UK. Steven has his own ‘Draw-along’ YouTube Channel, showing how to draw a range of his characters. Steven has also written his own picture book ‘Princess Daisy and the Dragon and the Nincompoop Knights’ and his new illustrated fiction series ‘Genie and Teeny’.
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Kimber Silver
Kimber Silver
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90
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Title: Broken Rhodes
Genre: Mystery - Romance
Format: Paperback
Signed - Dedication is Available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book;
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James' life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town's first homicide in twenty years wasn't enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes' bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm's way.
In a race against time, Lincoln's prime objective is to discover the killer's identity before Miss Rhodes becomes the next victim...
The Author:
Kimber Silver was born and raised in Kansas and spent most of her childhood at her grandparents’ farm. However, her love of travel has taken her on many adventures and broadened her horizons. Kimber lives with her husband and two rescue dogs in central Kansas. Broken Rhodes is her debut novel.
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Genre: Mystery - Romance
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Kinsley Rhodes blows into Harlow, Kansas like a tornado, twisting Sheriff Lincoln James' life into knots. Her grandfather has been murdered and she wants answers.
As if the town's first homicide in twenty years wasn't enough, the beleaguered sheriff now has to deal with Henry Rhodes' bobcat of a granddaughter, plunging his life deeper into chaos. As a dark storm threatens, long-held secrets are exposed, placing Kinsley directly in harm's way.
In a race against time, Lincoln's prime objective is to discover the killer's identity before Miss Rhodes becomes the next victim...
The Author:
Kimber Silver was born and raised in Kansas and spent most of her childhood at her grandparents’ farm. However, her love of travel has taken her on many adventures and broadened her horizons. Kimber lives with her husband and two rescue dogs in central Kansas. Broken Rhodes is her debut novel.
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Kael Tudor & Nicola Slater
Kael Tudor & Nicola Slater
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91
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Title: One Goose, Two Moose
Genre: Comedy picture book
Hardback or paperback: First edition paperback
Signed: Yes, by Author Kael Tudor and Illustrator Nicola Slater
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book;
brilliantly funny book from debut author Kael Tudor filled with hilarious and bright illustrations from Nicola Slater, the bestselling illustrator of The Leaf Thief.
OK, everyone, line up!
One goose, two moose, three goose, four.
Five goose, six moose, seven goose, more.
WAIT!
Welcome to the ice cream shop, where there's a goose line, a moose line and a slightly bossy goose who wants everyone to be IN THE RIGHT LINE, PLEASE!
That sounds easy enough, doesn't it?
This brilliantly funny picture book perfectly captures the chaos of queueing up, and features a fun counting element too.
Witty and original first book in a brand-new series from debut author Kael Tudor
Laugh-out-loud characters by Nicola Slater, illustrator of the New York Times bestseller, The Leaf Thief
An engaging story and bright, fun illustrations make this picture book perfect for fans of OI FROG! and The Squirrels Who Squabbled
With a super silly counting element!
The Author:
Kael Tudor writes books for kids.
He began writing his own stories at a young age, inspired by the books he bought at school fairs and jumble sales. As an adult he still writes stories, but hopefully does a slightly better job of it.
Kael lives in Swansea, South Wales.
The Illustrator:
Nicola Slater is an award-winning Illustrator who has produced many picture books, including the New York Times bestselling ‘The Leaf Thief’ by Alice Hemming, 'Don't Say Elephant' by Stuart Heritage, 'There's a Skunk in my Bunk' by Christopher Cerf, and many more – all of which have been translated into numerous languages throughout the world. Clients include: Scholastic, Puffin, Macmillan, Nosy Crow, Hachette, Penguin Random house and Chronicle Books.
In her spare time she likes looking at animals, sitting in the rain, and bothering her children.
She is represented by Good Illustration
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Genre: Comedy picture book
Hardback or paperback: First edition paperback
Signed: Yes, by Author Kael Tudor and Illustrator Nicola Slater
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book;
brilliantly funny book from debut author Kael Tudor filled with hilarious and bright illustrations from Nicola Slater, the bestselling illustrator of The Leaf Thief.
OK, everyone, line up!
One goose, two moose, three goose, four.
Five goose, six moose, seven goose, more.
WAIT!
Welcome to the ice cream shop, where there's a goose line, a moose line and a slightly bossy goose who wants everyone to be IN THE RIGHT LINE, PLEASE!
That sounds easy enough, doesn't it?
This brilliantly funny picture book perfectly captures the chaos of queueing up, and features a fun counting element too.
Witty and original first book in a brand-new series from debut author Kael Tudor
Laugh-out-loud characters by Nicola Slater, illustrator of the New York Times bestseller, The Leaf Thief
An engaging story and bright, fun illustrations make this picture book perfect for fans of OI FROG! and The Squirrels Who Squabbled
With a super silly counting element!
The Author:
Kael Tudor writes books for kids.
He began writing his own stories at a young age, inspired by the books he bought at school fairs and jumble sales. As an adult he still writes stories, but hopefully does a slightly better job of it.
Kael lives in Swansea, South Wales.
The Illustrator:
Nicola Slater is an award-winning Illustrator who has produced many picture books, including the New York Times bestselling ‘The Leaf Thief’ by Alice Hemming, 'Don't Say Elephant' by Stuart Heritage, 'There's a Skunk in my Bunk' by Christopher Cerf, and many more – all of which have been translated into numerous languages throughout the world. Clients include: Scholastic, Puffin, Macmillan, Nosy Crow, Hachette, Penguin Random house and Chronicle Books.
In her spare time she likes looking at animals, sitting in the rain, and bothering her children.
She is represented by Good Illustration
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https://x.com/nicolaslater
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaeltudor/
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£ 20
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Sarah Ziman
Sarah Ziman
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92
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Highest bidder: Lisa Perron
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*Bonus : Sarah is adding a set of 'Why Did My Brain Make Me Say It?' for her successful bidder.
Title: Why Did My Brain Make Me Say It?
Genre: Poetry for children (7 and up)
Format: Paperback
Signed: Yes, dedicated as wished
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book;
In this debut collection for children, Sarah takes the reader on a vibrant journey based on her acute observations of everyday life and language.
Loosely arranged across a school year, from September through Halloween, Christmas, Spring, Summer holidays and then the start of a new school year just before secondary school, Sarah's witty observations, juxtapositions and playful use of language pervade every poem and bring a vivid charm and freshness to each page.
This ‘Troika First’ collection heralds the emergence of a strikingly new and inventive voice in children's poetry.
The Author:
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Title: Why Did My Brain Make Me Say It?
Genre: Poetry for children (7 and up)
Format: Paperback
Signed: Yes, dedicated as wished
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book;
In this debut collection for children, Sarah takes the reader on a vibrant journey based on her acute observations of everyday life and language.
Loosely arranged across a school year, from September through Halloween, Christmas, Spring, Summer holidays and then the start of a new school year just before secondary school, Sarah's witty observations, juxtapositions and playful use of language pervade every poem and bring a vivid charm and freshness to each page.
This ‘Troika First’ collection heralds the emergence of a strikingly new and inventive voice in children's poetry.
The Author:
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£ 11
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Ruth Leigh
Ruth Leigh
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93
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Title: The Diary of Isabella M Smugge
Genre: Contemporary Humour
Format: Paperback (first edition)
Signed: Dedication is Available
Bids : UK Only
The Book;
Meet Isabella Smugge – as in ‘Br-uge-s’, naturally! Instagram influencer, consummate show-off and endearingly self-unaware. With a palatial home, charming husband and three well-mannered children, she is living the Country Life dream.
Newly arrived in the country, Isabella is ready to bring a dash of London glamour to the school gate and gain a whole new set of followers – though getting past the instant coffee, terrible hair and own-brand sausage rolls may be a challenge!
But as her Latvian au pair’s behaviour becomes increasingly bizarre and a national gossip columnist nurses a grudge, Isabella finds herself in need of true friends and begins to wonder if her life really is as picture-perfect as she thought…
The Author:
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Website: https://www.ruthleighwrites.co.uk
Genre: Contemporary Humour
Format: Paperback (first edition)
Signed: Dedication is Available
Bids : UK Only
The Book;
Meet Isabella Smugge – as in ‘Br-uge-s’, naturally! Instagram influencer, consummate show-off and endearingly self-unaware. With a palatial home, charming husband and three well-mannered children, she is living the Country Life dream.
Newly arrived in the country, Isabella is ready to bring a dash of London glamour to the school gate and gain a whole new set of followers – though getting past the instant coffee, terrible hair and own-brand sausage rolls may be a challenge!
But as her Latvian au pair’s behaviour becomes increasingly bizarre and a national gossip columnist nurses a grudge, Isabella finds herself in need of true friends and begins to wonder if her life really is as picture-perfect as she thought…
The Author:
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Website: https://www.ruthleighwrites.co.uk
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Ruth Leigh
Ruth Leigh
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£ 18
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M. Dulak & R. Cobb
M. Dulak & R. Cobb
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94
6
Highest bidder: TANYA EFTHYMIOU
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Title: There's a Tiger on the Train
Genre: Children
Format: Hardback (Limited Edition)
Signed - Dedication is Available
Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book;
'You'll never guess what happened
On our trip down to the sea . . .
A Tiger in a top hat
Came and sat right next to me.'
Off to the seaside they go on a rather . . . EXTRAORDINARY train journey. But will Dad ever look up from his phone?
A boy and his dad board the train. Dad is stuck into his phone and misses the fact that a tiger boards the train too. and so does a family of hippos, and a band of crocs, and a mum with her piglets, and a pug in a boa - or two. . .
On the way to the seaside pandemonium ensues, and then the tiger roars. . . Has he finally had enough?
And what will dad say? Will he even notice?
The Author: Mariesa Dulak
Mariesa is an award-winning, Yorkshire-born children’s author of dual heritage (Barbadian/English).
Mariesa’s first text There’s a Tiger on the Train won the FAB Prize and was published by Faber in February 2024. It was chosen as a 'one to watch' by The Sunday Times and described as 'Pointedly satirical and highly enjoyable.' by The New Statesman and 'Timeless' by The Scotsman. It's currently on the shortlist for the Indie Book Awards 2024.
Her second book The Silver Shadow publishes with Walker Books in 2025.
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Website: https://www.mariesadulak.com
The Illustrator: Rebecca Cobb
Rebecca Cobb is a multi-award winning British children's book illustrator who grew up in Buckinghamshire and Somerset, and lives in Falmouth. Along with writing and illustrating her own books, she has collaborated with other authors including , Julia Donaldson, Richard Curtis and Helen Dunmore.
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Website: Follow: http://www.rebeccacobb.co.uk
Genre: Children
Format: Hardback (Limited Edition)
Signed - Dedication is Available
Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book;
'You'll never guess what happened
On our trip down to the sea . . .
A Tiger in a top hat
Came and sat right next to me.'
Off to the seaside they go on a rather . . . EXTRAORDINARY train journey. But will Dad ever look up from his phone?
A boy and his dad board the train. Dad is stuck into his phone and misses the fact that a tiger boards the train too. and so does a family of hippos, and a band of crocs, and a mum with her piglets, and a pug in a boa - or two. . .
On the way to the seaside pandemonium ensues, and then the tiger roars. . . Has he finally had enough?
And what will dad say? Will he even notice?
The Author: Mariesa Dulak
Mariesa is an award-winning, Yorkshire-born children’s author of dual heritage (Barbadian/English).
Mariesa’s first text There’s a Tiger on the Train won the FAB Prize and was published by Faber in February 2024. It was chosen as a 'one to watch' by The Sunday Times and described as 'Pointedly satirical and highly enjoyable.' by The New Statesman and 'Timeless' by The Scotsman. It's currently on the shortlist for the Indie Book Awards 2024.
Her second book The Silver Shadow publishes with Walker Books in 2025.
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stories/mariesadulak
Website: https://www.mariesadulak.com
The Illustrator: Rebecca Cobb
Rebecca Cobb is a multi-award winning British children's book illustrator who grew up in Buckinghamshire and Somerset, and lives in Falmouth. Along with writing and illustrating her own books, she has collaborated with other authors including , Julia Donaldson, Richard Curtis and Helen Dunmore.
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Website: Follow: http://www.rebeccacobb.co.uk
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£ 11
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Emma Bradley
Emma Bradley
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95
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Book Title: A Curse of Feathers and Fire
Genre: Adult fantasy
Format: 1st edition paperback
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Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book:
When the Governance comes calling, there are two choices: give in to their demands or run.
Neri narrowly escapes after the Governance murder her family, heartbroken as she hides among strangers. But the enemy are convinced she holds the key to passing through the cursed forest splitting their land, and they will do anything to hunt her down.
They chase her into the clutches of the resistance but her new friends are also hiding secrets, especially Niall, a mysterious young man who knows far too many truths about the land beyond the cursed forest.
Marked by an affinity with birds of bad omen and the desperation to avenge her family, Neri must rise from the ashes of the past, or risk burning in the flames of the future.
The Author:
Emma lives on the UK south coast with her husband, her plant collection and a very lazy black Labrador who occasionally condescends to take her out for a walk.
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Genre: Adult fantasy
Format: 1st edition paperback
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Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book:
When the Governance comes calling, there are two choices: give in to their demands or run.
Neri narrowly escapes after the Governance murder her family, heartbroken as she hides among strangers. But the enemy are convinced she holds the key to passing through the cursed forest splitting their land, and they will do anything to hunt her down.
They chase her into the clutches of the resistance but her new friends are also hiding secrets, especially Niall, a mysterious young man who knows far too many truths about the land beyond the cursed forest.
Marked by an affinity with birds of bad omen and the desperation to avenge her family, Neri must rise from the ashes of the past, or risk burning in the flames of the future.
The Author:
Emma lives on the UK south coast with her husband, her plant collection and a very lazy black Labrador who occasionally condescends to take her out for a walk.
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Lot 96
£ 37
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Estelle Paranque
Estelle Paranque
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96
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Highest bidder: Michael Smith
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Title: Thorns Lust and Glory The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn.
Genre: History
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
A queen on the edge.
Anne Boleyn has mesmerised the English public for centuries. Her tragic execution, orchestrated by her own husband, never ceases to intrigue. How did this courtier's daughter become the queen of England, and what was it that really tore apart this illustrious marriage, making her the whore of England, an abandoned woman executed on the scaffold? While many stories of Anne Boleyn's downfall have been told, few have truly traced the origins of her tragic fate.
In Thorns, Lust and Glory, Estelle Paranque takes us back to where it all started: to France, where Anne learned the lessons that would set her on the path to becoming one of England's most infamous queens. At the court of the French king as a resourceful teenage girl, Anne's journey to infamy began, and this landmark biography explores the world that shaped her, and how these loyalties would leave her vulnerable, leading to her ruin at the court of Henry VIII.
A fascinating new perspective on Tudor history's most enduring story, Thorns, Lust and Glory is an unmissable account of a queen on the edge.
The Author:
Estelle is a historian and an Assistant Professor in History. She is the author and editor of five books. Her latest book, Blood, Fire, and Gold has been named "Best History Books of 2022" in History Today, "10 Best History Books of 2022" Smithsonian Magazine, Amazon's Editor Pick for "Best History Books of the Month" (December), Best Books Summer 2022 (The Times), Book of The Week (18 June 2022, The Times).
She completed her PhD in Early Modern History at University College London in 2016. She turned her PhD into a monograph that was published in November 2018 by Palgrave Macmillan Elizabeth I of England Through Valois Eyes: Power, Representation, and Diplomacy in the Reign of the Queen, 1558-1588.
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and she is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in January 2019. She is also a co-convenor of the Tudor and Stuart Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research in London. She has been teaching at university level for the last twelve years and is dedicated to share her passion for history with the next generation. Her research interests are royal, diplomatic, women studies.
She is also very interested in public engagement and has participated in BBC 2 / PBS The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family and Secrets d'Histoire on France 2, BBC Radio 4, and numerous podcasts (BBC History, Viral History, Not Just The Tudors, HistoryHit).
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The Book;
A queen on the edge.
Anne Boleyn has mesmerised the English public for centuries. Her tragic execution, orchestrated by her own husband, never ceases to intrigue. How did this courtier's daughter become the queen of England, and what was it that really tore apart this illustrious marriage, making her the whore of England, an abandoned woman executed on the scaffold? While many stories of Anne Boleyn's downfall have been told, few have truly traced the origins of her tragic fate.
In Thorns, Lust and Glory, Estelle Paranque takes us back to where it all started: to France, where Anne learned the lessons that would set her on the path to becoming one of England's most infamous queens. At the court of the French king as a resourceful teenage girl, Anne's journey to infamy began, and this landmark biography explores the world that shaped her, and how these loyalties would leave her vulnerable, leading to her ruin at the court of Henry VIII.
A fascinating new perspective on Tudor history's most enduring story, Thorns, Lust and Glory is an unmissable account of a queen on the edge.
The Author:
Estelle is a historian and an Assistant Professor in History. She is the author and editor of five books. Her latest book, Blood, Fire, and Gold has been named "Best History Books of 2022" in History Today, "10 Best History Books of 2022" Smithsonian Magazine, Amazon's Editor Pick for "Best History Books of the Month" (December), Best Books Summer 2022 (The Times), Book of The Week (18 June 2022, The Times).
She completed her PhD in Early Modern History at University College London in 2016. She turned her PhD into a monograph that was published in November 2018 by Palgrave Macmillan Elizabeth I of England Through Valois Eyes: Power, Representation, and Diplomacy in the Reign of the Queen, 1558-1588.
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and she is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in January 2019. She is also a co-convenor of the Tudor and Stuart Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research in London. She has been teaching at university level for the last twelve years and is dedicated to share her passion for history with the next generation. Her research interests are royal, diplomatic, women studies.
She is also very interested in public engagement and has participated in BBC 2 / PBS The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family and Secrets d'Histoire on France 2, BBC Radio 4, and numerous podcasts (BBC History, Viral History, Not Just The Tudors, HistoryHit).
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Book Title: Clarice Bean Smile
Genre: Children - Environment & Ecology
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Clarice Bean is back with all her trademark humour in this heartwarming story by former Children’s Laureate Lauren Child
At the moment I am daydreaming about inventing something exceptionordinarily good that could change the world for the better, because of all the things, it’s the better that’s needed.
And if you are thinking I'm too small to make a difference then remember the plankton – they are one of the tiniest creatures on the planet but without them where would we be? Probably living on Mars.
The utterly wonderful Clarice Bean is thinking about the endangered things: the big creatures, the little creatures, the plants and the trees. But it’s not just the planet that needs help – there’s her whole family too . . .
The Author:
Lauren Child MBE is an English author and illustrator. She was the UK Children's Laureate from 2017-19.
Lauren grew up in Wiltshire as the middle child of three sisters and the daughter of two teachers. She has always been interested in the many aspects of childhood, from gazing into toy shop windows to watching American children's shows from the 1960s. After attending two Art Schools, she travelled for six months, still unsure about which career to embark upon.
Before writing and illustrating children's books Lauren started her own company 'Chandeliers for the People' making lampshades. It was only when she came to write and illustrate the book Clarice Bean, That's Me that she decided to devote her time to writing and illustrating books for children, which combines her fascination for childhood and her talent for designing and creating. Lauren gets her inspiration from other people's conversations or from seeing something funny happen.
Her book I Will Not Ever Never Eat A Tomato won the 2000 Kate Greenaway Medal. For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005), a panel named it one of the top ten winning works, which comprised the shortlist for a public vote for the nation's favourite. It finished third in the public vote from that shortlist.
Lauren lives in North London.
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Genre: Children - Environment & Ecology
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Clarice Bean is back with all her trademark humour in this heartwarming story by former Children’s Laureate Lauren Child
At the moment I am daydreaming about inventing something exceptionordinarily good that could change the world for the better, because of all the things, it’s the better that’s needed.
And if you are thinking I'm too small to make a difference then remember the plankton – they are one of the tiniest creatures on the planet but without them where would we be? Probably living on Mars.
The utterly wonderful Clarice Bean is thinking about the endangered things: the big creatures, the little creatures, the plants and the trees. But it’s not just the planet that needs help – there’s her whole family too . . .
The Author:
Lauren Child MBE is an English author and illustrator. She was the UK Children's Laureate from 2017-19.
Lauren grew up in Wiltshire as the middle child of three sisters and the daughter of two teachers. She has always been interested in the many aspects of childhood, from gazing into toy shop windows to watching American children's shows from the 1960s. After attending two Art Schools, she travelled for six months, still unsure about which career to embark upon.
Before writing and illustrating children's books Lauren started her own company 'Chandeliers for the People' making lampshades. It was only when she came to write and illustrate the book Clarice Bean, That's Me that she decided to devote her time to writing and illustrating books for children, which combines her fascination for childhood and her talent for designing and creating. Lauren gets her inspiration from other people's conversations or from seeing something funny happen.
Her book I Will Not Ever Never Eat A Tomato won the 2000 Kate Greenaway Medal. For the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005), a panel named it one of the top ten winning works, which comprised the shortlist for a public vote for the nation's favourite. It finished third in the public vote from that shortlist.
Lauren lives in North London.
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Title: Cat O' Nine Tails
Genre: Crime, Thriller & Mystery Short Stories
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Cat O' Nine Tales is the fifth collection of irresistible short stories from the master storyteller Jeffrey Archer, illustrated by the internationally acclaimed artist, Ronald Searle, creator of Molesworth.
These twelve yarns are satisfying and ingeniously plotted, featuring richly drawn characters and Jeffrey Archer's trademark deliciously unexpected conclusions. They feature the mad, the bad and the dangerous to know, as well as more poignant and telling characters. As a collection they confirm his position as a master storyteller.
The Author:
Jeffrey Archer is one of the world’s bestselling authors, with sales of over 275 million copies in 97 countries, and is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction (twenty times), short stories (four times) and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries). He was born in London, and brought up in the West Country. He gained a Blue in Athletics at Oxford, was President of the University Athletics Club, and went on to run the 100 yards in 9.6 seconds for Great Britain in 1966. Jeffrey has served five years in the House of Commons as a Member of Parliament, and thirty years as a Member of the House of Lords.
He has written 27 novels, 7 sets of short stories, 3 prison diaries, 3 plays (all of which have been performed in London's West End) and a gospel. His first novel, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less was sold to 17 countries within a year. It was also made into a successful serial for BBC Radio 4, and was later televised in 1990 by the BBC. He won the Prix Relay du Roman d’Évasion, a prize that rewards a novel in which readers can ‘escape from everyday life’, for his novel Paths of Glory, and the Prix Polar International Prize for the best international thriller of the year, for his novel A Prisoner of Birth. The Clifton Chronicles, a series of seven novels published between 2011-2017, topped the bestseller lists around the world.
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Genre: Crime, Thriller & Mystery Short Stories
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The Book;
Cat O' Nine Tales is the fifth collection of irresistible short stories from the master storyteller Jeffrey Archer, illustrated by the internationally acclaimed artist, Ronald Searle, creator of Molesworth.
These twelve yarns are satisfying and ingeniously plotted, featuring richly drawn characters and Jeffrey Archer's trademark deliciously unexpected conclusions. They feature the mad, the bad and the dangerous to know, as well as more poignant and telling characters. As a collection they confirm his position as a master storyteller.
The Author:
Jeffrey Archer is one of the world’s bestselling authors, with sales of over 275 million copies in 97 countries, and is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction (twenty times), short stories (four times) and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries). He was born in London, and brought up in the West Country. He gained a Blue in Athletics at Oxford, was President of the University Athletics Club, and went on to run the 100 yards in 9.6 seconds for Great Britain in 1966. Jeffrey has served five years in the House of Commons as a Member of Parliament, and thirty years as a Member of the House of Lords.
He has written 27 novels, 7 sets of short stories, 3 prison diaries, 3 plays (all of which have been performed in London's West End) and a gospel. His first novel, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less was sold to 17 countries within a year. It was also made into a successful serial for BBC Radio 4, and was later televised in 1990 by the BBC. He won the Prix Relay du Roman d’Évasion, a prize that rewards a novel in which readers can ‘escape from everyday life’, for his novel Paths of Glory, and the Prix Polar International Prize for the best international thriller of the year, for his novel A Prisoner of Birth. The Clifton Chronicles, a series of seven novels published between 2011-2017, topped the bestseller lists around the world.
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Title 1: THE AMETHYST TALISMAN – THE CURSED WEAPONS TRILOGY BOOK ONE
GENRE: Upper YA Fantasy Romance
FORMAT: Paperback (First Edition)
Title 2: THE MALACHITE QUEST – THE CURSED WEAPONS TRILOGY BOOK TWO
GENRE: Upper YA Fantasy Romance
FORMAT: Paperback (First Edition)
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Book 1:
An innocent assassin. An oppressed prince. A curse to bind them.
A world broken by civil war. Merciless assassins that will kill anyone for the right price. A forbidden love destined to destroy everything.
Amethyst is the deadliest assassin in the Five Lands. Known as Lady Merciless, Amethyst has never failed a mission and she has never missed her mark. But she hides a terrible secret from the Iolite Coterie of Assassins - a secret that would land her at the top of their hit list.
When she’s accused of murdering the Crown Princess of Aerba and stealing a gem of legend, Amethyst’s reputation quickly comes to haunt her. Cursed by the King, she must find the true assassin and thief, or the Curse will kill her. The last thing Amethyst needs on her quest is Prince Valerian, sent with her to avenge his sister’s murder.
Forced to work together, Amethyst and Valerian’s destinies become entwined as they search for the assassin and gemstone. With the curse slowly draining Amethyst’s life, and the Coterie setting their sights on Valerian, it’s not only their lives that are at risk - but their hearts too.
Book 2:
A fugitive sister. A captive brother. The quest for Malachite begins.
With two countries teetering on the brink of war, Samphire and Valerian continue their
search for Samphire’s brother, Malachite, and the legendary Fire Opal stolen from Valerian’s
home.
Now aware of the Fire Opal’s possible power and the existence of magic, they forge on with
their friends in a possibly futile attempt to recover what has been stolen before they lose
everything.
Samphire and Valerian are only at the start of this dangerous journey, one that will test their
love to breaking point as heartache beckons and an old friend of Samphire’s returns. With assassins in pursuit, they must fight to stay alive if they are to succeed in their perilous
quest.
Will their magical discoveries aid or hinder them? Will their love be strong enough to conquer every obstacle? And will they reach Samphire’s brother in time to save him - or is it already too late?
THE AUTHOR:
Aerin Apeltun is an English writer based in the East of England. Aerin started writing stories as a child, and always loved reading about fantasy worlds, imagining herself within those worlds and joining in the adventures with the characters. She now loves to develop and write about her own worlds and mythologies.
Having been listed in a number of writing competitions, her debut YA Fantasy trilogy was acquired by SmashBear Publishing in 2022, and The Amethyst Talisman, the first in The Cursed Weaponstrilogy, was published in July 2023. The second book, The Malachite Quest, followed in March 2024. Her Upper YA Romantasy, Crystal Bloods, is to be published with Elsewhen Press in the spring of 2025, and the final book in The Cursed Weapons trilogy with SmashBear will follow shortly after.
A Second Class Archer, Aerin has had various careers in school/university administration and insurance, as well as a stint at the local library, but writing is her passion. She also loves to draw, and is a keen fantasy cartographer, designing maps for her worlds. Aerin enjoys travelling, taking inspiration from nature and landscapes for settings and characters in her books.
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Title 1: THE AMETHYST TALISMAN – THE CURSED WEAPONS TRILOGY BOOK ONE
GENRE: Upper YA Fantasy Romance
FORMAT: Paperback (First Edition)
Title 2: THE MALACHITE QUEST – THE CURSED WEAPONS TRILOGY BOOK TWO
GENRE: Upper YA Fantasy Romance
FORMAT: Paperback (First Edition)
Both Books Signed – Dedications are Available
Book 1:
An innocent assassin. An oppressed prince. A curse to bind them.
A world broken by civil war. Merciless assassins that will kill anyone for the right price. A forbidden love destined to destroy everything.
Amethyst is the deadliest assassin in the Five Lands. Known as Lady Merciless, Amethyst has never failed a mission and she has never missed her mark. But she hides a terrible secret from the Iolite Coterie of Assassins - a secret that would land her at the top of their hit list.
When she’s accused of murdering the Crown Princess of Aerba and stealing a gem of legend, Amethyst’s reputation quickly comes to haunt her. Cursed by the King, she must find the true assassin and thief, or the Curse will kill her. The last thing Amethyst needs on her quest is Prince Valerian, sent with her to avenge his sister’s murder.
Forced to work together, Amethyst and Valerian’s destinies become entwined as they search for the assassin and gemstone. With the curse slowly draining Amethyst’s life, and the Coterie setting their sights on Valerian, it’s not only their lives that are at risk - but their hearts too.
Book 2:
A fugitive sister. A captive brother. The quest for Malachite begins.
With two countries teetering on the brink of war, Samphire and Valerian continue their
search for Samphire’s brother, Malachite, and the legendary Fire Opal stolen from Valerian’s
home.
Now aware of the Fire Opal’s possible power and the existence of magic, they forge on with
their friends in a possibly futile attempt to recover what has been stolen before they lose
everything.
Samphire and Valerian are only at the start of this dangerous journey, one that will test their
love to breaking point as heartache beckons and an old friend of Samphire’s returns. With assassins in pursuit, they must fight to stay alive if they are to succeed in their perilous
quest.
Will their magical discoveries aid or hinder them? Will their love be strong enough to conquer every obstacle? And will they reach Samphire’s brother in time to save him - or is it already too late?
THE AUTHOR:
Aerin Apeltun is an English writer based in the East of England. Aerin started writing stories as a child, and always loved reading about fantasy worlds, imagining herself within those worlds and joining in the adventures with the characters. She now loves to develop and write about her own worlds and mythologies.
Having been listed in a number of writing competitions, her debut YA Fantasy trilogy was acquired by SmashBear Publishing in 2022, and The Amethyst Talisman, the first in The Cursed Weaponstrilogy, was published in July 2023. The second book, The Malachite Quest, followed in March 2024. Her Upper YA Romantasy, Crystal Bloods, is to be published with Elsewhen Press in the spring of 2025, and the final book in The Cursed Weapons trilogy with SmashBear will follow shortly after.
A Second Class Archer, Aerin has had various careers in school/university administration and insurance, as well as a stint at the local library, but writing is her passion. She also loves to draw, and is a keen fantasy cartographer, designing maps for her worlds. Aerin enjoys travelling, taking inspiration from nature and landscapes for settings and characters in her books.
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Title: The Burnout
Genre: Humour - Medical
Format: Hardback
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The Book :
The irresistible new romantic comedy from the number one bestselling author.
Discover the joy that awaits when you set yourself free...
Sasha is well and truly over it all: work (all-consuming), friendships (on the back burner), sex-life (non-existent). Sasha has hit a brick wall (literally).
Armed with good intentions to drink kale smoothies, try yoga and find solitude, she heads to the Devon resort she loved as a child. But it's off-season, the hotel is falling apart and now she has to share the beach with someone else: a grumpy, stressed-out guy called Finn. How can she commune with nature when he's sitting on a rock, watching her? Especially when they don't agree on burnout cures. (Sasha: manifesting, wild swimming, secret chocolate bars; Finn: drinking whisky.)
But when curious messages start appearing on the beach, Sasha and Finn are forced to begin talking - about everything. What's the mystery? Why are they both burned out? What exactly is 'manifesting', anyway?
They might discover that they have more in common than they think...
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'Deliciously pacey and absorbing' Daily Mail
'Such a hilarious, joyous, life-affirming book; I never wanted it to end' JENNY COLGAN
'An absolute joy. . . wickedly funny and blissfully romantic' Sunday Express
The Author:
Sophie Kinsella is a writer and former financial journalist. She is the number one bestselling author of Can You Keep a Secret?, The Undomestic Goddess, Remember Me?, Twenties Girl, I’ve Got Your Number, Wedding Night, My Not So Perfect Life, Surprise Me, the hugely popular Shopaholic novels and the Young Adult novel Finding Audrey. She lives in the UK with her husband and family. She is also the author of the children's series Mummy Fairy and Me / Fairy Mom and Me, and several bestselling novels under the name of Madeleine Wickham.
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Genre: Humour - Medical
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The Book :
The irresistible new romantic comedy from the number one bestselling author.
Discover the joy that awaits when you set yourself free...
Sasha is well and truly over it all: work (all-consuming), friendships (on the back burner), sex-life (non-existent). Sasha has hit a brick wall (literally).
Armed with good intentions to drink kale smoothies, try yoga and find solitude, she heads to the Devon resort she loved as a child. But it's off-season, the hotel is falling apart and now she has to share the beach with someone else: a grumpy, stressed-out guy called Finn. How can she commune with nature when he's sitting on a rock, watching her? Especially when they don't agree on burnout cures. (Sasha: manifesting, wild swimming, secret chocolate bars; Finn: drinking whisky.)
But when curious messages start appearing on the beach, Sasha and Finn are forced to begin talking - about everything. What's the mystery? Why are they both burned out? What exactly is 'manifesting', anyway?
They might discover that they have more in common than they think...
****
'Deliciously pacey and absorbing' Daily Mail
'Such a hilarious, joyous, life-affirming book; I never wanted it to end' JENNY COLGAN
'An absolute joy. . . wickedly funny and blissfully romantic' Sunday Express
The Author:
Sophie Kinsella is a writer and former financial journalist. She is the number one bestselling author of Can You Keep a Secret?, The Undomestic Goddess, Remember Me?, Twenties Girl, I’ve Got Your Number, Wedding Night, My Not So Perfect Life, Surprise Me, the hugely popular Shopaholic novels and the Young Adult novel Finding Audrey. She lives in the UK with her husband and family. She is also the author of the children's series Mummy Fairy and Me / Fairy Mom and Me, and several bestselling novels under the name of Madeleine Wickham.
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Sara Downing
Sara Downing
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*Two Book Package*
Title 1: The Lost Boy
Genre: Paranormal - Horror
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Title 2: A Head Over Heels Christmas
Genre: Romantic Comedy - Christmas
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The Book; The Lost Boy
A mystery boy. A woman with no past. A bond which goes beyond both their lifetimes…
When Clara finds a young boy playing in the grounds of her country home, she asks who brought him there. ‘You did,’ he says. But Clara has never seen him before.
As a secretive friendship grows between Clara and the boy, Alfie, the similarities in their pasts begin to emerge. Clara has no memory of the life she led before waking from a coma, and nor can Alfie recall his own younger years.
Clara delves into the history of the house, and learns of a tragic event which happened centuries ago. Could this explain the connection between herself and Alfie? If she is right, then the future is bleak for both of them. Clara tries to convince her loved ones that she is caught up in something none of them can fully comprehend, but can she change the course of fate, or will history simply keep repeating itself, again and again?
The Book: A Head Over Heels Christmas
Best friends Evie, Grace and Alex – plus their husbands and many offspring – descend on the romantic Italian city of Florence for a magical Christmas holiday.
The three couples are excited for their winter break – and all for different reasons. Evie and James haven’t seen their eldest daughter, Immy, for months, and Evie hopes the trip will smooth relations between James and Immy’s French boyfriend, Pascal. Alex and Mark can’t wait to have their five children back together under the same roof for the first time in ages. And Grace and Tom are simply looking forward to their first overseas trip in years with their ten-year-old twins.
The stage is set: a few days of sightseeing around the famous galleries and museums, exploring the backstreets of the Medieval city, cosy bistro lunches, and the pièce de résistance, Christmas dinner at a luxury hotel. It’s all going to be so perfect…
But Evie and James’ world is about to be rocked. Immy has some news, which none of them could have seen coming. As the Christmas spirit flows and old friendships are renewed, can the friends help Evie and James come to terms with the changes to their family, or as the snow begins to fall, is it the end of life as they know it?
This festive romantic comedy picks up with the characters from Head Over Heels, Hand On Heart – and Urban Venus – as they continue their adventures. But you don’t need to have read the other books to enjoy this standalone story!
The Author:
Sara Downing is an award-winning author of several genres, including romance and historical fiction. More recently she has become fascinated with the supernatural. Her first book in this genre, 'The Lost Boy', was followed up by 'I Let You Fall', which was the WINNER in the RNA Romantic Novel Awards 2023, Fantasy Romantic Novel category.
Sara lives in rural Worcestershire with her husband, three almost grown-up children, a Labrador and a cat. Before children she was a Chartered Accountant, but always knew her dream career lay elsewhere. She started writing in 2009 and hasn't since yearned to return to the world of accountancy.
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Title 1: The Lost Boy
Genre: Paranormal - Horror
Format: Paperbacks
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Title 2: A Head Over Heels Christmas
Genre: Romantic Comedy - Christmas
Format: Paperback
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Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book; The Lost Boy
A mystery boy. A woman with no past. A bond which goes beyond both their lifetimes…
When Clara finds a young boy playing in the grounds of her country home, she asks who brought him there. ‘You did,’ he says. But Clara has never seen him before.
As a secretive friendship grows between Clara and the boy, Alfie, the similarities in their pasts begin to emerge. Clara has no memory of the life she led before waking from a coma, and nor can Alfie recall his own younger years.
Clara delves into the history of the house, and learns of a tragic event which happened centuries ago. Could this explain the connection between herself and Alfie? If she is right, then the future is bleak for both of them. Clara tries to convince her loved ones that she is caught up in something none of them can fully comprehend, but can she change the course of fate, or will history simply keep repeating itself, again and again?
The Book: A Head Over Heels Christmas
Best friends Evie, Grace and Alex – plus their husbands and many offspring – descend on the romantic Italian city of Florence for a magical Christmas holiday.
The three couples are excited for their winter break – and all for different reasons. Evie and James haven’t seen their eldest daughter, Immy, for months, and Evie hopes the trip will smooth relations between James and Immy’s French boyfriend, Pascal. Alex and Mark can’t wait to have their five children back together under the same roof for the first time in ages. And Grace and Tom are simply looking forward to their first overseas trip in years with their ten-year-old twins.
The stage is set: a few days of sightseeing around the famous galleries and museums, exploring the backstreets of the Medieval city, cosy bistro lunches, and the pièce de résistance, Christmas dinner at a luxury hotel. It’s all going to be so perfect…
But Evie and James’ world is about to be rocked. Immy has some news, which none of them could have seen coming. As the Christmas spirit flows and old friendships are renewed, can the friends help Evie and James come to terms with the changes to their family, or as the snow begins to fall, is it the end of life as they know it?
This festive romantic comedy picks up with the characters from Head Over Heels, Hand On Heart – and Urban Venus – as they continue their adventures. But you don’t need to have read the other books to enjoy this standalone story!
The Author:
Sara Downing is an award-winning author of several genres, including romance and historical fiction. More recently she has become fascinated with the supernatural. Her first book in this genre, 'The Lost Boy', was followed up by 'I Let You Fall', which was the WINNER in the RNA Romantic Novel Awards 2023, Fantasy Romantic Novel category.
Sara lives in rural Worcestershire with her husband, three almost grown-up children, a Labrador and a cat. Before children she was a Chartered Accountant, but always knew her dream career lay elsewhere. She started writing in 2009 and hasn't since yearned to return to the world of accountancy.
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Ella Cook
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Book Title: Healing Hearts in the Little Village
(and the rest of the Broclington series!)
Genre: Rom Com
Format: Paperback, rare proof copy. Signed, with personalised dedication
Bids Accepted: UK (unless bidders willing to pay international shipping – sorry)
The Book: Do you want to grab the first three Broclington books, some lovely book lover gifts and a delicious bar of chocolate to enjoy as you read? Here’s your chance!
And… if bidding reaches more than £50 – I’ll give you the option to name a character in my next book (NB there’s already a fourth Broclington book in edits, so it will be the book after that!)
Healing Hearts is the next (third) book in the Broclington series – and here’s what the publisher says:
‘You had me at cozy second chance romance with a village setting! Comforting and heart-warming. Just delicious!’ Emma Bennet, author of The Baby Plan
ESCAPE THE CITY TO THE PICTURESQUE COTSWOLDS IN THIS GORGEOUS SECOND-CHANCE ROMANCE.
When social media star Rick Finnegan’s drunken antics leave a café in the tiny village of Broclington damaged, he’s sentenced to community service. He must give back to the villagers he upset.
Rick’s sent to the Little Village Sanctuary, a haven for injured and neglected animals, run by the feisty and fiercely independent, Angela Turner.
Angela does not want Rick in her sanctuary. He’s late on his first day, and she’s sure he cares more about his appearance and online followers than getting his hands dirty.
But whilst Angela might not like Rick, the animals adore him. Working together nursing an unloved parrot called Mallow and reassuring Ernie, the sanctuary’s resident donkey, their shared passion for animals quickly turns into an unexpected chemistry.
As Angela and Rick become closer they realise they both have a lot to learn about redemption — and love.
And perhaps second chances can be found in the most unexpected places.
The Author: Hi, I’m Ella, and I’m so glad you’ve found my books because I’m thrilled to welcome you into my world! It’s one filled with romance, laughter and a sprinkle of magic – because even though life often throws us a lot of challenges and sadness, I believe there’s always hope too. And that’s what I look for in life, and write about – hope, healing, second chances and love… usually with some tears and a lot of laughter thrown in too, because that’s life as I try to live it.
I’ve always felt that if just one person feels just a bit better after reading one of my books then it’s worth every word I type.
So I hope you find some laughter, sparkle, hope and magic here – even if it is just for a few minutes.
Xx Ella
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(and the rest of the Broclington series!)
Genre: Rom Com
Format: Paperback, rare proof copy. Signed, with personalised dedication
Bids Accepted: UK (unless bidders willing to pay international shipping – sorry)
The Book: Do you want to grab the first three Broclington books, some lovely book lover gifts and a delicious bar of chocolate to enjoy as you read? Here’s your chance!
And… if bidding reaches more than £50 – I’ll give you the option to name a character in my next book (NB there’s already a fourth Broclington book in edits, so it will be the book after that!)
Healing Hearts is the next (third) book in the Broclington series – and here’s what the publisher says:
‘You had me at cozy second chance romance with a village setting! Comforting and heart-warming. Just delicious!’ Emma Bennet, author of The Baby Plan
ESCAPE THE CITY TO THE PICTURESQUE COTSWOLDS IN THIS GORGEOUS SECOND-CHANCE ROMANCE.
When social media star Rick Finnegan’s drunken antics leave a café in the tiny village of Broclington damaged, he’s sentenced to community service. He must give back to the villagers he upset.
Rick’s sent to the Little Village Sanctuary, a haven for injured and neglected animals, run by the feisty and fiercely independent, Angela Turner.
Angela does not want Rick in her sanctuary. He’s late on his first day, and she’s sure he cares more about his appearance and online followers than getting his hands dirty.
But whilst Angela might not like Rick, the animals adore him. Working together nursing an unloved parrot called Mallow and reassuring Ernie, the sanctuary’s resident donkey, their shared passion for animals quickly turns into an unexpected chemistry.
As Angela and Rick become closer they realise they both have a lot to learn about redemption — and love.
And perhaps second chances can be found in the most unexpected places.
The Author: Hi, I’m Ella, and I’m so glad you’ve found my books because I’m thrilled to welcome you into my world! It’s one filled with romance, laughter and a sprinkle of magic – because even though life often throws us a lot of challenges and sadness, I believe there’s always hope too. And that’s what I look for in life, and write about – hope, healing, second chances and love… usually with some tears and a lot of laughter thrown in too, because that’s life as I try to live it.
I’ve always felt that if just one person feels just a bit better after reading one of my books then it’s worth every word I type.
So I hope you find some laughter, sparkle, hope and magic here – even if it is just for a few minutes.
Xx Ella
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Jon Roberts
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Book Title: Lilly & Myles: The Torch
Genre: Children’s, Autism
Format: Paperback (Is it a First Edition) Picture book
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The Book :
Accompanied by Myles, her assistance dog, Lily sets off from Granny’s house to explore. First she walks through the garden, then she visits the seashore. But when she comes to the big cave at the end of the beach her acute hearing means she is scared of the loud noise when she drops her torch. And what’s that creature she can hear coming towards her?
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Genre: Children’s, Autism
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The Book :
Accompanied by Myles, her assistance dog, Lily sets off from Granny’s house to explore. First she walks through the garden, then she visits the seashore. But when she comes to the big cave at the end of the beach her acute hearing means she is scared of the loud noise when she drops her torch. And what’s that creature she can hear coming towards her?
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Eva Jordon
Eva Jordon
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Book Title: A Gift Called Hope
Genre: Holiday Fiction, Romance Literary Fiction, Family Life Fiction
Format: Paperback - First Edition
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Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book :
Will it take a miracle to restore joy this Christmas?
Six-year-old Jack is counting the days to Christmas. But his grandmother is just counting the days until it’s over. For Jill, the holiday comes with painful memories, and she wants to escape the recent past and its tragedies.
It’s only for little Jack’s sake that Jill tolerates the tree and decorations. Her dream is to spend it with the curtains drawn.
But this season, she may stumble onto a miracle that restores hope in her heart . . .
“A beautiful, poignant read . . . straight from the heart . . . heart breaking and heart-warming in equal measure. Once I had started reading it I couldn’t put it down . . . beautiful.” —Amazon reviewer
The Author:
Eva, a devoted mother, stepmother, and grandmother, describes herself as a lover of words, books, travel, and chocolate. She was born in Kent, has close family ties to London’s East End but currently lives in Cambridgeshire. Her novels are best described as family-based dramas that often take a humorous but sometimes tragic and poignant look at contemporary family life. Like her previous novels, A Gift Called Hope, which is a Christmas story with a difference, does not shy away from difficult subject matters. However, Eva always makes it her goal to leave her readers feeling uplifted and inspired because, despite the hardships of life, she believes we can never have enough love or hope. As well as writing novels, Eva also writes short stories and is a columnist and book reviewer for a local lifestyle magazine.She has released five books to date and is currently working on her sixth. A Gift Called Hope is her fourth novel.
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Genre: Holiday Fiction, Romance Literary Fiction, Family Life Fiction
Format: Paperback - First Edition
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Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book :
Will it take a miracle to restore joy this Christmas?
Six-year-old Jack is counting the days to Christmas. But his grandmother is just counting the days until it’s over. For Jill, the holiday comes with painful memories, and she wants to escape the recent past and its tragedies.
It’s only for little Jack’s sake that Jill tolerates the tree and decorations. Her dream is to spend it with the curtains drawn.
But this season, she may stumble onto a miracle that restores hope in her heart . . .
“A beautiful, poignant read . . . straight from the heart . . . heart breaking and heart-warming in equal measure. Once I had started reading it I couldn’t put it down . . . beautiful.” —Amazon reviewer
The Author:
Eva, a devoted mother, stepmother, and grandmother, describes herself as a lover of words, books, travel, and chocolate. She was born in Kent, has close family ties to London’s East End but currently lives in Cambridgeshire. Her novels are best described as family-based dramas that often take a humorous but sometimes tragic and poignant look at contemporary family life. Like her previous novels, A Gift Called Hope, which is a Christmas story with a difference, does not shy away from difficult subject matters. However, Eva always makes it her goal to leave her readers feeling uplifted and inspired because, despite the hardships of life, she believes we can never have enough love or hope. As well as writing novels, Eva also writes short stories and is a columnist and book reviewer for a local lifestyle magazine.She has released five books to date and is currently working on her sixth. A Gift Called Hope is her fourth novel.
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Sam Blake
Sam Blake
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Book Title: Three Little Birds
Genre: Thriller
Format: Paperback
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Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book :
Two decades of secrets. One shocking discovery…
When a skull is found in Lough Coyne, facial reconstruction expert Dr Carla Steele is drawn into a fourteen-year-old case – but not all cases are cold, as Carla discovers when she and local Garda DS Jack Maguire find the brutally murdered body of a local woman close to the water’s edge.
Together with Carla’s partner, criminal psychologist Grace Franicosi, Carla and Jack uncover a tragic story with very dangerous and current implications.
Since the disappearance of her best friend, Carla has dedicated her career to bringing the dead home, but this time it’s the living who are counting on her. In a race to save another woman, will they be able to stop the killer in time?
The Author:
Sam Blake* is originally from St. Albans in Hertfordshire but has lived at the foot of the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland for more years than she lived in the UK. Married to a retired member of An Garda Siochana she has two children, two cats and had sole responsibility for an ant farm while her eldest studied rocket science to become a Space Master. The youngest is studying PPE but definitely doesn’t want to be a politician.
Sam Blake herself is a character from the imagination of Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin who is the founder of the multi award winning writing resources website Writing.ie, The Inkwell Group publishing consultancy and the fabulously successful online writing group Writers Ink. As Sam, she is the founder of Murder One, Ireland’s International Crime Writing Festival.
Vanessa has been writing fiction since her husband set sail across the Atlantic for eight weeks and she had an idea for a book. Many hundreds of thousands of words later (and five draft manuscripts of varying quality) her debut Little Bones hit the bestseller list in Ireland in May 2016.
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Genre: Thriller
Format: Paperback
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The Book :
Two decades of secrets. One shocking discovery…
When a skull is found in Lough Coyne, facial reconstruction expert Dr Carla Steele is drawn into a fourteen-year-old case – but not all cases are cold, as Carla discovers when she and local Garda DS Jack Maguire find the brutally murdered body of a local woman close to the water’s edge.
Together with Carla’s partner, criminal psychologist Grace Franicosi, Carla and Jack uncover a tragic story with very dangerous and current implications.
Since the disappearance of her best friend, Carla has dedicated her career to bringing the dead home, but this time it’s the living who are counting on her. In a race to save another woman, will they be able to stop the killer in time?
The Author:
Sam Blake* is originally from St. Albans in Hertfordshire but has lived at the foot of the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland for more years than she lived in the UK. Married to a retired member of An Garda Siochana she has two children, two cats and had sole responsibility for an ant farm while her eldest studied rocket science to become a Space Master. The youngest is studying PPE but definitely doesn’t want to be a politician.
Sam Blake herself is a character from the imagination of Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin who is the founder of the multi award winning writing resources website Writing.ie, The Inkwell Group publishing consultancy and the fabulously successful online writing group Writers Ink. As Sam, she is the founder of Murder One, Ireland’s International Crime Writing Festival.
Vanessa has been writing fiction since her husband set sail across the Atlantic for eight weeks and she had an idea for a book. Many hundreds of thousands of words later (and five draft manuscripts of varying quality) her debut Little Bones hit the bestseller list in Ireland in May 2016.
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Two Book Bonanza
Title 1:Something Terrible Happened Last Night
Title 2: Something’s about to Blow Up
Genre: Thriller
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The Book 1 : Something Terrible Happened Last Night
It’s Katie’s 17th birthday – the dancefloor is packed, the drink is flowing and Rave-fess, the Raven’s Hill School confession site, is alight with gossip. Then a huge fight breaks out, sending guests fleeing.
When Frankie, Jess and Sorcha go back to help Katie clear up her wrecked house before her parents get home, they find more than broken bottles … There’s a body on the living room floor.
The gripping teen thriller that will keep everyone guessing.
The Book 2: Something’s about to Blow Up
When an explosion rips through the chemistry lab at Raven’s Hill School and six girls are injured, the first thought is that it’s an experiment gone wrong. Then the Gardaí start investigating and suspect a bomb. But who could it have been targeting, and why?
Six girls.
A devastating explosion.
Will they uncover the truth in time?
The Author:
Sam Blake* is originally from St. Albans in Hertfordshire but has lived at the foot of the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland for more years than she lived in the UK. Married to a retired member of An Garda Siochana she has two children, two cats and had sole responsibility for an ant farm while her eldest studied rocket science to become a Space Master. The youngest is studying PPE but definitely doesn’t want to be a politician.
Sam Blake herself is a character from the imagination of Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin who is the founder of the multi award winning writing resources website Writing.ie, The Inkwell Group publishing consultancy and the fabulously successful online writing group Writers Ink. As Sam, she is the founder of Murder One, Ireland’s International Crime Writing Festival.
Vanessa has been writing fiction since her husband set sail across the Atlantic for eight weeks and she had an idea for a book. Many hundreds of thousands of words later (and five draft manuscripts of varying quality) her debut Little Bones hit the bestseller list in Ireland in May 2016.
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Title 1:Something Terrible Happened Last Night
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The Book 1 : Something Terrible Happened Last Night
It’s Katie’s 17th birthday – the dancefloor is packed, the drink is flowing and Rave-fess, the Raven’s Hill School confession site, is alight with gossip. Then a huge fight breaks out, sending guests fleeing.
When Frankie, Jess and Sorcha go back to help Katie clear up her wrecked house before her parents get home, they find more than broken bottles … There’s a body on the living room floor.
The gripping teen thriller that will keep everyone guessing.
The Book 2: Something’s about to Blow Up
When an explosion rips through the chemistry lab at Raven’s Hill School and six girls are injured, the first thought is that it’s an experiment gone wrong. Then the Gardaí start investigating and suspect a bomb. But who could it have been targeting, and why?
Six girls.
A devastating explosion.
Will they uncover the truth in time?
The Author:
Sam Blake* is originally from St. Albans in Hertfordshire but has lived at the foot of the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland for more years than she lived in the UK. Married to a retired member of An Garda Siochana she has two children, two cats and had sole responsibility for an ant farm while her eldest studied rocket science to become a Space Master. The youngest is studying PPE but definitely doesn’t want to be a politician.
Sam Blake herself is a character from the imagination of Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin who is the founder of the multi award winning writing resources website Writing.ie, The Inkwell Group publishing consultancy and the fabulously successful online writing group Writers Ink. As Sam, she is the founder of Murder One, Ireland’s International Crime Writing Festival.
Vanessa has been writing fiction since her husband set sail across the Atlantic for eight weeks and she had an idea for a book. Many hundreds of thousands of words later (and five draft manuscripts of varying quality) her debut Little Bones hit the bestseller list in Ireland in May 2016.
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Eloise Williams
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Title: Honesty and Lies
Genre: Children (Middle Grade)
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
A thrilling adventure where nothing is as it seems.
London, 1601.
Honesty, a storyteller seeking fame and fortune, befriends Alice, a maid to Queen Elizabeth I. But can Alice be trusted?
A tale of intrigue, scheming and plots set in the spellbinding world of the Elizabethan court.
The Author:
Eloise Williams grew up opposite a library in Llantrisant in south Wales.
Her books have won the Wales Arts Review Young People’s Book of the Year, the Wolverhampton
Children’s Book Award, the YBB Book Award, and have been shortlisted for the Tir na nOg, the NE
Book Awards and Wales Book of the Year.
She has an MA in Creative Writing with Distinction from Swansea University and was the inaugural Children’s Laureate Wales 2019-2021.
Eloise lives in Pembrokeshire, very close to the sea, where she swims, collects sea glass and ghost
stories, and walks on the beach with her dog, Watson Jones
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Genre: Children (Middle Grade)
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The Book;
A thrilling adventure where nothing is as it seems.
London, 1601.
Honesty, a storyteller seeking fame and fortune, befriends Alice, a maid to Queen Elizabeth I. But can Alice be trusted?
A tale of intrigue, scheming and plots set in the spellbinding world of the Elizabethan court.
The Author:
Eloise Williams grew up opposite a library in Llantrisant in south Wales.
Her books have won the Wales Arts Review Young People’s Book of the Year, the Wolverhampton
Children’s Book Award, the YBB Book Award, and have been shortlisted for the Tir na nOg, the NE
Book Awards and Wales Book of the Year.
She has an MA in Creative Writing with Distinction from Swansea University and was the inaugural Children’s Laureate Wales 2019-2021.
Eloise lives in Pembrokeshire, very close to the sea, where she swims, collects sea glass and ghost
stories, and walks on the beach with her dog, Watson Jones
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Andreina Cordani
Andreina Cordani
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Two Book Bonanza
Title 1: Murder At the Christmas Emporium
Genre: Crime Detective - Whodunnit
Format: Hardback - First Edition
Title 2: The 12 Days of Murder
Genre: Crime Detective - Whodunnit
Format: Paperback
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Title 1: Murder At the Christmas Emporium
Christmas shopping can be murder.
It's Christmas Eve at the Emporium, a bespoke gift shop hidden in the depths of London's winding streets, where a select few shoppers are browsing its handcrafted delights.
But when they go to leave, they find the doors are locked and it isn't long before they realise this is no innocent mix-up. The shoppers have been trapped here by someone who knows their darkest secrets, who will stop at nothing until they have all been unwrapped - and there is a gruesome gift waiting in Santa's grotto . . .
For those that survive the night, it will be a Christmas to remember.
Title 2: The 12 Days of Murder
Find the truth. Solve the murder. Never reveal your secret.
Twelve years ago, eight friends ran an exclusive group at university: The Murder Masquerade Society. The mysteries they solved may have been grisly, but they were always fictional - until their final Christmas Masquerade, when one of the group disappeared, never to be seen again.
Now, the remaining members of the group receive an invitation to a reunion masquerade, to be held in a beautiful and remote country house in Scotland. When they arrive they are each assigned a new identity themed around the Twelve Days of Christmas - they become Lady Partridge or Mr Gold; Lord Leapworth or Doctor Swan. The game begins, and it feels just like old times.
Until the next morning, when Lady Partridge is found hanging from a pear tree.
The Author:
Before writing The Girl Who… I was a freelance writer, book reviewer and journalist. I’ve interviewed some amazing people about their incredible lives. I have written for women’s magazines including Cosmopolitan, Grazia, Good Housekeeping, Prima, that’s life!, Stylist and Real People. I have been Books Editor for Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping and Reclaim. I live on the South Coast with my lovely family. I spend most of my time avoiding them to try and write.
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Title 1: Murder At the Christmas Emporium
Genre: Crime Detective - Whodunnit
Format: Hardback - First Edition
Title 2: The 12 Days of Murder
Genre: Crime Detective - Whodunnit
Format: Paperback
Both Books Signed - Dedications are Available
Bids Accepted: UK Only
Title 1: Murder At the Christmas Emporium
Christmas shopping can be murder.
It's Christmas Eve at the Emporium, a bespoke gift shop hidden in the depths of London's winding streets, where a select few shoppers are browsing its handcrafted delights.
But when they go to leave, they find the doors are locked and it isn't long before they realise this is no innocent mix-up. The shoppers have been trapped here by someone who knows their darkest secrets, who will stop at nothing until they have all been unwrapped - and there is a gruesome gift waiting in Santa's grotto . . .
For those that survive the night, it will be a Christmas to remember.
Title 2: The 12 Days of Murder
Find the truth. Solve the murder. Never reveal your secret.
Twelve years ago, eight friends ran an exclusive group at university: The Murder Masquerade Society. The mysteries they solved may have been grisly, but they were always fictional - until their final Christmas Masquerade, when one of the group disappeared, never to be seen again.
Now, the remaining members of the group receive an invitation to a reunion masquerade, to be held in a beautiful and remote country house in Scotland. When they arrive they are each assigned a new identity themed around the Twelve Days of Christmas - they become Lady Partridge or Mr Gold; Lord Leapworth or Doctor Swan. The game begins, and it feels just like old times.
Until the next morning, when Lady Partridge is found hanging from a pear tree.
The Author:
Before writing The Girl Who… I was a freelance writer, book reviewer and journalist. I’ve interviewed some amazing people about their incredible lives. I have written for women’s magazines including Cosmopolitan, Grazia, Good Housekeeping, Prima, that’s life!, Stylist and Real People. I have been Books Editor for Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping and Reclaim. I live on the South Coast with my lovely family. I spend most of my time avoiding them to try and write.
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Sophie Morton Thomas
Sophie Morton Thomas
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Title: Bird Spotting in a Small Town
Genre: Suspense
Format: Paperback First Edition
Signed: Dedication is available
Bids accepted: Worldwide
The Book:
My feet are itching to walk to the shore, to leave the kids again, to sit with the birds and pretend none of this has happened.
In a small, isolated town on the North Norfolk coast, Fran's life is unravelling.
As she fills her days cleaning the caravan park she owns, she is preoccupied by worry - about the behaviour of her son, the growing absence of her husband and the strained relationship with her sister. Her one source of solace is slipping out to the beach early in the morning, to watch the birds.
Small-town tension simmers when a new teacher starts at the local school and a Romany community settle in the field adjoining Fran's caravan park. From the distance of his caravan, seventy-year-old Tad quietly watches the townspeople - mainly, Fran's family.
When the schoolteacher and Fran's brother-in-law both go missing on the same night, accusations fly. Yet all Fran can seem to care about is the birds.
An eerie and unsettling novel, Bird Spotting in a Small Town perfectly encapsulates the intensity of rural claustrophobia when you don't know who you can trust.
The Author:
Travel by Night is my first novel. I wanted to show the strength of true friendship in a story that was set in the North of England, where I lived for a while. I work as an English teacher, have three children (two grown up) and am studying for my Master's in writing at Cambridge University.
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Genre: Suspense
Format: Paperback First Edition
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The Book:
My feet are itching to walk to the shore, to leave the kids again, to sit with the birds and pretend none of this has happened.
In a small, isolated town on the North Norfolk coast, Fran's life is unravelling.
As she fills her days cleaning the caravan park she owns, she is preoccupied by worry - about the behaviour of her son, the growing absence of her husband and the strained relationship with her sister. Her one source of solace is slipping out to the beach early in the morning, to watch the birds.
Small-town tension simmers when a new teacher starts at the local school and a Romany community settle in the field adjoining Fran's caravan park. From the distance of his caravan, seventy-year-old Tad quietly watches the townspeople - mainly, Fran's family.
When the schoolteacher and Fran's brother-in-law both go missing on the same night, accusations fly. Yet all Fran can seem to care about is the birds.
An eerie and unsettling novel, Bird Spotting in a Small Town perfectly encapsulates the intensity of rural claustrophobia when you don't know who you can trust.
The Author:
Travel by Night is my first novel. I wanted to show the strength of true friendship in a story that was set in the North of England, where I lived for a while. I work as an English teacher, have three children (two grown up) and am studying for my Master's in writing at Cambridge University.
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Sophie Kirtley
Sophie Kirtley
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Title: The Haunting of Fortune Farm
Genre: Children - Ghost Story
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Sometimes, secrets don't stay buried forever. Sometimes, they need to be set free.
Twelve-year-old Edie and her younger brother Pip are spending half term at Fortune Farm, high in the Irish mountains, with their grandmother Lolly. They haven't visited Fortune Farm for YEARS and Edie has been dreading it for MONTHS. They spent all their holidays there when Dad was alive. And Edie doesn't like thinking about Dad - even the happy memories haunt her too much.
When Edie uncovers a clue that could lead her to long-lost Viking treasure, it's just the adventure she needs to take her mind off Dad. But the adventure soon takes an unnerving and dangerous turn, and Edie discovers that Fortune Farm has more secrets, mysteries and ghosts than she had ever dared to dream.
A spine-tingling adventure about the power of memories and the restless spirits that whisper on the wind.
An emotional and spine-tingling adventure perfect for fans of The House with Chicken Legs, A Girl Called Owl and A Pocketful of Stars.
The Author:
Sophie grew up in Northern Ireland, where she spent her childhood climbing on hay bales, rolling down sand dunes and leaping the raw Atlantic waves. Nowadays she lives in Wiltshire with her husband, three children and their mini-menagerie of pets and wild things. Sophie has always loved poems and stories: she taught English in secondary schools for many years and has worked in a theatre, a bookshop and a tiny pub where folk tell fairytales by candlelight. Sophie is a prize-winning poet and children’s author; her first book, The Wild Way Home, was shortlisted for the Joan Aiken Future Classics Prize.
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Genre: Children - Ghost Story
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The Book;
Sometimes, secrets don't stay buried forever. Sometimes, they need to be set free.
Twelve-year-old Edie and her younger brother Pip are spending half term at Fortune Farm, high in the Irish mountains, with their grandmother Lolly. They haven't visited Fortune Farm for YEARS and Edie has been dreading it for MONTHS. They spent all their holidays there when Dad was alive. And Edie doesn't like thinking about Dad - even the happy memories haunt her too much.
When Edie uncovers a clue that could lead her to long-lost Viking treasure, it's just the adventure she needs to take her mind off Dad. But the adventure soon takes an unnerving and dangerous turn, and Edie discovers that Fortune Farm has more secrets, mysteries and ghosts than she had ever dared to dream.
A spine-tingling adventure about the power of memories and the restless spirits that whisper on the wind.
An emotional and spine-tingling adventure perfect for fans of The House with Chicken Legs, A Girl Called Owl and A Pocketful of Stars.
The Author:
Sophie grew up in Northern Ireland, where she spent her childhood climbing on hay bales, rolling down sand dunes and leaping the raw Atlantic waves. Nowadays she lives in Wiltshire with her husband, three children and their mini-menagerie of pets and wild things. Sophie has always loved poems and stories: she taught English in secondary schools for many years and has worked in a theatre, a bookshop and a tiny pub where folk tell fairytales by candlelight. Sophie is a prize-winning poet and children’s author; her first book, The Wild Way Home, was shortlisted for the Joan Aiken Future Classics Prize.
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£ 17
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Caroline Roberts
Caroline Roberts
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Title: The Summer of Magic Moments
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperback First Edition
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The Book:
When a seaside escape spells a little romance . . .
Claire is ready for a bright new chapter. Winding her way to the coast for a cosy cottage retreat, she prays that three weeks of blissful peace and summer sunshine will wash away the pain of the last year.
Claire’s a survivor – she’s growing proud of the scars that prove it – and she’s determined to make the most of each and every day, to seize those little magic moments that give life its sparkle.
Her plan for peaceful solitude goes awry when handsome, brooding Ed turns up in the cottage next door. Will a little summer romance prove the worst distraction? Or might it be the perfect remedy?
The Author:
Family, friends, food, a glass of bubbly and, of course, a good book make me smile. I love writing emotional stories about love, loss, betrayal, and family, that explore how complex and yet beautiful love can be. I also like to write romantic comedy, letting the characters have a bit of flirty fun too! I believe in following your dreams and working hard towards them, which led me to Harper Impulse (Harper Collins) and a publishing deal (woop!) after many years of writing. Stunning Northumberland is my home – sandy beaches, castles and gorgeous countryside that have inspired my writing.
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Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperback First Edition
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The Book:
When a seaside escape spells a little romance . . .
Claire is ready for a bright new chapter. Winding her way to the coast for a cosy cottage retreat, she prays that three weeks of blissful peace and summer sunshine will wash away the pain of the last year.
Claire’s a survivor – she’s growing proud of the scars that prove it – and she’s determined to make the most of each and every day, to seize those little magic moments that give life its sparkle.
Her plan for peaceful solitude goes awry when handsome, brooding Ed turns up in the cottage next door. Will a little summer romance prove the worst distraction? Or might it be the perfect remedy?
The Author:
Family, friends, food, a glass of bubbly and, of course, a good book make me smile. I love writing emotional stories about love, loss, betrayal, and family, that explore how complex and yet beautiful love can be. I also like to write romantic comedy, letting the characters have a bit of flirty fun too! I believe in following your dreams and working hard towards them, which led me to Harper Impulse (Harper Collins) and a publishing deal (woop!) after many years of writing. Stunning Northumberland is my home – sandy beaches, castles and gorgeous countryside that have inspired my writing.
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Caroline Roberts
Caroline Roberts
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*Two Book Special*
Title 1: The Cosy Tea Shop In The Castle
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperback
Title 2: The Cosy Christmas Tea Shop
Genre: Contemporary Romance - Christmas
Format: Paperback
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Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book 1:
When Ellie Hall lands her dream job running the little teashop in the beautiful but crumbling Claverham Castle, it’s the perfect escape from her humdrum job in the city. Life is definitely on the rise as Ellie replaces spreadsheets for scones, and continues her Nanna’s brilliant baking legacy.
When Lord Henry, the stick-in-the-mud owner, threatens to burst her baking bubble with his old-fashioned ways, Ellie wonders if she might have bitten off more than she can chew. But cupcake by cupcake she wins the locals over, including teashop stalwart, Doris, and Ellie’s showstopping bakes look set to go down in castle history!
Now all that’s missing in Ellie’s life is a slice of romance – can Joe, the brooding estate manager, be the one to put the cherry on the top of Ellie’s dream?
The Book 2;
From sleigh bells to wedding bells . . .
After a rocky start, Ellie Hall baked her way into everyone’s hearts at Claverham Castle – even the miserly Lord Henry was won over – and the run-down teashop regained its old sparkle.
Now Ellie has upgraded cupcakes for fairytale masterpieces as the proud caterer for an ever-growing list of weddings at the castle. The teashop team love baking to the tune of happy ever afters, but can they pull together when a certain bridezilla pushes them all to boiling point?
Christmas is just around the corner, and a last minute booking threatens to snow the team under. Ellie and her hunky hubby Joe have their own Christmas dreams to chase, but they’re determined to pull through and give this special couple the winter wonderland wedding they deserve.
Will Christmas at the Cosy Teashop be a showstopper to remember?
The Author:
Family, friends, food, a glass of bubbly and, of course, a good book make me smile. I love writing emotional stories about love, loss, betrayal, and family, that explore how complex and yet beautiful love can be. I also like to write romantic comedy, letting the characters have a bit of flirty fun too! I believe in following your dreams and working hard towards them, which led me to Harper Impulse (Harper Collins) and a publishing deal (woop!) after many years of writing. Stunning Northumberland is my home – sandy beaches, castles and gorgeous countryside that have inspired my writing.
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Title 1: The Cosy Tea Shop In The Castle
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperback
Title 2: The Cosy Christmas Tea Shop
Genre: Contemporary Romance - Christmas
Format: Paperback
Signed - Dedications are Available
Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book 1:
When Ellie Hall lands her dream job running the little teashop in the beautiful but crumbling Claverham Castle, it’s the perfect escape from her humdrum job in the city. Life is definitely on the rise as Ellie replaces spreadsheets for scones, and continues her Nanna’s brilliant baking legacy.
When Lord Henry, the stick-in-the-mud owner, threatens to burst her baking bubble with his old-fashioned ways, Ellie wonders if she might have bitten off more than she can chew. But cupcake by cupcake she wins the locals over, including teashop stalwart, Doris, and Ellie’s showstopping bakes look set to go down in castle history!
Now all that’s missing in Ellie’s life is a slice of romance – can Joe, the brooding estate manager, be the one to put the cherry on the top of Ellie’s dream?
The Book 2;
From sleigh bells to wedding bells . . .
After a rocky start, Ellie Hall baked her way into everyone’s hearts at Claverham Castle – even the miserly Lord Henry was won over – and the run-down teashop regained its old sparkle.
Now Ellie has upgraded cupcakes for fairytale masterpieces as the proud caterer for an ever-growing list of weddings at the castle. The teashop team love baking to the tune of happy ever afters, but can they pull together when a certain bridezilla pushes them all to boiling point?
Christmas is just around the corner, and a last minute booking threatens to snow the team under. Ellie and her hunky hubby Joe have their own Christmas dreams to chase, but they’re determined to pull through and give this special couple the winter wonderland wedding they deserve.
Will Christmas at the Cosy Teashop be a showstopper to remember?
The Author:
Family, friends, food, a glass of bubbly and, of course, a good book make me smile. I love writing emotional stories about love, loss, betrayal, and family, that explore how complex and yet beautiful love can be. I also like to write romantic comedy, letting the characters have a bit of flirty fun too! I believe in following your dreams and working hard towards them, which led me to Harper Impulse (Harper Collins) and a publishing deal (woop!) after many years of writing. Stunning Northumberland is my home – sandy beaches, castles and gorgeous countryside that have inspired my writing.
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Anne Coates
Anne Coates
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* Anne is offering a named character in the final Hannah Weybridge story for her successful bidder*
Title: Murder in the Lady Chapel
Genre: Crime Thriller - Mystery
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
“All that is now hidden will some day come to light. If you have ears, listen! And be sure to put into practice what you hear.” Mark 4, verse 22
A chorister is found dying in the Lady Chapel when the Reverend Peter Savage is about to begin morning prayers. It’s a suspicious death and no one seems to know much about the victim. The vicar implores Hannah Weybridge to find out what she can.
Little did the journalist know that this investigation would have her joining the choir in preparation for the Christmas services or that her daughter, Elizabeth, would be so enchanted by the church.
Hannah soon discovers that the deceased, Daniel Lyons, seems to be a man without a history and that’s suspicious in itself. Apparently, an insurance fraud investigator, he leaves no records: even his landlady knows little about him.
But, as Hannah discovers, someone does know him – and he was definitely not who he seemed to be…
And while she investigates, someone is trying to intimidate Hannah in a series of seemingly unconnected ways. The past as well as the present haunts her. Will she be able to solve the mystery before Christmas is ruined?
The Author:
As I publish the sixth book in my Hannah Weybridge series, "Murder in the Lady Chapel", I realise how fortunate I am to be doing something I love. Authors often go through periods when they feel like giving up but the thought of not writing spurs them on. Writing and creating Hannah Weybridge's world in 1990s London has been a fabulous experience for me especially when characters, who have become my imaginary friends, take me on so many unexpected journeys. And then there are those precious moments when a reader tells you how much they enjoyed your last book or a friend says how much they are looking forward to your next book and any doubts evaporate – for the time being!
Writing short stories was my way into fiction and I had those published in major women's magazines as I continued as a freelance journalist, working on national newspapers, magazines and in-house publications, as as an editor for Reader's Digest abridging fiction and narrative non-fiction. My journalism and editing have both inspired ideas for for my crime thrillers as well as my seven non-fiction books with various publishers.
I live in SE London with a large ginger cat and enjoy going to the theatre and cinema and socialising with family and friends.
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Title: Murder in the Lady Chapel
Genre: Crime Thriller - Mystery
Format: Paperback
Signed - Dedication is Available
Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book;
“All that is now hidden will some day come to light. If you have ears, listen! And be sure to put into practice what you hear.” Mark 4, verse 22
A chorister is found dying in the Lady Chapel when the Reverend Peter Savage is about to begin morning prayers. It’s a suspicious death and no one seems to know much about the victim. The vicar implores Hannah Weybridge to find out what she can.
Little did the journalist know that this investigation would have her joining the choir in preparation for the Christmas services or that her daughter, Elizabeth, would be so enchanted by the church.
Hannah soon discovers that the deceased, Daniel Lyons, seems to be a man without a history and that’s suspicious in itself. Apparently, an insurance fraud investigator, he leaves no records: even his landlady knows little about him.
But, as Hannah discovers, someone does know him – and he was definitely not who he seemed to be…
And while she investigates, someone is trying to intimidate Hannah in a series of seemingly unconnected ways. The past as well as the present haunts her. Will she be able to solve the mystery before Christmas is ruined?
The Author:
As I publish the sixth book in my Hannah Weybridge series, "Murder in the Lady Chapel", I realise how fortunate I am to be doing something I love. Authors often go through periods when they feel like giving up but the thought of not writing spurs them on. Writing and creating Hannah Weybridge's world in 1990s London has been a fabulous experience for me especially when characters, who have become my imaginary friends, take me on so many unexpected journeys. And then there are those precious moments when a reader tells you how much they enjoyed your last book or a friend says how much they are looking forward to your next book and any doubts evaporate – for the time being!
Writing short stories was my way into fiction and I had those published in major women's magazines as I continued as a freelance journalist, working on national newspapers, magazines and in-house publications, as as an editor for Reader's Digest abridging fiction and narrative non-fiction. My journalism and editing have both inspired ideas for for my crime thrillers as well as my seven non-fiction books with various publishers.
I live in SE London with a large ginger cat and enjoy going to the theatre and cinema and socialising with family and friends.
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£ 20
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Ian Brown
Ian Brown
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*4 Book Bonanza plus bookmarks & stickers*
Title 1: Albert & the Pond
Title 2: Albert & the Flood
Title 3: Hugg 'n' Bugg Finding Home
Title 4: Hugg 'n' Bugg The Surprise
Genre: Children
Format: Picturebooks
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Book 1: Albert & the Pond
A new garden pond proves fascinating for Albert. Especially when he befriends an unusual underwater creature. But one day, his new friend vanishes and Albert is sad. He keeps checking to see if they have returned. His other garden chums do their best to cheer him up. But there is no sign – right up to Albert’s long winter sleep. Will the spring bring a happy
Book2: Albert & the Flood
Heavy rain has drenched the garden and the lawn is waterlogged. The garden's annual sports day is in jeopardy! Can Albert come up with a plan to save the day? Albert and his friends make a splash and learn it's not always winning that's important.
Book 3:Hugg and BuggFinding Home
In the cold wildnerness of the Himalayas, we meet Bugg, a mountain flea in search of a home. Bugg searches high and low for somewhere to live, but nothing seems quite right until he meets Hugg, the yeti.
Join Hugg ‘n Bugg in this comical, illustrated, rhyming story of a heart-warming partnership between the unlikeliest of friends.
Book 4: Hugg 'n' Bugg The Surprise
Hugg and Bugg have a great life together. Hugg keeps Bugg warm in his fur and Bugg keeps Hugg's fur neat and tidy. But one day Hugg is disturbed to see that Bugg is giving fancy hairstyles to others. Filled with jealousy, he falls out with Bugg and orders him to leave. Will Hugg see the error of his ways?
The Author:
Ian Brown is a former journalist, tv writer and producer. He has written or produced for shows like Top Gear, This Is Your Life, The South Bank Show and he has worked with dozens of household names. His dream of writing for children came true with publishers Graffeg when real Albert the tortoise flipped onto his shell. While putting him back on his feet, Ian came up with Albert Upside Down. Less than three years since that came out, there are now six Albert picturebooks, a Board Book series and Activity Book plus another series with illustrator Eoin Clarke, Hugg 'n' Bugg - about a messy yeti and a tidy flea. More adventures with Albert are in the works.
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Title 1: Albert & the Pond
Title 2: Albert & the Flood
Title 3: Hugg 'n' Bugg Finding Home
Title 4: Hugg 'n' Bugg The Surprise
Genre: Children
Format: Picturebooks
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Book 1: Albert & the Pond
A new garden pond proves fascinating for Albert. Especially when he befriends an unusual underwater creature. But one day, his new friend vanishes and Albert is sad. He keeps checking to see if they have returned. His other garden chums do their best to cheer him up. But there is no sign – right up to Albert’s long winter sleep. Will the spring bring a happy
Book2: Albert & the Flood
Heavy rain has drenched the garden and the lawn is waterlogged. The garden's annual sports day is in jeopardy! Can Albert come up with a plan to save the day? Albert and his friends make a splash and learn it's not always winning that's important.
Book 3:Hugg and BuggFinding Home
In the cold wildnerness of the Himalayas, we meet Bugg, a mountain flea in search of a home. Bugg searches high and low for somewhere to live, but nothing seems quite right until he meets Hugg, the yeti.
Join Hugg ‘n Bugg in this comical, illustrated, rhyming story of a heart-warming partnership between the unlikeliest of friends.
Book 4: Hugg 'n' Bugg The Surprise
Hugg and Bugg have a great life together. Hugg keeps Bugg warm in his fur and Bugg keeps Hugg's fur neat and tidy. But one day Hugg is disturbed to see that Bugg is giving fancy hairstyles to others. Filled with jealousy, he falls out with Bugg and orders him to leave. Will Hugg see the error of his ways?
The Author:
Ian Brown is a former journalist, tv writer and producer. He has written or produced for shows like Top Gear, This Is Your Life, The South Bank Show and he has worked with dozens of household names. His dream of writing for children came true with publishers Graffeg when real Albert the tortoise flipped onto his shell. While putting him back on his feet, Ian came up with Albert Upside Down. Less than three years since that came out, there are now six Albert picturebooks, a Board Book series and Activity Book plus another series with illustrator Eoin Clarke, Hugg 'n' Bugg - about a messy yeti and a tidy flea. More adventures with Albert are in the works.
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Louisa Scarr
Louisa Scarr
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Title: Gallows Wood
Genre: Crime - Police Procedural
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
The signs are unmistakable. The dog halts, his nose up – nostrils quivering. Every inch of him is poised. Moss has a scent.
When a hand is found in Gallows Wood, PC Lucy Halliday and her specialist search dog Moss must find the rest of the body. What they uncover is a killer’s dumping ground. Like every case since her husband’s mysterious disappearance, Lucy wonders if this one will bring her closer to the truth. Nico was a journalist with a reputation for getting buried in his work; Lucy is certain that this time he delved too deep.
With new DI Jack Ellis calling the shots, Lucy struggles to keep her professionalism intact. She can’t stay away from these murders – and a killer who may hold the answers she desperately wants. But with those at the very heart of the investigation withholding secrets of their own, can more brutal deaths be prevented?
The Author:
Louisa Scarr studied psychology at the University of Southampton and has lived in and around the city ever since. She works as a freelance copywriter and editor, and when she's not writing, she can be found pounding the streets in running shoes or swimming in muddy lakes.
She is the author of the Butler and West crime series, published by Canelo Crime, beginning with Last Place You Look and ending with Out of the Ashes. A new series, about a police dog handler, will launch in July 2024 with Gallows Wood.
She also writes as Sam Holland and is the author of the award-winning Major Crimes series, following detectives as they investigate murders committed by brutal serial killers in the south of England. The Echo Man and The Twenty are out now; The Puppet Master will follow in June 2024 and can be preordered today.
She began her career writing as Louisa de Lange: her debut novel The Dream Wife was an eBook bestseller and hailed as ‘startling and clever’ by R&J bestseller Cara Hunter, and ‘thriller-writing at its best’ by the Daily Mail. This was followed by the Kate Munro series, Ask Me No Questions and Nowhere to be Found.
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Genre: Crime - Police Procedural
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
The signs are unmistakable. The dog halts, his nose up – nostrils quivering. Every inch of him is poised. Moss has a scent.
When a hand is found in Gallows Wood, PC Lucy Halliday and her specialist search dog Moss must find the rest of the body. What they uncover is a killer’s dumping ground. Like every case since her husband’s mysterious disappearance, Lucy wonders if this one will bring her closer to the truth. Nico was a journalist with a reputation for getting buried in his work; Lucy is certain that this time he delved too deep.
With new DI Jack Ellis calling the shots, Lucy struggles to keep her professionalism intact. She can’t stay away from these murders – and a killer who may hold the answers she desperately wants. But with those at the very heart of the investigation withholding secrets of their own, can more brutal deaths be prevented?
The Author:
Louisa Scarr studied psychology at the University of Southampton and has lived in and around the city ever since. She works as a freelance copywriter and editor, and when she's not writing, she can be found pounding the streets in running shoes or swimming in muddy lakes.
She is the author of the Butler and West crime series, published by Canelo Crime, beginning with Last Place You Look and ending with Out of the Ashes. A new series, about a police dog handler, will launch in July 2024 with Gallows Wood.
She also writes as Sam Holland and is the author of the award-winning Major Crimes series, following detectives as they investigate murders committed by brutal serial killers in the south of England. The Echo Man and The Twenty are out now; The Puppet Master will follow in June 2024 and can be preordered today.
She began her career writing as Louisa de Lange: her debut novel The Dream Wife was an eBook bestseller and hailed as ‘startling and clever’ by R&J bestseller Cara Hunter, and ‘thriller-writing at its best’ by the Daily Mail. This was followed by the Kate Munro series, Ask Me No Questions and Nowhere to be Found.
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Bea Fitzgerald
Bea Fitzgerald
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Title: The End Crowns All
Genre: Y/A - Greek Myth
Format: Hardback - First Edition - Sprayed Edges
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Love caused this war. At least, that's what the stories will say.
When Cassandra's patron god, Apollo, offers her the gift of prophecy - and all the power that comes with it - she seizes the opportunity. But when she fails to uphold her end of the agreement, she discovers just how very far she has to fall. No one believes her visions. Which all seem to be of one girl - and she's going to start a war.
Helen fled Sparta in pursuit of love - though that's proving more elusive than she'd hoped. Far from home, Helen's navigating all the politics and backstabbing of the Trojan court.
And one princess seems particularly intent on driving her from the city. . .
But when war finally strikes, it's more than the army at their walls they must contend with. Cassandra and Helen might hold the key to reweaving fate itself - especially with the prophetic strands drawing them ever closer together.
But how do you change your future when the gods themselves are dictating your demise?
The Author:
Hi, I'm Bea Fitzgerald and I love stories which is probably why I've shaped my life around them.
I write romantic YA fantasy fiction inspired by Greek mythology. My debut Hades and Persephone reimagining Girl, Goddess, Queen was an instant Sunday Times bestseller. It has been shortlisted for numerous awards and won Fantasy Romance of the Year (2024) at the RNAs. It will be published in thirteen languages (and counting!).
I also write dark, messy adult fiction and my debut adult thriller Then Things Went Dark is publishing in August 2024.
Outside of my writing, I'm a content creator, sharing my love of Greek mythology under the handle @chaosonolympus. Come join me on TikTok and Instagram for bad costumes and worse acting.
After many years working in publishing, I am now a writing coach at The Novelry and dream of one day owning a dog.
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Genre: Y/A - Greek Myth
Format: Hardback - First Edition - Sprayed Edges
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The Book;
Love caused this war. At least, that's what the stories will say.
When Cassandra's patron god, Apollo, offers her the gift of prophecy - and all the power that comes with it - she seizes the opportunity. But when she fails to uphold her end of the agreement, she discovers just how very far she has to fall. No one believes her visions. Which all seem to be of one girl - and she's going to start a war.
Helen fled Sparta in pursuit of love - though that's proving more elusive than she'd hoped. Far from home, Helen's navigating all the politics and backstabbing of the Trojan court.
And one princess seems particularly intent on driving her from the city. . .
But when war finally strikes, it's more than the army at their walls they must contend with. Cassandra and Helen might hold the key to reweaving fate itself - especially with the prophetic strands drawing them ever closer together.
But how do you change your future when the gods themselves are dictating your demise?
The Author:
Hi, I'm Bea Fitzgerald and I love stories which is probably why I've shaped my life around them.
I write romantic YA fantasy fiction inspired by Greek mythology. My debut Hades and Persephone reimagining Girl, Goddess, Queen was an instant Sunday Times bestseller. It has been shortlisted for numerous awards and won Fantasy Romance of the Year (2024) at the RNAs. It will be published in thirteen languages (and counting!).
I also write dark, messy adult fiction and my debut adult thriller Then Things Went Dark is publishing in August 2024.
Outside of my writing, I'm a content creator, sharing my love of Greek mythology under the handle @chaosonolympus. Come join me on TikTok and Instagram for bad costumes and worse acting.
After many years working in publishing, I am now a writing coach at The Novelry and dream of one day owning a dog.
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Wenyan Lu
Wenyan Lu
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Title: The Funeral Cryer
Genre: Contemporary Fiction - Humour
Format: Hardback
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Book Blurb:
An Yu's Braised Pork meets Flaubert's Madame Bovary in this unforgettable, tragi-comic tale of one woman's mid-life re-awakening in contemporary rural China.
The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job as a professional mourner and under-appreciated by The Husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of break-up. But just when things couldn't be bleaker, The Funeral Cryer takes a leap of faith - and in so doing things start to take a surprising turn for the better . . .
Dark, moving and wry, The Funeral Cryer is both an illuminating depiction of a 'left behind' society - and proof that it's never too late to change your life.
Author Bio:
Originally from Shanghai, China, Wenyan Lu is the winner of the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2020. Wenyan holds a Master of Studies in Creative Writing as well as a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. Her unpublished historical novel The Martyr's Hymn was also longlisted for SI Leeds Literary Prize 2018 and Bridport First Novel Prize 2019.
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Genre: Contemporary Fiction - Humour
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An Yu's Braised Pork meets Flaubert's Madame Bovary in this unforgettable, tragi-comic tale of one woman's mid-life re-awakening in contemporary rural China.
The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job as a professional mourner and under-appreciated by The Husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of break-up. But just when things couldn't be bleaker, The Funeral Cryer takes a leap of faith - and in so doing things start to take a surprising turn for the better . . .
Dark, moving and wry, The Funeral Cryer is both an illuminating depiction of a 'left behind' society - and proof that it's never too late to change your life.
Author Bio:
Originally from Shanghai, China, Wenyan Lu is the winner of the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2020. Wenyan holds a Master of Studies in Creative Writing as well as a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. Her unpublished historical novel The Martyr's Hymn was also longlisted for SI Leeds Literary Prize 2018 and Bridport First Novel Prize 2019.
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Susan Buchanan
Susan Buchanan
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Double Festive Special
Title 1: The Christmas Spirit
Title 2: Return of the Christmas Spirit
Genre: Contemporary Fiction- Christmas
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Book 1 Blurb: The Christmas Spirit
Natalie Hope takes over the reins of the Sugar and Spice bakery and café with the intention of injecting some Christmas spirit. Something her regulars badly need.
Newly dumped Rebecca is stuck in a job with no prospects, has lost her home and is struggling to see a way forward.
Pensioner Stanley is dreading his first Christmas alone without his beloved wife, who passed away earlier this year. How will he ever feel whole again?
Graduate Jacob is still out of work despite making hundreds of applications. Will he be forced to go against his instincts and ask his unsympathetic parents for help?
Spiky workaholic Meredith hates the jollity of family gatherings and would rather stay home with a box set and a posh ready meal. Will she finally realise what’s important in life?
Natalie sprinkles a little magic to try to spread some festive cheer and restore Christmas spirit, but will she succeed?
Book 2 Blurb: Return of the Christmas Spirit
Christmas is just around the corner when the enigmatic Star begins working at Butterburn library, but not everyone is embracing the spirit of the season.
Arianna is anxious about her mock exams. With her father living abroad and her mother working three jobs to keep them afloat, she doesn’t have much support at home.
The bank is threatening to repossess Evan’s house, and he has no idea how he will get through Christmas with two children who are used to getting everything they want.
After 23 years of marriage, Patricia’s husband announces he’s moving out of the family home, and moving in with his secretary. Patricia puts a brave face on things, but inside she’s devastated and lost.
Stressed-out Daniel is doing the work of three people in his sales job, plus looking after his kids and his sick wife. Pulled in too many different directions, he hasn’t even had a chance to think about Christmas.
Can Star, the library’s Good Samaritan, help set them on the path to happiness this Christmas?
Author Bio:
Susan Buchanan lives in South Lanarkshire, Scotland with her husband and their two children. She writes contemporary women's fiction and romantic comedies, Her books are: Sign of the Times, The Dating Game, The Christmas Spirit, Return of the Christmas Spirit, Just One Day - Winter, Just One Day - Spring, Just One Day - Summer and Just One Day - Autumn.
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Title 1: The Christmas Spirit
Title 2: Return of the Christmas Spirit
Genre: Contemporary Fiction- Christmas
Format: Paperbacks
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Book 1 Blurb: The Christmas Spirit
Natalie Hope takes over the reins of the Sugar and Spice bakery and café with the intention of injecting some Christmas spirit. Something her regulars badly need.
Newly dumped Rebecca is stuck in a job with no prospects, has lost her home and is struggling to see a way forward.
Pensioner Stanley is dreading his first Christmas alone without his beloved wife, who passed away earlier this year. How will he ever feel whole again?
Graduate Jacob is still out of work despite making hundreds of applications. Will he be forced to go against his instincts and ask his unsympathetic parents for help?
Spiky workaholic Meredith hates the jollity of family gatherings and would rather stay home with a box set and a posh ready meal. Will she finally realise what’s important in life?
Natalie sprinkles a little magic to try to spread some festive cheer and restore Christmas spirit, but will she succeed?
Book 2 Blurb: Return of the Christmas Spirit
Christmas is just around the corner when the enigmatic Star begins working at Butterburn library, but not everyone is embracing the spirit of the season.
Arianna is anxious about her mock exams. With her father living abroad and her mother working three jobs to keep them afloat, she doesn’t have much support at home.
The bank is threatening to repossess Evan’s house, and he has no idea how he will get through Christmas with two children who are used to getting everything they want.
After 23 years of marriage, Patricia’s husband announces he’s moving out of the family home, and moving in with his secretary. Patricia puts a brave face on things, but inside she’s devastated and lost.
Stressed-out Daniel is doing the work of three people in his sales job, plus looking after his kids and his sick wife. Pulled in too many different directions, he hasn’t even had a chance to think about Christmas.
Can Star, the library’s Good Samaritan, help set them on the path to happiness this Christmas?
Author Bio:
Susan Buchanan lives in South Lanarkshire, Scotland with her husband and their two children. She writes contemporary women's fiction and romantic comedies, Her books are: Sign of the Times, The Dating Game, The Christmas Spirit, Return of the Christmas Spirit, Just One Day - Winter, Just One Day - Spring, Just One Day - Summer and Just One Day - Autumn.
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Nicola Gill
Nicola Gill
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Book title: That’s Just Perfect
Genre: Contemporary fiction
Format: Paperback
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Twenty-nine-year-old teacher Emily needs her father to believe her life is a success. He may have walked out on the family when she was a child and let her down when she needed him most, but her life is perfect despite him.
Or it was until last Friday, when her fiancé dumped her. Now she's facing a frighteningly empty future, and she's unravelling at work. And just when she thought things couldn't get worse, her father turns up on her doorstep.
Ed knows he's got it wrong, and he wants to make amends, even if his motives aren't entirely selfless. What better way to do that than to show Emily how much he cares about her wedding? He'll even shell out for the dress if that's what it takes.
Emily can't bear to tell her father that her life has fallen apart. So she doesn't. Before she knows it, they're planning – and booking – a wedding that's totally perfect.
Except for one small fact…
The Author:
Nicola Gill lives in London with her husband and two sons. At the age of five, when all the other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, she decided she wanted to be an author. Her ballet teacher was very relieved.
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Genre: Contemporary fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
Twenty-nine-year-old teacher Emily needs her father to believe her life is a success. He may have walked out on the family when she was a child and let her down when she needed him most, but her life is perfect despite him.
Or it was until last Friday, when her fiancé dumped her. Now she's facing a frighteningly empty future, and she's unravelling at work. And just when she thought things couldn't get worse, her father turns up on her doorstep.
Ed knows he's got it wrong, and he wants to make amends, even if his motives aren't entirely selfless. What better way to do that than to show Emily how much he cares about her wedding? He'll even shell out for the dress if that's what it takes.
Emily can't bear to tell her father that her life has fallen apart. So she doesn't. Before she knows it, they're planning – and booking – a wedding that's totally perfect.
Except for one small fact…
The Author:
Nicola Gill lives in London with her husband and two sons. At the age of five, when all the other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, she decided she wanted to be an author. Her ballet teacher was very relieved.
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Carmel Harrington
Carmel Harrington
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Title: The Lighthouse Secret
Genre: Romance
Format: Paperback First Edition
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Family secrets never stay buried…
1951, Ireland
On the windswept Cork coast, the lighthouse-keepers’ wives wait, watching the sea. Their husbands are coming home. But one secret can never be revealed.
2023, Maine
Decades later, Mollie Kenefick receives an anonymous note: Family secrets never stay buried. The only person she can ask is her grandmother – however, Beth made a vow that she swore never to break.
But someone knows what happened that summer in 1951, and it seems they’re not happy keeping silent . . .
The Author:
Carmel Harrington is an International bestseller of twelve novels, from Co. Wexford, where she lives with her husband, children and rescue dog, George Bailey.
Her latest novel, The Lighthouse Secret, was an instant Irish Times Bestseller and was described by The Sunday Times, as a ‘page-turner, with wonderfully descriptive language.’ Carmel’s debut was a multi-award-winning novel, and several books have been shortlisted for an Irish Book Award. She is a regular on Irish TV screens and radio, and has been a guest speaker at Literary events in Ireland, UK and USA. She was also Chair of Wexford Literary Festival for three years.
Carmel’s emotional and gripping storytelling, with relatable characters, twisting plots and evocative locations, has captured the hearts of readers worldwide. Her novels, including The Girl From Donegal, A Mother’s Heart and The Moon Over Kilmore Quay have been Irish Times, Sunday Times, USA Today and Amazon bestsellers.
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Genre: Romance
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The Book;
Family secrets never stay buried…
1951, Ireland
On the windswept Cork coast, the lighthouse-keepers’ wives wait, watching the sea. Their husbands are coming home. But one secret can never be revealed.
2023, Maine
Decades later, Mollie Kenefick receives an anonymous note: Family secrets never stay buried. The only person she can ask is her grandmother – however, Beth made a vow that she swore never to break.
But someone knows what happened that summer in 1951, and it seems they’re not happy keeping silent . . .
The Author:
Carmel Harrington is an International bestseller of twelve novels, from Co. Wexford, where she lives with her husband, children and rescue dog, George Bailey.
Her latest novel, The Lighthouse Secret, was an instant Irish Times Bestseller and was described by The Sunday Times, as a ‘page-turner, with wonderfully descriptive language.’ Carmel’s debut was a multi-award-winning novel, and several books have been shortlisted for an Irish Book Award. She is a regular on Irish TV screens and radio, and has been a guest speaker at Literary events in Ireland, UK and USA. She was also Chair of Wexford Literary Festival for three years.
Carmel’s emotional and gripping storytelling, with relatable characters, twisting plots and evocative locations, has captured the hearts of readers worldwide. Her novels, including The Girl From Donegal, A Mother’s Heart and The Moon Over Kilmore Quay have been Irish Times, Sunday Times, USA Today and Amazon bestsellers.
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Title: Agent Zo
Genre: History - Biography
Format: Hardback - First Edition
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The Book;
This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo, told here for the very first time. Agent Zo was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw during the Second World War as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command, and then in Britain she became the only woman to join the Polish elite Special Forces, known as the 'Silent Unseen'. She was secretly trained in the British countryside, and then the only female member of these SOE affiliated forces to be parachuted back behind enemy lines to Nazi-occupied Poland. There, whilst being hunted by the Gestapo who arrested her entire family, she took a leading role in the Warsaw Uprising and the liberation of Poland.
After the war she was demobbed as one of the most highly decorated women in Polish history. Yet the Soviet-backed post-war Communist regime not only imprisoned her, but also ensured that her remarkable story remained hidden for over forty years. Now, through new archival research and exclusive interviews with people who knew and fought alongside Zo, Clare Mulley brings this forgotten heroine back to life, and also transforms how we see the history of women's agency in the Second World War.
The Author:
CLARE MULLEY is the award-winning author of 'The Woman Who Saved the Children', which won the Daily Mail Biographers' Club Prize, and 'The Spy Who Loved', now optioned by Universal Studios.
Clare's third book, 'The Women Who Flew for Hitler', long-listed for the Historical Writers Association prize, is a dual biography of two extraordinary women at the heart of the Third Reich, but who ended their lives on opposite sides of history.
A regular contributor to TV and radio, Clare recently gave a TEDx talk at Stormont, and lectures in London and Paris on wartime female special agents. She also reviews non-fiction for the Telegraph, Spectator and History Today.
Clare is very nosy, which is helpful for a biographer seeking the truth - or many truths - of people in the dusty files of public archives and between the lines of once private letters. She also loves long walks, chocolate, and her naughty dog, Lola the lurcher.
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The Book;
This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo, told here for the very first time. Agent Zo was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw during the Second World War as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command, and then in Britain she became the only woman to join the Polish elite Special Forces, known as the 'Silent Unseen'. She was secretly trained in the British countryside, and then the only female member of these SOE affiliated forces to be parachuted back behind enemy lines to Nazi-occupied Poland. There, whilst being hunted by the Gestapo who arrested her entire family, she took a leading role in the Warsaw Uprising and the liberation of Poland.
After the war she was demobbed as one of the most highly decorated women in Polish history. Yet the Soviet-backed post-war Communist regime not only imprisoned her, but also ensured that her remarkable story remained hidden for over forty years. Now, through new archival research and exclusive interviews with people who knew and fought alongside Zo, Clare Mulley brings this forgotten heroine back to life, and also transforms how we see the history of women's agency in the Second World War.
The Author:
CLARE MULLEY is the award-winning author of 'The Woman Who Saved the Children', which won the Daily Mail Biographers' Club Prize, and 'The Spy Who Loved', now optioned by Universal Studios.
Clare's third book, 'The Women Who Flew for Hitler', long-listed for the Historical Writers Association prize, is a dual biography of two extraordinary women at the heart of the Third Reich, but who ended their lives on opposite sides of history.
A regular contributor to TV and radio, Clare recently gave a TEDx talk at Stormont, and lectures in London and Paris on wartime female special agents. She also reviews non-fiction for the Telegraph, Spectator and History Today.
Clare is very nosy, which is helpful for a biographer seeking the truth - or many truths - of people in the dusty files of public archives and between the lines of once private letters. She also loves long walks, chocolate, and her naughty dog, Lola the lurcher.
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Title: Emperor of Rome
Genre: History
Format: Hardback
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In her customary lively yet scholarly style, the eminent historian and author of SPQR presents an authoritative account of the role of Roman Emperor and the colourful personalities who occupied that position over the centuries.
In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome.
Now, she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) to Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Emperor of Rome is not your usual chronological account of Roman rulers, one after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius.
Beard asks bigger questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman (and our own) fantasies about what it was to be Roman, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before.
Author Bio:
Dame Winifred Mary Beard, DBE, FSA, FBA (born 1 January 1955) is an English scholar of Ancient Roman civilisation. The New Yorker characterises her as "learned but accessible".
Dame Mary is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, a fellow of Newnham College, and Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature. She is the Classics editor of The Times Literary Supplement, where she also writes a regular blog, "A Don's Life". Her frequent media appearances and sometimes controversial public statements have led to her being described as "Britain's best-known classicist."
Dame Mary was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours and a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to the study of classical civilisations.
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In her customary lively yet scholarly style, the eminent historian and author of SPQR presents an authoritative account of the role of Roman Emperor and the colourful personalities who occupied that position over the centuries.
In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome.
Now, she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) to Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Emperor of Rome is not your usual chronological account of Roman rulers, one after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius.
Beard asks bigger questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman (and our own) fantasies about what it was to be Roman, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before.
Author Bio:
Dame Winifred Mary Beard, DBE, FSA, FBA (born 1 January 1955) is an English scholar of Ancient Roman civilisation. The New Yorker characterises her as "learned but accessible".
Dame Mary is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, a fellow of Newnham College, and Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature. She is the Classics editor of The Times Literary Supplement, where she also writes a regular blog, "A Don's Life". Her frequent media appearances and sometimes controversial public statements have led to her being described as "Britain's best-known classicist."
Dame Mary was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours and a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to the study of classical civilisations.
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*Three Book Bonanza*
Title 1: Ithaca
Genre: Historical Fiction - Myths
Format: Hardback
Title 2: House of Odysseus
Genre: Historical Fiction - Myths
Format: Hardback
Title 3: Last Song of Penelope
Genre: Historical Fiction - Myths
Format: Hardback
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The Book 1: Ithaca
‘The greatest power we women can own is that which we take in secret.’
Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting age from the isle of Ithaca. None of them has returned, and the women of Ithaca have been left behind to run the kingdom.
Penelope was barely into womanhood when she wed Odysseus. While he lived, her position was secure. But now, years on, speculation is mounting that her husband is dead, and suitors are beginning to knock at her door.
No one man is strong enough to claim Odysseus’s empty throne – not yet. But as everyone waits for the balance of power to tip, Penelope knows that any choice she makes could plunge Ithaca into bloody civil war . . .
From the multi award-winning Claire North comes a daring, exquisite and moving tale that breathes life into ancient myth, and tells of the women who stand defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men. It’s time for the women of Ithaca to tell their tale . . .
The Book 2: House of Odysseus
On the isle of Ithaca, Queen Penelope maintains a delicate balance of power. Many years ago, her husband, Odysseus, sailed to war with Troy and never came home. In his absence, Penelope uses all her cunning to keep the peace – but this is shattered by the arrival of Orestes, king of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra.
Orestes’s hands are stained with his mother’s blood. Not so long ago, the son of Agamemnon took Queen Clytemnestra’s life on Ithaca’s sands. Now, racked with guilt, he is slowly losing his mind.
Penelope knows destruction will follow in his wake as surely as the Furies circle him. His uncle, Menelaus, the battle-hungry king of Sparta, longs for Orestes’s throne – and if he can seize it, no one will be safe from his violent whims.
Trapped between two mad kings, Penelope fights to keep war from Ithaca’s shores. Her only allies are Elektra and Helen of Troy, Menelaus’s enigmatic wife. And watching over them all is the goddess Aphrodite, who has plans of her own.
Each woman has a secret. And their secrets will shape the world.
The Book 3: Last Song of Penelope
Many years ago, Odysseus sailed to war and never returned. For twenty years his wife Penelope and the women of Ithaca have guarded the isle against suitors and rival kings. But peace cannot be kept forever, and the balance of power is about to break . . .
A beggar has arrived at the Palace. Salt-crusted and ocean-battered, he is scorned by the suitors – but Penelope recognises in him something terrible: her husband, Odysseus, returned at last. Yet this Odysseus is no hero. By returning to the island in disguise, he is not merely plotting his revenge against the suitors – vengeance that will spark a civil war – but he’s testing the loyalty of his queen. Has she been faithful to him all these years? And how much blood is Odysseus willing to shed to be sure?
The song of Penelope is ending, and the song of Odysseus must ring through Ithaca’s halls. But first, Penelope must use all her cunning to win a war for the fate of the island and keep her family alive, whatever the cost . . .
The Author:
Claire North is a pseudonym for Catherine Webb, who wrote several novels in various genres before publishing her first major work as Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. It was a critically acclaimed success, receiving rave reviews and becoming a word-of-mouth bestseller. She has since published several hugely popular and critically acclaimed novels, won the World Fantasy Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and been shortlisted for the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. She lives in London.
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Title 1: Ithaca
Genre: Historical Fiction - Myths
Format: Hardback
Title 2: House of Odysseus
Genre: Historical Fiction - Myths
Format: Hardback
Title 3: Last Song of Penelope
Genre: Historical Fiction - Myths
Format: Hardback
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The Book 1: Ithaca
‘The greatest power we women can own is that which we take in secret.’
Seventeen years ago, King Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him every man of fighting age from the isle of Ithaca. None of them has returned, and the women of Ithaca have been left behind to run the kingdom.
Penelope was barely into womanhood when she wed Odysseus. While he lived, her position was secure. But now, years on, speculation is mounting that her husband is dead, and suitors are beginning to knock at her door.
No one man is strong enough to claim Odysseus’s empty throne – not yet. But as everyone waits for the balance of power to tip, Penelope knows that any choice she makes could plunge Ithaca into bloody civil war . . .
From the multi award-winning Claire North comes a daring, exquisite and moving tale that breathes life into ancient myth, and tells of the women who stand defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men. It’s time for the women of Ithaca to tell their tale . . .
The Book 2: House of Odysseus
On the isle of Ithaca, Queen Penelope maintains a delicate balance of power. Many years ago, her husband, Odysseus, sailed to war with Troy and never came home. In his absence, Penelope uses all her cunning to keep the peace – but this is shattered by the arrival of Orestes, king of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra.
Orestes’s hands are stained with his mother’s blood. Not so long ago, the son of Agamemnon took Queen Clytemnestra’s life on Ithaca’s sands. Now, racked with guilt, he is slowly losing his mind.
Penelope knows destruction will follow in his wake as surely as the Furies circle him. His uncle, Menelaus, the battle-hungry king of Sparta, longs for Orestes’s throne – and if he can seize it, no one will be safe from his violent whims.
Trapped between two mad kings, Penelope fights to keep war from Ithaca’s shores. Her only allies are Elektra and Helen of Troy, Menelaus’s enigmatic wife. And watching over them all is the goddess Aphrodite, who has plans of her own.
Each woman has a secret. And their secrets will shape the world.
The Book 3: Last Song of Penelope
Many years ago, Odysseus sailed to war and never returned. For twenty years his wife Penelope and the women of Ithaca have guarded the isle against suitors and rival kings. But peace cannot be kept forever, and the balance of power is about to break . . .
A beggar has arrived at the Palace. Salt-crusted and ocean-battered, he is scorned by the suitors – but Penelope recognises in him something terrible: her husband, Odysseus, returned at last. Yet this Odysseus is no hero. By returning to the island in disguise, he is not merely plotting his revenge against the suitors – vengeance that will spark a civil war – but he’s testing the loyalty of his queen. Has she been faithful to him all these years? And how much blood is Odysseus willing to shed to be sure?
The song of Penelope is ending, and the song of Odysseus must ring through Ithaca’s halls. But first, Penelope must use all her cunning to win a war for the fate of the island and keep her family alive, whatever the cost . . .
The Author:
Claire North is a pseudonym for Catherine Webb, who wrote several novels in various genres before publishing her first major work as Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. It was a critically acclaimed success, receiving rave reviews and becoming a word-of-mouth bestseller. She has since published several hugely popular and critically acclaimed novels, won the World Fantasy Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and been shortlisted for the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. She lives in London.
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Rebecca Harry
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*Rebecca is also gifting a sheet of Christmas mouse stickers and a postcard*
Title: A House for Christmas Mouse
Genre: Children
Format: Board Book
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The Book;
Mouse is very excited for Christmas, but first she needs to find a home to spend it in! On her way through Treetop Forest, she meets Fox, Bunny and Bear, all in need of a little help – which she gladly offers – but as the sun sets, it looks like she won’t have anywhere cosy to spend Christmas. Luckily, her new friends are about to reward her generosity with a very big surprise . . .
With foiling on every page it’s the perfect gift to share at Christmas!
The Author:
Rebecca Harry (she/her) is a children’s book illustrator living and working in Cardiff. She has illustrated baby books, middle grade novels and Picture Books and is currently finishing the illustrations for her 50th children’s book.
Rebecca works mostly in the medium of acrylic on hot pressed watercolour paper and her work has been published across the world in more than 20 languages.
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Title: A House for Christmas Mouse
Genre: Children
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Mouse is very excited for Christmas, but first she needs to find a home to spend it in! On her way through Treetop Forest, she meets Fox, Bunny and Bear, all in need of a little help – which she gladly offers – but as the sun sets, it looks like she won’t have anywhere cosy to spend Christmas. Luckily, her new friends are about to reward her generosity with a very big surprise . . .
With foiling on every page it’s the perfect gift to share at Christmas!
The Author:
Rebecca Harry (she/her) is a children’s book illustrator living and working in Cardiff. She has illustrated baby books, middle grade novels and Picture Books and is currently finishing the illustrations for her 50th children’s book.
Rebecca works mostly in the medium of acrylic on hot pressed watercolour paper and her work has been published across the world in more than 20 languages.
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Anna Britton
Anna Britton
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Book Title: Close to the Edge (Martin and Stern book two)
Genre: Police procedural/crime thriller
Format: Paperback (First Edition)
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Two detectives under fire. One missing student. No answers.
Chaos breaks out as DS Gabe Martin leaves Southampton Crown Court. Gunshots ring out. She and DI Juliet Stern are hit. The culprit disappears without a trace.
Despite her injuries, Gabe is determined to work. She's assigned to the search for missing art student Henry Garside. As she delves into his case, it becomes clear nothing about the investigation is as it seems.
Is Henry’s disappearance an isolated incident? Was the shooting a simple act of retribution – or is there some far bigger and more sinister at play? When Juliet asks for her help in the search for their shooter, Gabe feels powerless to refuse, even if it means meddling where she shouldn't. Increasingly caught between her loyalty to Juliet and her job, Gabe becomes dangerously close to crossing a line...
The Author:
Anna lives on the Isle of Wight, where she enjoys rambling walks with her chronically clumsy labrador and exploring rivers in her kayak. She is an experienced freelance editor and loves mentoring other writers. She writes crime thrillers and is currently working on her debut novel. When not writing, she’s probably reading or hiding from her towering TBR pile.
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Genre: Police procedural/crime thriller
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The Book :
Two detectives under fire. One missing student. No answers.
Chaos breaks out as DS Gabe Martin leaves Southampton Crown Court. Gunshots ring out. She and DI Juliet Stern are hit. The culprit disappears without a trace.
Despite her injuries, Gabe is determined to work. She's assigned to the search for missing art student Henry Garside. As she delves into his case, it becomes clear nothing about the investigation is as it seems.
Is Henry’s disappearance an isolated incident? Was the shooting a simple act of retribution – or is there some far bigger and more sinister at play? When Juliet asks for her help in the search for their shooter, Gabe feels powerless to refuse, even if it means meddling where she shouldn't. Increasingly caught between her loyalty to Juliet and her job, Gabe becomes dangerously close to crossing a line...
The Author:
Anna lives on the Isle of Wight, where she enjoys rambling walks with her chronically clumsy labrador and exploring rivers in her kayak. She is an experienced freelance editor and loves mentoring other writers. She writes crime thrillers and is currently working on her debut novel. When not writing, she’s probably reading or hiding from her towering TBR pile.
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Estelle Grace Tudor
Estelle Grace Tudor
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Through The Fairy Door : 5 Book Series
OCTAVIA BLOOM AND THE MISSING KEY.
BEATRICE BLOOM AND THE STAR CRYSTAL.
MARTHA BLOOM AND THE GLASS COMPASS.
FELICITY BLOOM AND THE GOLDEN ARROW.
OTTO BLOOM AND THE ENCHANTED COIN.
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
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Book 1 : Octavia Bloom and the Missing Key :
One tiny discovery can have enormous consequences...
Almost 10-year-old Octavia Bloom is looking for adventure, but when it comes it's in the shape of a tiny fairy door.
Dragging her reluctant sister and cousins into the mystery, Octavia discovers her family are hiding not ONE but TWO life-changing secrets.
Why is her mother searching for an elusive flower? And does she have what it takes to reunite her fractured family?
Octavia's certain the answers lie behind the fairy door, if only she could just find the key...
Bravery, secrets & magic intertwine in this fantastical adventure.
Book 2 : Beatrice Bloom and the Star Crystal :
Beatrice Bloom is excited but a bit apprehensive to be heading through the fairy door once again with her sister and cousins. The adventure quickly turns ominous with the arrival of old foes and new enemies who are conspiring to overthrow the throne. Is Beatrice brave enough to embrace magic once more to help her friends? And can she restore the star crystal to its rightful place before time runs out?Beatrice will need all her courage in this new 'Through the Fairy Door' adventure. Courage, friendship and deceit collide in this spellbinding adventure. Continue the magic in this follow up to Octavia Bloom and the Missing Key!
Book 3 : Martha Bloom and the Glass Compass:
One act of compassion can evoke everlasting change...Martha Bloom has always been the most sensible Bloom child and takes her role as eldest seriously, but even she cannot contain her excitement at an invitation to visit Fairy Land once http://again.An idyllic day visiting the companion class at the new fairy school quickly turns sour when an old nemesis steals something of great importance. Will Martha be able to use the Glass Compass once again to retrieve what was stolen? And can she set an old wrong right? Martha is determined to succeed before they head back home 'Through the Fairy Door'. Integrity, companionship and daring abound in this captivating adventure.
Book 4 : Felicity Bloom and the Golden Arrow:
One grave misunderstanding put right can lead to forgiveness...
Felicity Bloom has always felt responsible for her younger sister, so when an offer of even greater responsibility comes from Fairy Land she doesn't hesitate.
Celebrations at Castle Enfys abruptly turn to terror when an old adversary threatens the realm once again.
Can Felicity embark on the Blooms' most dangerous quest yet to find a golden arrow? And will she have the courage to face her past and put right her future?
Felicity will need the help of old friends and new to complete this quest and get her family safely back home 'Through the Fairy Door'...
Valour, forgiveness & intrigue unite in this enthralling adventure.
Book 5 : Otto Bloom and the Enchanted Coin:
One final quest can show the way home...
Otto Bloom has had an interesting start to his life, having been shielded in Fairy Land until a cure for the curse he was under could be found. But now he is back with his family, the Blooms. As a childhood illness makes him feel low, he becomes riddled with doubts about his place within the family. He is caught off guard when an urgent message arrives from Fairy Land.
Feeling like this is his time to be a hero and step up to save his family, Otto makes a rash decision that will have dire consequences for those in Fairy Land and those in the human world too.
Can Otto put aside his doubts and venture on the Blooms’ final quest to procure the mythical enchanted coin needed to activate a legendary weapon? And will he realise that his power and place was within him all along?
Otto will need to believe in himself and the power of family in a bid to finally rid Fairy Land of its darkest threat, before he takes his forever family back home ‘Through the Fairy Door’...
Spirit, family and discovery conclude in this final adventure.
Author Bio:
When not searching the backs of wardrobes for Narnia, the bottom of the garden for fairies or exploring yet another Castle, Estelle can be found with her nose in a book or a pen in her hand.
Having previously worked at Cardiff Castle, she now writes full time while looking after her four children.
She lives on the beautiful South Wales coast with her husband, children and crazy dog.
She loves to connect with her readers via Twitter or Instagram @through_the_fairy_door_books
OCTAVIA BLOOM AND THE MISSING KEY.
BEATRICE BLOOM AND THE STAR CRYSTAL.
MARTHA BLOOM AND THE GLASS COMPASS.
FELICITY BLOOM AND THE GOLDEN ARROW.
OTTO BLOOM AND THE ENCHANTED COIN.
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
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Book 1 : Octavia Bloom and the Missing Key :
One tiny discovery can have enormous consequences...
Almost 10-year-old Octavia Bloom is looking for adventure, but when it comes it's in the shape of a tiny fairy door.
Dragging her reluctant sister and cousins into the mystery, Octavia discovers her family are hiding not ONE but TWO life-changing secrets.
Why is her mother searching for an elusive flower? And does she have what it takes to reunite her fractured family?
Octavia's certain the answers lie behind the fairy door, if only she could just find the key...
Bravery, secrets & magic intertwine in this fantastical adventure.
Book 2 : Beatrice Bloom and the Star Crystal :
Beatrice Bloom is excited but a bit apprehensive to be heading through the fairy door once again with her sister and cousins. The adventure quickly turns ominous with the arrival of old foes and new enemies who are conspiring to overthrow the throne. Is Beatrice brave enough to embrace magic once more to help her friends? And can she restore the star crystal to its rightful place before time runs out?Beatrice will need all her courage in this new 'Through the Fairy Door' adventure. Courage, friendship and deceit collide in this spellbinding adventure. Continue the magic in this follow up to Octavia Bloom and the Missing Key!
Book 3 : Martha Bloom and the Glass Compass:
One act of compassion can evoke everlasting change...Martha Bloom has always been the most sensible Bloom child and takes her role as eldest seriously, but even she cannot contain her excitement at an invitation to visit Fairy Land once http://again.An idyllic day visiting the companion class at the new fairy school quickly turns sour when an old nemesis steals something of great importance. Will Martha be able to use the Glass Compass once again to retrieve what was stolen? And can she set an old wrong right? Martha is determined to succeed before they head back home 'Through the Fairy Door'. Integrity, companionship and daring abound in this captivating adventure.
Book 4 : Felicity Bloom and the Golden Arrow:
One grave misunderstanding put right can lead to forgiveness...
Felicity Bloom has always felt responsible for her younger sister, so when an offer of even greater responsibility comes from Fairy Land she doesn't hesitate.
Celebrations at Castle Enfys abruptly turn to terror when an old adversary threatens the realm once again.
Can Felicity embark on the Blooms' most dangerous quest yet to find a golden arrow? And will she have the courage to face her past and put right her future?
Felicity will need the help of old friends and new to complete this quest and get her family safely back home 'Through the Fairy Door'...
Valour, forgiveness & intrigue unite in this enthralling adventure.
Book 5 : Otto Bloom and the Enchanted Coin:
One final quest can show the way home...
Otto Bloom has had an interesting start to his life, having been shielded in Fairy Land until a cure for the curse he was under could be found. But now he is back with his family, the Blooms. As a childhood illness makes him feel low, he becomes riddled with doubts about his place within the family. He is caught off guard when an urgent message arrives from Fairy Land.
Feeling like this is his time to be a hero and step up to save his family, Otto makes a rash decision that will have dire consequences for those in Fairy Land and those in the human world too.
Can Otto put aside his doubts and venture on the Blooms’ final quest to procure the mythical enchanted coin needed to activate a legendary weapon? And will he realise that his power and place was within him all along?
Otto will need to believe in himself and the power of family in a bid to finally rid Fairy Land of its darkest threat, before he takes his forever family back home ‘Through the Fairy Door’...
Spirit, family and discovery conclude in this final adventure.
Author Bio:
When not searching the backs of wardrobes for Narnia, the bottom of the garden for fairies or exploring yet another Castle, Estelle can be found with her nose in a book or a pen in her hand.
Having previously worked at Cardiff Castle, she now writes full time while looking after her four children.
She lives on the beautiful South Wales coast with her husband, children and crazy dog.
She loves to connect with her readers via Twitter or Instagram @through_the_fairy_door_books
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Title: Totally Deceased
Genre: YA humour/murder mystery
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
Seventeen-year-old Jess wakes from an emergency heart transplant to discover she’s being haunted by the disgruntled ghost of her donor - teenage socialite, Tilly. And she won’t leave Jess in peace until they unravel the mystery surrounding her death.
Their investigations take them deep into Tilly’s luxurious heiress life – from private schools to Swiss banks and high-end hotels. But the clues lead somewhere darker than either of the girls could have imagined. And if Jess can’t solve the murder in time, her own life may be at risk...
A hilarious, high-stakes murder mystery like no other.
Perfect for fans of Holly Jackson, Benjamin Dean and Netflix's Inventing Anna. An ambitious, tightly-plotted, laugh-out-loud read that will keep you on the edge of your seat. This charming friendship will remind readers of Only Murders in the Building and 90s Ghost. Perfect for BookTok and Bookstagram.
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Sue H Cunningham writes young adult fiction with humour and a hint of magic. She has won a number of awards for writing, including the Write Mentor Children’s Novel Award 2020, and featured in the SCBWI Undiscovered Voices 2022 Anthology. She has also had more than fifty short stories for adults published in the UK and worldwide. Her debut YA murder mystery, TOTALLY DECEASED, was published in October 2023. Her second YA novel, CLOUD NINE, will be published in February 2025.
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Title: Totally Deceased
Genre: YA humour/murder mystery
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The Book:
Seventeen-year-old Jess wakes from an emergency heart transplant to discover she’s being haunted by the disgruntled ghost of her donor - teenage socialite, Tilly. And she won’t leave Jess in peace until they unravel the mystery surrounding her death.
Their investigations take them deep into Tilly’s luxurious heiress life – from private schools to Swiss banks and high-end hotels. But the clues lead somewhere darker than either of the girls could have imagined. And if Jess can’t solve the murder in time, her own life may be at risk...
A hilarious, high-stakes murder mystery like no other.
Perfect for fans of Holly Jackson, Benjamin Dean and Netflix's Inventing Anna. An ambitious, tightly-plotted, laugh-out-loud read that will keep you on the edge of your seat. This charming friendship will remind readers of Only Murders in the Building and 90s Ghost. Perfect for BookTok and Bookstagram.
The Autor:
Sue H Cunningham writes young adult fiction with humour and a hint of magic. She has won a number of awards for writing, including the Write Mentor Children’s Novel Award 2020, and featured in the SCBWI Undiscovered Voices 2022 Anthology. She has also had more than fifty short stories for adults published in the UK and worldwide. Her debut YA murder mystery, TOTALLY DECEASED, was published in October 2023. Her second YA novel, CLOUD NINE, will be published in February 2025.
Sue lives in Manchester with her husband and sons. When she’s not writing, or tripping over electric guitar cables, she works for the NHS.
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Book Title: Little Horror
Genre: Children’s 8-12
Format: Paperback First Edition
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The Book :
Rita may only be two years old but she has the mind of a teenager. When her parents disappear and a sinister clown in an ice-cream van seems to be hunting her down, even a soft-play centre might not be safe…
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Daniel Peak is a Bafta and International Emmy Award-winning TV writer. His work includes Not Going Out, Code 404 and Horrible Histories
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Genre: Children’s 8-12
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The Book :
Rita may only be two years old but she has the mind of a teenager. When her parents disappear and a sinister clown in an ice-cream van seems to be hunting her down, even a soft-play centre might not be safe…
The Author:
Daniel Peak is a Bafta and International Emmy Award-winning TV writer. His work includes Not Going Out, Code 404 and Horrible Histories
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Book Title: The Memory Library by Kate Storey
Genre: Uplifting Book Club Fiction
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The Book :
Some stories stay with us forever…
For forty-two years, Sally Harrison has been building a library.
Each year, on her daughter’s birthday, she adds a new book to her shelves – with a note in the front dedicated to her own greatest work.
But Ella – Sally’s only child – fled to Australia twenty-one years ago after a heated exchange, and never looked back. And though Sally still dutifully adds a new paperback to the shelves every time the clock strikes midnight on July 11th, her hopes of her daughter ever thumbing through the pages are starting to dwindle.
Then disaster strikes and Ella is forced to return to the home she once knew.
She is soon to discover that when one chapter ends, another will soon follow.
All you have to do is turn the page…
The Author:
I’m originally from Yorkshire but now live in London with my husband and two teenage daughters. I started my career teaching English and Drama and I now write novels about family drama as Lisa Timoney and uplifting book club novels as Kate Storey.
Never one to stick to one genre, there’s something much darker coming in 2025, but more about that closer to the time!
My first book, Her Daughter’s Secret, was published by Avon (HarperCollins) in September 2022 and my second, Her Mother’s Lies, came out on 19th January 2023. My third book, His Secret Wife, was published in April 2023.
The Memory Library, my first Kate Storey novel, and was released 1st February 2024.
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Genre: Uplifting Book Club Fiction
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The Book :
Some stories stay with us forever…
For forty-two years, Sally Harrison has been building a library.
Each year, on her daughter’s birthday, she adds a new book to her shelves – with a note in the front dedicated to her own greatest work.
But Ella – Sally’s only child – fled to Australia twenty-one years ago after a heated exchange, and never looked back. And though Sally still dutifully adds a new paperback to the shelves every time the clock strikes midnight on July 11th, her hopes of her daughter ever thumbing through the pages are starting to dwindle.
Then disaster strikes and Ella is forced to return to the home she once knew.
She is soon to discover that when one chapter ends, another will soon follow.
All you have to do is turn the page…
The Author:
I’m originally from Yorkshire but now live in London with my husband and two teenage daughters. I started my career teaching English and Drama and I now write novels about family drama as Lisa Timoney and uplifting book club novels as Kate Storey.
Never one to stick to one genre, there’s something much darker coming in 2025, but more about that closer to the time!
My first book, Her Daughter’s Secret, was published by Avon (HarperCollins) in September 2022 and my second, Her Mother’s Lies, came out on 19th January 2023. My third book, His Secret Wife, was published in April 2023.
The Memory Library, my first Kate Storey novel, and was released 1st February 2024.
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Book Title: How To Be Free
Genre: School Stories / Mystery Stories
Format: Paperback
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The Book :
Some stories are about friendship. Some are about mysteries. Some are about cake. This one is about all three.
It's the start of a new term at the School of the Good Sisters and Hanna, Edie and Calla are ready to enjoy everything their extraordinary school has to offer. But they soon realise that Something Is Most Definitely Up when their beloved Headmistress Good Sister June disappears - and nobody knows where she's gone.
It's time for Hanna and her friends to set out on an adventure to bring Good Sister June home. As they travel across the country following a trail of clues, they will learn about the power of family, friendship, and a well-timed slice of Victoria Sponge.
The Author: Daisy May Johnson
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Genre: School Stories / Mystery Stories
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The Book :
Some stories are about friendship. Some are about mysteries. Some are about cake. This one is about all three.
It's the start of a new term at the School of the Good Sisters and Hanna, Edie and Calla are ready to enjoy everything their extraordinary school has to offer. But they soon realise that Something Is Most Definitely Up when their beloved Headmistress Good Sister June disappears - and nobody knows where she's gone.
It's time for Hanna and her friends to set out on an adventure to bring Good Sister June home. As they travel across the country following a trail of clues, they will learn about the power of family, friendship, and a well-timed slice of Victoria Sponge.
The Author: Daisy May Johnson
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Title 1: Baby Goz
Genre: Children
Format: Picture Book
Title 2: Count on Goz
Genre: Children
Format: Picture Book
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Book 1 :
Baby Goz the gosling has just hatched and goes looking for his mother. He sees parts of other animals, such as a long green leg or a wagging brown tail and the reader lifts the flap to see whether the animal is his mum or not. Then he finds her, and it is time for a swim. A very welcome re-issue of the delightful Baby Goz stories, which are perfect for Nursery and Reception age children.'
Book 2 :
Goz goes for his first swim and gets lost. He sets out to find his family and meets other animal families on the way. How many does he meet?
Author Bio:
Steve Weatherill is an author/illustrator and cartoonist. He studied fine art and film-making at Hornsey and the Royal College of Art.
He is best known for the Baby Goz and Lucy Goose books first published by Frances Lincoln and Pan Macmillan and also the History Activity books written with his wife, Susan for b small publishing.
He has visited over a 1000 schools and libraries with his early learning interactive storyplays.
Title 1: Baby Goz
Genre: Children
Format: Picture Book
Title 2: Count on Goz
Genre: Children
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Baby Goz the gosling has just hatched and goes looking for his mother. He sees parts of other animals, such as a long green leg or a wagging brown tail and the reader lifts the flap to see whether the animal is his mum or not. Then he finds her, and it is time for a swim. A very welcome re-issue of the delightful Baby Goz stories, which are perfect for Nursery and Reception age children.'
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Goz goes for his first swim and gets lost. He sets out to find his family and meets other animal families on the way. How many does he meet?
Author Bio:
Steve Weatherill is an author/illustrator and cartoonist. He studied fine art and film-making at Hornsey and the Royal College of Art.
He is best known for the Baby Goz and Lucy Goose books first published by Frances Lincoln and Pan Macmillan and also the History Activity books written with his wife, Susan for b small publishing.
He has visited over a 1000 schools and libraries with his early learning interactive storyplays.
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Title: The Girls of Bomber Command
Genre: Historical Fiction
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With an enemy in their midst, can they still protect their fighters in the skies?
Pearl has given up on her dreams of being a journalist after being denied a promotion because of her gender. Joining the WAAF as a radio telephone operator for Bomber Command, Pearl's new job at RAF Fenthorpe serves two purposes – providing an income for her grandmother, and keeping a close eye on her younger sister, Thea, an instrument repairer at another Lincolnshire bomber station.
Pearl befriends Met WAAF Jenny as well as Australian pilot Greg, who she guides home safely during an emergency. Pearl's journalism background doesn't go to waste, however – a series of thefts from pilots rekindles her investigative fire and she is soon caught up in the mystery.
But when all signs point to the perpetrator being her sister, she finds herself up against the clock to prove her sister’s innocence…
The Author:
Vicki Beeby writes historical fiction about the friendships and loves of service women brought together by the Second World War.
Her first job was as a civil engineer on a sewage treatment project, so things could only improve from there. Since then, she has worked as a maths teacher and education consultant before turning freelance to give herself more time to write.
In her free time, when she can drag herself away from reading, she enjoys walking and travelling to far-off places by train. She lives in Shropshire in a house that doesn’t contain nearly enough bookshelves.
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Genre: Historical Fiction
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With an enemy in their midst, can they still protect their fighters in the skies?
Pearl has given up on her dreams of being a journalist after being denied a promotion because of her gender. Joining the WAAF as a radio telephone operator for Bomber Command, Pearl's new job at RAF Fenthorpe serves two purposes – providing an income for her grandmother, and keeping a close eye on her younger sister, Thea, an instrument repairer at another Lincolnshire bomber station.
Pearl befriends Met WAAF Jenny as well as Australian pilot Greg, who she guides home safely during an emergency. Pearl's journalism background doesn't go to waste, however – a series of thefts from pilots rekindles her investigative fire and she is soon caught up in the mystery.
But when all signs point to the perpetrator being her sister, she finds herself up against the clock to prove her sister’s innocence…
The Author:
Vicki Beeby writes historical fiction about the friendships and loves of service women brought together by the Second World War.
Her first job was as a civil engineer on a sewage treatment project, so things could only improve from there. Since then, she has worked as a maths teacher and education consultant before turning freelance to give herself more time to write.
In her free time, when she can drag herself away from reading, she enjoys walking and travelling to far-off places by train. She lives in Shropshire in a house that doesn’t contain nearly enough bookshelves.
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Mari Hannah
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Book Title: The Longest Goodbye
Genre: Crime Fiction
Format: First edition paperback
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LIES COST LIVES
THE BRAND NEW KATE DANIELS THRILLER
Three years ago police officer Georgina Ioannau was murdered, her killers never brought to justice.
Now the prime suspects have been shot dead within hours of their return to the UK.
Has someone finally taken the law into their own hands?
Seeking out the truth will force Kate Daniels to confront her own past mistakes, and put her career, and her team's lives, on the line.
The gripping new Kate Daniels thriller about what happens when someone takes the law into their own hands from awardwinning crime writer Mari Hannah.
The Author:
When an injury on duty ended my career as Probation Officer, I began writing. I am the author of the Kate Daniels and Ryan & O’Neil series published by Pan Macmillan and the Stone & Oliver series published by Orion. My debut, The Murder Wall, was written as a TV pilot for a BBC Drama Development Scheme - before the adaption. The novel won the Polari First Book Prize. Before becoming an author, I fell in love with scriptwriting and submitted speculative original dramas to the BBC Writersroom. I've also written a romantic comedy feature film that I hope will find a producer one day. In 2010, I won the Northern Writers' Award for my second novel, Settled Blood. And in 2017, I won the Dagger in the Library for my body of work. I'm represented by AM Heath literary agent, Oli Munson, and live in Northumberland with my partner, a former murder detective.
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Genre: Crime Fiction
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LIES COST LIVES
THE BRAND NEW KATE DANIELS THRILLER
Three years ago police officer Georgina Ioannau was murdered, her killers never brought to justice.
Now the prime suspects have been shot dead within hours of their return to the UK.
Has someone finally taken the law into their own hands?
Seeking out the truth will force Kate Daniels to confront her own past mistakes, and put her career, and her team's lives, on the line.
The gripping new Kate Daniels thriller about what happens when someone takes the law into their own hands from awardwinning crime writer Mari Hannah.
The Author:
When an injury on duty ended my career as Probation Officer, I began writing. I am the author of the Kate Daniels and Ryan & O’Neil series published by Pan Macmillan and the Stone & Oliver series published by Orion. My debut, The Murder Wall, was written as a TV pilot for a BBC Drama Development Scheme - before the adaption. The novel won the Polari First Book Prize. Before becoming an author, I fell in love with scriptwriting and submitted speculative original dramas to the BBC Writersroom. I've also written a romantic comedy feature film that I hope will find a producer one day. In 2010, I won the Northern Writers' Award for my second novel, Settled Blood. And in 2017, I won the Dagger in the Library for my body of work. I'm represented by AM Heath literary agent, Oli Munson, and live in Northumberland with my partner, a former murder detective.
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Holly Martin
Holly Martin
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Book title: Christmas Wishes at Cranberry Cove
Genre: romantic comedy
Format: paperback
Signed: Yes, with dedication
Bids accepted: Worldwide
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Holly lives in a little white cottage by the sea. She studied media at university which led to a very glitzy career as a hotel receptionist followed by a even more glamorous two years working in a bank. The moment that one of her colleagues received the much coveted carriage clock for fifteen years’ service was the moment when she knew she had to escape. She quit her job and returned to university to train to be a teacher. Three years later, she emerged wide eyed and terrified that she now had responsibility for the development of thirty young minds. She taught for four years and then escaped the classroom to teach history workshops, dressing up as a Viking one day and an Egyptian High Priestess the next. But the long journeys around the UK and many hours sat on the M25 gave her a lot of time to plan out her stories and she now writes full time, doing what she loves.
Holly has been writing for 8 years. She was shortlisted for the New Talent Award at the Festival of Romance. Her short story won the Sunlounger competition and was published in the Sunlounger anthology. She won the Carina Valentine’s competition at the Festival of Romance with her novel The Guestbook. She was shortlisted for Best Romantic Read, Best eBook and Innovation in Romantic Fiction at the Festival of Romance. She is the bestselling author of 26 books selling over a million books worldwide. Holly's books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Dutch, Bulgarian, Estonian, Turkish and Russian.
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Genre: romantic comedy
Format: paperback
Signed: Yes, with dedication
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The Book :
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Holly lives in a little white cottage by the sea. She studied media at university which led to a very glitzy career as a hotel receptionist followed by a even more glamorous two years working in a bank. The moment that one of her colleagues received the much coveted carriage clock for fifteen years’ service was the moment when she knew she had to escape. She quit her job and returned to university to train to be a teacher. Three years later, she emerged wide eyed and terrified that she now had responsibility for the development of thirty young minds. She taught for four years and then escaped the classroom to teach history workshops, dressing up as a Viking one day and an Egyptian High Priestess the next. But the long journeys around the UK and many hours sat on the M25 gave her a lot of time to plan out her stories and she now writes full time, doing what she loves.
Holly has been writing for 8 years. She was shortlisted for the New Talent Award at the Festival of Romance. Her short story won the Sunlounger competition and was published in the Sunlounger anthology. She won the Carina Valentine’s competition at the Festival of Romance with her novel The Guestbook. She was shortlisted for Best Romantic Read, Best eBook and Innovation in Romantic Fiction at the Festival of Romance. She is the bestselling author of 26 books selling over a million books worldwide. Holly's books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Dutch, Bulgarian, Estonian, Turkish and Russian.
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Darren Simpson
Darren Simpson
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Book Title: Scavengers
Genre: Dystopia (for ages 11+)
Format: Paperback
Signed: Yes, dedication available
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book:
Landfill has lived his whole life as a scavenger, running with wooflings, swimming with turtles and feasting on whatever he can catch.
Old Babagoo has always looked after him, on one condition. Follow Babagoo's rules. And the most important rule of all is NEVER go beyond the wall. But Landfill longs to venture Outside. And some rules are made to be broken.
Darren Simpson's exhilarating storytelling will make you think about the world differently in this urgent, compelling tale for our times.
The Author:
I’m Darren Simpson and I write vivid, unruly fiction for older children and teens. I’m also a Literacy Champion for Read On Nottingham, and love visiting schools to nurture passion for reading and writing.
My debut novel, Scavengers, was a Guardian Best Book of the Year, and was selected for the national Summer Reading Challenge. The Memory Thieves was an Observer Book of the Month and a World Book Day Summer Read. My latest book, Furthermoor, was Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Month and a Waterstones Best Book of the Year. I’ve been lucky enough to see my stories win awards and get translated into several languages, and have been nominated twice for the prestigious Carnegie Medal.
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Genre: Dystopia (for ages 11+)
Format: Paperback
Signed: Yes, dedication available
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book:
Landfill has lived his whole life as a scavenger, running with wooflings, swimming with turtles and feasting on whatever he can catch.
Old Babagoo has always looked after him, on one condition. Follow Babagoo's rules. And the most important rule of all is NEVER go beyond the wall. But Landfill longs to venture Outside. And some rules are made to be broken.
Darren Simpson's exhilarating storytelling will make you think about the world differently in this urgent, compelling tale for our times.
The Author:
I’m Darren Simpson and I write vivid, unruly fiction for older children and teens. I’m also a Literacy Champion for Read On Nottingham, and love visiting schools to nurture passion for reading and writing.
My debut novel, Scavengers, was a Guardian Best Book of the Year, and was selected for the national Summer Reading Challenge. The Memory Thieves was an Observer Book of the Month and a World Book Day Summer Read. My latest book, Furthermoor, was Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Month and a Waterstones Best Book of the Year. I’ve been lucky enough to see my stories win awards and get translated into several languages, and have been nominated twice for the prestigious Carnegie Medal.
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Sophie Claire
Sophie Claire
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Title: THIS CHRISTMAS IN PARIS
Genre: women's fiction
Format: paperback
Dedication Available: yes
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book :
What could be more magical than Christmas in Paris? When Carys is offered the chance to run a little French café, she leaps at the chance to discover an exciting city where she can dream big. Meanwhile, struggling journalist Mat is living in the City of Love – but he’s never found romance himself. Then, a chance encounter changes everything, and it feels like the start of something wonderful. But Carys and Mat are both keeping secrets . . . Can they open their hearts to one another – and maybe even find love, just in time for Christmas?
The Author:
Sophie Claire writes uplifting emotional stories with their heart in Provence, where she spent her childhood summers. She is half French, half Scottish, was born in Africa and growing up in England she felt she didn’t belong anywhere – except in the pages of a book. Perhaps this is why she likes to help her characters find their home; a place in the world where they can be loved for themselves. Previously, she worked in marketing and proofreading academic papers, but writing is what she always considered her ‘real job’ and now she’s delighted to spend her days dreaming up heartwarming contemporary romance stories set in beautiful places.
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Genre: women's fiction
Format: paperback
Dedication Available: yes
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book :
What could be more magical than Christmas in Paris? When Carys is offered the chance to run a little French café, she leaps at the chance to discover an exciting city where she can dream big. Meanwhile, struggling journalist Mat is living in the City of Love – but he’s never found romance himself. Then, a chance encounter changes everything, and it feels like the start of something wonderful. But Carys and Mat are both keeping secrets . . . Can they open their hearts to one another – and maybe even find love, just in time for Christmas?
The Author:
Sophie Claire writes uplifting emotional stories with their heart in Provence, where she spent her childhood summers. She is half French, half Scottish, was born in Africa and growing up in England she felt she didn’t belong anywhere – except in the pages of a book. Perhaps this is why she likes to help her characters find their home; a place in the world where they can be loved for themselves. Previously, she worked in marketing and proofreading academic papers, but writing is what she always considered her ‘real job’ and now she’s delighted to spend her days dreaming up heartwarming contemporary romance stories set in beautiful places.
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£ 25
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Bella Osborne
Bella Osborne
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Two Book Bonanza
Title 1: Finding Love At Sunset Shore
Title 2: Mistletoe Magic in the Highlands
Genre - Rom Coms
Format - Paperbacks First Editions
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Bids Accepted: U.K. only please
Book 1: Finding Love At Sunset Shore
Sometimes, you have to fake it until you make it…
Ros is too busy for a boyfriend; between work and looking after her poorly father, there’s no time left for a relationship. But when she overhears her dad's dying wish is for her to find love, Ros is determined to make it happen – or at least, make it look like it has.
Enter Cameron, a struggling mature student with a mountain of debt but a zest for life.
Ros, driven by love for her ailing dad, reluctantly agrees to the simple business transaction: paying Cameron to play the role of her boyfriend. Ros meticulously plans their fake relationship – but when Cameron decides to go off-script, chaos ensues.
As Ros and Cameron navigate the ups and downs of their faux romance, their differences drive each other crazy. But they may just need each other more than they think…
Book 2: Mistletoe Magic in the Highlands
Olivia Bingham is unlucky in love...
She's been ghosted more times than she can count, but this Christmas brings a glimmer of hope: Fraser Douglas,
a Scottish chef working at an idyllic hotel in the Highlands. He's sweet and sensitive, thoughtful and funny, not to
mention incredibly good looking – but there's a catch.
They've never actually met.
When Olivia tries to show her friends the hunky new man in her life, Fraser's online dating profile has vanished, and
Olivia fears the worst. Frustrated and wounded, she decides she's going to confront Fraser – face to face, in Scotland.
But when she arrives, things don't go exactly as planned. Worse still, Fraser doesn't seem to have any idea who she is...
The Author:
Bella has been jotting down stories as far back as she can remember but decided that 2013 would be the year that she finished a full length novel. Since then she’s written nine best-selling romantic comedies, two best-selling bookclub reads and won the RNA Romantic Comedy Novel of the Year Award.
Bella's stories are about friendship, love and coping with what life throws at you. She lives in Warwickshire, UK with her husband, daughter and a cat who thinks she’s a dog. When not writing Bella is usually eating custard creams and planning holidays.
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Title 1: Finding Love At Sunset Shore
Title 2: Mistletoe Magic in the Highlands
Genre - Rom Coms
Format - Paperbacks First Editions
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Bids Accepted: U.K. only please
Book 1: Finding Love At Sunset Shore
Sometimes, you have to fake it until you make it…
Ros is too busy for a boyfriend; between work and looking after her poorly father, there’s no time left for a relationship. But when she overhears her dad's dying wish is for her to find love, Ros is determined to make it happen – or at least, make it look like it has.
Enter Cameron, a struggling mature student with a mountain of debt but a zest for life.
Ros, driven by love for her ailing dad, reluctantly agrees to the simple business transaction: paying Cameron to play the role of her boyfriend. Ros meticulously plans their fake relationship – but when Cameron decides to go off-script, chaos ensues.
As Ros and Cameron navigate the ups and downs of their faux romance, their differences drive each other crazy. But they may just need each other more than they think…
Book 2: Mistletoe Magic in the Highlands
Olivia Bingham is unlucky in love...
She's been ghosted more times than she can count, but this Christmas brings a glimmer of hope: Fraser Douglas,
a Scottish chef working at an idyllic hotel in the Highlands. He's sweet and sensitive, thoughtful and funny, not to
mention incredibly good looking – but there's a catch.
They've never actually met.
When Olivia tries to show her friends the hunky new man in her life, Fraser's online dating profile has vanished, and
Olivia fears the worst. Frustrated and wounded, she decides she's going to confront Fraser – face to face, in Scotland.
But when she arrives, things don't go exactly as planned. Worse still, Fraser doesn't seem to have any idea who she is...
The Author:
Bella has been jotting down stories as far back as she can remember but decided that 2013 would be the year that she finished a full length novel. Since then she’s written nine best-selling romantic comedies, two best-selling bookclub reads and won the RNA Romantic Comedy Novel of the Year Award.
Bella's stories are about friendship, love and coping with what life throws at you. She lives in Warwickshire, UK with her husband, daughter and a cat who thinks she’s a dog. When not writing Bella is usually eating custard creams and planning holidays.
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£ 12
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Rachel Hore
Rachel Hore
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Book Title: THE HIDDEN YEARS
Genre: Historical
Format: Paperback First Edition
Signed - Yes, dedication is available
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book :
Sunday Times bestseller Rachel Hore’s captivating new novel of secrets, loss and betrayal - set on the beautiful Cornish coast during World War Two and the heady days of the 1960s.
When talented musician Gray Robinson persuades Belle to abandon her university studies and follow him to Silverwood, home to an artistic community on the Cornish coast, Belle happily agrees even though they’ve only just met. She knows she is falling in love, and the thought of spending a carefree summer with Gray is all she can think about.
But being with Gray isn’t the only reason Belle agrees to accompany him to Silverwood.
Why does the name Silverwood sound so familiar?
What is its connection to a photo of her as a baby, taken on a nearby beach?
And who is Imogen Lockhart, a wartime nurse who lived at Silverwood many years ago?
As the summer months unfold, Belle begins to learn the truth – about secrets from the past that have been kept hidden, but also about the person she wants to be
The Author:
Rachel Hore worked in London publishing for many years before moving with her family to Norwich, Norfolk and turning to writing fiction.
Rachel is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Dream House (2006), The Memory Garden (2007), The Glass Painter's Daughter (2009), which was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Novel of the Year 2010, A Place of Secrets (2010), which was a Richard and Judy Bookclub pick, and A Gathering Storm (2011), which was shortlisted for the RNA Historical Novel of the year, 2012. The Silent Tide was published in 2013, A Week in Paris in 2014 and The House on Bellevue Gardens in 2015.
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Genre: Historical
Format: Paperback First Edition
Signed - Yes, dedication is available
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book :
Sunday Times bestseller Rachel Hore’s captivating new novel of secrets, loss and betrayal - set on the beautiful Cornish coast during World War Two and the heady days of the 1960s.
When talented musician Gray Robinson persuades Belle to abandon her university studies and follow him to Silverwood, home to an artistic community on the Cornish coast, Belle happily agrees even though they’ve only just met. She knows she is falling in love, and the thought of spending a carefree summer with Gray is all she can think about.
But being with Gray isn’t the only reason Belle agrees to accompany him to Silverwood.
Why does the name Silverwood sound so familiar?
What is its connection to a photo of her as a baby, taken on a nearby beach?
And who is Imogen Lockhart, a wartime nurse who lived at Silverwood many years ago?
As the summer months unfold, Belle begins to learn the truth – about secrets from the past that have been kept hidden, but also about the person she wants to be
The Author:
Rachel Hore worked in London publishing for many years before moving with her family to Norwich, Norfolk and turning to writing fiction.
Rachel is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Dream House (2006), The Memory Garden (2007), The Glass Painter's Daughter (2009), which was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Novel of the Year 2010, A Place of Secrets (2010), which was a Richard and Judy Bookclub pick, and A Gathering Storm (2011), which was shortlisted for the RNA Historical Novel of the year, 2012. The Silent Tide was published in 2013, A Week in Paris in 2014 and The House on Bellevue Gardens in 2015.
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Lot 139
£ 15
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S.M. Hardy
S.M. Hardy
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139
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Book Title: Marked - The first book Of The Soulseer Chronicles trilogy
Genre: Romantasy
Format: Paperback
Signed - Yes, dedication is available
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book :
A dark Romantasy of demons, angels and the Underlands. Lucky’s got a demon assassin on her tail - and two protectors, an angel and a demon, to keep her safe. But who will keep her safe from them?
Lucky's always known about her own psychic powers - after all, her closest friend is a ghost - but she knows nothing of her long-dead family . . . until a daemonic assassin brings a message that drags Lucky down to the Underlands - and into the bloody fight for the daemon king's throne.
Lucky's determined to find her way home, but now an angel and a demon have marked her, in an effort to keep her safe from forces that want her dead - and escaping from the Underlands would mean leaving them behind. Which is becoming harder and harder to do. Because Jinx and Jamie are not the kind of men she can just forget about.
But if she stays, she might never be the same again . . .
The Author:
Sue Tingey spent twenty-eight years working for an international bank before leaving corporate life to work for an arboricultural consultancy firm. She lives with her husband Torquay, South Devon, England.
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Genre: Romantasy
Format: Paperback
Signed - Yes, dedication is available
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book :
A dark Romantasy of demons, angels and the Underlands. Lucky’s got a demon assassin on her tail - and two protectors, an angel and a demon, to keep her safe. But who will keep her safe from them?
Lucky's always known about her own psychic powers - after all, her closest friend is a ghost - but she knows nothing of her long-dead family . . . until a daemonic assassin brings a message that drags Lucky down to the Underlands - and into the bloody fight for the daemon king's throne.
Lucky's determined to find her way home, but now an angel and a demon have marked her, in an effort to keep her safe from forces that want her dead - and escaping from the Underlands would mean leaving them behind. Which is becoming harder and harder to do. Because Jinx and Jamie are not the kind of men she can just forget about.
But if she stays, she might never be the same again . . .
The Author:
Sue Tingey spent twenty-eight years working for an international bank before leaving corporate life to work for an arboricultural consultancy firm. She lives with her husband Torquay, South Devon, England.
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£ 12
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Cass Grafton
Cass Grafton
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140
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Title: Christmas at Polkerran Point, plus little gift bag
Format: Paperback (first edition)
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Bid Accepted: Worldwide
The Book:
Fate may have brought them together, but secrets seem destined to keep them apart…
An accident and a lost passport mean Gemma’s six-month sabbatical to go travelling is not off to a strong start. She heads to Polkerran Point to stay at her aunt’s while her new passport is processed and she recovers from the incident. Finding winter in the Cornish seaside village a little quiet, she’s keen to find a job to fill the time before she can resume her adventures abroad in the New Year.
Enter musician Matt. Newly moved into a secluded, renovated mill just up-river from Polkerran – complete with a recording studio – Matt is preparing for his band’s big reunion tour in the spring. Now all he needs is a live-in housekeeper, someone who will do everything for him so he won’t be distracted from recording new music.
Although Gemma’s life revolves around food—eating it, that is—she couldn’t boil a sausage if she tried. If only Matt could sing and she could cook, it would be a match made in heaven, but even as sparks fly between them, Gemma can sense Matt’s keeping secrets.
With them both destined to go separate ways once Christmas is over, is there any future for them or will the festive season in Cornwall soon be nothing more than a fading memory?
The Author:
Cass began her writing life in Regency England, enlisted Jane Austen’s help to time-travel between then and the present day and is now happily ensconced in 21st century Cornwall.
Well, in her imagination and soul; her heart and physical presence reside in northern England with her ever-patient husband and Tig and Tag, their cute but exceptionally demanding moggies.
A bit of a nomad, Cass has called three countries home, as well as six different English counties, but her aspiration is to one day reunite with her beloved West Country.
In the meantime, she writes feel-good contemporary romances set in Cornwall and, in doing so, manages to live there vicariously through her characters and settings.
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Format: Paperback (first edition)
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Bid Accepted: Worldwide
The Book:
Fate may have brought them together, but secrets seem destined to keep them apart…
An accident and a lost passport mean Gemma’s six-month sabbatical to go travelling is not off to a strong start. She heads to Polkerran Point to stay at her aunt’s while her new passport is processed and she recovers from the incident. Finding winter in the Cornish seaside village a little quiet, she’s keen to find a job to fill the time before she can resume her adventures abroad in the New Year.
Enter musician Matt. Newly moved into a secluded, renovated mill just up-river from Polkerran – complete with a recording studio – Matt is preparing for his band’s big reunion tour in the spring. Now all he needs is a live-in housekeeper, someone who will do everything for him so he won’t be distracted from recording new music.
Although Gemma’s life revolves around food—eating it, that is—she couldn’t boil a sausage if she tried. If only Matt could sing and she could cook, it would be a match made in heaven, but even as sparks fly between them, Gemma can sense Matt’s keeping secrets.
With them both destined to go separate ways once Christmas is over, is there any future for them or will the festive season in Cornwall soon be nothing more than a fading memory?
The Author:
Cass began her writing life in Regency England, enlisted Jane Austen’s help to time-travel between then and the present day and is now happily ensconced in 21st century Cornwall.
Well, in her imagination and soul; her heart and physical presence reside in northern England with her ever-patient husband and Tig and Tag, their cute but exceptionally demanding moggies.
A bit of a nomad, Cass has called three countries home, as well as six different English counties, but her aspiration is to one day reunite with her beloved West Country.
In the meantime, she writes feel-good contemporary romances set in Cornwall and, in doing so, manages to live there vicariously through her characters and settings.
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cassgraftonwriter
Website: https://cassandragrafton.com/
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£ 16
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Amanda Mason
Amanda Mason
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141
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Two Book Special
Title 1: The Wayward Girls
Genre: Supernatural Fiction
Format: Paperback
Title 2: The Hiding Place
Genre: Supernatural Fiction
Format: Paperback
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Book 1:
Then. 1976. Loo and her sister Bee live in a run-down cottage in the middle of nowhere, with their artistic parents and wild siblings. Their mother, Cathy, had hoped to escape to a simpler life; instead the family find themselves isolated and shunned by their neighbours. At the height of the stifling summer, unexplained noises and occurrences in the house begin to disturb the family, until they intrude on every waking moment .
Now. Loo, now Lucy, is called back to her childhood home. A group of strangers are looking to discover the truth about the house and the people who lived there. But is Lucy ready to confront what really happened all those years ago?
Book2:
Nell Galilee, her husband and twelve year old step-daughter Maude rent a holiday cottage by the sea, needing time and space away from home. Nell grew up in this small, wind-blown town and has mixed feelings about returning, and it isn't long before she is recognised by a neighbour, seemingly desperate to befriend her. The cottage has been empty for some time, and from the start Nell feels uncomfortable there. Something isn't quite right about this place . . . Maude, furious about being brought here against her will, soon finds herself beguiled by the house's strange atmosphere. There are peculiar marks in the roof beams above her bedroom, and in another room, a hiding place, concealing a strange, unnerving object. As the house gradually reveals its secrets, Nell becomes increasingly uneasy - and Maude spellbound. But these women - and the women that surround them - are harbouring their own secrets too, and soon events will come to a terrible head . . .
Now. Loo, now Lucy, is called back to her childhood home. A group of strangers are looking to discover the truth about the house and the people who lived there. But is Lucy ready to confront what really happened all those years ago?
The Author:
Amanda Mason was born and brought up in Whitby, North Yorkshire. She studied Theatre at Dartington College of Arts, where she began writing by devising and directing plays. After a few years of earning a very irregular living in lots of odd jobs, including performing in a comedy street magic act, she became a teacher and has worked in the UK, Italy, Spain and Germany. She now lives in North Yorkshire and has given up teaching for writing.
Her short stories have been published in various anthologies, and she is the author of two novels, THE WAYWARD GIRLS (2019) and THE HIDING PLACE (2021).
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Title 1: The Wayward Girls
Genre: Supernatural Fiction
Format: Paperback
Title 2: The Hiding Place
Genre: Supernatural Fiction
Format: Paperback
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Book 1:
Then. 1976. Loo and her sister Bee live in a run-down cottage in the middle of nowhere, with their artistic parents and wild siblings. Their mother, Cathy, had hoped to escape to a simpler life; instead the family find themselves isolated and shunned by their neighbours. At the height of the stifling summer, unexplained noises and occurrences in the house begin to disturb the family, until they intrude on every waking moment .
Now. Loo, now Lucy, is called back to her childhood home. A group of strangers are looking to discover the truth about the house and the people who lived there. But is Lucy ready to confront what really happened all those years ago?
Book2:
Nell Galilee, her husband and twelve year old step-daughter Maude rent a holiday cottage by the sea, needing time and space away from home. Nell grew up in this small, wind-blown town and has mixed feelings about returning, and it isn't long before she is recognised by a neighbour, seemingly desperate to befriend her. The cottage has been empty for some time, and from the start Nell feels uncomfortable there. Something isn't quite right about this place . . . Maude, furious about being brought here against her will, soon finds herself beguiled by the house's strange atmosphere. There are peculiar marks in the roof beams above her bedroom, and in another room, a hiding place, concealing a strange, unnerving object. As the house gradually reveals its secrets, Nell becomes increasingly uneasy - and Maude spellbound. But these women - and the women that surround them - are harbouring their own secrets too, and soon events will come to a terrible head . . .
Now. Loo, now Lucy, is called back to her childhood home. A group of strangers are looking to discover the truth about the house and the people who lived there. But is Lucy ready to confront what really happened all those years ago?
The Author:
Amanda Mason was born and brought up in Whitby, North Yorkshire. She studied Theatre at Dartington College of Arts, where she began writing by devising and directing plays. After a few years of earning a very irregular living in lots of odd jobs, including performing in a comedy street magic act, she became a teacher and has worked in the UK, Italy, Spain and Germany. She now lives in North Yorkshire and has given up teaching for writing.
Her short stories have been published in various anthologies, and she is the author of two novels, THE WAYWARD GIRLS (2019) and THE HIDING PLACE (2021).
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Theresa Howes
Theresa Howes
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Book Title - The French Affair
Genre - Historical
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The Book;
A country at war. A dangerous secret.
After a failed honey-trap mission for British Intelligence leads to the breakdown of her marriage, French journalist Iris escapes to Dijon, seeking refuge in the cottage of her beloved aunt, Eva. But Eva is gone, the streets are full of distrust, and Iris is soon followed by the very last man she wants to see – the British civil servant and traitor she was tasked with catching, now keen to rekindle their affair.
Eva’s home used to be a comforting place, where the locals sought out Eva’s homemade tinctures and cures and gifted jars of fresh honey from the garden. Now it is a place of danger, where threats loom in every corner. And as Iris spends more time there, she discovers a secret that will change the way she sees her aunt forever – and the course of her own life too…
The Author:
Theresa Howes grew up in Shropshire and has a background as an actor. Her historical fiction has been long-listed for the Mslexia Novel Award, The Bath Novel Award, The Caledonia Novel Award and the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize.
She lives in London with her husband and Claude, a larger than average cat. When she isn’t writing or reading, she enjoys seeing how many more plants she can cram into her tiny London garden, walking, and putting the world to rights over a gin and tonic.
Her debut novel, THE SECRETS WE KEEP was published in November 2022. Her second novel, THE FRENCH AFFAIR was published on 7th December 2023. Her third novel is scheduled to be published January 2025.
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Genre - Historical
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The Book;
A country at war. A dangerous secret.
After a failed honey-trap mission for British Intelligence leads to the breakdown of her marriage, French journalist Iris escapes to Dijon, seeking refuge in the cottage of her beloved aunt, Eva. But Eva is gone, the streets are full of distrust, and Iris is soon followed by the very last man she wants to see – the British civil servant and traitor she was tasked with catching, now keen to rekindle their affair.
Eva’s home used to be a comforting place, where the locals sought out Eva’s homemade tinctures and cures and gifted jars of fresh honey from the garden. Now it is a place of danger, where threats loom in every corner. And as Iris spends more time there, she discovers a secret that will change the way she sees her aunt forever – and the course of her own life too…
The Author:
Theresa Howes grew up in Shropshire and has a background as an actor. Her historical fiction has been long-listed for the Mslexia Novel Award, The Bath Novel Award, The Caledonia Novel Award and the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize.
She lives in London with her husband and Claude, a larger than average cat. When she isn’t writing or reading, she enjoys seeing how many more plants she can cram into her tiny London garden, walking, and putting the world to rights over a gin and tonic.
Her debut novel, THE SECRETS WE KEEP was published in November 2022. Her second novel, THE FRENCH AFFAIR was published on 7th December 2023. Her third novel is scheduled to be published January 2025.
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Isabella May
Isabella May
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Book Title 1: To the Honeymoon and Back
Genre: Romcom
Format: Paperback
Book Title 2: Ice Skates and Cupcakes
Genre: Romcom
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The Book 1 : To the Honeymoon and Back
When TAYLOR’s husband commits his third crime against marriage, days into their honeymoon, cruelly laughing at her anaphylactic shock during a tasting session at Heavenly Devonly Honey Farm, she files for immediate divorce. It shouldn’t take a stranger to call an ambulance! Even if he is the swoonworthy Devonshire TV chef, ZACH KNIGHT.
Weeks later, sworn off men for eternity, travel journo Taylor reluctantly finds herself back in the West Country to work on a UK holiday hotspot assignment: destination Woolacombe. At least it’s north of the county, kind of far away from the bittersweet memories of her last visit to these parts.
But when Zach just happens to embark on a coastal tour to promote his latest cookbook, Taylor has her work cut out in more ways than one. He’s the last person she expects to raise her antennae when she checks into her hotel room to find that it's been double booked between the two of them... and there is nowhere else to stay in town.
The harder Taylor tries to bee-hive as their agendas outside the bedroom mysteriously fuse, the more Zach is bee-witched.
But can she give into temptation without getting stung?
A steamy and tasty meet-cute romance with a peanut sensitive protagonist and a golden retriever of a leading male.
The Book 2: The Book : Ice Skates and Cupcakes
Ex-ballerina and cupcake connoisseur, SUMMER SIMPSON is four years into running her controversial but successful cupcake emporium in Montmartre, Paris. All of which has created enough drama, but then there are the neighbours: grumpy but hot handball star, FABIEN ROBERT and his snooty, overbearing aunt.
When Fabien isn’t turning the heating off in their apartment block to annoy Summer, his beloved family member is circulating new streams of gossip in a bid to make her scurry back to the UK ‘where she belongs’.
But Summer is as tough as her sugarspun Eiffel Tower cupcake toppers… even in the snow flurries of a French winter. Until disaster strikes and a corporate Christmas delivery for the biggest business in the neighbourhood has the power to make or break the emporium, forcing even Fabien to defrost - and the sparks to fly.
Can the prickly Parisian really turn into the role model golden retriever boyfriend? Festive dates on the outdoor ice skating rink are well and good (and a fabulous excuse to dust down Summer’s pirouettes) but her business comes first and there’s no way she will share her heart with a man whose meddling family cannot be trusted.
A slow-burn - but steamy - enemies-to-lovers romcom dusted with lashings of icing sugar!
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Genre: Romcom
Format: Paperback
Book Title 2: Ice Skates and Cupcakes
Genre: Romcom
Format: Paperback
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The Book 1 : To the Honeymoon and Back
When TAYLOR’s husband commits his third crime against marriage, days into their honeymoon, cruelly laughing at her anaphylactic shock during a tasting session at Heavenly Devonly Honey Farm, she files for immediate divorce. It shouldn’t take a stranger to call an ambulance! Even if he is the swoonworthy Devonshire TV chef, ZACH KNIGHT.
Weeks later, sworn off men for eternity, travel journo Taylor reluctantly finds herself back in the West Country to work on a UK holiday hotspot assignment: destination Woolacombe. At least it’s north of the county, kind of far away from the bittersweet memories of her last visit to these parts.
But when Zach just happens to embark on a coastal tour to promote his latest cookbook, Taylor has her work cut out in more ways than one. He’s the last person she expects to raise her antennae when she checks into her hotel room to find that it's been double booked between the two of them... and there is nowhere else to stay in town.
The harder Taylor tries to bee-hive as their agendas outside the bedroom mysteriously fuse, the more Zach is bee-witched.
But can she give into temptation without getting stung?
A steamy and tasty meet-cute romance with a peanut sensitive protagonist and a golden retriever of a leading male.
The Book 2: The Book : Ice Skates and Cupcakes
Ex-ballerina and cupcake connoisseur, SUMMER SIMPSON is four years into running her controversial but successful cupcake emporium in Montmartre, Paris. All of which has created enough drama, but then there are the neighbours: grumpy but hot handball star, FABIEN ROBERT and his snooty, overbearing aunt.
When Fabien isn’t turning the heating off in their apartment block to annoy Summer, his beloved family member is circulating new streams of gossip in a bid to make her scurry back to the UK ‘where she belongs’.
But Summer is as tough as her sugarspun Eiffel Tower cupcake toppers… even in the snow flurries of a French winter. Until disaster strikes and a corporate Christmas delivery for the biggest business in the neighbourhood has the power to make or break the emporium, forcing even Fabien to defrost - and the sparks to fly.
Can the prickly Parisian really turn into the role model golden retriever boyfriend? Festive dates on the outdoor ice skating rink are well and good (and a fabulous excuse to dust down Summer’s pirouettes) but her business comes first and there’s no way she will share her heart with a man whose meddling family cannot be trusted.
A slow-burn - but steamy - enemies-to-lovers romcom dusted with lashings of icing sugar!
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Alice Bell
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Book Title: Displeasure Island
Genre: Crime
Format: Hardback (First Edition)
Signed - Yes, dedication is available
Bids Accepted: UK & Ireland
The Book:
'There are apparently a lot of ghosts on Spike Island,' said Basher. 'So perhaps one more can't hurt.'
Claire sighed and looked at Sophie. She was standing in the sunlight beaming through the windows, so she was washed out and almost see-through - but still very clearly sticking her tongue out at Claire. 'Oh,' said Claire, 'I think you'd be surprised.'
Professional medium turned detective Claire, her best friend Sophie (a 17-year-old ghost) and their pals are enjoying a much-needed cheap holiday in an unfinished hotel on Spike Island off the coast of Ireland. Claire is flattered to be asked by the local ghost of a pirate captain to investigate the theft of treasure from the shipwreck that stranded him there several hundred years ago.
But just when she thinks she is closing in on the culprit, a murder takes place, and Claire and her friends quickly become the chief suspects. Can they recover the treasure, solve the murder and clear their names before all is lost?
The Author:
Alice Bell grew up in South West England, in the sort of middle-of-nowhere where teenagers spend their weekends drinking Smirnoff Ice in a field that also has at least one horse in it.
She has previously worked in shops selling boat shoes and polo shirts to people who don’t own boats or play polo, but since 2016 she has worked full time as a video games journalist. From 2018-2924 she was the deputy editor of Rock Paper Shotgun, a popular PC gaming website, where you can find the many excellent reviews and serious articles about hot vampires that she has written.
After spending several years in London, Alice now lives in Cork in Ireland, where she watches giant ships, makes crochet animals, and plays video games where you can set things on fire and make elves kiss.
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Genre: Crime
Format: Hardback (First Edition)
Signed - Yes, dedication is available
Bids Accepted: UK & Ireland
The Book:
'There are apparently a lot of ghosts on Spike Island,' said Basher. 'So perhaps one more can't hurt.'
Claire sighed and looked at Sophie. She was standing in the sunlight beaming through the windows, so she was washed out and almost see-through - but still very clearly sticking her tongue out at Claire. 'Oh,' said Claire, 'I think you'd be surprised.'
Professional medium turned detective Claire, her best friend Sophie (a 17-year-old ghost) and their pals are enjoying a much-needed cheap holiday in an unfinished hotel on Spike Island off the coast of Ireland. Claire is flattered to be asked by the local ghost of a pirate captain to investigate the theft of treasure from the shipwreck that stranded him there several hundred years ago.
But just when she thinks she is closing in on the culprit, a murder takes place, and Claire and her friends quickly become the chief suspects. Can they recover the treasure, solve the murder and clear their names before all is lost?
The Author:
Alice Bell grew up in South West England, in the sort of middle-of-nowhere where teenagers spend their weekends drinking Smirnoff Ice in a field that also has at least one horse in it.
She has previously worked in shops selling boat shoes and polo shirts to people who don’t own boats or play polo, but since 2016 she has worked full time as a video games journalist. From 2018-2924 she was the deputy editor of Rock Paper Shotgun, a popular PC gaming website, where you can find the many excellent reviews and serious articles about hot vampires that she has written.
After spending several years in London, Alice now lives in Cork in Ireland, where she watches giant ships, makes crochet animals, and plays video games where you can set things on fire and make elves kiss.
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Mary Wood
Mary Wood
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Book Title: The Guernsey Go To War
Genre: Historical Fiction - Saga WW2
Format: Paperback First Edition
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War separates them, but it cannot dampen their spirits . . .
Spring, 1940. Annie’s new husband Ricky leaves to fight, but she soon discovers battles brewing closer to home. As her sister Janey begins to unravel, only Annie can pick up the pieces – and, with London’s police officers on the front line, she must also step up at work and do her bit for the country.
In Guernsey, Olivia finds herself without her husband and son just as Hitler's forces invade the island. Trapped and heartbroken, she faces untold horrors as the Germans tighten their hold on the islanders.
How will Annie manage her responsibilities to her family and her country in the thick of the Blitz, while suffering the heartache of not knowing what is happening to her beloved Ricky? And can Olivia survive in Guernsey at the hands of the enemy?
The Author:
Mary Wood (also writes as Maggie Mason)
Born in Maidstone, Kent, in 1945, the thirteenth child of fifteen children, Mary's family settled in Leicestershire after the war ended.
Mary married young and now, after 54 years of happy marriage, four children, 12 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren, Mary and her husband live in Blackpool, United Kingdom during the summer and Spain during the winter - a place that Mary calls, 'her writing retreat'.
After many jobs from cleaning to catering, all chosen to fit in with bringing up her family, and boost the family money-pot, Mary ended her 9 - 5 working days as a Probation Service Officer, a job that showed her another side to life, and which influences her writing, bringing a realism and grittiness to her novels
Mary first put pen to paper, in 1989, but it wasn't until 2010 that she finally found some success by self-publishing on kindle.
Being spotted by an editor at Pan Macmillan in 2013, finally saw Mary reach her publishing dream.
When not writing, Mary enjoys family time, reading, eating out, and gardening.
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Genre: Historical Fiction - Saga WW2
Format: Paperback First Edition
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Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book:
War separates them, but it cannot dampen their spirits . . .
Spring, 1940. Annie’s new husband Ricky leaves to fight, but she soon discovers battles brewing closer to home. As her sister Janey begins to unravel, only Annie can pick up the pieces – and, with London’s police officers on the front line, she must also step up at work and do her bit for the country.
In Guernsey, Olivia finds herself without her husband and son just as Hitler's forces invade the island. Trapped and heartbroken, she faces untold horrors as the Germans tighten their hold on the islanders.
How will Annie manage her responsibilities to her family and her country in the thick of the Blitz, while suffering the heartache of not knowing what is happening to her beloved Ricky? And can Olivia survive in Guernsey at the hands of the enemy?
The Author:
Mary Wood (also writes as Maggie Mason)
Born in Maidstone, Kent, in 1945, the thirteenth child of fifteen children, Mary's family settled in Leicestershire after the war ended.
Mary married young and now, after 54 years of happy marriage, four children, 12 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren, Mary and her husband live in Blackpool, United Kingdom during the summer and Spain during the winter - a place that Mary calls, 'her writing retreat'.
After many jobs from cleaning to catering, all chosen to fit in with bringing up her family, and boost the family money-pot, Mary ended her 9 - 5 working days as a Probation Service Officer, a job that showed her another side to life, and which influences her writing, bringing a realism and grittiness to her novels
Mary first put pen to paper, in 1989, but it wasn't until 2010 that she finally found some success by self-publishing on kindle.
Being spotted by an editor at Pan Macmillan in 2013, finally saw Mary reach her publishing dream.
When not writing, Mary enjoys family time, reading, eating out, and gardening.
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Maggie Mason
Maggie Mason
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Book Title: The Fortune Teller’s Daughter
Genre: Historical Fiction - Saga WW2
Format: Paperback First Edition
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1939
The threat of war is looming over Blackpool, but Martha and Trisha are determined not to let it dampen their spirits.
With two young evacuees for Martha to take care of, and Trisha's market garden business growing as Britain digs for victory, the friends have their hands full.
Both are proud to see their daughters making their own way in the world, even in wartime. Sally has become a ballerina and Bonnie is training to become a doctor. The girls' friendship brings them all happiness and hope.
But Martha is troubled by her visions for their daughters' futures. War, tragedy and falling in love will put Sally and Bonnie's lifelong friendship to the test. But can their families pull together and see them through?
The Author:
Maggie Mason (Also writes as Mary Wood)
Born in Maidstone, Kent, in 1945, the thirteenth child of fifteen children, Mary's family settled in Leicestershire after the war ended.
Mary married young and now, after 54 years of happy marriage, four children, 12 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren, Mary and her husband live in Blackpool, United Kingdom during the summer and Spain during the winter - a place that Mary calls, 'her writing retreat'.
After many jobs from cleaning to catering, all chosen to fit in with bringing up her family, and boost the family money-pot, Mary ended her 9 - 5 working days as a Probation Service Officer, a job that showed her another side to life, and which influences her writing, bringing a realism and grittiness to her novels
Mary first put pen to paper, in 1989, but it wasn't until 2010 that she finally found some success by self-publishing on kindle.
Being spotted by an editor at Pan Macmillan in 2013, finally saw Mary reach her publishing dream.
When not writing, Mary enjoys family time, reading, eating out, and gardening.
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Genre: Historical Fiction - Saga WW2
Format: Paperback First Edition
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Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book:
1939
The threat of war is looming over Blackpool, but Martha and Trisha are determined not to let it dampen their spirits.
With two young evacuees for Martha to take care of, and Trisha's market garden business growing as Britain digs for victory, the friends have their hands full.
Both are proud to see their daughters making their own way in the world, even in wartime. Sally has become a ballerina and Bonnie is training to become a doctor. The girls' friendship brings them all happiness and hope.
But Martha is troubled by her visions for their daughters' futures. War, tragedy and falling in love will put Sally and Bonnie's lifelong friendship to the test. But can their families pull together and see them through?
The Author:
Maggie Mason (Also writes as Mary Wood)
Born in Maidstone, Kent, in 1945, the thirteenth child of fifteen children, Mary's family settled in Leicestershire after the war ended.
Mary married young and now, after 54 years of happy marriage, four children, 12 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren, Mary and her husband live in Blackpool, United Kingdom during the summer and Spain during the winter - a place that Mary calls, 'her writing retreat'.
After many jobs from cleaning to catering, all chosen to fit in with bringing up her family, and boost the family money-pot, Mary ended her 9 - 5 working days as a Probation Service Officer, a job that showed her another side to life, and which influences her writing, bringing a realism and grittiness to her novels
Mary first put pen to paper, in 1989, but it wasn't until 2010 that she finally found some success by self-publishing on kindle.
Being spotted by an editor at Pan Macmillan in 2013, finally saw Mary reach her publishing dream.
When not writing, Mary enjoys family time, reading, eating out, and gardening.
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A M Howell
A M Howell
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Book Titles: * 3 BOOK BUNDLE* - All three books in the Mysteries at Sea series:
Book1 - Peril on the Atlantic;
Book 2 - The Royal Jewel Plot;
Book 3 - The Hollywood Kidnap Case.
Genre: Middle-grade historical fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book :
Mysteries at Sea is the bestselling middle grade historical fiction series set in the late 1930s following 12-year-old Alice and her travels at sea as she uncovers long-held family secrets and those of her fellow passengers along the way.
Book 1 - Peril on the Atlantic (Waterstones children’s book of the month August 2023). Alice and her new friend Sonny start to uncover a dark plot to sabotage the Queen Mary.
Book 2 - The Royal Jewel Plot (Stanford’s children’s book of the month April 2024).Alice and Sonny investigate a stolen jewel while travelling on the luxury yacht the Lady Rose.
Book 3 - The Hollywood Kidnap Case. Alice and Sonny investigate the case of a kidnapped actress.
The Author:
A. M. Howell’s bestselling middle grade historical mysteries have been published to widespread critical acclaim, with five star ratings from The Telegraph, three times gaining the coveted Times Children's Book of the Week slot as well as receiving The East Anglian Book of the Year Award in 2020 for The House of One Hundred Clocks and Waterstones children’s book of the month in August 2023 for Mysteries at Sea:Peril on the Atlantic.
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Book1 - Peril on the Atlantic;
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Book 3 - The Hollywood Kidnap Case.
Genre: Middle-grade historical fiction
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The Book :
Mysteries at Sea is the bestselling middle grade historical fiction series set in the late 1930s following 12-year-old Alice and her travels at sea as she uncovers long-held family secrets and those of her fellow passengers along the way.
Book 1 - Peril on the Atlantic (Waterstones children’s book of the month August 2023). Alice and her new friend Sonny start to uncover a dark plot to sabotage the Queen Mary.
Book 2 - The Royal Jewel Plot (Stanford’s children’s book of the month April 2024).Alice and Sonny investigate a stolen jewel while travelling on the luxury yacht the Lady Rose.
Book 3 - The Hollywood Kidnap Case. Alice and Sonny investigate the case of a kidnapped actress.
The Author:
A. M. Howell’s bestselling middle grade historical mysteries have been published to widespread critical acclaim, with five star ratings from The Telegraph, three times gaining the coveted Times Children's Book of the Week slot as well as receiving The East Anglian Book of the Year Award in 2020 for The House of One Hundred Clocks and Waterstones children’s book of the month in August 2023 for Mysteries at Sea:Peril on the Atlantic.
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Jo Thomas
Jo Thomas
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Title 1 Love in Provence.
Title 2: Christmas in the Swiss Alps
Genre: Romantic fiction.
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Title 1 Love in Provence.
Del moved to the south of France three years ago and hasn’t looked back. She’s found new friends, new purpose, and new love with gorgeous Fabien.
But just as harvest on her little lavender farm is due to begin, Del gets some shocking news. With no time to dwell as she welcomes a new crew of lavender pickers, she unexpectedly waves goodbye to Fabien for the summer.
Usually cooking – the thing she loves best – would help soothe her troubles, but Del doesn’t remember how . . . And then chef Zacharie comes to town, dropping another bombshell!
Over one summer in Provence that’s full of surprises, friends old and new rally round. Can they complete the harvest and pull the community back together? And if Fabien returns, will Del finally get her happy-ever-after?
Title 2: A Recipe for Christmas
When Clara signs up for a month of chocolate-making in Switzerland, she imagines the stunning scenery of the magical snowy Alps, a cute chalet and a cosy workshop like something from a Christmas advert.
What she isn’t expecting is chocolate-making bootcamp! In this stark laboratory, chocolate is everything. It’s a very serious set-up, with master chocolatiers to be revered and where favouritism and fanaticism, subterfuge and scandal are rife!
Clara is way out of her depth. But caught up in the world of chocolate school, picking her friends – and her enemies – carefully, she discovers a newfound passion. Until a secret is revealed, and Clara has to decide whether to risk everything she has for a new life and love…
About the author
Before becoming a radio producer Jo Thomas started working life in an ice cream van, then as a waitress in the South of France before returning to the UK and selling dancing flowers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at Hamelys Toy Store in London. After Uni she worked for many years as a reporter and producer, including time at Radio 4's Woman's Hour and Radio 2's The Steve Wright Show.
Jo’s debut novel, The Oyster Catcher, was a runaway bestseller and won both the RNA Joan Hessayon Award and the Festival of Romance Best eBook Award. Her recent book Escape to the French Farmhouse was a #1 bestselling eBook and in every one of her novels Jo loves to explore new countries and discover the food produced there, both of which she thoroughly enjoys researching. Jo lives in Pembrokeshire with her husband and three children, where cooking and gathering around the kitchen table are a hug
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Title 2: Christmas in the Swiss Alps
Genre: Romantic fiction.
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Title 1 Love in Provence.
Del moved to the south of France three years ago and hasn’t looked back. She’s found new friends, new purpose, and new love with gorgeous Fabien.
But just as harvest on her little lavender farm is due to begin, Del gets some shocking news. With no time to dwell as she welcomes a new crew of lavender pickers, she unexpectedly waves goodbye to Fabien for the summer.
Usually cooking – the thing she loves best – would help soothe her troubles, but Del doesn’t remember how . . . And then chef Zacharie comes to town, dropping another bombshell!
Over one summer in Provence that’s full of surprises, friends old and new rally round. Can they complete the harvest and pull the community back together? And if Fabien returns, will Del finally get her happy-ever-after?
Title 2: A Recipe for Christmas
When Clara signs up for a month of chocolate-making in Switzerland, she imagines the stunning scenery of the magical snowy Alps, a cute chalet and a cosy workshop like something from a Christmas advert.
What she isn’t expecting is chocolate-making bootcamp! In this stark laboratory, chocolate is everything. It’s a very serious set-up, with master chocolatiers to be revered and where favouritism and fanaticism, subterfuge and scandal are rife!
Clara is way out of her depth. But caught up in the world of chocolate school, picking her friends – and her enemies – carefully, she discovers a newfound passion. Until a secret is revealed, and Clara has to decide whether to risk everything she has for a new life and love…
About the author
Before becoming a radio producer Jo Thomas started working life in an ice cream van, then as a waitress in the South of France before returning to the UK and selling dancing flowers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at Hamelys Toy Store in London. After Uni she worked for many years as a reporter and producer, including time at Radio 4's Woman's Hour and Radio 2's The Steve Wright Show.
Jo’s debut novel, The Oyster Catcher, was a runaway bestseller and won both the RNA Joan Hessayon Award and the Festival of Romance Best eBook Award. Her recent book Escape to the French Farmhouse was a #1 bestselling eBook and in every one of her novels Jo loves to explore new countries and discover the food produced there, both of which she thoroughly enjoys researching. Jo lives in Pembrokeshire with her husband and three children, where cooking and gathering around the kitchen table are a hug
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Gina Kirkham
Gina Kirkham
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Title: Murders at The Harmony Hollows Resort
Genre : Cosy/Crime/Murder/Mystery/Humour
Format: Paperback - First Edition
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The Book:
Harmony is not on the calling card for this group of friends when their holiday camp is disturbed by murder and revenge…
June 1998: Elodie Marshall has committed a terrible crime. But when she’s deemed unfit to plead, she is sentenced to living within the confines of a mental health facility.
Present day: Sleuthing librarian Pru Pearce and her friends from the Winterbottom Women’s Institute are about to embark on their annual getaway. The 1960s Butlins style Harmony Hollows Resort has caught their attention for two reasons: the northern ballroom championships and the unsolved double murder from 1983.
But what the women thought was just a cold case mystery soon steps into the present when a murderer, dubbed The Grim Sleeper, strikes. Soon, Pru and the other WI ladies are dragged deeper into the mystery investigating both the 1983 and present-day murders. But this is no evening entertainment, this is real life, and everyone is in danger…
Can Pru uncover the truth before another innocent camper is struck off? And are her friends in chalet 13 destined to meet a grisly end in this killer comedy by the author of The Constable Mavis Upton series.
The Author:
Gina was born in the late 1950’s to a mum who frequently abandoned her in a pram outside Woolworths and a dad who after two pints of beer could play a mean Boogie Woogie on the piano in the front room of their 3-bed semi on the Wirral. Being the less adventurous of three children, she remains there to this day - apart from a long weekend in Bognor Regis in 1982.
Her teenage years were filled with angst, a CSE in Arithmetic, raging pimples and Barry White. Marriage and motherhood ensued, followed by divorce in her early thirties and a desperate need for a career and some form of financial support for herself and her young daughter. Trundling a three-wheeled trike along a leafy path one wintry day, memories of her favourite author Enid Blyton, ginger beer and solving mysteries along with her lifelong passion to be a police officer, excitedly gave way to an epiphany. And thus began an enjoyable and fulfilling career with Merseyside Police.
On reaching an age most women lie about, she quickly adapted to retirement by utilising her policing skills to chase after two granddaughters, two dogs and one previously used, but still in excellent condition, husband. Having said goodbye to what had been a huge part of her life, she suddenly had another epiphany. This time it was to put pen to paper to write a book based on her experiences as a police officer. This led to her signing first with Urbane Publications and more recently, Bloodhound Books for her second series of cosy murder mystery books following the Winterbottom Women’s Institute ladies.
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Title: Murders at The Harmony Hollows Resort
Genre : Cosy/Crime/Murder/Mystery/Humour
Format: Paperback - First Edition
Signed: Dedication is Available
Postage & Packaging: FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book:
Harmony is not on the calling card for this group of friends when their holiday camp is disturbed by murder and revenge…
June 1998: Elodie Marshall has committed a terrible crime. But when she’s deemed unfit to plead, she is sentenced to living within the confines of a mental health facility.
Present day: Sleuthing librarian Pru Pearce and her friends from the Winterbottom Women’s Institute are about to embark on their annual getaway. The 1960s Butlins style Harmony Hollows Resort has caught their attention for two reasons: the northern ballroom championships and the unsolved double murder from 1983.
But what the women thought was just a cold case mystery soon steps into the present when a murderer, dubbed The Grim Sleeper, strikes. Soon, Pru and the other WI ladies are dragged deeper into the mystery investigating both the 1983 and present-day murders. But this is no evening entertainment, this is real life, and everyone is in danger…
Can Pru uncover the truth before another innocent camper is struck off? And are her friends in chalet 13 destined to meet a grisly end in this killer comedy by the author of The Constable Mavis Upton series.
The Author:
Gina was born in the late 1950’s to a mum who frequently abandoned her in a pram outside Woolworths and a dad who after two pints of beer could play a mean Boogie Woogie on the piano in the front room of their 3-bed semi on the Wirral. Being the less adventurous of three children, she remains there to this day - apart from a long weekend in Bognor Regis in 1982.
Her teenage years were filled with angst, a CSE in Arithmetic, raging pimples and Barry White. Marriage and motherhood ensued, followed by divorce in her early thirties and a desperate need for a career and some form of financial support for herself and her young daughter. Trundling a three-wheeled trike along a leafy path one wintry day, memories of her favourite author Enid Blyton, ginger beer and solving mysteries along with her lifelong passion to be a police officer, excitedly gave way to an epiphany. And thus began an enjoyable and fulfilling career with Merseyside Police.
On reaching an age most women lie about, she quickly adapted to retirement by utilising her policing skills to chase after two granddaughters, two dogs and one previously used, but still in excellent condition, husband. Having said goodbye to what had been a huge part of her life, she suddenly had another epiphany. This time it was to put pen to paper to write a book based on her experiences as a police officer. This led to her signing first with Urbane Publications and more recently, Bloodhound Books for her second series of cosy murder mystery books following the Winterbottom Women’s Institute ladies.
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Glen Blackwell
Glen Blackwell
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Book Title: The Blitz Bus
Genre: Children’s historical fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book :
Emmie let out a huge sob – “It’s not a film set”, she cried. She held onto Jack for a moment, then took a step back, closed her eyes and shouted - “WHERE AM I?”
When Jack and Emmie suddenly find themselves transported back to London in 1940, they find a world both familiar, yet very different. As they dodge falling bombs and over-zealous policemen, they befriend Jan - a lonely Polish refugee. Together, they must work out if the shadowy figure they keep seeing is a spy and unlock the secret of getting home again…
This educational story helps to weave current views and historical events together in an exciting adventure which will appeal to both boys and girls between 8 and 12.
The Author:
Glen Blackwell lives in Suffolk, England. He has a career in finance and has written 4 children's books - The Disappearing Diamond is his latest release and is a sequel to The Titanic Tunnel and The Blitz Bus. Inspired by bedtime reading with his 3 daughters, Glen loves to bring stories to life for young readers.
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Genre: Children’s historical fiction
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The Book :
Emmie let out a huge sob – “It’s not a film set”, she cried. She held onto Jack for a moment, then took a step back, closed her eyes and shouted - “WHERE AM I?”
When Jack and Emmie suddenly find themselves transported back to London in 1940, they find a world both familiar, yet very different. As they dodge falling bombs and over-zealous policemen, they befriend Jan - a lonely Polish refugee. Together, they must work out if the shadowy figure they keep seeing is a spy and unlock the secret of getting home again…
This educational story helps to weave current views and historical events together in an exciting adventure which will appeal to both boys and girls between 8 and 12.
The Author:
Glen Blackwell lives in Suffolk, England. He has a career in finance and has written 4 children's books - The Disappearing Diamond is his latest release and is a sequel to The Titanic Tunnel and The Blitz Bus. Inspired by bedtime reading with his 3 daughters, Glen loves to bring stories to life for young readers.
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Jane Markland
Jane Markland
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Title: Cielo
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Format: Paperback
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Bids Accepted: Worldwide
Book Blurb:
Who do you trust when you can't trust yourself?
Following his release from Prison, Nathan arrives at Cielo determined to change his life for the better.
After prison, and beating addiction, he has a vision, and he’s discovered a talent, a gift with plants.
Max Harrison wants him to create a special garden, The White Terrace, full of scent and white petals, Max wants to die there, his addiction to vodka and grief consuming everything.
Slowly Nathan begins to falls under his spell, Max is full of insight, kindness. His affinity to music,and playing Rachmaninov on the piano reduce Nathan to tears of joy.
Only underneath the surface, and the seductive surroundings of Cielo, Nathan discovers the other gardeners disappeared.
Never to be heard of again.
As he begins to uncover disturbing clues, Nathan must ask himself, just who is Max Harrison?
Can he trust him?
Can he love him?
Author Bio:
Jane started writing at school, where one English teacher told her she'd one day write a novel. It's only taken most of her life to achieve this. Cielo was formed as a spark of an idea one sunny afternoon while Jane rode her bike past a country house in North Norfolk. She wondered, just who could live there? Then came Nathan, and Max.
Jane is a medical secretary at her local hospital, she has two children and two granddaughters. Her other interests are nature, football, gardening and reading. Jane can always be found with her head in a book, her nose inside a rose, or with her family. She lives in Norwich, Norfolk, her home city.
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Genre: Psychological Thriller
Format: Paperback
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Book Blurb:
Who do you trust when you can't trust yourself?
Following his release from Prison, Nathan arrives at Cielo determined to change his life for the better.
After prison, and beating addiction, he has a vision, and he’s discovered a talent, a gift with plants.
Max Harrison wants him to create a special garden, The White Terrace, full of scent and white petals, Max wants to die there, his addiction to vodka and grief consuming everything.
Slowly Nathan begins to falls under his spell, Max is full of insight, kindness. His affinity to music,and playing Rachmaninov on the piano reduce Nathan to tears of joy.
Only underneath the surface, and the seductive surroundings of Cielo, Nathan discovers the other gardeners disappeared.
Never to be heard of again.
As he begins to uncover disturbing clues, Nathan must ask himself, just who is Max Harrison?
Can he trust him?
Can he love him?
Author Bio:
Jane started writing at school, where one English teacher told her she'd one day write a novel. It's only taken most of her life to achieve this. Cielo was formed as a spark of an idea one sunny afternoon while Jane rode her bike past a country house in North Norfolk. She wondered, just who could live there? Then came Nathan, and Max.
Jane is a medical secretary at her local hospital, she has two children and two granddaughters. Her other interests are nature, football, gardening and reading. Jane can always be found with her head in a book, her nose inside a rose, or with her family. She lives in Norwich, Norfolk, her home city.
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Susan Hughes
Susan Hughes
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Book Title: Sprout's Halloween Surprise!
Genre: Picture book
Format: Paperback (1st edition)
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The Book:
Everyone is excited for Halloween, including Sprout, until he is told by Pumpkin and Apple that sprouts are just for Christmas! Sprout needs to come up with an idea quickly if he wants to join in with the Halloween fun. But will it be a trick or a treat? And can he prove that sprouts aren't just for Christmas? He may be small in size but he's big in surprise!
The Author:
Susan Hughes lives in Derbyshire with her family and two rescue cats. With a background in primary and early years education, Susan loves to write fun and engaging stories for children and grown-ups to share together which make you laugh, smile or maybe even bring a tear to your eye. Sprout's Halloween Surprise is the second story in a series of fun escapades to help children make sense of the world around them.
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Genre: Picture book
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The Book:
Everyone is excited for Halloween, including Sprout, until he is told by Pumpkin and Apple that sprouts are just for Christmas! Sprout needs to come up with an idea quickly if he wants to join in with the Halloween fun. But will it be a trick or a treat? And can he prove that sprouts aren't just for Christmas? He may be small in size but he's big in surprise!
The Author:
Susan Hughes lives in Derbyshire with her family and two rescue cats. With a background in primary and early years education, Susan loves to write fun and engaging stories for children and grown-ups to share together which make you laugh, smile or maybe even bring a tear to your eye. Sprout's Halloween Surprise is the second story in a series of fun escapades to help children make sense of the world around them.
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Kate Bradbury
Kate Bradbury
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Title: One Garden Against the World
Genre: Education - Enviromental Conservation - Gardening
Format: Hardback - First Edition
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The Book;
Five years after writing her first nature memoir, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Kate Bradbury has a new garden.
It's busy: home to all sorts of wildlife, from red mason bees and bumblebees to house sparrows, hedgehogs and dragonflies. It seems the entire frog population of Brighton and Hove breeds in her small pond each spring, and now there are toads here, too. On summer evenings, Kate watches bats flit above her and for a moment, everything seems alright with the world.
But she knows habitat loss remains a huge issue in gardens, the wider countryside and worldwide, and there's another, far bigger threat: climate change. Temperature increases are starting to bite, and she worries about what that will mean for our wildlife.
In her uplifting new book, Kate writes passionately about how her climate-change anxiety pushes her to look for positive ways to keep going in a changing world. As in her first memoir, she invites you into her life, sharing stories of her mum's ongoing recovery and her adventures with her new rescue dog, Tosca.
One Garden Against the World is a call to action for all of us - gardeners, communities and individuals - to do more for wildlife and more for the climate. Climate change and biodiversity loss go hand in hand, but if we work together, it's never too late to make a difference.
The Author:
ate Bradbury is an award-winning writer specialising in wildlife gardening and the author of The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Wildlife Gardening for Everyone and Everything, How to Create a Wildlife Pond and The Tree in Your Garden. She’s the Wildlife Editor of BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine and has a regular Country Diary column in The Guardian. She writes regularly for the RHS The Garden magazine, The Wildlife Trusts members’ magazine and BBC Wildlife. Her garden was featured as part of the BBC Springwatch Garden Watch campaign, and she and her garden have also appeared on Autumnwatch and Gardeners’ World.
Kate is patron for two charities: amphibian and reptile charity Froglife and bumblebee charity Bumblebee Conservation Trust. She is also an Ambassador for the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and conservation charity Butterfly Conservation. She lives in Brighton.
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Genre: Education - Enviromental Conservation - Gardening
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The Book;
Five years after writing her first nature memoir, The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Kate Bradbury has a new garden.
It's busy: home to all sorts of wildlife, from red mason bees and bumblebees to house sparrows, hedgehogs and dragonflies. It seems the entire frog population of Brighton and Hove breeds in her small pond each spring, and now there are toads here, too. On summer evenings, Kate watches bats flit above her and for a moment, everything seems alright with the world.
But she knows habitat loss remains a huge issue in gardens, the wider countryside and worldwide, and there's another, far bigger threat: climate change. Temperature increases are starting to bite, and she worries about what that will mean for our wildlife.
In her uplifting new book, Kate writes passionately about how her climate-change anxiety pushes her to look for positive ways to keep going in a changing world. As in her first memoir, she invites you into her life, sharing stories of her mum's ongoing recovery and her adventures with her new rescue dog, Tosca.
One Garden Against the World is a call to action for all of us - gardeners, communities and individuals - to do more for wildlife and more for the climate. Climate change and biodiversity loss go hand in hand, but if we work together, it's never too late to make a difference.
The Author:
ate Bradbury is an award-winning writer specialising in wildlife gardening and the author of The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Wildlife Gardening for Everyone and Everything, How to Create a Wildlife Pond and The Tree in Your Garden. She’s the Wildlife Editor of BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine and has a regular Country Diary column in The Guardian. She writes regularly for the RHS The Garden magazine, The Wildlife Trusts members’ magazine and BBC Wildlife. Her garden was featured as part of the BBC Springwatch Garden Watch campaign, and she and her garden have also appeared on Autumnwatch and Gardeners’ World.
Kate is patron for two charities: amphibian and reptile charity Froglife and bumblebee charity Bumblebee Conservation Trust. She is also an Ambassador for the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and conservation charity Butterfly Conservation. She lives in Brighton.
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Liz Brownlee
Liz Brownlee
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Book title: Shaping the World, 40 Historical Heroes in (shape) Verse
Genre: Poetry
Format: Paperback, first edition
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The Book:
An anthology of poems about 20 men and 20 women heroes who have helped shape our world. Each poem is in the shape of the person or something associated with them - and each poem has a short bio on the opposite page, detailing what each person is famous for, fascinating facts (did you know Florence Nightingale kept an owl in her pocket?), and a quote.
The author:
Liz Brownlee is a CLiPPA shortlisted, award-winning poet and poem shaper, and National Poetry Day Ambassador - she blogs all about poetry, poets and poetry books on her Poetry Roundabout website.
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Genre: Poetry
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The Book:
An anthology of poems about 20 men and 20 women heroes who have helped shape our world. Each poem is in the shape of the person or something associated with them - and each poem has a short bio on the opposite page, detailing what each person is famous for, fascinating facts (did you know Florence Nightingale kept an owl in her pocket?), and a quote.
The author:
Liz Brownlee is a CLiPPA shortlisted, award-winning poet and poem shaper, and National Poetry Day Ambassador - she blogs all about poetry, poets and poetry books on her Poetry Roundabout website.
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Francesca Catlow
Francesca Catlow
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Book Title: Found In Corfu
Genre: Women’s fiction and romance
Format: Paperback
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Theadora’s beloved Kassiopi is her home. From the tapestry of paved streets and the glittering shingle bays, to the technicolour of fishing boats lacing the harbour, she feels she belongs here. It doesn’t matter that she was adopted from Romania and brought to live in Corfu. This is her home.
When she decides to find out more about her heritage, her whole life begins to unravel. She could never imagine her loving family could be riddled with secrets. Her bright blue eyes and flowing blonde hair meant her parents could never keep her adoption a secret, but that doesn’t mean they’ve been telling the truth.
Theadora tries to push the revelations about her adoption to one side and enjoy her time with her boyfriend. It’s only when she can’t share a new discovery with him, but instead confides in her lifelong friend Dinos, that things truly unravel. Theadora isn’t safe. Her life is falling apart, and she doesn’t know who to trust.
With secrets and lies pulling her life apart, will Theadora pick safety or happiness? And who can she really trust? If she can find the strength to pursue the family that left her behind all those years ago, will they even want to see her at all?
The Author:
"I write passionate love stories featuring flawed and sometimes broken characters as they face a crossroads in their life. Sometimes these issues can be resolved, but what if they can’t? What if things outside of their control take root? I like to explore heart breaking themes and, at times, thrilling and dangerous narratives loaded with tension and suspense, all interlaced with meaningful and passionate love stories. Human emotions are always at the centre of my novels whilst also being whisked off to beautiful locations. To date, all of my published books are set on the lush Greek island of Corfu.
Escapism is key, I like my readers to get caught up in the unpredictable lives of my protagonists, as though you are catching up with a best friend whose life has hit a messy point. Not everything can be happily-ever-after, but there is beauty and love in all of my stories. I hope you enjoy them! "
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Genre: Women’s fiction and romance
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
Theadora’s beloved Kassiopi is her home. From the tapestry of paved streets and the glittering shingle bays, to the technicolour of fishing boats lacing the harbour, she feels she belongs here. It doesn’t matter that she was adopted from Romania and brought to live in Corfu. This is her home.
When she decides to find out more about her heritage, her whole life begins to unravel. She could never imagine her loving family could be riddled with secrets. Her bright blue eyes and flowing blonde hair meant her parents could never keep her adoption a secret, but that doesn’t mean they’ve been telling the truth.
Theadora tries to push the revelations about her adoption to one side and enjoy her time with her boyfriend. It’s only when she can’t share a new discovery with him, but instead confides in her lifelong friend Dinos, that things truly unravel. Theadora isn’t safe. Her life is falling apart, and she doesn’t know who to trust.
With secrets and lies pulling her life apart, will Theadora pick safety or happiness? And who can she really trust? If she can find the strength to pursue the family that left her behind all those years ago, will they even want to see her at all?
The Author:
"I write passionate love stories featuring flawed and sometimes broken characters as they face a crossroads in their life. Sometimes these issues can be resolved, but what if they can’t? What if things outside of their control take root? I like to explore heart breaking themes and, at times, thrilling and dangerous narratives loaded with tension and suspense, all interlaced with meaningful and passionate love stories. Human emotions are always at the centre of my novels whilst also being whisked off to beautiful locations. To date, all of my published books are set on the lush Greek island of Corfu.
Escapism is key, I like my readers to get caught up in the unpredictable lives of my protagonists, as though you are catching up with a best friend whose life has hit a messy point. Not everything can be happily-ever-after, but there is beauty and love in all of my stories. I hope you enjoy them! "
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Douglas Skelton
Douglas Skelton
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*Bonus: Douglas will offer a named character in the sixth Jonas Flynt book, to be published 2026.
Title: A Grave for a Thief
Genre: Historical Legal Fiction
Format: Hardback First Edition
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The Book;
England, 1716. The only certainty in a thief’s life… is death.
Christopher Templeton is a lawyer whose conscience troubles him. He knows many of the secrets of The Fellowship, the shadowy group profiting from the civil unrest in the nation, and has intimated to the Company of Rogues that he is willing to share them.
The problem is, he has vanished. Jonas Flynt – thief, gambler, killer – still recovering from a duel with death upon the frozen Thames, is tasked with finding him.
The trail takes him from the dark slums of London to a quiet village in the north of England, where all is not as it seems. But while he hunts for the missing man, someone else may be stalking him… someone with murder in their heart.
The Author:
Douglas Skelton has published 12 non fiction books, 12 contemporary crime thrillers and 2 historical thrillers. He has been a bank clerk, tax officer, shelf stacker, meat porter, taxi driver (for two days), wine waiter (for two hours), reporter, investigator and editor.
His first thriller BLOOD CITY was published in 2013.
The gritty thriller was the first in a quartet set on the tough streets of Glasgow from 1980 onwards. It was followed by CROW BAIT, DEVIL'S KNOCK and finally OPEN WOUNDS, which was longlisted for the first McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year in 2016.
His two Dominic Queste thrillers, THE DEAD DON'T BOOGIE and TAG - YOU'RE DEAD lightened the tone but didn't skimp on thrills.
He followed this with his New York-set chase thriller THE JANUS RUN in 2018.
THUNDER BAY, a dark and atmospheric tale of secrets, lies and murder, was published to great acclaim by Polygon in 2019. It was longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for 2019. The series continued with THE BLOOD IS STILL, A RATTLE OF BONES ( longlisted for the McIlvanney in 2022) and WHERE DEMONS HIDE. All four titles have been released on audio by Isis Publishing. Entries in the series are available in the US in print and audio through Arcade CrimeWise, while translation rights have been sold to as Germany, Denmark, Greece and Sweden.
The 5th in the series, CHILDREN OF THE MIST, has now been published.
He also has a new series of historical adventure thrillers featuring gambler, thief and secret agent Jonas Flynt, beginning with AN HONOURABLE THIEF (2022, CANELO, longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize 2023) and A THIEF'S JUSTICE (Canelo 2023).
Douglas is often recruited by documentary makers to contribute to true crime shows on TV and radio and is a regular on the crime writing festival circuit.
He takes part in comedy shows with other crime writers. To date he has written three Carry on Sleuthing plays in which he also appears along with Caro Ramsay, Michael J. Malone, Theresa Talbot, Pat Young and Lucy Cameron, with occasional guests Alex Gray, Lin Anderson and Neil Broadfoot.
He is also one quarter of Four Blokes in search of a Plot, along with Gordon Brown, Mark Leggatt and Neil Broadfoot. This is a fun show in which they invited the audience to give them a murder weapon and a protagonist. They then take it in turns to create a crime story (usually developing into something wild and wacky) while also answering audience queries about the craft.
His one man event, You the Jury, invites audiences to deliver verdicts on real life but heavily disguised cases from around the world. In 2019 the format was extended into a court drama, thanks to the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland, within Stirling Sheriff Court played to three sell-out houses during the Bloody Scotland festival.
He was, with bestselling author Denzil Meyrick, a regular on the SBOOKS podcast.
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Title: A Grave for a Thief
Genre: Historical Legal Fiction
Format: Hardback First Edition
Signed - Dedication is Available
Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book;
England, 1716. The only certainty in a thief’s life… is death.
Christopher Templeton is a lawyer whose conscience troubles him. He knows many of the secrets of The Fellowship, the shadowy group profiting from the civil unrest in the nation, and has intimated to the Company of Rogues that he is willing to share them.
The problem is, he has vanished. Jonas Flynt – thief, gambler, killer – still recovering from a duel with death upon the frozen Thames, is tasked with finding him.
The trail takes him from the dark slums of London to a quiet village in the north of England, where all is not as it seems. But while he hunts for the missing man, someone else may be stalking him… someone with murder in their heart.
The Author:
Douglas Skelton has published 12 non fiction books, 12 contemporary crime thrillers and 2 historical thrillers. He has been a bank clerk, tax officer, shelf stacker, meat porter, taxi driver (for two days), wine waiter (for two hours), reporter, investigator and editor.
His first thriller BLOOD CITY was published in 2013.
The gritty thriller was the first in a quartet set on the tough streets of Glasgow from 1980 onwards. It was followed by CROW BAIT, DEVIL'S KNOCK and finally OPEN WOUNDS, which was longlisted for the first McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year in 2016.
His two Dominic Queste thrillers, THE DEAD DON'T BOOGIE and TAG - YOU'RE DEAD lightened the tone but didn't skimp on thrills.
He followed this with his New York-set chase thriller THE JANUS RUN in 2018.
THUNDER BAY, a dark and atmospheric tale of secrets, lies and murder, was published to great acclaim by Polygon in 2019. It was longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for 2019. The series continued with THE BLOOD IS STILL, A RATTLE OF BONES ( longlisted for the McIlvanney in 2022) and WHERE DEMONS HIDE. All four titles have been released on audio by Isis Publishing. Entries in the series are available in the US in print and audio through Arcade CrimeWise, while translation rights have been sold to as Germany, Denmark, Greece and Sweden.
The 5th in the series, CHILDREN OF THE MIST, has now been published.
He also has a new series of historical adventure thrillers featuring gambler, thief and secret agent Jonas Flynt, beginning with AN HONOURABLE THIEF (2022, CANELO, longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize 2023) and A THIEF'S JUSTICE (Canelo 2023).
Douglas is often recruited by documentary makers to contribute to true crime shows on TV and radio and is a regular on the crime writing festival circuit.
He takes part in comedy shows with other crime writers. To date he has written three Carry on Sleuthing plays in which he also appears along with Caro Ramsay, Michael J. Malone, Theresa Talbot, Pat Young and Lucy Cameron, with occasional guests Alex Gray, Lin Anderson and Neil Broadfoot.
He is also one quarter of Four Blokes in search of a Plot, along with Gordon Brown, Mark Leggatt and Neil Broadfoot. This is a fun show in which they invited the audience to give them a murder weapon and a protagonist. They then take it in turns to create a crime story (usually developing into something wild and wacky) while also answering audience queries about the craft.
His one man event, You the Jury, invites audiences to deliver verdicts on real life but heavily disguised cases from around the world. In 2019 the format was extended into a court drama, thanks to the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland, within Stirling Sheriff Court played to three sell-out houses during the Bloody Scotland festival.
He was, with bestselling author Denzil Meyrick, a regular on the SBOOKS podcast.
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Patricia M Osborne
Patricia M Osborne
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Title: The Woodhaerst Triangle
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
When the past and present collide, how can she step into her future?
All eighteen-year-old Rachel Webster has to worry about is keeping her mum and dad off her back. That is until she accidentally uncovers paperwork revealing she’s adopted.
That’s when things begin to spiral. A new revelation surfaces, the coil tightens, and Rachel’s entire world is under threat.
She’s dazzled by hope but has she opened Pandora’s box?
Peggy Davies is happily married with two children and her life is almost complete. When a teenager makes contact out of the blue, she believes her prayers have been answered.
That is until her dream turns into a nightmare and her family is in danger of being destroyed.
A 1970s family drama centring around strong women, love, and friendship.
The Author:
Patricia M Osborne is married with three grown-up children and six grandchildren. She was born in Liverpool but now lives in West Sussex. In February 2019, she graduated with an MA in Creative Writing via the University of Brighton. She is a novelist, poet, and short story writer. When she's not working on her own writing, she enjoys sharing her knowledge and acts as a mentor to fellow writers.
In 2017 she was a Poet in Residence at a local Victorian Park in Crawley and her poetry was exhibited throughout the park. In 2019 her poetry was on display at Crawley Museum.
Patricia has had numerous poems and short stories published in various literary magazines and anthologies.
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Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
When the past and present collide, how can she step into her future?
All eighteen-year-old Rachel Webster has to worry about is keeping her mum and dad off her back. That is until she accidentally uncovers paperwork revealing she’s adopted.
That’s when things begin to spiral. A new revelation surfaces, the coil tightens, and Rachel’s entire world is under threat.
She’s dazzled by hope but has she opened Pandora’s box?
Peggy Davies is happily married with two children and her life is almost complete. When a teenager makes contact out of the blue, she believes her prayers have been answered.
That is until her dream turns into a nightmare and her family is in danger of being destroyed.
A 1970s family drama centring around strong women, love, and friendship.
The Author:
Patricia M Osborne is married with three grown-up children and six grandchildren. She was born in Liverpool but now lives in West Sussex. In February 2019, she graduated with an MA in Creative Writing via the University of Brighton. She is a novelist, poet, and short story writer. When she's not working on her own writing, she enjoys sharing her knowledge and acts as a mentor to fellow writers.
In 2017 she was a Poet in Residence at a local Victorian Park in Crawley and her poetry was exhibited throughout the park. In 2019 her poetry was on display at Crawley Museum.
Patricia has had numerous poems and short stories published in various literary magazines and anthologies.
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Niall M Oliver
Niall M Oliver
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Title: We Will Eat Breakfast With Our Children
Genre: Poetry
Format: Paperback First Edition
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A book of 38 poems, moving from memories of a beloved grandmother stolen by Alzheimer’s, through to the joy and anxiety of new fatherhood in a role very different to that of the previous generation. The poems also explore the love and tension that exists within families and communities. There is humour too, especially when reality collides with the dream of travel, work and finding love.
The Author:
Niall M Oliver lives in Derry, Northern Ireland, with his wife and three sons. He is the author of 'My Boss' by Hedgehog Poetry Press, and his poems have appeared in many journals, such as Acumen, Atrium, The Honest Ulsterman, Ink Sweat & Tears, Fly On The Wall Press, and others.
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Genre: Poetry
Format: Paperback First Edition
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The Book :
A book of 38 poems, moving from memories of a beloved grandmother stolen by Alzheimer’s, through to the joy and anxiety of new fatherhood in a role very different to that of the previous generation. The poems also explore the love and tension that exists within families and communities. There is humour too, especially when reality collides with the dream of travel, work and finding love.
The Author:
Niall M Oliver lives in Derry, Northern Ireland, with his wife and three sons. He is the author of 'My Boss' by Hedgehog Poetry Press, and his poems have appeared in many journals, such as Acumen, Atrium, The Honest Ulsterman, Ink Sweat & Tears, Fly On The Wall Press, and others.
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Lot 159
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Jonathan Sellars
Jonathan Sellars
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159
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Book title: Polly Plum: Brave Adventurer
Genre: Children
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Polly Plum dreams of being a brave adventurer. But her father has other ideas – he wants her to settle down and become Mrs Smellbad Frown! That won’t stop Polly though!.
Join her as she sets sail in search of adventure; meeting singing pirates, a boastful ghost, and a very, very hungry walrus along the way. Watch out adventure, here comes Polly!
The Author:
Jonathan Sellars is an award-entering author and poet. He's the poet-in-resident of the planet Saturn and is widely expected to be the first person to ever ride a dinosaur.
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Genre: Children
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Polly Plum dreams of being a brave adventurer. But her father has other ideas – he wants her to settle down and become Mrs Smellbad Frown! That won’t stop Polly though!.
Join her as she sets sail in search of adventure; meeting singing pirates, a boastful ghost, and a very, very hungry walrus along the way. Watch out adventure, here comes Polly!
The Author:
Jonathan Sellars is an award-entering author and poet. He's the poet-in-resident of the planet Saturn and is widely expected to be the first person to ever ride a dinosaur.
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A.A. Chaudhuri
A.A. Chaudhuri
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160
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*Four Fantastic Thrillers in One Lot
Title 1: She’s Mine
Title 2: The Loyal Friend
Title 3:The Final Party
Title 4: Under Her Roof
Genre: Psychological Thrillers/Mystery
Format: Paperbacks
Dedications Available: Yes
Bids Accepted: UK Only
Title 1: She’s Mine
Her missing daughter was just the start of the nightmare
Twenty years ago, Christine Donovan took a call she should have ignored while shopping. In those few seconds while her back was turned, her toddler, Heidi, was kidnapped. She's never been seen again.
Despite having two other children with husband Greg, Christine remains guilt-stricken that her neglect caused her child to be stolen, while haunted by a secret that consumes her.
Just as she takes measures to finally heal, a note is posted through her door, with the words she has always longed to hear: Heidi isn't dead.
Christine might finally get the answers she craves - but what she doesn't know is that finding her daughter will uncover dark secrets close to home.
In seeking the truth, Christine might destroy everything that she loves ... so how far is she willing to go to find Heidi?
Title 2: The Loyal Friend
She has your back.
And may stab you in it.
Wealthy, pampered Susan is living the perfect life in leafy Kingston. She'll never let anyone see the darkness she's concealing behind the diamonds and rosé.
Grace is new to the group, seemingly the perfect wife and mum. Yet no one knows the truth of what's happening behind closed doors.
Loner Natalie hides the pain of her childhood behind a carefully ordered life. But how long can the past stay hidden?
Three unlikely friends, brought together for a weekly class run by beautiful, friendly, instructor, Jade.
But when Jade goes missing in mysterious circumstances, the group starts to unravel. And as their darkest secrets come to light, it seems that no one can be trusted. Even their closest friends...
A heart-in-your-mouth thriller that builds twist after twist, culminating in an unforgettable ending
Title 3:The Final Party
SIX FRIENDS.
In a luxury villa set high in the hills above the glamorous town of Sorrento, southern Italy, three couples gather for the perfect 40th birthday celebration.
ONE BODY.
Before the week is out, one of them is dead.
COUNTLESS LIES.
Their perfect reunion quickly becomes the holiday from hell when one of the group starts receiving anonymous messages, threatening to expose a dark secret from their university days.
As old friendships are tested to the limit, it’s clear that what happens in the dark past won’t stay buried…
A heart-racing psychological thriller that will hook you from the very first page, with twist after twist that will make your jaw drop. Fans of B.A. Paris, My Husband's Killer and Lucy Foley won’t be able to put this down. If you were hooked by The White Lotus or The Watcher, you'll love this.
Title 4: Under Her Roof:
It seems too good to be true…
When struggling writer Sebastian finds a room to let in a palatial Hampstead residence he cannot believe his luck. The rent is ridiculously cheap and he immediately feels a connection with his beautiful widowed landlady, Adriana.
It is.
Things take a dark turn when he finds out what happened to the last lodger. Could this be why the house is a fortress of security, and why Adriana seems so fragile? Adriana doesn’t want to talk about the death and sadness that seem to follow her wherever she goes and Sebastian has secrets of his own.
Now someone is watching their every move and there is nowhere to hide.
This house of light becomes a dark nightmare as the threat ramps up - what does the watcher want? And how far will they go to get it?
A gripping, twisty thriller perfect for fans of B.A. Paris, Shari Lapena and Lucy Foley. If you were hooked by Netflix series You or The Watcher then you will love this.
The Author:
A. A. Chaudhuri is a former City lawyer. After gaining a degree in History at University College London, she later trained as a solicitor and worked for several major London law firms before leaving law to pursue her passion for writing. She is the author of legal thrillers, The Scribe and The Abduction, and three standalone psychological thrillers published by Hera Books: She’s Mine, The Loyal Friend, The Final Party and Under Her Roof.
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Title 1: She’s Mine
Title 2: The Loyal Friend
Title 3:The Final Party
Title 4: Under Her Roof
Genre: Psychological Thrillers/Mystery
Format: Paperbacks
Dedications Available: Yes
Bids Accepted: UK Only
Title 1: She’s Mine
Her missing daughter was just the start of the nightmare
Twenty years ago, Christine Donovan took a call she should have ignored while shopping. In those few seconds while her back was turned, her toddler, Heidi, was kidnapped. She's never been seen again.
Despite having two other children with husband Greg, Christine remains guilt-stricken that her neglect caused her child to be stolen, while haunted by a secret that consumes her.
Just as she takes measures to finally heal, a note is posted through her door, with the words she has always longed to hear: Heidi isn't dead.
Christine might finally get the answers she craves - but what she doesn't know is that finding her daughter will uncover dark secrets close to home.
In seeking the truth, Christine might destroy everything that she loves ... so how far is she willing to go to find Heidi?
Title 2: The Loyal Friend
She has your back.
And may stab you in it.
Wealthy, pampered Susan is living the perfect life in leafy Kingston. She'll never let anyone see the darkness she's concealing behind the diamonds and rosé.
Grace is new to the group, seemingly the perfect wife and mum. Yet no one knows the truth of what's happening behind closed doors.
Loner Natalie hides the pain of her childhood behind a carefully ordered life. But how long can the past stay hidden?
Three unlikely friends, brought together for a weekly class run by beautiful, friendly, instructor, Jade.
But when Jade goes missing in mysterious circumstances, the group starts to unravel. And as their darkest secrets come to light, it seems that no one can be trusted. Even their closest friends...
A heart-in-your-mouth thriller that builds twist after twist, culminating in an unforgettable ending
Title 3:The Final Party
SIX FRIENDS.
In a luxury villa set high in the hills above the glamorous town of Sorrento, southern Italy, three couples gather for the perfect 40th birthday celebration.
ONE BODY.
Before the week is out, one of them is dead.
COUNTLESS LIES.
Their perfect reunion quickly becomes the holiday from hell when one of the group starts receiving anonymous messages, threatening to expose a dark secret from their university days.
As old friendships are tested to the limit, it’s clear that what happens in the dark past won’t stay buried…
A heart-racing psychological thriller that will hook you from the very first page, with twist after twist that will make your jaw drop. Fans of B.A. Paris, My Husband's Killer and Lucy Foley won’t be able to put this down. If you were hooked by The White Lotus or The Watcher, you'll love this.
Title 4: Under Her Roof:
It seems too good to be true…
When struggling writer Sebastian finds a room to let in a palatial Hampstead residence he cannot believe his luck. The rent is ridiculously cheap and he immediately feels a connection with his beautiful widowed landlady, Adriana.
It is.
Things take a dark turn when he finds out what happened to the last lodger. Could this be why the house is a fortress of security, and why Adriana seems so fragile? Adriana doesn’t want to talk about the death and sadness that seem to follow her wherever she goes and Sebastian has secrets of his own.
Now someone is watching their every move and there is nowhere to hide.
This house of light becomes a dark nightmare as the threat ramps up - what does the watcher want? And how far will they go to get it?
A gripping, twisty thriller perfect for fans of B.A. Paris, Shari Lapena and Lucy Foley. If you were hooked by Netflix series You or The Watcher then you will love this.
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A. A. Chaudhuri is a former City lawyer. After gaining a degree in History at University College London, she later trained as a solicitor and worked for several major London law firms before leaving law to pursue her passion for writing. She is the author of legal thrillers, The Scribe and The Abduction, and three standalone psychological thrillers published by Hera Books: She’s Mine, The Loyal Friend, The Final Party and Under Her Roof.
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Neal Zetter
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Title: The Shape of Rainbows
Genre: Children's Poetry
Format: Paperback First Edition
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The Shape of Rainbows is my 12th book and my first mixed-themed poetry book since my second in 2016. Published by Otter-Barry Books, there is something for everyone here: Peanut Butter Nutter, Police Car, Two Mums, Living Next Door to a Viking and The Day I Ate My School are just a few of the titles you'll find inside it. As always with my books, some of the fifty or so poems are laugh out loud, while others need further reflection. Ages 6-12 years, cover price £8.99.
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Neal is an award-winning comedy performance poet, children's author, entertainer and educator with a 25-year background in communication management and mentoring. Since 1994 he's been using his interactive rhythmic, rhyming poetry to develop literacy, confidence, creativity and communications skills in 3-103 yr olds, making words and language accessible for the least engaged whilst streeeeeeetching the most talented. See his website for more info: cccpworkshops.co.uk
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The Shape of Rainbows is my 12th book and my first mixed-themed poetry book since my second in 2016. Published by Otter-Barry Books, there is something for everyone here: Peanut Butter Nutter, Police Car, Two Mums, Living Next Door to a Viking and The Day I Ate My School are just a few of the titles you'll find inside it. As always with my books, some of the fifty or so poems are laugh out loud, while others need further reflection. Ages 6-12 years, cover price £8.99.
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Neal is an award-winning comedy performance poet, children's author, entertainer and educator with a 25-year background in communication management and mentoring. Since 1994 he's been using his interactive rhythmic, rhyming poetry to develop literacy, confidence, creativity and communications skills in 3-103 yr olds, making words and language accessible for the least engaged whilst streeeeeeetching the most talented. See his website for more info: cccpworkshops.co.uk
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Maggie Brookes
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Two Book Special
Two powerful novels about the strength and courage of women in the most terrible of circumstances.
Book 1 Title: 'Acts of Love and War '
Book 2 Title: 'The Prisoner's Wife'
Genre: Historical Fiction
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Acts of Love and War follows three young British volunteers into the Spanish Civil War. Lucy braves the horrors of a war zone to bring back the two men she loves, and ends up saving the lives of thousands of children. This story about love and friendship was inspired by a small handful of untrained volunteers who offered humanitarian aid to children displaced and orphaned by the brutal civil war. 'This amazing book has everything: love, war, history and relevance to today,' Russell Kane. 'A love story with a twist; a war story with a difference. A beautiful, compelling story of hope and humanity in war.' Nikki Marmery
Book 2 :
'The Prisoner's Wife' is based on an extraordinary true story from the second world war of a Czech woman who spends the last six months of the war in a Nazi PoW camp, disguised as a British solider, in order to be with the man she loves.
'An absorbing and entertaining tale of wartime bravery and endurance. Bill and Izzy are such tenderly drawn characters... I loved it.' Rachel Hore
The Author:
Maggie Brookes is an ex-journalist and BBC TV producer turned novelist and poet.
At the BBC she discovered the lure of historical stories and made a documentary about conscientious objectors for Forty Minutes as well as programmes for the big BBC2 series Now The War is Over and All Our Working Lives, and Time Watch.
The true tale which became her first novel The Prisoner's Wife was told to her in a lift by an ex soldier who said, 'I bet I could tell you a story about the war which would make your hair stand on end.' Research for the novel took her to Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic in the depths of winter. The Prisoner's Wife came out in 2020 through Penguin Random House and other publishers around the world. Acts of Love and War followed in 2022, also published by Penguin.
Under her married name, Maggie Butt, she has published six poetry collections, taught Creative Writing at Middlesex University for 30 years, completed a PhD in creative writing from Cardiff University, and become a Royal Literary Fund fellow at the University of Kent.
She has two grown-up daughters and one beloved grand-daughter.
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Two powerful novels about the strength and courage of women in the most terrible of circumstances.
Book 1 Title: 'Acts of Love and War '
Book 2 Title: 'The Prisoner's Wife'
Genre: Historical Fiction
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Acts of Love and War follows three young British volunteers into the Spanish Civil War. Lucy braves the horrors of a war zone to bring back the two men she loves, and ends up saving the lives of thousands of children. This story about love and friendship was inspired by a small handful of untrained volunteers who offered humanitarian aid to children displaced and orphaned by the brutal civil war. 'This amazing book has everything: love, war, history and relevance to today,' Russell Kane. 'A love story with a twist; a war story with a difference. A beautiful, compelling story of hope and humanity in war.' Nikki Marmery
Book 2 :
'The Prisoner's Wife' is based on an extraordinary true story from the second world war of a Czech woman who spends the last six months of the war in a Nazi PoW camp, disguised as a British solider, in order to be with the man she loves.
'An absorbing and entertaining tale of wartime bravery and endurance. Bill and Izzy are such tenderly drawn characters... I loved it.' Rachel Hore
The Author:
Maggie Brookes is an ex-journalist and BBC TV producer turned novelist and poet.
At the BBC she discovered the lure of historical stories and made a documentary about conscientious objectors for Forty Minutes as well as programmes for the big BBC2 series Now The War is Over and All Our Working Lives, and Time Watch.
The true tale which became her first novel The Prisoner's Wife was told to her in a lift by an ex soldier who said, 'I bet I could tell you a story about the war which would make your hair stand on end.' Research for the novel took her to Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic in the depths of winter. The Prisoner's Wife came out in 2020 through Penguin Random House and other publishers around the world. Acts of Love and War followed in 2022, also published by Penguin.
Under her married name, Maggie Butt, she has published six poetry collections, taught Creative Writing at Middlesex University for 30 years, completed a PhD in creative writing from Cardiff University, and become a Royal Literary Fund fellow at the University of Kent.
She has two grown-up daughters and one beloved grand-daughter.
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Lisa Hall
Lisa Hall
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Book Title: The Case of the Singer and the Showgirl
Genre: Mystery/Crime
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The Book : Murder and scandal in the heat of 1950s Las Vegas: can Lily Jones stop a murder that happened before she was born?
Lily Jones can’t forget her incredible time-slip adventure back to the Golden Age of Hollywood and the friends she made there - especially a handsome barman by the name of Louis, with whom she felt such a strong connection.
Back in 2020, life isn’t going so well for her and Lily is idly googling when she is horrified to discover that Evelyn, Louis’ ex-girlfriend, is brutally murdered in 1953.
She is compelled to go back to the 1950s and try to save Evelyn’s life, but this time it isn’t just the gilded stars of Tinseltown she will have to contend with, but The Mob as she finds herself in the seedy glamour of Vegas and learns that Evelyn’s future depends upon her first solving the murder of a Vegas showgirl.
Thankfully she has Louis and his sister, Tilda, to help her, but her own life is in danger as she tries to find the killer and change Evelyn’s fate.
What will she risk to save a life?
A page-turning, inventive time-hop mystery perfect for fans of Stuart Turton and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
The Author: Lisa Hall
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The Book : Murder and scandal in the heat of 1950s Las Vegas: can Lily Jones stop a murder that happened before she was born?
Lily Jones can’t forget her incredible time-slip adventure back to the Golden Age of Hollywood and the friends she made there - especially a handsome barman by the name of Louis, with whom she felt such a strong connection.
Back in 2020, life isn’t going so well for her and Lily is idly googling when she is horrified to discover that Evelyn, Louis’ ex-girlfriend, is brutally murdered in 1953.
She is compelled to go back to the 1950s and try to save Evelyn’s life, but this time it isn’t just the gilded stars of Tinseltown she will have to contend with, but The Mob as she finds herself in the seedy glamour of Vegas and learns that Evelyn’s future depends upon her first solving the murder of a Vegas showgirl.
Thankfully she has Louis and his sister, Tilda, to help her, but her own life is in danger as she tries to find the killer and change Evelyn’s fate.
What will she risk to save a life?
A page-turning, inventive time-hop mystery perfect for fans of Stuart Turton and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
The Author: Lisa Hall
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Sarah Lonsdale
Sarah Lonsdale
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Title: Rebel women between the wars: Fearless writers and adventurers
Genre: History
Format: Hardback
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The Book:
What did it mean to be a 'rebel woman' in the interwar years? Taking the form of a multiple biography, this book traces the struggles, passions and achievements of a set of 'recklessly determined' women who stopped at nothing to make their mark in the traditionally masculine spheres of mountaineering, politics, engineering and journalism. From the motorist Claudia Parsons to the 'star' reporter Margaret Lane, the mountaineer Dorothy Pilley and the journalist Shiela Grant Duff, the women charted in this book challenged the status quo in all walks of life, alongside writing vivid, eye-witness accounts of their adventures. Recovering their voices across a range of texts including novels, poems, journalism and diaries, Rebel women between the wars reveals their inch by inch gains won through courageous and sometimes controversial and dangerous actions.
The Author:
Dr Sarah Lonsdale has been a journalist for twenty five years, training on the Reading Chronicle before joining the Observer newspaper in 1990 as a general reporter. During her time on the Observer she specialised in stories concerning social justice. She is now freelance and has written for a wide variety of publications including: Observer, Financial Times, Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail, Independent on Sunday, Country Homes and Interiors Magazine, Observer Food Monthly, National Geographic Green and the Sunday Times. She was a weekly columnist for the Sunday Telegraph 2006 - 2015 writing about environmental issues, particularly the threat of climate change.
Dr Lonsdale holds a BA (Hons) and MA from the University of Cambridge in Modern and Medieval Languages (French and Italian). She recently completed her PhD, 'The Representation of Journalists and the Newspaper Press in British Literature 1900 - 1939' at the University of Kent. She holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE). She joined City University London in 2013 after six years as a lecturer at the University of Kent, teaching at the School of English and the Centre for Journalism there.
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Genre: History
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What did it mean to be a 'rebel woman' in the interwar years? Taking the form of a multiple biography, this book traces the struggles, passions and achievements of a set of 'recklessly determined' women who stopped at nothing to make their mark in the traditionally masculine spheres of mountaineering, politics, engineering and journalism. From the motorist Claudia Parsons to the 'star' reporter Margaret Lane, the mountaineer Dorothy Pilley and the journalist Shiela Grant Duff, the women charted in this book challenged the status quo in all walks of life, alongside writing vivid, eye-witness accounts of their adventures. Recovering their voices across a range of texts including novels, poems, journalism and diaries, Rebel women between the wars reveals their inch by inch gains won through courageous and sometimes controversial and dangerous actions.
The Author:
Dr Sarah Lonsdale has been a journalist for twenty five years, training on the Reading Chronicle before joining the Observer newspaper in 1990 as a general reporter. During her time on the Observer she specialised in stories concerning social justice. She is now freelance and has written for a wide variety of publications including: Observer, Financial Times, Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail, Independent on Sunday, Country Homes and Interiors Magazine, Observer Food Monthly, National Geographic Green and the Sunday Times. She was a weekly columnist for the Sunday Telegraph 2006 - 2015 writing about environmental issues, particularly the threat of climate change.
Dr Lonsdale holds a BA (Hons) and MA from the University of Cambridge in Modern and Medieval Languages (French and Italian). She recently completed her PhD, 'The Representation of Journalists and the Newspaper Press in British Literature 1900 - 1939' at the University of Kent. She holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE). She joined City University London in 2013 after six years as a lecturer at the University of Kent, teaching at the School of English and the Centre for Journalism there.
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Gillian Cross
Gillian Cross
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Book Title: The Demon Headmaster: Mortal Danger
Genre: Children’s adventure mystery
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THE NEWEST DEMON HEADMASTER ADVENTURE
Lizzie and Ethan think their school has seen the last of the Headmaster. He’s gone, and the new head teacher is brilliant. She’s even organised a competition to win an adventure trip to a remote island.
When Lizzie and her brother (and his robot) win a place on the trip, it seems as though everything is going right for them. But someone is waiting for them on the island. Someone very familiar, with a plan to take over again …
The Author:
Gillian Cross has been a successful author for many years. She has won the Carnegie medal, for 'Wolf'; the Smarties Prize and the Whitbread Children's Novel award, for 'The Great Elephant Chase' and her 'Demon Headmaster' books have been made into a successful television series. Gillian Cross is a great supporter of libraries and has served on several national committees and working parties in support ot these institutions. She lives in Warwickshire with her husband and family.
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THE NEWEST DEMON HEADMASTER ADVENTURE
Lizzie and Ethan think their school has seen the last of the Headmaster. He’s gone, and the new head teacher is brilliant. She’s even organised a competition to win an adventure trip to a remote island.
When Lizzie and her brother (and his robot) win a place on the trip, it seems as though everything is going right for them. But someone is waiting for them on the island. Someone very familiar, with a plan to take over again …
The Author:
Gillian Cross has been a successful author for many years. She has won the Carnegie medal, for 'Wolf'; the Smarties Prize and the Whitbread Children's Novel award, for 'The Great Elephant Chase' and her 'Demon Headmaster' books have been made into a successful television series. Gillian Cross is a great supporter of libraries and has served on several national committees and working parties in support ot these institutions. She lives in Warwickshire with her husband and family.
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Kate Wells
Kate Wells
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The Malvern Farm mystery series
Title 1: Murder on the farm
Title 2: Stranger in the village
Title 3: A body by the hen house
Genre: Crime
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Title 1: Murder on the farm
Lambing is a terrible time for a wedding.
It’s an even worse time for murder.
Jude Gray did not intend to show up at the church smelling of farm, but that's the world of lambing for you, and it's nothing her good friend Sarah can't fix with a quick spritz of perfume before the bride and groom notice.
When Sarah's body is found the next morning, Jude refuses to believe the official line and starts an investigation of her own.
Jude is no stranger to secrets and loss but the body count is rising and danger is creeping ever closer to the farm.
A killer is on the prowl. And all that stands in their way is one woman - and her dog!
Title 2: Stranger in the village
There are newcomers in Malvern End, and they have brought with them secrets, lies… and another body.
Jude Gray has worked hard to bring a steady equilibrium to life on Malvern Farm and things are going well.
The only fly in the ointment is the foul addition of a new face in the village: staunch townie and chauvinistic sleaze, Des Smith. Jude has nothing but sympathy for his caring, patient wife, Loretta, who has become a regular visitor to the farm for a cup of tea and a chat.
But things take a turn for the worse when a hit and run outside The Lamb brings death once again to the village. Is it an accident or is something more sinister afoot?
Perhaps the answer lies in the stranger with red trainers who’s been seen wandering through the village and through Jude’s fields at night. Following the clues, Jude desperately hopes she will find the right answers, because the murderer being someone close to her is unfathomable…
Title 3: A body by the hen house
Jude Gray’s farm is going from strength to strength, and even though her grumpy neighbour has concerns about the new campsite in the lower field, she is undeterred.
When a hen party arrives for a weekend away, she does her best to cater for their celebrations. But with a sheep needing urgent care – an accidental mishap or something more nefarious? – she finds herself consulting the group, which coincidentally contains four vets.
When one of the hens goes missing, it becomes clear there are more sinister forces at play, and someone is targeting her farm. With the help of close friend Detective Inspector Binnie Khatri, Jude once again dons her amateur sleuthing hat.
They uncover a web of deceit, affairs and rivalries, but will they find the perpetrator before events turn murderous?
The Author:
Kate Wells is the author of the Malvern Farm Mystery books which are inspired by her upbringing on the Worcestershire/Herefordshire border, and her time spent living and working on farms.
Kate is represented by Amanda Preston at LBA and the Malvern Farm series is published by Boldwood Books .
Kate often imagined running a sheep farm, especially when she married the son of a farmer. It wasn't to be though, so instead, she lives out her farming dreams through researching and writing her books.
These days Kate is frequently found in a field talking to the sheep, or out on the Malvern Hills walking her two border collie crosses.
Kate also writes for children and delivers creative writing workshops as Kate Poels.
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Title 1: Murder on the farm
Title 2: Stranger in the village
Title 3: A body by the hen house
Genre: Crime
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Title 1: Murder on the farm
Lambing is a terrible time for a wedding.
It’s an even worse time for murder.
Jude Gray did not intend to show up at the church smelling of farm, but that's the world of lambing for you, and it's nothing her good friend Sarah can't fix with a quick spritz of perfume before the bride and groom notice.
When Sarah's body is found the next morning, Jude refuses to believe the official line and starts an investigation of her own.
Jude is no stranger to secrets and loss but the body count is rising and danger is creeping ever closer to the farm.
A killer is on the prowl. And all that stands in their way is one woman - and her dog!
Title 2: Stranger in the village
There are newcomers in Malvern End, and they have brought with them secrets, lies… and another body.
Jude Gray has worked hard to bring a steady equilibrium to life on Malvern Farm and things are going well.
The only fly in the ointment is the foul addition of a new face in the village: staunch townie and chauvinistic sleaze, Des Smith. Jude has nothing but sympathy for his caring, patient wife, Loretta, who has become a regular visitor to the farm for a cup of tea and a chat.
But things take a turn for the worse when a hit and run outside The Lamb brings death once again to the village. Is it an accident or is something more sinister afoot?
Perhaps the answer lies in the stranger with red trainers who’s been seen wandering through the village and through Jude’s fields at night. Following the clues, Jude desperately hopes she will find the right answers, because the murderer being someone close to her is unfathomable…
Title 3: A body by the hen house
Jude Gray’s farm is going from strength to strength, and even though her grumpy neighbour has concerns about the new campsite in the lower field, she is undeterred.
When a hen party arrives for a weekend away, she does her best to cater for their celebrations. But with a sheep needing urgent care – an accidental mishap or something more nefarious? – she finds herself consulting the group, which coincidentally contains four vets.
When one of the hens goes missing, it becomes clear there are more sinister forces at play, and someone is targeting her farm. With the help of close friend Detective Inspector Binnie Khatri, Jude once again dons her amateur sleuthing hat.
They uncover a web of deceit, affairs and rivalries, but will they find the perpetrator before events turn murderous?
The Author:
Kate Wells is the author of the Malvern Farm Mystery books which are inspired by her upbringing on the Worcestershire/Herefordshire border, and her time spent living and working on farms.
Kate is represented by Amanda Preston at LBA and the Malvern Farm series is published by Boldwood Books .
Kate often imagined running a sheep farm, especially when she married the son of a farmer. It wasn't to be though, so instead, she lives out her farming dreams through researching and writing her books.
These days Kate is frequently found in a field talking to the sheep, or out on the Malvern Hills walking her two border collie crosses.
Kate also writes for children and delivers creative writing workshops as Kate Poels.
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Sarah J Hodder
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Book Title: Sisters of Richard III: The Plantagenet Daughters of York History
Genre: Historical non-fiction
Format: Hardback
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The Book:
This book is the narrative of three women of York, sisters to not one, but two kings of England. Anne, Elizabeth and Margaret Plantagenet were the daughters of Richard, Duke of York and his wife, Cecily Neville, and therefore sisters to Edward IV and Richard III. These women watched from the side lines as their father challenged England’s anointed king and lost his life, as their brothers fought together for the throne of England and then amongst themselves and as the Plantagenet dynasty fell, making way for the reign of the Tudors. But they were not just bystanders; they have their own story to tell. This is that story.
The Author:
SARAH J HODDER began her career as production manager for Shire Publications, a unique niche publisher that introduced her to an eclectic mix of subjects and encouraged her already well-founded love of books. After stepping away from the industry for a while to raise her daughter, she developed a passion for history, particularly the medieval and Tudor eras. Her focus is very much on social history, specialising in the lives of
women during this period. Currently Sarah works as a freelance copyeditor and proofreader for several different publishers. She is the author of The Woodville Women: 100 Years of Plantagenet
and Tudor History (Pen & Sword, 2022), Cecily Bonville-Grey (Chronos Books, 2022), The York Princesses (Chronos Books, 2021) and The Queen’s Sisters (Chronos Books, 2020).
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This book is the narrative of three women of York, sisters to not one, but two kings of England. Anne, Elizabeth and Margaret Plantagenet were the daughters of Richard, Duke of York and his wife, Cecily Neville, and therefore sisters to Edward IV and Richard III. These women watched from the side lines as their father challenged England’s anointed king and lost his life, as their brothers fought together for the throne of England and then amongst themselves and as the Plantagenet dynasty fell, making way for the reign of the Tudors. But they were not just bystanders; they have their own story to tell. This is that story.
The Author:
SARAH J HODDER began her career as production manager for Shire Publications, a unique niche publisher that introduced her to an eclectic mix of subjects and encouraged her already well-founded love of books. After stepping away from the industry for a while to raise her daughter, she developed a passion for history, particularly the medieval and Tudor eras. Her focus is very much on social history, specialising in the lives of
women during this period. Currently Sarah works as a freelance copyeditor and proofreader for several different publishers. She is the author of The Woodville Women: 100 Years of Plantagenet
and Tudor History (Pen & Sword, 2022), Cecily Bonville-Grey (Chronos Books, 2022), The York Princesses (Chronos Books, 2021) and The Queen’s Sisters (Chronos Books, 2020).
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Maria Oliver
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Book Title: Blue Penguins, Bells and Open Skies: even more imaginative relaxations for lively kids
Genre: Mindfulness and meditation for children
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The Book:
The third blissful book in Maria Oliver's Imaginative Relaxations for Lively Kids collection!
This time, find yourself floating into a book, through a cave of glow worms, or swimming as a little blue penguin! Imagine your inner fire glowing brightly, giving you the strength to face your worries, or finding yourself in a wood of glowing bluebells. Another collection of 15 short scenarios to help you and your child connect with your breath, appreciate the natural world, and find inner calm.
The Author:
Maria Oliver is a Hertfordshire based yoga teacher and member of the British Wheel of Yoga. She started teaching yoga in 2015, much to her children’s disgust, and spent the next few years trying to work out how to interest them in what she did. This changed when she started her children’s yoga teacher training with Calm for Kids, and she learnt how to spark children’s imaginations through yoga.
Maria is married with two children and two cats.
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The third blissful book in Maria Oliver's Imaginative Relaxations for Lively Kids collection!
This time, find yourself floating into a book, through a cave of glow worms, or swimming as a little blue penguin! Imagine your inner fire glowing brightly, giving you the strength to face your worries, or finding yourself in a wood of glowing bluebells. Another collection of 15 short scenarios to help you and your child connect with your breath, appreciate the natural world, and find inner calm.
The Author:
Maria Oliver is a Hertfordshire based yoga teacher and member of the British Wheel of Yoga. She started teaching yoga in 2015, much to her children’s disgust, and spent the next few years trying to work out how to interest them in what she did. This changed when she started her children’s yoga teacher training with Calm for Kids, and she learnt how to spark children’s imaginations through yoga.
Maria is married with two children and two cats.
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Ana Sampson
Ana Sampson
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Title: Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright: Much-Loved Poems You Half-Remember
Genre: Poetry
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
Great poetry 'finds its way to the hearts of many, not just the minds of the few', and this delightful collection is the ideal way to browse, remember and enjoy some of poetry's greatest hits.
The new hardback edition of the first poetry anthology from Ana Sampson, Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright contains verses from more than eighty of the world's favourite poets, from the thirteenth century to the present day.
It includes such leading lyricists as Burns, Keats, Tennyson, T. S. Eliot, Philip Larkin and Seamus Heaney – taking in the work of W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Wilfred Owen, and many others along the way.
Perfect to dip into on the reader's whim, the chapters cover childhood and youth, nature, love and romance, home and travel, elegies, and more – each poem set in context with a lively introduction and entertaining notes on the poets themselves.
This anthology is a lovely reminder of the nation's finest poems, and the perfect addition to any poetry lover's collection.
The Author:
I edit poetry anthologies for both children and adults and often give talks in bookshops, libraries, schools and at literary festivals about poetry, women’s writing and publishing (with my other hat on, I am a book publicist).
My collections - some of them bestsellers - have covered subjects including myths and legends, women’s poetry, the collections of the Natural History Museum, motherhood, cats, dogs and the countryside.
Poets are my rock stars. Choosing work I love and sharing it with readers is the best job in the world. And I believe that if you think you don’t like poetry, you just haven’t met the right poem yet…
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Genre: Poetry
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The Book;
Great poetry 'finds its way to the hearts of many, not just the minds of the few', and this delightful collection is the ideal way to browse, remember and enjoy some of poetry's greatest hits.
The new hardback edition of the first poetry anthology from Ana Sampson, Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright contains verses from more than eighty of the world's favourite poets, from the thirteenth century to the present day.
It includes such leading lyricists as Burns, Keats, Tennyson, T. S. Eliot, Philip Larkin and Seamus Heaney – taking in the work of W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Wilfred Owen, and many others along the way.
Perfect to dip into on the reader's whim, the chapters cover childhood and youth, nature, love and romance, home and travel, elegies, and more – each poem set in context with a lively introduction and entertaining notes on the poets themselves.
This anthology is a lovely reminder of the nation's finest poems, and the perfect addition to any poetry lover's collection.
The Author:
I edit poetry anthologies for both children and adults and often give talks in bookshops, libraries, schools and at literary festivals about poetry, women’s writing and publishing (with my other hat on, I am a book publicist).
My collections - some of them bestsellers - have covered subjects including myths and legends, women’s poetry, the collections of the Natural History Museum, motherhood, cats, dogs and the countryside.
Poets are my rock stars. Choosing work I love and sharing it with readers is the best job in the world. And I believe that if you think you don’t like poetry, you just haven’t met the right poem yet…
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Faith Hogan
Faith Hogan
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Book Title: The Bookshop Ladies
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
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From bestselling Irish writer, Faith Hogan, comes another gripping saga of friendship, betrayal and secrets in this story of a widow in search of answers to a shocking confession by her dying husband.
Joy Blackwood has no idea why her French art dealer husband has left a valuable painting to a woman called Robyn Tessier in Ballycove, a small town on the west coast of Ireland, but she is determined to find out.
She arrives in Ballycove to find that Robyn runs a rather chaotic and unprofitable bookshop. She is shy, suffering from unrequited love for dashing Kian, and badly in need of advice on how to make the bookshop successful.
As Joy becomes entangled in the daily dramas of Ballycove, uncovering the secrets behind her husband's painting grows increasingly challenging. When she finally musters the courage to confront the truth, her revelation sends shockwaves through the tight-knit community she's grown to love.
The Author:
Faith Hogan is an award-winning, million copy best selling author. She is a USA Today Bestseller, Irish Times Top Ten and an Amazon UK Number 1 Best Selling writer of ten contemporary fiction novels. Her books have featured as Book Club Favorites, Net Galley Hot Reads and Summer Must Reads. She writes grown up women's fiction which is unashamedly uplifting, feel-good and inspiring.
Her new summer read The Bookshop Ladies is out in June 2024 and it's a great big welcome back to Ballycove for her readers.
She writes twisty contemporary crime fiction as Geraldine Hogan.
She lives in the west of Ireland with her family and their Labrador named Penny. She's a writer, reader, enthusiastic dog walker and reluctant jogger - except of course when it is raining!
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Genre: Contemporary Fiction
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The Book:
From bestselling Irish writer, Faith Hogan, comes another gripping saga of friendship, betrayal and secrets in this story of a widow in search of answers to a shocking confession by her dying husband.
Joy Blackwood has no idea why her French art dealer husband has left a valuable painting to a woman called Robyn Tessier in Ballycove, a small town on the west coast of Ireland, but she is determined to find out.
She arrives in Ballycove to find that Robyn runs a rather chaotic and unprofitable bookshop. She is shy, suffering from unrequited love for dashing Kian, and badly in need of advice on how to make the bookshop successful.
As Joy becomes entangled in the daily dramas of Ballycove, uncovering the secrets behind her husband's painting grows increasingly challenging. When she finally musters the courage to confront the truth, her revelation sends shockwaves through the tight-knit community she's grown to love.
The Author:
Faith Hogan is an award-winning, million copy best selling author. She is a USA Today Bestseller, Irish Times Top Ten and an Amazon UK Number 1 Best Selling writer of ten contemporary fiction novels. Her books have featured as Book Club Favorites, Net Galley Hot Reads and Summer Must Reads. She writes grown up women's fiction which is unashamedly uplifting, feel-good and inspiring.
Her new summer read The Bookshop Ladies is out in June 2024 and it's a great big welcome back to Ballycove for her readers.
She writes twisty contemporary crime fiction as Geraldine Hogan.
She lives in the west of Ireland with her family and their Labrador named Penny. She's a writer, reader, enthusiastic dog walker and reluctant jogger - except of course when it is raining!
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Lora Davies
Lora Davies
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Title: Daughter Of The Shipwreck
Genre: Historical Fiction
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He kicked and struggled as his sister was carried out through the shallow water to one of the boats. The distance between them seemed to stretch out and out. There was nothing he could do. He cried out to her, his voice hoarse with tears, ‘I will find you! I promise!’
London, 1820: Nineteen-year-old orphan Mercy lives with her guardian and is working on the campaign to abolish slavery. On the other side of the city, a young sailor named Mat is scouring London in search of the men who kidnapped his sister many years before.
When he crosses paths with Mercy, he realises the little girl he had given up for dead is alive. Although he is overjoyed, this discovery destroys everything Mercy thought was true about the family she has lost. She’s been lied to.
Then the men Mat has been hunting are found dead, one after the other. With Mat implicated in their murders, it becomes clear someone is going to extraordinary lengths to keep the newly reunited siblings apart.
It is now up to Mercy to uncover the true culprit – before she loses her brother again forever. Even if it means uncovering a dark secret from their past. A secret someone will kill to protect.
The Author:
For as long as I can remember, I have been happiest with a book in my hands. From hiding under the covers with a torch as a small child so that I could stay up reading, to studying English at university so that I could get my hands on even more books - I guess it was only a matter of time before I went from reading books to writing them. It wasn't a straightforward path; my passion for gripping plots and rounded characters led me first to work as an actor and theatre director, but after a Creative Writing course at my local bookshop, I was hooked. After completing a Masters at Royal Holloway, University of London, I finished my first novel, Daughter of the Shipwreck. I live in Brighton where I get inspiration from the incredibly rich history of the city and the inspiring and beautiful natural environment.
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Genre: Historical Fiction
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He kicked and struggled as his sister was carried out through the shallow water to one of the boats. The distance between them seemed to stretch out and out. There was nothing he could do. He cried out to her, his voice hoarse with tears, ‘I will find you! I promise!’
London, 1820: Nineteen-year-old orphan Mercy lives with her guardian and is working on the campaign to abolish slavery. On the other side of the city, a young sailor named Mat is scouring London in search of the men who kidnapped his sister many years before.
When he crosses paths with Mercy, he realises the little girl he had given up for dead is alive. Although he is overjoyed, this discovery destroys everything Mercy thought was true about the family she has lost. She’s been lied to.
Then the men Mat has been hunting are found dead, one after the other. With Mat implicated in their murders, it becomes clear someone is going to extraordinary lengths to keep the newly reunited siblings apart.
It is now up to Mercy to uncover the true culprit – before she loses her brother again forever. Even if it means uncovering a dark secret from their past. A secret someone will kill to protect.
The Author:
For as long as I can remember, I have been happiest with a book in my hands. From hiding under the covers with a torch as a small child so that I could stay up reading, to studying English at university so that I could get my hands on even more books - I guess it was only a matter of time before I went from reading books to writing them. It wasn't a straightforward path; my passion for gripping plots and rounded characters led me first to work as an actor and theatre director, but after a Creative Writing course at my local bookshop, I was hooked. After completing a Masters at Royal Holloway, University of London, I finished my first novel, Daughter of the Shipwreck. I live in Brighton where I get inspiration from the incredibly rich history of the city and the inspiring and beautiful natural environment.
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Rosie Hannigan
Rosie Hannigan
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Book Title: The Sunrise Swimming Society
Genre: Contemporary Women's Fiction
Format: Paperback, First Edition
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A heartwarming novel to fall in love with
The day Heather, Niamh and Lauren met, they promised to be best friends for life, and that instant connection only grew stronger with their weekly sunrise swims in their stunning local lake. When they left school, they agreed that, no matter where life took them, every year on midsummer’s dawn, they would meet at their old spot and swim together.
Now, fifteen years later, the tradition has disappeared in the face of life’s realities. In fact, they don’t speak any more – not since that night . . .
But this summer, they find themselves back in their Irish hometown and realise this could be their last chance to recapture what they have lost. Will their return to sunrise swimming heal each of them, and help them rekindle the friendships they once treasured?
The Author:
Rosie Hannigan writes uplifting novels of friendship, love, and hope. When she's not writing, she enjoys gardening, where she listens to podcasts and ponders what it is that makes us human and how marvellous it is that we prevail no matter what we come up against. When she's not gardening, she's stargazing, usually with the love of her life by her side and a glass of red in her hand. And every now and then she hops on the back of her husband's motorbike in the hopes that the passing countryside will serve her some inspiration.
Rosie's debut novel, The Moonlight Gardening Club (Avon Books) was published on 20th April 2023 in e-book format and on 27th April 2023 in paperback.
Marian Keyes has called the novel 'sweet and heart-warming'; Hazel Gaynor said: “Full of warmth and heart, The Moonlight Gardening Club is an absolute delight. Ruby and Frankie are characters to really care for and will definitely inspire you to grab your wellies and get out into the garden! Rosie Hannigan is an exciting new voice in Irish fiction. I look forward to reading more from her!"
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Genre: Contemporary Women's Fiction
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A heartwarming novel to fall in love with
The day Heather, Niamh and Lauren met, they promised to be best friends for life, and that instant connection only grew stronger with their weekly sunrise swims in their stunning local lake. When they left school, they agreed that, no matter where life took them, every year on midsummer’s dawn, they would meet at their old spot and swim together.
Now, fifteen years later, the tradition has disappeared in the face of life’s realities. In fact, they don’t speak any more – not since that night . . .
But this summer, they find themselves back in their Irish hometown and realise this could be their last chance to recapture what they have lost. Will their return to sunrise swimming heal each of them, and help them rekindle the friendships they once treasured?
The Author:
Rosie Hannigan writes uplifting novels of friendship, love, and hope. When she's not writing, she enjoys gardening, where she listens to podcasts and ponders what it is that makes us human and how marvellous it is that we prevail no matter what we come up against. When she's not gardening, she's stargazing, usually with the love of her life by her side and a glass of red in her hand. And every now and then she hops on the back of her husband's motorbike in the hopes that the passing countryside will serve her some inspiration.
Rosie's debut novel, The Moonlight Gardening Club (Avon Books) was published on 20th April 2023 in e-book format and on 27th April 2023 in paperback.
Marian Keyes has called the novel 'sweet and heart-warming'; Hazel Gaynor said: “Full of warmth and heart, The Moonlight Gardening Club is an absolute delight. Ruby and Frankie are characters to really care for and will definitely inspire you to grab your wellies and get out into the garden! Rosie Hannigan is an exciting new voice in Irish fiction. I look forward to reading more from her!"
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Jenny Worstall
Jenny Worstall
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Book Title: Lost and Found
Genre: Sweet Regency Romance
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A sweet romance set in Regency Bath...
Captain Henry Templeton is missing after the battle of Waterloo, presumed dead. Six months later, a few weeks before Christmas, he returns secretly to his home city of Bath. He is desperate to declare himself to his childhood friend, Miss Kitty Honeyfield, but fears she will not be able to accept the man he has become after his shocking adventures. And until Henry has discovered the identity of the mysterious enemy who wishes him dead, he cannot risk exposing Kitty to danger.
Kitty is ecstatic to learn that the man she loves has survived. She longs for the romance with Henry she has always dreamt of – but will he still be interested in her after his experiences abroad? Besides, her father has made it clear he expects her to restore the family fortunes by marrying the odious Lord Steyne.
As friendship blossoms into love, Henry’s enemy emerges from the shadows with a wicked plan to separate the pair for ever...
The Author:
An avid reader, Jenny inherited the love of a good story from her Irish grandmother.
She writes romantic comedies that reflect both her love of music and a tendency not to take life too seriously.
Jenny is a member of the Society of Authors, the Romantic Novelists’ Association, and the Society of Women Writers and Journalists.
The three books in her Sweet Regency Romance series THE HEART OF BATH are all being published by Dragonblade Publishing this year (2024).
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The Book;
A sweet romance set in Regency Bath...
Captain Henry Templeton is missing after the battle of Waterloo, presumed dead. Six months later, a few weeks before Christmas, he returns secretly to his home city of Bath. He is desperate to declare himself to his childhood friend, Miss Kitty Honeyfield, but fears she will not be able to accept the man he has become after his shocking adventures. And until Henry has discovered the identity of the mysterious enemy who wishes him dead, he cannot risk exposing Kitty to danger.
Kitty is ecstatic to learn that the man she loves has survived. She longs for the romance with Henry she has always dreamt of – but will he still be interested in her after his experiences abroad? Besides, her father has made it clear he expects her to restore the family fortunes by marrying the odious Lord Steyne.
As friendship blossoms into love, Henry’s enemy emerges from the shadows with a wicked plan to separate the pair for ever...
The Author:
An avid reader, Jenny inherited the love of a good story from her Irish grandmother.
She writes romantic comedies that reflect both her love of music and a tendency not to take life too seriously.
Jenny is a member of the Society of Authors, the Romantic Novelists’ Association, and the Society of Women Writers and Journalists.
The three books in her Sweet Regency Romance series THE HEART OF BATH are all being published by Dragonblade Publishing this year (2024).
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Caroline James
Caroline James
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Book Title: The French Cookery School
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Format: Paperback, First Edition
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The recipe for a perfect summer…
Step 1: Mix together a group of mature students
Step 2: Add in a handsome host
Step 3: Season with a celebrity chef
Step 4: Bring to the boil at a luxurious cookery school in France!
Waltho Williams has no idea what he’s letting himself in for when he opens the doors to his beautiful French home, La Maison du Paradis. But with dwindling funds, a cookery school seems like the perfect business plan…
Divorcée caterer Caroline needs to be able stand on her own two feet. While warm-hearted Fran hopes to help her beloved husband fulfil his lifelong dream. And for food journalist Sally it’s a PR opportunity – until a certain celebrity chef gets under her skin…
But will the eclectic group be a recipe for success, or will the mismatched relationships sink like a souffle?
Whip out an apron, grab a wooden spoon and take a culinary trip to La Maison du Paradis…
‘A hilarious, heart-warming story of love and food … will have you laughing all the way to the pantry! Caroline has done it again!’ Celebrity chef Valentina Harris
The Author:
Caroline James always wanted to write, but instead of taking a literary route, followed a career in the hospitality industry, which included owning a pub and a beautiful country house hotel. She was also a media agent representing celebrity chefs. When she finally glued her rear to a chair and began to write, the words flowed, and several novels later, she gained many bestseller badges for her books.
Her Amazon Top Five bestseller, The Cruise, is described as: ‘Girl power for the over sixties!’ and The French Cookery School is her sparkling brand new novel.
Caroline’s hilarious novels include The Spa Break and The Best Boomerville Hotel, depicted as ‘Britain’s answer to the Best Marigold Hotel’.
She likes to write in Venus, her holiday home on wheels and in her spare time, walks with Fred, her Westie, or swims in a local lake. Caroline is a member of the Romantic Novelists Association, the SOA and the Society of Women’s Writers & Journalists and writes short stories and articles, contributing to many publications.
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Genre: Romantic Comedy
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The Book:
The recipe for a perfect summer…
Step 1: Mix together a group of mature students
Step 2: Add in a handsome host
Step 3: Season with a celebrity chef
Step 4: Bring to the boil at a luxurious cookery school in France!
Waltho Williams has no idea what he’s letting himself in for when he opens the doors to his beautiful French home, La Maison du Paradis. But with dwindling funds, a cookery school seems like the perfect business plan…
Divorcée caterer Caroline needs to be able stand on her own two feet. While warm-hearted Fran hopes to help her beloved husband fulfil his lifelong dream. And for food journalist Sally it’s a PR opportunity – until a certain celebrity chef gets under her skin…
But will the eclectic group be a recipe for success, or will the mismatched relationships sink like a souffle?
Whip out an apron, grab a wooden spoon and take a culinary trip to La Maison du Paradis…
‘A hilarious, heart-warming story of love and food … will have you laughing all the way to the pantry! Caroline has done it again!’ Celebrity chef Valentina Harris
The Author:
Caroline James always wanted to write, but instead of taking a literary route, followed a career in the hospitality industry, which included owning a pub and a beautiful country house hotel. She was also a media agent representing celebrity chefs. When she finally glued her rear to a chair and began to write, the words flowed, and several novels later, she gained many bestseller badges for her books.
Her Amazon Top Five bestseller, The Cruise, is described as: ‘Girl power for the over sixties!’ and The French Cookery School is her sparkling brand new novel.
Caroline’s hilarious novels include The Spa Break and The Best Boomerville Hotel, depicted as ‘Britain’s answer to the Best Marigold Hotel’.
She likes to write in Venus, her holiday home on wheels and in her spare time, walks with Fred, her Westie, or swims in a local lake. Caroline is a member of the Romantic Novelists Association, the SOA and the Society of Women’s Writers & Journalists and writes short stories and articles, contributing to many publications.
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Charlie Cochrane
Charlie Cochrane
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Book Title: And Nothing But the Truth
Genre: Cosy mystery
Format: First Edition Paperback
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Some truths don’t set you free.
The pandemic may be winding down, but for Chief Inspector Robin Bright, life never really goes back to normal. One second, he’s having breakfast with his adorable husband—and their equally adorable Newfoundland, Hamish—and the next, he gets the dreaded call: a body’s been found. What initially appears to be a mugging gone wrong turns out to be murder, and Robin is on the case.
Adam Matthews is happy to act as a sounding board—much as he tries not to get involved—but when Robin’s case intersects with a mystery from within their own family, he’s embroiled whether he likes it or not. Loquacious genealogists, secret pregnancies, and a potentially dubious inheritance all ensure that Adam won’t be doing his hundred-and-one headteacher tasks in peace anytime soon.
Lies pile onto lies, and the more the story changes, the more the killer is revealed. Without proof, however, Robin and his team are powerless, and the murderer isn’t the only one with something to hide. But Robin won’t stop until he’s found the whole truth, and nothing but.
The Author:
Because Charlie Cochrane couldn't be trusted to do anything grown up, she writes mysteries. These include the Edwardian era Cambridge Fellows series and the contemporary Lindenshaw Mysteries. Multi-published, she has titles with Carina, Riptide, Lume, and Williams and Whiting, among others.
Charlie is a member of the Crime Writers’ Association, Mystery People and International Thriller Writers Inc, and has regularly appeared at literary festivals, reader conventions and author conferences. In 2023, she was short listed for the CWA’s Marjorie Allingham short story prize.
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Genre: Cosy mystery
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The Book:
Some truths don’t set you free.
The pandemic may be winding down, but for Chief Inspector Robin Bright, life never really goes back to normal. One second, he’s having breakfast with his adorable husband—and their equally adorable Newfoundland, Hamish—and the next, he gets the dreaded call: a body’s been found. What initially appears to be a mugging gone wrong turns out to be murder, and Robin is on the case.
Adam Matthews is happy to act as a sounding board—much as he tries not to get involved—but when Robin’s case intersects with a mystery from within their own family, he’s embroiled whether he likes it or not. Loquacious genealogists, secret pregnancies, and a potentially dubious inheritance all ensure that Adam won’t be doing his hundred-and-one headteacher tasks in peace anytime soon.
Lies pile onto lies, and the more the story changes, the more the killer is revealed. Without proof, however, Robin and his team are powerless, and the murderer isn’t the only one with something to hide. But Robin won’t stop until he’s found the whole truth, and nothing but.
The Author:
Because Charlie Cochrane couldn't be trusted to do anything grown up, she writes mysteries. These include the Edwardian era Cambridge Fellows series and the contemporary Lindenshaw Mysteries. Multi-published, she has titles with Carina, Riptide, Lume, and Williams and Whiting, among others.
Charlie is a member of the Crime Writers’ Association, Mystery People and International Thriller Writers Inc, and has regularly appeared at literary festivals, reader conventions and author conferences. In 2023, she was short listed for the CWA’s Marjorie Allingham short story prize.
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Roz Watkins
Roz Watkins
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Book Title: The Red House
Genre: Thriller
Format: Hardback, First Edition
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IT WAS THE CRIME THAT SHOCKED A NATION.
The Flowers were the perfect family. Until the day fifteen-year-old Joseph shot dead his parents and baby brother whilst his younger sister Eve hid. The family home became known as ‘The Red House’, the place where the walls were covered in blood.
THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD THE KILLER.
No one knows why Joseph murdered his family: the following day he crashed his car and has been in a coma for two decades. Eve’s always known he did it; she saw the crime, after all.
WHAT IF THEY WERE WRONG?
Now an adult, Eve is forced to re-examine her memories when disturbing new evidence about the case comes to light. Rumour has it that Joseph created a hidden level in his game that night, which might hold the key.
But if Joseph didn’t do it, then the killer’s still out there – and they’re coming back for the girl who escaped. . .
The Author:
Roz Watkins is the author of the DI Meg Dalton crime series and the standalone thriller, 'The Red House'.
Her first book, The Devil's Dice, was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger Award, was the Times crime book of the month, and was optioned for TV.
Roz studied Engineering and History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University, before training in patent law. She was a partner in a firm of patent attorneys in Derby, but this has absolutely nothing to do with there being a dead one in her first novel. She is also an animal trainer and a qualified hypnotherapist, which provides plenty of scope for coming up with interesting murders!
Roz now lives in Cornwall and is a Royal Literary Fund fellow, helping students with their writing at the University of Exeter in Penryn.
She spends much of her time being ordered around by two very demanding cats, and also likes to walk on the coast, scouting out murder locations.
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Genre: Thriller
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The Book:
IT WAS THE CRIME THAT SHOCKED A NATION.
The Flowers were the perfect family. Until the day fifteen-year-old Joseph shot dead his parents and baby brother whilst his younger sister Eve hid. The family home became known as ‘The Red House’, the place where the walls were covered in blood.
THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD THE KILLER.
No one knows why Joseph murdered his family: the following day he crashed his car and has been in a coma for two decades. Eve’s always known he did it; she saw the crime, after all.
WHAT IF THEY WERE WRONG?
Now an adult, Eve is forced to re-examine her memories when disturbing new evidence about the case comes to light. Rumour has it that Joseph created a hidden level in his game that night, which might hold the key.
But if Joseph didn’t do it, then the killer’s still out there – and they’re coming back for the girl who escaped. . .
The Author:
Roz Watkins is the author of the DI Meg Dalton crime series and the standalone thriller, 'The Red House'.
Her first book, The Devil's Dice, was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger Award, was the Times crime book of the month, and was optioned for TV.
Roz studied Engineering and History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University, before training in patent law. She was a partner in a firm of patent attorneys in Derby, but this has absolutely nothing to do with there being a dead one in her first novel. She is also an animal trainer and a qualified hypnotherapist, which provides plenty of scope for coming up with interesting murders!
Roz now lives in Cornwall and is a Royal Literary Fund fellow, helping students with their writing at the University of Exeter in Penryn.
She spends much of her time being ordered around by two very demanding cats, and also likes to walk on the coast, scouting out murder locations.
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Natalie Hibberd
Natalie Hibberd
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Two Book Special
Title 1: Inside Out
Title 2: Family Ties
Genre: Young Adult - Science Fiction
Format: Paperbacks
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Website: https://www.nataliehibberdauthor.co.uk
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Book 1 Blurb: Inside Out
In a divisive world of mistrust and murder, there's only one thing that matters growing up: you're either in The Inside or The Outside.
While the Insiders appear pampered and privileged, the Outsiders know only harsh realities. Believing themselves to be needlessly deprived of everything the Insiders have, the younger generation channel their rage into a terrorist group called The Freedom Fighters, a group intent on overthrowing the Inside at any cost. Now the Insiders must watch as the world they love collapses around them while the government resort to increasingly desperate tactics to try and contain the Outside threat. When the latest initiative catapults one of the young into the heart of the war, everything is pushed to breaking point.
Book 2 Blurb: Family Ties
In a divisive world of mistrust and murder, there's only one thing that matters growing up: you're either in The Inside or The Outside. In a desperate attempt to regain control of a flailing society, the Inside government have deployed an unlikely spy, sixteen year old Layna, to work her way into the heart of Outside resistance group - the Freedom Fighters. Having ingratiated herself with the top-ranking soldiers, Layna is discovering that the hardest part of her job is only just beginning.
Back on The Inside, the teenage residents are learning to juggle jealousy, heartache and potentially explosive secrets. Little do they know, the pangs of adolescence are about to be joined by far more adult concerns. Storm clouds are gathering on the horizons of this fractured world, and when lightning strikes, nothing will ever be the same.
In the long-awaited sequel to the award-winning Inside Out the stakes have been raised and all those involved are about to learn that danger is closer to home than any of them can imagine.
Author Bio:
Natalie Hibberd has wanted to be an author since she was two years old and wrote the first draft of my debut novel - Inside Out - between the ages of twelve and fourteen. She achieved her dreams of publication in spite of both Cerebral Palsy and Depression. She lives in Hampshire with her mum, dad and right-hand dog Cleo.
Title 1: Inside Out
Title 2: Family Ties
Genre: Young Adult - Science Fiction
Format: Paperbacks
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Postage & Packaging: FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only
Website: https://www.nataliehibberdauthor.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NatalieHibberd
Book 1 Blurb: Inside Out
In a divisive world of mistrust and murder, there's only one thing that matters growing up: you're either in The Inside or The Outside.
While the Insiders appear pampered and privileged, the Outsiders know only harsh realities. Believing themselves to be needlessly deprived of everything the Insiders have, the younger generation channel their rage into a terrorist group called The Freedom Fighters, a group intent on overthrowing the Inside at any cost. Now the Insiders must watch as the world they love collapses around them while the government resort to increasingly desperate tactics to try and contain the Outside threat. When the latest initiative catapults one of the young into the heart of the war, everything is pushed to breaking point.
Book 2 Blurb: Family Ties
In a divisive world of mistrust and murder, there's only one thing that matters growing up: you're either in The Inside or The Outside. In a desperate attempt to regain control of a flailing society, the Inside government have deployed an unlikely spy, sixteen year old Layna, to work her way into the heart of Outside resistance group - the Freedom Fighters. Having ingratiated herself with the top-ranking soldiers, Layna is discovering that the hardest part of her job is only just beginning.
Back on The Inside, the teenage residents are learning to juggle jealousy, heartache and potentially explosive secrets. Little do they know, the pangs of adolescence are about to be joined by far more adult concerns. Storm clouds are gathering on the horizons of this fractured world, and when lightning strikes, nothing will ever be the same.
In the long-awaited sequel to the award-winning Inside Out the stakes have been raised and all those involved are about to learn that danger is closer to home than any of them can imagine.
Author Bio:
Natalie Hibberd has wanted to be an author since she was two years old and wrote the first draft of my debut novel - Inside Out - between the ages of twelve and fourteen. She achieved her dreams of publication in spite of both Cerebral Palsy and Depression. She lives in Hampshire with her mum, dad and right-hand dog Cleo.
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Virginia Crow
Virginia Crow
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Book Title: Haunting Whispers of Highland Waters
Genre: Literary Fiction
Format: Hardback
Signed: Yes, dedication available
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The Book:
There is nothing usual about Zip Cooper.
So it’s little surprise that Zip’s tour of the Highlands with Irene, his wife, is far more than a roadtrip. Both are embarking on an adventure to unite them with the soul of the landscape.
And it is this landscape which will reveal their full potential.
Commissioned by the Spirit of the Highlands creative initiative, Haunting Whispers of Highland Waters is a spiritual journey into the very heart of the Scottish Highlands. This book draws from seven of the Spirit:360 stories to bring to life a "love story between people and places".
The Author:
Virginia Crow is an award-winning Scottish author who grew up in Orkney and now lives in Caithness. She comes from a large family of writers and readers, and has been surrounded by books her whole life. Her favourite genres to write are fantasy and historical fiction, sometimes mixing the two together. She enjoys swashbuckling stories, her favourite book being The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and she is still waiting for a screen adaption that lives up to it! Her academic passions are theology and history, her undergraduate degree in the former and her postgraduate degree in the latter, and aspects of these frequently appear within her writings.
When not writing, Virginia is usually to be found teaching music. She believes wholeheartedly in the power of music, especially as a tool of inspiration, and music is often playing when she writes. Her life is governed by two spaniels, Orlando and Jess, and she enjoys exploring the Caithness countryside with these canine sidekicks.
She loves cheese, music, and films, but hates mushrooms.
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Genre: Literary Fiction
Format: Hardback
Signed: Yes, dedication available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book:
There is nothing usual about Zip Cooper.
So it’s little surprise that Zip’s tour of the Highlands with Irene, his wife, is far more than a roadtrip. Both are embarking on an adventure to unite them with the soul of the landscape.
And it is this landscape which will reveal their full potential.
Commissioned by the Spirit of the Highlands creative initiative, Haunting Whispers of Highland Waters is a spiritual journey into the very heart of the Scottish Highlands. This book draws from seven of the Spirit:360 stories to bring to life a "love story between people and places".
The Author:
Virginia Crow is an award-winning Scottish author who grew up in Orkney and now lives in Caithness. She comes from a large family of writers and readers, and has been surrounded by books her whole life. Her favourite genres to write are fantasy and historical fiction, sometimes mixing the two together. She enjoys swashbuckling stories, her favourite book being The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas and she is still waiting for a screen adaption that lives up to it! Her academic passions are theology and history, her undergraduate degree in the former and her postgraduate degree in the latter, and aspects of these frequently appear within her writings.
When not writing, Virginia is usually to be found teaching music. She believes wholeheartedly in the power of music, especially as a tool of inspiration, and music is often playing when she writes. Her life is governed by two spaniels, Orlando and Jess, and she enjoys exploring the Caithness countryside with these canine sidekicks.
She loves cheese, music, and films, but hates mushrooms.
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Jenny Kane
Jenny Kane
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Title: Summer at Sea Glass Cove
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperback
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Welcome to Sea Glass Cove!
Marine archaeologist Lauren Sunshine is used to life on the go. Her suitcase is always packed ready to explore the country's underwater heritage so when a shipwreck is found off the Dorset coast, she is thrilled to be leading the excavation team.
Philippa Silver, 'Phil' to the folk of Sea Glass Cove, has devoted her life to the Museum by the Sea. But funding is tight, and despite subletting half of the museum to her best friend Jules's sea glass shop, she fears for the museum's future.
Phil hopes the wreck discovery could bring more visitors, but there's a problem - the museum's too small to house its treasures. Thankfully, new friend Lauren seems as determined as she is to save the museum.
But, when Phil's brother Ollie catches Lauren's eye, she begins to wonder if she has more than one reason to be interested in life at Sea Glass Cove..
The Author:
Usually to be found within range of plate of hot buttered toast, a huge mug of black coffee, and a with a bar of emergency chocolate tucked in her jacket pocket, Jenny Kane spends her days in her local café typing away...
Inspired by everything and anything, Jenny combines her past experiences as an archaeologist, university tutor, cheese seller, newsagent, Welsh hat maker, Robin Hood obsessive, and data clerk, with the sights and sounds of everyday life, to weave tales of relaxingly relatable romance.
Look out for the brand new #MillGrange series - including Midsummer Dreams at Mill Grange - and the forthcoming, Autumn Leaves at Mill Grange and Spring Blossom at Mill Grange.
Jenny's Cornish novels - A Cornish Escape and A Cornish Wedding have received fabulous reviews and her romcom, Another Cup of Coffee, was a long time bestseller - as were its sequels - Another Cup of Christmas, Christmas in the Cotswolds, Christmas at the Castle and Another Glass of Champagne.
Jenny also writes historical mysteries under the name of Jennifer Ash.
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Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Welcome to Sea Glass Cove!
Marine archaeologist Lauren Sunshine is used to life on the go. Her suitcase is always packed ready to explore the country's underwater heritage so when a shipwreck is found off the Dorset coast, she is thrilled to be leading the excavation team.
Philippa Silver, 'Phil' to the folk of Sea Glass Cove, has devoted her life to the Museum by the Sea. But funding is tight, and despite subletting half of the museum to her best friend Jules's sea glass shop, she fears for the museum's future.
Phil hopes the wreck discovery could bring more visitors, but there's a problem - the museum's too small to house its treasures. Thankfully, new friend Lauren seems as determined as she is to save the museum.
But, when Phil's brother Ollie catches Lauren's eye, she begins to wonder if she has more than one reason to be interested in life at Sea Glass Cove..
The Author:
Usually to be found within range of plate of hot buttered toast, a huge mug of black coffee, and a with a bar of emergency chocolate tucked in her jacket pocket, Jenny Kane spends her days in her local café typing away...
Inspired by everything and anything, Jenny combines her past experiences as an archaeologist, university tutor, cheese seller, newsagent, Welsh hat maker, Robin Hood obsessive, and data clerk, with the sights and sounds of everyday life, to weave tales of relaxingly relatable romance.
Look out for the brand new #MillGrange series - including Midsummer Dreams at Mill Grange - and the forthcoming, Autumn Leaves at Mill Grange and Spring Blossom at Mill Grange.
Jenny's Cornish novels - A Cornish Escape and A Cornish Wedding have received fabulous reviews and her romcom, Another Cup of Coffee, was a long time bestseller - as were its sequels - Another Cup of Christmas, Christmas in the Cotswolds, Christmas at the Castle and Another Glass of Champagne.
Jenny also writes historical mysteries under the name of Jennifer Ash.
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Richard Pickard
Richard Pickard
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Two Book Package
Title 1: The Peculiar Tale of the Tentacle Boy
Genre: Y/A
Format: Paperback
Title 1: Son of the Sea
Genre: Y/A
Format: Paperback
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Postage & Packaging; FREE
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Book 1 Blurb:
Marina lives in Merlington, a fish-obsessed seaside town. Unfortunately, she doesn't care for fish; she loves telling stories.
Marina finds her best story yet when she explores the ruined, haunted pier: a boy called William with a head of tentacles and crab claws for hands. He has lived on the pier all his life, cared for by a fisherman who has since disappeared and who warned him always to remain hidden.
Together, the pair resolve to unravel the mystery of his past – but danger isn't far away ...
The debut novel by Richard Pickard, a fresh new voice in children's fiction and winner of the Times/Chicken House Chairman's Choice Award 2019.
A funny, dark, core middle-grade story touching on themes of lies, storytelling, secrets, acceptance and, of course, fish!
Perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and Edward Scissorhands!
Book 2 Blurb:
HIS FEET WERE THE FIRST CLUE ...
Casper dreams of swimming the Channel. Surely, he was born to use his webbed toes ... Instead, he's strictly forbidden to go near water.
When his parents have an unlucky accident, Casper is sent to stay with a grandmother he's never met - where he discovers his special tie to the sea ...
From the acclaimed author of The Peculiar Tale of the Tentacle Boy – winner of the Times/Chicken House Competition Chairman's Choice Award
Packed full of magical realism, humour, LGBTQ+ representation and a message of acceptance
Perfect for readers aged 9 and up
Author Bio:
Richard's debut novel, The Peculiar Tale of the Tentacle Boy, won the inaugural Times/Chicken House Chairman's Choice Award in 2019 and was longlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2022. His love of storytelling started at a young age, through a passion for literature but also for cinema. Two of his greatest childhood influences were Roald Dahl and Tim Burton, who both possess a wickedly dark sense of humour.
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Title 1: The Peculiar Tale of the Tentacle Boy
Genre: Y/A
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Title 1: Son of the Sea
Genre: Y/A
Format: Paperback
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Book 1 Blurb:
Marina lives in Merlington, a fish-obsessed seaside town. Unfortunately, she doesn't care for fish; she loves telling stories.
Marina finds her best story yet when she explores the ruined, haunted pier: a boy called William with a head of tentacles and crab claws for hands. He has lived on the pier all his life, cared for by a fisherman who has since disappeared and who warned him always to remain hidden.
Together, the pair resolve to unravel the mystery of his past – but danger isn't far away ...
The debut novel by Richard Pickard, a fresh new voice in children's fiction and winner of the Times/Chicken House Chairman's Choice Award 2019.
A funny, dark, core middle-grade story touching on themes of lies, storytelling, secrets, acceptance and, of course, fish!
Perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and Edward Scissorhands!
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HIS FEET WERE THE FIRST CLUE ...
Casper dreams of swimming the Channel. Surely, he was born to use his webbed toes ... Instead, he's strictly forbidden to go near water.
When his parents have an unlucky accident, Casper is sent to stay with a grandmother he's never met - where he discovers his special tie to the sea ...
From the acclaimed author of The Peculiar Tale of the Tentacle Boy – winner of the Times/Chicken House Competition Chairman's Choice Award
Packed full of magical realism, humour, LGBTQ+ representation and a message of acceptance
Perfect for readers aged 9 and up
Author Bio:
Richard's debut novel, The Peculiar Tale of the Tentacle Boy, won the inaugural Times/Chicken House Chairman's Choice Award in 2019 and was longlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2022. His love of storytelling started at a young age, through a passion for literature but also for cinema. Two of his greatest childhood influences were Roald Dahl and Tim Burton, who both possess a wickedly dark sense of humour.
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Stacey Thomas
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Book title: The Revels
Genre: Historical fiction
Format: Paperback
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England, 1645.
After his half-brother dies, aspiring playwright Nicholas Pearce is apprenticed to Judge William Percival, an infamous former witch-hunter who is under pressure to resume his old profession.
In a country torn apart by civil war, with escalating tensions between Catholics and Protestants, Royalists and Roundheads, and rumours of witchcraft, Nicholas hides a secret: the dead sing. He hears their secrets, but will he find the courage to speak up and save innocent lives, even if it means putting himself in great danger?
The Author:
Stacey Thomas was born in Paddington, home to Paddington Bear and the Puppet Theatre Barge. She is a contributor to Bad Form Review and an alumna of the Curtis Brown Creative novel writing course. The Revels is her debut novel.
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Genre: Historical fiction
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England, 1645.
After his half-brother dies, aspiring playwright Nicholas Pearce is apprenticed to Judge William Percival, an infamous former witch-hunter who is under pressure to resume his old profession.
In a country torn apart by civil war, with escalating tensions between Catholics and Protestants, Royalists and Roundheads, and rumours of witchcraft, Nicholas hides a secret: the dead sing. He hears their secrets, but will he find the courage to speak up and save innocent lives, even if it means putting himself in great danger?
The Author:
Stacey Thomas was born in Paddington, home to Paddington Bear and the Puppet Theatre Barge. She is a contributor to Bad Form Review and an alumna of the Curtis Brown Creative novel writing course. The Revels is her debut novel.
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Holly Seddon
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Book Title: The Short Straw
Genre: Thriller
Format: Hardback First Edition
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The Book :
‘An intensely readable and gripping page turner’ - Alex Michaelides, author of THE SILENT PATIENT
One sister went out into the dark for help. Will she come back?
Returning from a difficult visit to their father, three sisters find themselves lost in a storm. Together, they seek safety in an abandoned manor house, a place where they spent a troubled childhood clinging to each other for support, before one day fleeing with their parents in the dead of night.
As the storm intensifies, the sisters draw straws to decide who should go outside to get help. But as they separate, they realise they might not be alone. . . Why did the family leave so suddenly all those years ago? Who else is hiding in the house? And will the sisters survive the night?
The Author:
Holly Seddon is the international bestselling author of TRY NOT TO BREATHE, DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES, LOVE WILL TEAR US APART, THE HIT LIST, THE WOMAN ON THE BRIDGE and THE SHORT STRAW.
After a childhood spent moving around the English countryside and obsessing over books and music, she later became a journalist and editor. She has lived in London and Amsterdam and now lives in Kent with her family. She has an MA in Creative Writing.
Alongside fellow author Gillian McAllister, Holly co-hosts the popular Honest Authors Podcast.
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Genre: Thriller
Format: Hardback First Edition
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The Book :
‘An intensely readable and gripping page turner’ - Alex Michaelides, author of THE SILENT PATIENT
One sister went out into the dark for help. Will she come back?
Returning from a difficult visit to their father, three sisters find themselves lost in a storm. Together, they seek safety in an abandoned manor house, a place where they spent a troubled childhood clinging to each other for support, before one day fleeing with their parents in the dead of night.
As the storm intensifies, the sisters draw straws to decide who should go outside to get help. But as they separate, they realise they might not be alone. . . Why did the family leave so suddenly all those years ago? Who else is hiding in the house? And will the sisters survive the night?
The Author:
Holly Seddon is the international bestselling author of TRY NOT TO BREATHE, DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES, LOVE WILL TEAR US APART, THE HIT LIST, THE WOMAN ON THE BRIDGE and THE SHORT STRAW.
After a childhood spent moving around the English countryside and obsessing over books and music, she later became a journalist and editor. She has lived in London and Amsterdam and now lives in Kent with her family. She has an MA in Creative Writing.
Alongside fellow author Gillian McAllister, Holly co-hosts the popular Honest Authors Podcast.
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Cath Staincliffe
Cath Staincliffe
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Book Title: Running out of Road
Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
A missing schoolgirl, a middle-aged recluse, an exploited teenager. Lives thrown into chaos and set on collision course. Eleven-year-old Scarlet is abducted by her estranged father and driven up into the hills with the police in hot pursuit. It’s a race against time played out in the brooding wilderness, the limestone gorges and gritstone edges of the Derbyshire Peaks.
The Author:
Cath Staincliffe is a best-selling, award-winning novelist, radio playwright and creator of ITV’s hit series Blue Murder. Cath has been shortlisted six times for the prestigious CWA Daggers. Running out of Road was short-listed for the CrimeFest eDunnit Award best novel 2022. Cath’s debut series, the Sal Kilkenny mysteries, launched single-parent PI Sal onto Manchester’s mean streets. Cath’s standalone titles examine the human impact of crime on ordinary families, giving a voice to victims, the bereaved, survivors and witnesses. Her new series The Fells (Detectives Donovan and Young) uncovers a dark secret, buried deep beneath the Yorkshire Dales.
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Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
A missing schoolgirl, a middle-aged recluse, an exploited teenager. Lives thrown into chaos and set on collision course. Eleven-year-old Scarlet is abducted by her estranged father and driven up into the hills with the police in hot pursuit. It’s a race against time played out in the brooding wilderness, the limestone gorges and gritstone edges of the Derbyshire Peaks.
The Author:
Cath Staincliffe is a best-selling, award-winning novelist, radio playwright and creator of ITV’s hit series Blue Murder. Cath has been shortlisted six times for the prestigious CWA Daggers. Running out of Road was short-listed for the CrimeFest eDunnit Award best novel 2022. Cath’s debut series, the Sal Kilkenny mysteries, launched single-parent PI Sal onto Manchester’s mean streets. Cath’s standalone titles examine the human impact of crime on ordinary families, giving a voice to victims, the bereaved, survivors and witnesses. Her new series The Fells (Detectives Donovan and Young) uncovers a dark secret, buried deep beneath the Yorkshire Dales.
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Kevin Ansbro
Kevin Ansbro
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Book title: In the Shadow of Time
Genre: science fiction; magical realism; time travel
Format: paperback
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The book:
“I was in Mexico City for three months, and yet returned to England on the same day that I left…”
Through her time-travel research, physicist Dr Sofia Ustinova has attracted the interest of higher beings from a distant galaxy…
Luna, a porcelain-skinned teenager, lives alone in a Danish forest where she guards an astonishing secret…
Pablo, an optimistic shoeshine boy, struggles to earn a living on the sweltering streets of Mexico City…
Meanwhile, Hugo Wilde, a British secret agent, embarks on a mission to kill a Russian assassin, unaware that his life is about to change in ways he could never have imagined…
Author bio:
I was born of Irish parents, and have also lived in Malaysia and Germany.
My formal education was at Hamond's Grammar School in Swaffham, and at the Norfolk College of Arts and Technology (Stephen Fry being a much more famous former student).
I write in the magical realism genre, meshing otherworldliness into the harshness of our real world. I also like to handcuff humour and tragedy to the same radiator.
Perhaps incongruously for an author, I have a background in karate and kickboxing and travel extensively - particularly in the Far East.
I'm married (to Julie) and currently live in Norwich, England.
Stuff about me: I'm a foodie and an avid reader who values good manners, love and friendship above all else. I am constantly putting my foot in it, am reputed to have a wicked sense of humour and love to laugh, but sometimes do that 'snorty pig' noise when I do.
I'm also easy-going and extremely friendly. So, come on over for a chat — I'll put the kettle on!
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Genre: science fiction; magical realism; time travel
Format: paperback
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Bids accepted: Worldwide
The book:
“I was in Mexico City for three months, and yet returned to England on the same day that I left…”
Through her time-travel research, physicist Dr Sofia Ustinova has attracted the interest of higher beings from a distant galaxy…
Luna, a porcelain-skinned teenager, lives alone in a Danish forest where she guards an astonishing secret…
Pablo, an optimistic shoeshine boy, struggles to earn a living on the sweltering streets of Mexico City…
Meanwhile, Hugo Wilde, a British secret agent, embarks on a mission to kill a Russian assassin, unaware that his life is about to change in ways he could never have imagined…
Author bio:
I was born of Irish parents, and have also lived in Malaysia and Germany.
My formal education was at Hamond's Grammar School in Swaffham, and at the Norfolk College of Arts and Technology (Stephen Fry being a much more famous former student).
I write in the magical realism genre, meshing otherworldliness into the harshness of our real world. I also like to handcuff humour and tragedy to the same radiator.
Perhaps incongruously for an author, I have a background in karate and kickboxing and travel extensively - particularly in the Far East.
I'm married (to Julie) and currently live in Norwich, England.
Stuff about me: I'm a foodie and an avid reader who values good manners, love and friendship above all else. I am constantly putting my foot in it, am reputed to have a wicked sense of humour and love to laugh, but sometimes do that 'snorty pig' noise when I do.
I'm also easy-going and extremely friendly. So, come on over for a chat — I'll put the kettle on!
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Pam Lecky
Pam Lecky
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Book Title: Under A Lightning Sky
Genre: Historical suspense
Format: Paperback
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London is under attack. But within the rubble, a greater danger lurks
The Luftwaffe has been bombing London continuously since September 1940.
During a bombing raid, Madeline Fairfax is caught in her kitchen whilst cooking for her husband and children. She becomes trapped in the rear of her home, but regains consciousness just in time to see a familiar face, offering hope of rescue. But instead, Madeline is tragically strangled to death.
As a dangerous murderer uses the Blitz to cover their crime, local detective Jamie Barton enlists the help of Madeline’s sister and volunteer firefighter, Penny Miller to help. Now, caught in a web of uncertainty and mistrust, a grieving Penny must find the truth and do whatever it takes to protect those she loves most.
Together, will they unravel this case before it's too late…?
A gripping and completely addictive page-turner set in World War Two London during the Blitz. Perfect for fans of Suzanne Goldring and Kate Quinn.
The Author:
Pam is an Irish historical fiction author with Avon Books UK and Storm Publishing. She is represented by Therese Coen at Susanna Lea Associates Literary Agency, London. Pam is a member of the Historical Novel Society, The Crime Writers' Association and the Society of Authors.
Her Secret War, her Irish WW2 thriller, was released in October 2021, gaining a best seller badge in the US. The sequel, Her Last Betrayal, was released in April 2022 and also gained bestseller status. The third book in the series, The Last Letter from London, was published in August 2023. Her standalone police procedural/murder mystery, Under a Lightning Sky, set during the Blitz in London, was published on July 4th 2024.
Early in 2024, Pam was delighted to announce that Storm Publishing have bought the rights to her popular Victorian mystery series, The Lucy Lawrence Mysteries. The first three books were re-launched in July 2024, with a new fourth book slated for publication in September 2024.
The Bowes Inheritance, her debut novel, was awarded the B.R.A.G. Medallion; was shortlisted for the Carousel Aware Prize 2016; made 'Editor's Choice' by the Historical Novel Society; long-listed for the Historical Novel Society 2016 Indie Award; and chosen as a Discovered Diamond in February 2017.
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Genre: Historical suspense
Format: Paperback
Signed: Yes, dedication is Available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book:
London is under attack. But within the rubble, a greater danger lurks
The Luftwaffe has been bombing London continuously since September 1940.
During a bombing raid, Madeline Fairfax is caught in her kitchen whilst cooking for her husband and children. She becomes trapped in the rear of her home, but regains consciousness just in time to see a familiar face, offering hope of rescue. But instead, Madeline is tragically strangled to death.
As a dangerous murderer uses the Blitz to cover their crime, local detective Jamie Barton enlists the help of Madeline’s sister and volunteer firefighter, Penny Miller to help. Now, caught in a web of uncertainty and mistrust, a grieving Penny must find the truth and do whatever it takes to protect those she loves most.
Together, will they unravel this case before it's too late…?
A gripping and completely addictive page-turner set in World War Two London during the Blitz. Perfect for fans of Suzanne Goldring and Kate Quinn.
The Author:
Pam is an Irish historical fiction author with Avon Books UK and Storm Publishing. She is represented by Therese Coen at Susanna Lea Associates Literary Agency, London. Pam is a member of the Historical Novel Society, The Crime Writers' Association and the Society of Authors.
Her Secret War, her Irish WW2 thriller, was released in October 2021, gaining a best seller badge in the US. The sequel, Her Last Betrayal, was released in April 2022 and also gained bestseller status. The third book in the series, The Last Letter from London, was published in August 2023. Her standalone police procedural/murder mystery, Under a Lightning Sky, set during the Blitz in London, was published on July 4th 2024.
Early in 2024, Pam was delighted to announce that Storm Publishing have bought the rights to her popular Victorian mystery series, The Lucy Lawrence Mysteries. The first three books were re-launched in July 2024, with a new fourth book slated for publication in September 2024.
The Bowes Inheritance, her debut novel, was awarded the B.R.A.G. Medallion; was shortlisted for the Carousel Aware Prize 2016; made 'Editor's Choice' by the Historical Novel Society; long-listed for the Historical Novel Society 2016 Indie Award; and chosen as a Discovered Diamond in February 2017.
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Clare Flynn
Clare Flynn
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Title: The Artist’s Apprentice
Genre: Historical Fiction - Romance
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In this heart-wrenching and utterly spellbinding story of love and artistic ambition, a young woman fights to be true to herself in a world where duty, money and class jeopardise her dreams.
England, 1908: Alice Dalton never intended to rebel against her aristocratic parents. But after her father’s failed attempt to arrange a marriage for her with Edmund Cutler, son of a wealthy stockbroker, she flees the family home humiliated – and determined to make a life for herself as an independent woman, however hard that might be.
When a chance opportunity leads to her taking a position as a stained-glass artist’s apprentice, Alice is stunned when she meets the man she’ll be working for: the hateful Edmund Cutler. It seems he too has turned his back on his family and has followed his passion for art, and at terrible cost.
But as they work together, mixing paints and composing their stained-glass window commissions side by side, she finds herself softening towards him, and can’t ignore the sparks that fly between them. With family conflict brewing and war on the horizon, soon Alice finds that loving Edmund proves the hardest fight, and greatest adventure, of her life.
The Author:
Clare Flynn is the author of sixteen historical novels and a collection of short stories. A former International Marketing Director and strategic management consultant, she is now a full-time writer.
Having lived and worked in London, Paris, Brussels, Milan and Sydney, home is now on the coast, in Sussex, England, where she can watch the sea from her windows. An avid traveler, her books are often set in exotic locations.
Clare is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of The Society of Authors, The Alliance of Independent Authors, The Historical Writers' Association and the Romantic Novelists Association. When not writing, she loves to read, quilt, paint and play the piano.
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Genre: Historical Fiction - Romance
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The Book;
In this heart-wrenching and utterly spellbinding story of love and artistic ambition, a young woman fights to be true to herself in a world where duty, money and class jeopardise her dreams.
England, 1908: Alice Dalton never intended to rebel against her aristocratic parents. But after her father’s failed attempt to arrange a marriage for her with Edmund Cutler, son of a wealthy stockbroker, she flees the family home humiliated – and determined to make a life for herself as an independent woman, however hard that might be.
When a chance opportunity leads to her taking a position as a stained-glass artist’s apprentice, Alice is stunned when she meets the man she’ll be working for: the hateful Edmund Cutler. It seems he too has turned his back on his family and has followed his passion for art, and at terrible cost.
But as they work together, mixing paints and composing their stained-glass window commissions side by side, she finds herself softening towards him, and can’t ignore the sparks that fly between them. With family conflict brewing and war on the horizon, soon Alice finds that loving Edmund proves the hardest fight, and greatest adventure, of her life.
The Author:
Clare Flynn is the author of sixteen historical novels and a collection of short stories. A former International Marketing Director and strategic management consultant, she is now a full-time writer.
Having lived and worked in London, Paris, Brussels, Milan and Sydney, home is now on the coast, in Sussex, England, where she can watch the sea from her windows. An avid traveler, her books are often set in exotic locations.
Clare is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of The Society of Authors, The Alliance of Independent Authors, The Historical Writers' Association and the Romantic Novelists Association. When not writing, she loves to read, quilt, paint and play the piano.
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Matthew Fox
Matthew Fox
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Title: The Lovely Dark
Genre: Children - Middle Grade
Format: Paperback / Hardback
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When mysterious footprints appear in the Stockholm snow, ten-year-old Kara must discover where they've come from - and who they belong to. The trail of footprints leads Kara to Rebecca, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, and her younger brother Samuel. Kara realises they are refugees - from another time, World War Two - and are trying to find their way home.
The grief and loneliness that Rebecca and Samuel have endured is something Kara can relate to - feeling like you're always on the outside looking in - and she finds herself compelled to help them escape. Through her eyes, we rediscover the magic that lies in the world around us, if only we have the courage to look for it.
Kara is a heroine for modern times: fragile but fierce, in this utterly compelling story from a stellar new voice in children's literature, Matthew Fox
The Author:
I grew up in a village in Wiltshire. I always wanted to be a writer, and my first stories were published in the village magazine, Kidstuff, when I was ten!
I studied at the University of Oxford, and at the Northern Film School. Since then, I’ve had a number of jobs: I ran a film festival in Liverpool, I’ve worked as a stage manager in a theatre, and I’ve worked in
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Genre: Children - Middle Grade
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The Book;
When mysterious footprints appear in the Stockholm snow, ten-year-old Kara must discover where they've come from - and who they belong to. The trail of footprints leads Kara to Rebecca, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, and her younger brother Samuel. Kara realises they are refugees - from another time, World War Two - and are trying to find their way home.
The grief and loneliness that Rebecca and Samuel have endured is something Kara can relate to - feeling like you're always on the outside looking in - and she finds herself compelled to help them escape. Through her eyes, we rediscover the magic that lies in the world around us, if only we have the courage to look for it.
Kara is a heroine for modern times: fragile but fierce, in this utterly compelling story from a stellar new voice in children's literature, Matthew Fox
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I grew up in a village in Wiltshire. I always wanted to be a writer, and my first stories were published in the village magazine, Kidstuff, when I was ten!
I studied at the University of Oxford, and at the Northern Film School. Since then, I’ve had a number of jobs: I ran a film festival in Liverpool, I’ve worked as a stage manager in a theatre, and I’ve worked in
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Emma Read
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Book Title: The Housetrap
Genre: Middle Grade Horror/Puzzles
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An edge-of-your-seat adventure packed full of puzzles, spooks and mystery!
Amity has run off into Badwell Woods.
Her brother Claude goes after her, only to discover his little sister’s scarf dangling near a house in the trees.
Has she gone inside?
He enters, not expecting a three storey-building with NO stairs. And a party laid out when there’s nobody else around.
Only when the front door locks behind him does he realize it’s a housetrap.
And they’ve been caught . . .
The Author:
Emma Read is the author of The Housetrap, and the Milton series (Chicken House), including MILTON THE MIGHTY, one of The Times Best Children’s Books of 2019.
She loves all things spooky (and spidery!) and can often be found walking through her local graveyard … but only in daylight. Like Mark Gatiss, she doesn’t believe in ghosts but is scared of them.
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An edge-of-your-seat adventure packed full of puzzles, spooks and mystery!
Amity has run off into Badwell Woods.
Her brother Claude goes after her, only to discover his little sister’s scarf dangling near a house in the trees.
Has she gone inside?
He enters, not expecting a three storey-building with NO stairs. And a party laid out when there’s nobody else around.
Only when the front door locks behind him does he realize it’s a housetrap.
And they’ve been caught . . .
The Author:
Emma Read is the author of The Housetrap, and the Milton series (Chicken House), including MILTON THE MIGHTY, one of The Times Best Children’s Books of 2019.
She loves all things spooky (and spidery!) and can often be found walking through her local graveyard … but only in daylight. Like Mark Gatiss, she doesn’t believe in ghosts but is scared of them.
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Barbara Henderson
Barbara Henderson
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Book Title: The Boy, the Witch & the Queen of Scots
Genre: Children’s historical fiction
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No.
Not the Palace.
Anywhere but the Palace.
12-year-old Alexander Buchan was once content, training as a falconer at Strathbogie Castle in Huntly. But when his Earl sends him to Edinburgh to the court of the newly arrived Mary, Queen of Scots, the boy finds himself lured into a world of intrigue, terror and treachery. Alexander knows right from wrong, but how can he hope to outwit his master's murderous messenger'? Surely no one can defy an Earl – especially one whose wife is rumoured to be a witch!
Soon, more than the boy’s own life is at stake: his friend Lizzie is arrested and the angry clouds of Reformation Scotland gather around the young Queen.
It seems that Alexander must spy – or die.
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Barbara Henderson is an award-winning author of a range of books, including eight historical novels for children. She is based in the Scottish Highlands where she still works as a drama teacher and spends her free time searching old ruins for new tales.
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No.
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Anywhere but the Palace.
12-year-old Alexander Buchan was once content, training as a falconer at Strathbogie Castle in Huntly. But when his Earl sends him to Edinburgh to the court of the newly arrived Mary, Queen of Scots, the boy finds himself lured into a world of intrigue, terror and treachery. Alexander knows right from wrong, but how can he hope to outwit his master's murderous messenger'? Surely no one can defy an Earl – especially one whose wife is rumoured to be a witch!
Soon, more than the boy’s own life is at stake: his friend Lizzie is arrested and the angry clouds of Reformation Scotland gather around the young Queen.
It seems that Alexander must spy – or die.
The Author:
Barbara Henderson is an award-winning author of a range of books, including eight historical novels for children. She is based in the Scottish Highlands where she still works as a drama teacher and spends her free time searching old ruins for new tales.
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Luisa A. Jones
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Book Title: The Broken Vow
Genre: Historical fiction
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Marriage was what Charlotte had been brought up to. After all, it provided a happy ending for all the heroines in the novels she sometimes read. So it would be for her… right?
Born into luxury, Charlotte Fitznorton has always known a life filled with lavish parties and a line of suitors, all part of a future neatly laid out for her by her father, Sir Lucien. She is to marry well and continue the line at Plas Norton, the family seat. When Eustace Westhampton – son of a viscount – proposes just before leaving to fight in France, it seems Charlotte’s destiny is perfectly falling into place.
Then, tragedy strikes. Her father dies unexpectedly, and her future hangs in the balance – threatened by her hated stepmother's surprise pregnancy. News of Eustace, returning from the war broken by its horrors, leaves Charlotte fearing her engagement may be as fragile as her inheritance.
Determined to at least save her impending marriage, Charlotte pours her energy into turning Plas Norton into a healing place for Eustace and other war-weary soldiers. But small-minded townspeople, a bossy head nurse, and her newborn baby sister's arrival push Charlotte to her limits.
Just as hope is slipping through her fingers, a mysterious stranger arrives at Plas Norton. This newcomer holds the power to upend everything Charlotte has fought to preserve. Will she have the strength to protect her legacy, or could this unexpected visitor awaken a desire in Charlotte for a different life altogether?
A beautiful and heartbreaking historical novel, if you loved anything by Fiona Valpy or Lucinda Riley, this book is for you.
The Author:
Luisa A Jones lives in South Wales, and takes inspiration from the Welsh countryside, towns, history, and of course its people. Her writing explores the dynamics within relationships, the pressures that mental health issues can exert on people, and how these can be overcome.
Luisa studied Classical Studies at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London. Her previous jobs have included tour guide in an historic house; teacher in both primary and secondary schools; careers adviser; and corporate trainer/assessor.
Luisa loves using her creativity for crafting and baking, as well as writing historical and contemporary fiction with romantic elements. She and her husband are the proud owners of Gwynnie, a Volkswagen camper van built in 1974, which inspired the story behind Luisa's first book, Goes Without Saying. They have three children, a dog, and two cats.
Becoming an author fulfilled a lifelong ambition.
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Marriage was what Charlotte had been brought up to. After all, it provided a happy ending for all the heroines in the novels she sometimes read. So it would be for her… right?
Born into luxury, Charlotte Fitznorton has always known a life filled with lavish parties and a line of suitors, all part of a future neatly laid out for her by her father, Sir Lucien. She is to marry well and continue the line at Plas Norton, the family seat. When Eustace Westhampton – son of a viscount – proposes just before leaving to fight in France, it seems Charlotte’s destiny is perfectly falling into place.
Then, tragedy strikes. Her father dies unexpectedly, and her future hangs in the balance – threatened by her hated stepmother's surprise pregnancy. News of Eustace, returning from the war broken by its horrors, leaves Charlotte fearing her engagement may be as fragile as her inheritance.
Determined to at least save her impending marriage, Charlotte pours her energy into turning Plas Norton into a healing place for Eustace and other war-weary soldiers. But small-minded townspeople, a bossy head nurse, and her newborn baby sister's arrival push Charlotte to her limits.
Just as hope is slipping through her fingers, a mysterious stranger arrives at Plas Norton. This newcomer holds the power to upend everything Charlotte has fought to preserve. Will she have the strength to protect her legacy, or could this unexpected visitor awaken a desire in Charlotte for a different life altogether?
A beautiful and heartbreaking historical novel, if you loved anything by Fiona Valpy or Lucinda Riley, this book is for you.
The Author:
Luisa A Jones lives in South Wales, and takes inspiration from the Welsh countryside, towns, history, and of course its people. Her writing explores the dynamics within relationships, the pressures that mental health issues can exert on people, and how these can be overcome.
Luisa studied Classical Studies at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London. Her previous jobs have included tour guide in an historic house; teacher in both primary and secondary schools; careers adviser; and corporate trainer/assessor.
Luisa loves using her creativity for crafting and baking, as well as writing historical and contemporary fiction with romantic elements. She and her husband are the proud owners of Gwynnie, a Volkswagen camper van built in 1974, which inspired the story behind Luisa's first book, Goes Without Saying. They have three children, a dog, and two cats.
Becoming an author fulfilled a lifelong ambition.
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Gill Thompson
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Book Title: The Orphans on the Train
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
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1939.
A girl with auburn hair looks anxiously out of the train window, watching the mountains of Europe pass by. War is on the horizon at home, and Kirsty finds herself heading to neutral Hungary to help in a school for Jewish children. Little does she know that in leaving everything behind, she is about to find the most precious gift of all - a true friend in school pupil Anna.
1943.
When the Nazis invade Budapest, Kirsty and Anna are on their own, and Kirsty worries desperately for her Jewish friend. What lengths must they go to in order to survive, and, when they are separated, can the guiding light of friendship bring them back to each other?
The Author
Gill Thompson is the author of four historical fiction novels set in and around World War Two. After 40 years as a teacher, she is now Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Chichester.
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1939.
A girl with auburn hair looks anxiously out of the train window, watching the mountains of Europe pass by. War is on the horizon at home, and Kirsty finds herself heading to neutral Hungary to help in a school for Jewish children. Little does she know that in leaving everything behind, she is about to find the most precious gift of all - a true friend in school pupil Anna.
1943.
When the Nazis invade Budapest, Kirsty and Anna are on their own, and Kirsty worries desperately for her Jewish friend. What lengths must they go to in order to survive, and, when they are separated, can the guiding light of friendship bring them back to each other?
The Author
Gill Thompson is the author of four historical fiction novels set in and around World War Two. After 40 years as a teacher, she is now Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Chichester.
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Anita Chapman
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Book Title: The Florence Letter
Genre: Historical Fiction
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Looking out over the twinkling city lights of Florence, Claire thinks of the letter that has brought her here. Written by a woman who escaped the Blitz, it holds a secret kept for a lifetime… but can Claire make the woman’s dying wish come true?
Claire arrives at her new job as researcher at a grand English country house, nursing a broken heart. But tucked into the back of a long-forgotten drawer she finds a letter written in an elegant hand. It tells of a wartime secret about the beautiful Lady Violet – whose passionate affair with an Italian prisoner of war scandalised the village and ended in tragedy.
Captivated, Claire promises to find Violet’s daughter, Tabitha, and reunite her with a priceless piece of her mother’s jewellery. With only the name of an Italian bakery, Pasticceria Mancini, to guide her, and the help of her handsome neighbour Jim, Claire travels to Tabitha’s last known location – Florence.
Winding through the colourful streets, the sun warm on her bare shoulders, a tantalising scent of freshly baked bread floats on the air and Claire’s heart leaps at the sight of an ageing bakery sign: Mancini. Although she learns that Tabitha hasn’t been there for many years, Claire refuses to give up. And as she and Jim talk late into the night over glasses of local chianti, Claire looks into his piercing blue eyes and finds herself growing closer to him…
But when they finally track Tabitha down, it isn’t the happy reunion she expected and Claire is left reeling in the wake of discovering a devastating family secret.
Violet’s story has an ending – but will the truth lead to forgiveness, or will it only bring more pain? And will Claire be forced to walk away from a chance of happiness with Jim at last?
Escape to Italy in this gorgeous story of past and present colliding. Readers of Lucinda Riley and Fiona Valpy will be utterly enchanted by this sweeping, romantic page-turner.
The Author:
Anita Chapman's debut novel, THE VENICE SECRET was published in March 2023 and spent six weeks in the overall Amazon UK Kindle Top 100, reaching number thirty-eight. THE VENICE SECRET has had six million Kindle Unlimited pages read and received more than 5000 Amazon reviews since publication. Anita’s second novel, THE FLORENCE LETTER was published by digital first division of Hachette, Bookouture in June 2024 as ebook, paperback and audiobook. THE TUSCAN DIARY will be published by Bookouture on 25 October 2024 and is available for preorder as an ebook now (paperback and audiobook to follow). Anita has recently signed a deal with the same publisher for two more books in the same genre, to be published summer 2025 and spring 2026.
Anita enjoyed writing stories from a young age, and won a local writing competition when she was nine years old. Encouraged by this, she typed up a series of stories about a mouse on her mum’s typewriter and sent them to Ladybird. She received a polite rejection letter, her first.
Many of Anita’s summers growing up were spent with her family driving to Italy, and she went on to study French and Italian at university. As part of her degree, Anita lived in Siena for several months where she studied and au paired, and she spent a lot of time travelling around Italy in her twenties.
Anita likes to read journals and diaries from the past, and one of her favourite pastimes is visiting art galleries and country houses. Her first published novel, The Venice Secret is inspired by her mother taking her to see the Canalettos at The National Gallery in London as a child.
Since 2015, Anita has worked as a social media manager, training authors on social media, and helping to promote their books. She’s run several courses in London and York, and has worked as a tutor at Richmond and Hillcroft Adult Community College.
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Genre: Historical Fiction
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The Book:
Looking out over the twinkling city lights of Florence, Claire thinks of the letter that has brought her here. Written by a woman who escaped the Blitz, it holds a secret kept for a lifetime… but can Claire make the woman’s dying wish come true?
Claire arrives at her new job as researcher at a grand English country house, nursing a broken heart. But tucked into the back of a long-forgotten drawer she finds a letter written in an elegant hand. It tells of a wartime secret about the beautiful Lady Violet – whose passionate affair with an Italian prisoner of war scandalised the village and ended in tragedy.
Captivated, Claire promises to find Violet’s daughter, Tabitha, and reunite her with a priceless piece of her mother’s jewellery. With only the name of an Italian bakery, Pasticceria Mancini, to guide her, and the help of her handsome neighbour Jim, Claire travels to Tabitha’s last known location – Florence.
Winding through the colourful streets, the sun warm on her bare shoulders, a tantalising scent of freshly baked bread floats on the air and Claire’s heart leaps at the sight of an ageing bakery sign: Mancini. Although she learns that Tabitha hasn’t been there for many years, Claire refuses to give up. And as she and Jim talk late into the night over glasses of local chianti, Claire looks into his piercing blue eyes and finds herself growing closer to him…
But when they finally track Tabitha down, it isn’t the happy reunion she expected and Claire is left reeling in the wake of discovering a devastating family secret.
Violet’s story has an ending – but will the truth lead to forgiveness, or will it only bring more pain? And will Claire be forced to walk away from a chance of happiness with Jim at last?
Escape to Italy in this gorgeous story of past and present colliding. Readers of Lucinda Riley and Fiona Valpy will be utterly enchanted by this sweeping, romantic page-turner.
The Author:
Anita Chapman's debut novel, THE VENICE SECRET was published in March 2023 and spent six weeks in the overall Amazon UK Kindle Top 100, reaching number thirty-eight. THE VENICE SECRET has had six million Kindle Unlimited pages read and received more than 5000 Amazon reviews since publication. Anita’s second novel, THE FLORENCE LETTER was published by digital first division of Hachette, Bookouture in June 2024 as ebook, paperback and audiobook. THE TUSCAN DIARY will be published by Bookouture on 25 October 2024 and is available for preorder as an ebook now (paperback and audiobook to follow). Anita has recently signed a deal with the same publisher for two more books in the same genre, to be published summer 2025 and spring 2026.
Anita enjoyed writing stories from a young age, and won a local writing competition when she was nine years old. Encouraged by this, she typed up a series of stories about a mouse on her mum’s typewriter and sent them to Ladybird. She received a polite rejection letter, her first.
Many of Anita’s summers growing up were spent with her family driving to Italy, and she went on to study French and Italian at university. As part of her degree, Anita lived in Siena for several months where she studied and au paired, and she spent a lot of time travelling around Italy in her twenties.
Anita likes to read journals and diaries from the past, and one of her favourite pastimes is visiting art galleries and country houses. Her first published novel, The Venice Secret is inspired by her mother taking her to see the Canalettos at The National Gallery in London as a child.
Since 2015, Anita has worked as a social media manager, training authors on social media, and helping to promote their books. She’s run several courses in London and York, and has worked as a tutor at Richmond and Hillcroft Adult Community College.
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Lynne Shelby
Lynne Shelby
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Book Title: Rome For The Summer
Genre: Dual timeline romance
Format: Paperback
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Kate Harper has always loved the painting that has hung in her parents' dining room for years, never suspecting that it is worth a fortune. When her art dealer boyfriend cheats her family out of the proceeds of the painting's sale, she is left devastated and alone.
Kate discovers that two hundred years ago, the girl in the painting, Charlotte Browne, ran off to Rome with the artist who painted her portrait, but her eventual fate is unknown.
Hoping to uncover the mystery of what happened to Charlotte, Kate seizes the chance of a summer job in Rome, where she strikes up a friendship with Jamie Taylor, an English artist. As they explore the city and start to piece together the surprising secrets of Charlotte's life, Kate finds herself wondering if a summer in Rome can mend a broken heart...
The Author:
Lynne Shelby writes contemporary women’s fiction/romance. Her debut novel, ‘Meet Me In Paris,' (originally titled French Kissing), won the Accent Press and Woman magazine Writing Competition. She has done a variety of jobs from stable girl to child actor's chaperone to legal administrator, but now writes full time. When not writing or reading, Lynne can usually be found at the theatre or exploring a foreign city - Paris, New York, Rome, Copenhagen, Seattle, Reykjavik - writer's notebook, camera and sketchbook in hand. She lives in London with her husband, and has three adult children who live nearby.
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Genre: Dual timeline romance
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Kate Harper has always loved the painting that has hung in her parents' dining room for years, never suspecting that it is worth a fortune. When her art dealer boyfriend cheats her family out of the proceeds of the painting's sale, she is left devastated and alone.
Kate discovers that two hundred years ago, the girl in the painting, Charlotte Browne, ran off to Rome with the artist who painted her portrait, but her eventual fate is unknown.
Hoping to uncover the mystery of what happened to Charlotte, Kate seizes the chance of a summer job in Rome, where she strikes up a friendship with Jamie Taylor, an English artist. As they explore the city and start to piece together the surprising secrets of Charlotte's life, Kate finds herself wondering if a summer in Rome can mend a broken heart...
The Author:
Lynne Shelby writes contemporary women’s fiction/romance. Her debut novel, ‘Meet Me In Paris,' (originally titled French Kissing), won the Accent Press and Woman magazine Writing Competition. She has done a variety of jobs from stable girl to child actor's chaperone to legal administrator, but now writes full time. When not writing or reading, Lynne can usually be found at the theatre or exploring a foreign city - Paris, New York, Rome, Copenhagen, Seattle, Reykjavik - writer's notebook, camera and sketchbook in hand. She lives in London with her husband, and has three adult children who live nearby.
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Lorraine Gregory
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Book Title: Alien Apocalypse
Genre: Children's Science Fiction
Format: Paperback
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Nothing exciting ever happens on twelve-year-old Danny’s estate . . . that is until he falls through a locker in his grandad’s workshop and finds himself in an Interdimensional Lost Property Office!
Join Danny, Modge and Inaaya in more rocket-fuelled rampages across the universe and space shenanigans as they race to save the universe from the evil Flurm Worm . . .
The Author:
I'm the daughter of an Indian father and an Austrian mother raised on an East London Council Estate. The local library was my source of all books growing up and I never stopped reading if I could help it.
All that reading led to me writing my own stories throughout my childhood and teens while I dreamed of being a proper author one day.
Unfortunately as I grew up it seemed too impossible that someone like me could ever achieve such an ambition and I decided it was better to give up such lofty aspirations. I settled down to a normal life with a job, marriage and motherhood and kept all my stories firmly in my head.
Until that is, years later reading to my son sparked my love of writing once again and I started scribbling my own tales to read to him.
Five years of hard work led to a book deal with OUP for my debut Mold and the Poison Plot, a fantasy adventure about a boy with a remarkable nose...
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Genre: Children's Science Fiction
Format: Paperback
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Nothing exciting ever happens on twelve-year-old Danny’s estate . . . that is until he falls through a locker in his grandad’s workshop and finds himself in an Interdimensional Lost Property Office!
Join Danny, Modge and Inaaya in more rocket-fuelled rampages across the universe and space shenanigans as they race to save the universe from the evil Flurm Worm . . .
The Author:
I'm the daughter of an Indian father and an Austrian mother raised on an East London Council Estate. The local library was my source of all books growing up and I never stopped reading if I could help it.
All that reading led to me writing my own stories throughout my childhood and teens while I dreamed of being a proper author one day.
Unfortunately as I grew up it seemed too impossible that someone like me could ever achieve such an ambition and I decided it was better to give up such lofty aspirations. I settled down to a normal life with a job, marriage and motherhood and kept all my stories firmly in my head.
Until that is, years later reading to my son sparked my love of writing once again and I started scribbling my own tales to read to him.
Five years of hard work led to a book deal with OUP for my debut Mold and the Poison Plot, a fantasy adventure about a boy with a remarkable nose...
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Gemma Rogers
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Book Title: The Good Wife
Genre: Thriller
Format: Paperback
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Appearances can be deceiving...
After a whirlwind romance and three years of marriage, I’d tried to be a good wife.
But Tom, my husband, is always watching, controlling my every move. He chooses my clothes, my hairstyle, even instructing what and how much I’m allowed to eat – just ten measly mouthfuls.
I’ve become isolated from those I love, forbidden to work and stuck at home to fulfil his every whim.
My identity along with my life is long gone.
I am slowly suffocating but I know Tom will never, ever let me leave alive.
A chance encounter with Savannah changes everything. Tom couldn’t tear his eyes away from her. Could she be my saviour?
Could my husband’s desire for another woman be the answer to my prayers, to my freedom?
The Author:
Gemma Rogers lives in West Sussex with her husband, two daughters and a bouncy French Bulldog called Boycie.
Her love of writing began in her early teenage years, inspired by hours spent buried in Point Horror, Richard Laymon and Christopher Pike with the occasional Judy Blume thrown in for good measure.
Other passions include movies - horrors especially (who doesn't love a good scare), country walks, swimming and anything involving cake.
Her debut novel Stalker was released on the 10th September 2019, quickly followed by *The Secret in January 2020, and **The Teacher in May.
Gemma's fourth novel ***The Mistake was published January 2021, followed by The Babysitter in September.
The Feud came next in May 2022, then The Neighbour in January 2023 and The Flatmate in June 2023.
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Genre: Thriller
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
Appearances can be deceiving...
After a whirlwind romance and three years of marriage, I’d tried to be a good wife.
But Tom, my husband, is always watching, controlling my every move. He chooses my clothes, my hairstyle, even instructing what and how much I’m allowed to eat – just ten measly mouthfuls.
I’ve become isolated from those I love, forbidden to work and stuck at home to fulfil his every whim.
My identity along with my life is long gone.
I am slowly suffocating but I know Tom will never, ever let me leave alive.
A chance encounter with Savannah changes everything. Tom couldn’t tear his eyes away from her. Could she be my saviour?
Could my husband’s desire for another woman be the answer to my prayers, to my freedom?
The Author:
Gemma Rogers lives in West Sussex with her husband, two daughters and a bouncy French Bulldog called Boycie.
Her love of writing began in her early teenage years, inspired by hours spent buried in Point Horror, Richard Laymon and Christopher Pike with the occasional Judy Blume thrown in for good measure.
Other passions include movies - horrors especially (who doesn't love a good scare), country walks, swimming and anything involving cake.
Her debut novel Stalker was released on the 10th September 2019, quickly followed by *The Secret in January 2020, and **The Teacher in May.
Gemma's fourth novel ***The Mistake was published January 2021, followed by The Babysitter in September.
The Feud came next in May 2022, then The Neighbour in January 2023 and The Flatmate in June 2023.
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K.J. Maitland
K.J. Maitland
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Title The Plague of Serpents,
Genre: Historical Thriller (Adult)
Format: Hardback
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The Book:
London, 1608. Three years after the Gunpowder Treason, the King's enemies prepare to strike again.
Daniel Pursglove is tasked by royal command with one final mission: he must infiltrate the Serpents - a secret group of Catholics plotting to kill the King - or risk his own execution. But other conspirators are circling, men who would blackmail Daniel for their own dark ends.
In the Serpents' den, nothing is quite as it seems. And when Daniel spies a familiar face among their number, the game takes a dangerous turn.
As plague returns to London, tensions reach breaking point. Can Daniel escape the web of treason in which he finds himself ensnared - or has his luck finally run out?"
The Author:
Karen Maitland is an historical novelist, lecturer and teacher of Creative Writing, with over twenty books to her name. She grew up in Malta, which inspired her passion for history, and travelled and worked all over the world before settling in the United Kingdom. She has a doctorate in psycholinguistics, and now lives on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon.
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Genre: Historical Thriller (Adult)
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The Book:
London, 1608. Three years after the Gunpowder Treason, the King's enemies prepare to strike again.
Daniel Pursglove is tasked by royal command with one final mission: he must infiltrate the Serpents - a secret group of Catholics plotting to kill the King - or risk his own execution. But other conspirators are circling, men who would blackmail Daniel for their own dark ends.
In the Serpents' den, nothing is quite as it seems. And when Daniel spies a familiar face among their number, the game takes a dangerous turn.
As plague returns to London, tensions reach breaking point. Can Daniel escape the web of treason in which he finds himself ensnared - or has his luck finally run out?"
The Author:
Karen Maitland is an historical novelist, lecturer and teacher of Creative Writing, with over twenty books to her name. She grew up in Malta, which inspired her passion for history, and travelled and worked all over the world before settling in the United Kingdom. She has a doctorate in psycholinguistics, and now lives on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon.
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Tasha Harrison
Tasha Harrison
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Title: The Thing About Lemons
Genre: Y/A - Rom Com
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
Ori Reynolds has just made the biggest mistake of her life. One that’s resulted in:
1) losing all but one of her friends,
2) feeling like the World’s Most Terrible Person,
and
3) having all her fun summer plans cancelled.
And, as if things couldn’t get any worse, she now has no choice but to go on a road trip with her estranged grandad Claude to his home in the French countryside.
Talk about life giving you lemons!
However, while Ori scoffs at her mum’s suggestion to “make lemonade”, her sour situation is about to turn significantly sweeter than she could ever have imagined…
The Author:
Tasha Harrison is the author of middle grade comedy Clementine Florentine and YA romcom The Thing About Lemons. A former sub-editor and copywriter, she has an incurable weakness for puns, rhymes and alliteration. She lives in Brighton with her family and food-obsessed Labrador.
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Genre: Y/A - Rom Com
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The Book:
Ori Reynolds has just made the biggest mistake of her life. One that’s resulted in:
1) losing all but one of her friends,
2) feeling like the World’s Most Terrible Person,
and
3) having all her fun summer plans cancelled.
And, as if things couldn’t get any worse, she now has no choice but to go on a road trip with her estranged grandad Claude to his home in the French countryside.
Talk about life giving you lemons!
However, while Ori scoffs at her mum’s suggestion to “make lemonade”, her sour situation is about to turn significantly sweeter than she could ever have imagined…
The Author:
Tasha Harrison is the author of middle grade comedy Clementine Florentine and YA romcom The Thing About Lemons. A former sub-editor and copywriter, she has an incurable weakness for puns, rhymes and alliteration. She lives in Brighton with her family and food-obsessed Labrador.
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Ali Mercer
Ali Mercer
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Book Title: A Child's Goodbye
Genre: Women's fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
All I remember is the screeching of brakes and the sound of tyres swerving on tarmac. The last thing that crossed my mind was my beautiful boy Billy, waiting alone at the school gates…
When I found out I was pregnant I couldn’t have been happier. Ever since my own father died, I’d felt utterly lost. But you changed everything. Finally, I had found my purpose: to be the best mother I could be.
But I couldn’t – wouldn’t – tell anyone who your father was. I could never forget the look in his eyes that day. The betrayal written across his face. All the things we didn’t say, and the secret that tore us apart.
I thought I was hiding the truth to protect us. But now as I lie in this hospital ward, my life hanging in the balance, blinking in the bright white lights, all I can think about is how that man, your dad, could be your only hope… but how can I save us when it already seems too late? Or will I be just in time to reunite our family?
The Author:
Ali is the author of eight novels, six of which have been Kindle top 100 bestsellers in the UK. She has sold more than 275,000 copies, and more than 20 million pages of her novels have been read in Kindle Unlimited. She lives in Oxfordshire and has two children.
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Genre: Women's fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
All I remember is the screeching of brakes and the sound of tyres swerving on tarmac. The last thing that crossed my mind was my beautiful boy Billy, waiting alone at the school gates…
When I found out I was pregnant I couldn’t have been happier. Ever since my own father died, I’d felt utterly lost. But you changed everything. Finally, I had found my purpose: to be the best mother I could be.
But I couldn’t – wouldn’t – tell anyone who your father was. I could never forget the look in his eyes that day. The betrayal written across his face. All the things we didn’t say, and the secret that tore us apart.
I thought I was hiding the truth to protect us. But now as I lie in this hospital ward, my life hanging in the balance, blinking in the bright white lights, all I can think about is how that man, your dad, could be your only hope… but how can I save us when it already seems too late? Or will I be just in time to reunite our family?
The Author:
Ali is the author of eight novels, six of which have been Kindle top 100 bestsellers in the UK. She has sold more than 275,000 copies, and more than 20 million pages of her novels have been read in Kindle Unlimited. She lives in Oxfordshire and has two children.
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Roger A Price
Roger A Price
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Book Title: Double Cross.
Genre: Crime Thriller.
Format: Paperback (First Edition).
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The Book;
Tommy Broadbent, one of Liverpool's most renowned criminals, stumbles across a vagrant, Thomas Dorchester - who is the villain's exact doppelgänger. Dorchester is soon hired to front Broadbent's club, to fool the police that he has gone legit, while Broadbent carries on his activities in the shadows.
Dorchester is shot - but survives. The police are called in to investigate.
Detective Sergeant Martin Draker, an officer who clears cases - but not always through conventional means - with his superior DCI Colin Carstairs, an experienced detective adept at seeing the bigger picture, are brought in to run a parallel investigation. Broadbent may be considered a reformed criminal, but he is also one of Merseyside Police's most valuable informants.
Dorchester wakes up in hospital and realises he needs help. He plans to out himself as an impostor to Draker and his partner Cath Moore, an ex-journalist who swapped careers to become a field intelligence analyst. A further attempt on his life succeeds before he can reveal the truth - and the attack nearly takes out Draker and Moore.
Learning from his exploitation of Dorchester, Broadbent intends to infiltrate the police with false informants and sell the intelligence to the highest bidders.
Draker, Carstairs and Moore need to uncover Broadbent's plans and prevent them.
There will be blood.
The Author:
Roger is a retired detective inspector who had been in charge of a covert unit, which received national acclaim for its successes in engaging those who openly sold Class A drugs.
Prior to this, he’d been in charge of the C.I.D. at Preston, having first led a dedicated informant unit.
He also worked on murders, drugs squads, and the regional and national crime squads, often in covert roles across the UK, Europe, and the Far East, receiving several commendations.
A member of the Crime Writers' Association he now writes crime, thrillers - in novel - and drama scripts. Roger uses his previous professional experiences to add gritty realism. Represented by SMA Talent.
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Genre: Crime Thriller.
Format: Paperback (First Edition).
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The Book;
Tommy Broadbent, one of Liverpool's most renowned criminals, stumbles across a vagrant, Thomas Dorchester - who is the villain's exact doppelgänger. Dorchester is soon hired to front Broadbent's club, to fool the police that he has gone legit, while Broadbent carries on his activities in the shadows.
Dorchester is shot - but survives. The police are called in to investigate.
Detective Sergeant Martin Draker, an officer who clears cases - but not always through conventional means - with his superior DCI Colin Carstairs, an experienced detective adept at seeing the bigger picture, are brought in to run a parallel investigation. Broadbent may be considered a reformed criminal, but he is also one of Merseyside Police's most valuable informants.
Dorchester wakes up in hospital and realises he needs help. He plans to out himself as an impostor to Draker and his partner Cath Moore, an ex-journalist who swapped careers to become a field intelligence analyst. A further attempt on his life succeeds before he can reveal the truth - and the attack nearly takes out Draker and Moore.
Learning from his exploitation of Dorchester, Broadbent intends to infiltrate the police with false informants and sell the intelligence to the highest bidders.
Draker, Carstairs and Moore need to uncover Broadbent's plans and prevent them.
There will be blood.
The Author:
Roger is a retired detective inspector who had been in charge of a covert unit, which received national acclaim for its successes in engaging those who openly sold Class A drugs.
Prior to this, he’d been in charge of the C.I.D. at Preston, having first led a dedicated informant unit.
He also worked on murders, drugs squads, and the regional and national crime squads, often in covert roles across the UK, Europe, and the Far East, receiving several commendations.
A member of the Crime Writers' Association he now writes crime, thrillers - in novel - and drama scripts. Roger uses his previous professional experiences to add gritty realism. Represented by SMA Talent.
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Jonathan Whitelaw
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Book Title: The Concert Hall Killer
Genre: Crime/mystery/cosy crime
Format: Paperback
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In the Lake District, someone’s laying on a deadly welcome…
The cast and crew of a popular TV crime drama are shooting in the Lake District – but behind the scenes, relationships are as tense as on-screen. The director’s reputation proceeds him, the two lead stars are feuding and rumours swirl.
Meanwhile the locals are enjoying the filming – Amita Kahtri and her friends from Penrith Bingo Club are becoming social media stars with their behind the scenes pictures from filming – although her son-in-law, Jason is taking it all with a pinch of salt.
But when on-screen slaughter gets swapped for real-life murder at the concert hall where the TV drama is based, and the genuine police are as baffled as the TV detectives, it falls to the locals to search for the truth. It seems like a taste of fame can be deadly – but what happens when a killer’s plots are wilder than anything the writers can dream up?
The Author:
Jonathan Whitelaw is a writer, award-winning journalist and broadcaster.
After working on the frontline of Scottish politics, he moved into journalism, covering everything from sports to music to radioactive waste – and everything in between.
He's also a regular reviewer, podcaster, panellist and commentator.
His latest book - The Village Hall Vendetta - is published from HarperNorth and is the follow-up to 2022's The Bingo Hall Detectives.
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Genre: Crime/mystery/cosy crime
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Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book:
In the Lake District, someone’s laying on a deadly welcome…
The cast and crew of a popular TV crime drama are shooting in the Lake District – but behind the scenes, relationships are as tense as on-screen. The director’s reputation proceeds him, the two lead stars are feuding and rumours swirl.
Meanwhile the locals are enjoying the filming – Amita Kahtri and her friends from Penrith Bingo Club are becoming social media stars with their behind the scenes pictures from filming – although her son-in-law, Jason is taking it all with a pinch of salt.
But when on-screen slaughter gets swapped for real-life murder at the concert hall where the TV drama is based, and the genuine police are as baffled as the TV detectives, it falls to the locals to search for the truth. It seems like a taste of fame can be deadly – but what happens when a killer’s plots are wilder than anything the writers can dream up?
The Author:
Jonathan Whitelaw is a writer, award-winning journalist and broadcaster.
After working on the frontline of Scottish politics, he moved into journalism, covering everything from sports to music to radioactive waste – and everything in between.
He's also a regular reviewer, podcaster, panellist and commentator.
His latest book - The Village Hall Vendetta - is published from HarperNorth and is the follow-up to 2022's The Bingo Hall Detectives.
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Cate Ray
Cate Ray
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Book Title: Good Husbands
Genre: Domestic Suspense
Format: Paperback (First Edition)
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THE ADDICTIVE PAGE-TURNER WITH A BIG QUESTION AT ITS HEART
Jess, Priyanka and Stephanie are all happily married to men they think they know inside out.
Then each woman receives a letter accusing her husband of involvement in a sexual assault that took place 20 years ago.
Who do they believe, what should they do and can they come together as their lives are upended?
A compelling, beautifully crafted thriller about consent, friendship and prejudice which asks - would you sacrifice your family life in support of another woman?
The Author:
Cate Ray is a British suspense author. Her novel GOOD HUSBANDS received acclaim in North America, including Barnes & Noble Booksellers’ Favourite. The author of 4 novels published in the UK as Cath Weeks, her debut BLIND was nominated for the Waverton Good Read award and she was named an “Author to Watch” by ELLE.
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Genre: Domestic Suspense
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THE ADDICTIVE PAGE-TURNER WITH A BIG QUESTION AT ITS HEART
Jess, Priyanka and Stephanie are all happily married to men they think they know inside out.
Then each woman receives a letter accusing her husband of involvement in a sexual assault that took place 20 years ago.
Who do they believe, what should they do and can they come together as their lives are upended?
A compelling, beautifully crafted thriller about consent, friendship and prejudice which asks - would you sacrifice your family life in support of another woman?
The Author:
Cate Ray is a British suspense author. Her novel GOOD HUSBANDS received acclaim in North America, including Barnes & Noble Booksellers’ Favourite. The author of 4 novels published in the UK as Cath Weeks, her debut BLIND was nominated for the Waverton Good Read award and she was named an “Author to Watch” by ELLE.
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Stuart Gibbon
Stuart Gibbon
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Book 1 Title: The Crime Writer's Casebook
Book 2 Title: Being a Detective
Genre: True Crime
Format: Paperback, first edition
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Book 1:
The Crime Writer's Casebook is a reference guide to UK police investigation, past and present. It is an essential research companion for crime writers and fans of the true crime genre and is written by a former police detective and a crime historian.
Book 2:
Being a Detective is a Readers' and Writers' guide to UK detective work, past and present. Written in an A-Z format, a former UK detective and a crime historian explain everything you always wanted to know about the British detective, from an historical and contemporary perspective.
The Author:
Stuart Gibbon is a former UK detective who appears on TV as a true crime commentator and is a consultant advising crime writers
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Book 2 Title: Being a Detective
Genre: True Crime
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Book 1:
The Crime Writer's Casebook is a reference guide to UK police investigation, past and present. It is an essential research companion for crime writers and fans of the true crime genre and is written by a former police detective and a crime historian.
Book 2:
Being a Detective is a Readers' and Writers' guide to UK detective work, past and present. Written in an A-Z format, a former UK detective and a crime historian explain everything you always wanted to know about the British detective, from an historical and contemporary perspective.
The Author:
Stuart Gibbon is a former UK detective who appears on TV as a true crime commentator and is a consultant advising crime writers
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Alison Brown
Alison Brown
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Title: Billie's Buzz
Genre: Children
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
A delightfully funny celebration of bees – and the importance of bee-ing your true self – from the Queen of Cute, Alison Brown.
Billie is a bee with BIG ambition!
When the Festival of Talents comes to town, Billie is determined to show off her skills. She’s intelligent! She’s cute! She’s agile!
But Billie’s human friend has a bit of advice: don’t use your wings. Some people are funny about bees …
Can Billie share her talents without revealing her true identity? Shhh!
Why we’re making a beeline for Billie …
An fun-filled introduction to the superstars of the insect world – including bonus bee facts
A celebration of bee-ing your true self
Perfect for young children who are nervous of bees or learning about their unique importance
The Author:
Alison Brown is the author / illustrator of the Farshore "Amazing Families" series and the illustrator of the Bloomsbury "Little Owl" series, written by Debi Gliori. She has also collaborated on a number of books with Smriti Halls, including the Publishers Weekly and Wall Street Journal Bestseller, "I Love You Night and Day".
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The Book;
A delightfully funny celebration of bees – and the importance of bee-ing your true self – from the Queen of Cute, Alison Brown.
Billie is a bee with BIG ambition!
When the Festival of Talents comes to town, Billie is determined to show off her skills. She’s intelligent! She’s cute! She’s agile!
But Billie’s human friend has a bit of advice: don’t use your wings. Some people are funny about bees …
Can Billie share her talents without revealing her true identity? Shhh!
Why we’re making a beeline for Billie …
An fun-filled introduction to the superstars of the insect world – including bonus bee facts
A celebration of bee-ing your true self
Perfect for young children who are nervous of bees or learning about their unique importance
The Author:
Alison Brown is the author / illustrator of the Farshore "Amazing Families" series and the illustrator of the Bloomsbury "Little Owl" series, written by Debi Gliori. She has also collaborated on a number of books with Smriti Halls, including the Publishers Weekly and Wall Street Journal Bestseller, "I Love You Night and Day".
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Anne Allen
Anne Allen
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Title: The Ghost of Seagull Cottage
Genre: Paranormal - Romantic
Format: Paperback / Hardback
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A haunting tale of love, loss and finding one’s place in the world
Widowed artist Annabel returns to Guernsey seeking a fresh start for herself and her young daughter away from her late husband’s controlling family. Seagull Cottage appears perfect, by the sea and with a low rent. The snag is it comes with a resident ghost, Daniel, a sea captain who died 70 years ago in 1946. He built the cottage and objects to anyone not family living there. He and Annabel have to come to terms with sharing what he still considers to be his home.
After a difficult start they begin to share their pasts and an unlikely friendship blooms, becoming deeper as they spend more time together. Annabel realises she’s falling for him but would she truly prefer a ghost to a real live man?
Blending elements of romance, mystery and the supernatural into a compelling tale about the power of human connection and presenting a modern twist on R.A. Dick's novel The Ghost and Mrs Muir and the classic movie of the same name.
The Author:
Anne was born in Rugby to a Welsh father and an English mother. As a result, she spent many summers with her Welsh grandparents in Anglesey and learned to love the sea. Now she is based in Devon to be near her daughter and two small grandchildren. Her restless spirit has meant many moves, the longest stay being in Guernsey for nearly fourteen years after falling in love with the island and the people. She contrived to leave one son behind to ensure a valid reason for frequent returns. Her younger son is based in London - ideal for city breaks ☺
By profession, Anne was a psychotherapist who long had a desire to write and Dangerous Waters, her first novel, was published in 2012. It was awarded Silver(Adult Fiction) in TheWishingShelfAwards 2012. Since then she has published six more books in The Guernsey Novels series; Finding Mother, Guernsey Retreat, The Family Divided, Echoes of Time- winner of The Diamond Book Award 2017, a finalist in Readersfavorite awards and granted a ChillWithABookAward,
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The Book;
A haunting tale of love, loss and finding one’s place in the world
Widowed artist Annabel returns to Guernsey seeking a fresh start for herself and her young daughter away from her late husband’s controlling family. Seagull Cottage appears perfect, by the sea and with a low rent. The snag is it comes with a resident ghost, Daniel, a sea captain who died 70 years ago in 1946. He built the cottage and objects to anyone not family living there. He and Annabel have to come to terms with sharing what he still considers to be his home.
After a difficult start they begin to share their pasts and an unlikely friendship blooms, becoming deeper as they spend more time together. Annabel realises she’s falling for him but would she truly prefer a ghost to a real live man?
Blending elements of romance, mystery and the supernatural into a compelling tale about the power of human connection and presenting a modern twist on R.A. Dick's novel The Ghost and Mrs Muir and the classic movie of the same name.
The Author:
Anne was born in Rugby to a Welsh father and an English mother. As a result, she spent many summers with her Welsh grandparents in Anglesey and learned to love the sea. Now she is based in Devon to be near her daughter and two small grandchildren. Her restless spirit has meant many moves, the longest stay being in Guernsey for nearly fourteen years after falling in love with the island and the people. She contrived to leave one son behind to ensure a valid reason for frequent returns. Her younger son is based in London - ideal for city breaks ☺
By profession, Anne was a psychotherapist who long had a desire to write and Dangerous Waters, her first novel, was published in 2012. It was awarded Silver(Adult Fiction) in TheWishingShelfAwards 2012. Since then she has published six more books in The Guernsey Novels series; Finding Mother, Guernsey Retreat, The Family Divided, Echoes of Time- winner of The Diamond Book Award 2017, a finalist in Readersfavorite awards and granted a ChillWithABookAward,
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Mo O'Hara
Mo O'Hara
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Two Book Bonanza plus bookmarks and a poster!
Title 1: Honey's Hive
Title 2: Honey's Hive - Bee a Friend
Genre: Children
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Title 1: Honey's Hive
Honey is a young bee buzzing with ambition, who can’t find her role in her small hive. Just when she thinks she’s found a job she likes, a swarm threatens the whole hive! Honey makes her escape, and discovers a rooftop paradise at the top of a tower block – the perfect place to set up a new hive. Fighting off a swarm of angry wasps, and working together with her friends, Honey saves the day and builds a new home for her and her community!
The first book in an exciting new series from New York Times bestseller Mo O’Hara, packed with bee facts and stunning illustrations by Aya Kakeda.
Title 2: Honey's Hive - Bee a Friend
Honey is so good at her job as a scouting bee, finding lots of pollen for her hive, that she’s being awarded a petal medal by the Queen Bee!
But while Honey and her hive are celebrating, the other bees in the neighbourhood are struggling, there’s just not enough pollen left for them. When Honey finds out she’s really worried and tries to help the other bees find pollen too, but not all the bees in the hive think she should help outsiders.
Then the wasps come, and they attack the hive! Thankfully, all the other bees in the neighbourhood come to help their new friend Honey. Honey and her hive all realise how important it is to share and make friends.
The second book in this exciting new series from New York Times bestseller Mo O’Hara, packed with bee facts and stunning illustrations by Aya Kakeda.
The Author:
Originally from America, I moved to London because I wanted to live abroad but spoke no foreign languages. After a brief and unsuccessful stint as a serving wench at the Tower of London I found work as an actress and comedy performer. I’ve performed at Edinburgh and London comedy festivals. Years ago, when I was touring around the UK as a storyteller I discovered that kids liked, laughed at and didn’t fall asleep when I performed stuff that I wrote myself. I was hooked on writing and performing for kids. Some of my favourite quotes from kids about my storytelling sessions are:
“I guess you were a bit better than the rabbits with big heads that were here last week.”
“Can I rewind you and watch you again after lunch?”
And “How did you know me to put me in your story?”
I still live in London, still speak no foreign languages (although I am attempting to learn Italian to wake up my brain a bit) and I still have a sneaking suspicion that the rabbits with the big heads were really better than me but the kid was just being nice.
I wrote lots of stories for kids that nobody published but then I wrote “My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish” and Macmillan said that they were hooked. (couldn’t help the fish pun there, sorry). That series has six books and is now published in 11 different languages. Since then I’ve written over 20 books!
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Title 1: Honey's Hive
Honey is a young bee buzzing with ambition, who can’t find her role in her small hive. Just when she thinks she’s found a job she likes, a swarm threatens the whole hive! Honey makes her escape, and discovers a rooftop paradise at the top of a tower block – the perfect place to set up a new hive. Fighting off a swarm of angry wasps, and working together with her friends, Honey saves the day and builds a new home for her and her community!
The first book in an exciting new series from New York Times bestseller Mo O’Hara, packed with bee facts and stunning illustrations by Aya Kakeda.
Title 2: Honey's Hive - Bee a Friend
Honey is so good at her job as a scouting bee, finding lots of pollen for her hive, that she’s being awarded a petal medal by the Queen Bee!
But while Honey and her hive are celebrating, the other bees in the neighbourhood are struggling, there’s just not enough pollen left for them. When Honey finds out she’s really worried and tries to help the other bees find pollen too, but not all the bees in the hive think she should help outsiders.
Then the wasps come, and they attack the hive! Thankfully, all the other bees in the neighbourhood come to help their new friend Honey. Honey and her hive all realise how important it is to share and make friends.
The second book in this exciting new series from New York Times bestseller Mo O’Hara, packed with bee facts and stunning illustrations by Aya Kakeda.
The Author:
Originally from America, I moved to London because I wanted to live abroad but spoke no foreign languages. After a brief and unsuccessful stint as a serving wench at the Tower of London I found work as an actress and comedy performer. I’ve performed at Edinburgh and London comedy festivals. Years ago, when I was touring around the UK as a storyteller I discovered that kids liked, laughed at and didn’t fall asleep when I performed stuff that I wrote myself. I was hooked on writing and performing for kids. Some of my favourite quotes from kids about my storytelling sessions are:
“I guess you were a bit better than the rabbits with big heads that were here last week.”
“Can I rewind you and watch you again after lunch?”
And “How did you know me to put me in your story?”
I still live in London, still speak no foreign languages (although I am attempting to learn Italian to wake up my brain a bit) and I still have a sneaking suspicion that the rabbits with the big heads were really better than me but the kid was just being nice.
I wrote lots of stories for kids that nobody published but then I wrote “My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish” and Macmillan said that they were hooked. (couldn’t help the fish pun there, sorry). That series has six books and is now published in 11 different languages. Since then I’ve written over 20 books!
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Deborah Carr
Deborah Carr
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Book Title: Neighbours at War
Genre: Historical Fiction
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When everything is at stake, how far would you go to save your neighbour?
When German forces invade the Channel Islands and the citizens of Jersey are cut off from the rest of the UK, the islands’ residents bond together to resist the enemy.
East London native Helen Bowman was never meant to be here, but when she found herself alone and pregnant her beloved aunt’s home in Jersey was the only place she could go. But now, as the enemy start rounding up anyone not born on the island to be sent to a camp on the continent, Helen is forced to rely on the kindness of strangers, like her new friend Peggy Hamel, to keep herself and her son hidden.
As the Nazis’ net closes in, it’s soon more than just detection that is at stake for Helen and Peggy – it’s their very lives…
The Author:
Deborah Carr is a USA TODAY bestselling author of historical fiction. She lives near the beach on the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands and begins each day with a walk by the sea with her three rescue dogs before sitting down to write.
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Genre: Historical Fiction
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When everything is at stake, how far would you go to save your neighbour?
When German forces invade the Channel Islands and the citizens of Jersey are cut off from the rest of the UK, the islands’ residents bond together to resist the enemy.
East London native Helen Bowman was never meant to be here, but when she found herself alone and pregnant her beloved aunt’s home in Jersey was the only place she could go. But now, as the enemy start rounding up anyone not born on the island to be sent to a camp on the continent, Helen is forced to rely on the kindness of strangers, like her new friend Peggy Hamel, to keep herself and her son hidden.
As the Nazis’ net closes in, it’s soon more than just detection that is at stake for Helen and Peggy – it’s their very lives…
The Author:
Deborah Carr is a USA TODAY bestselling author of historical fiction. She lives near the beach on the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands and begins each day with a walk by the sea with her three rescue dogs before sitting down to write.
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Chris Lloyd
Chris Lloyd
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Book Title: Banquet of Beggars
Genre: Historical Crime Thriller
Format: Hardback (First Edition)
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THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE AWARD-WINNING OCCUPATION SERIES, FEATURING DETECTIVE EDDIE GIRAL
In Paris 1940, survival means sacrifice. Like most in the city, Detective Eddie Giral has already lost so much under Occupation: the people he once loved, the job he once believed in.
And his latest investigation into the murder of a black-marketeer has made it clearer than ever: Eddie is no longer just catching criminals. He's working for them. Because when a German trader is the next to die, the authorities decide it's innocent civilians who will pay the price – unless Eddie can find the killer in time.
As hunger grows, tensions rise and a fierce rebellion brews, Eddie will tread a dark path between doing whatever it takes to live with the enemy... and also with himself.
The Author:
After graduating in Spanish and French, Chris Lloyd lived in Catalonia for over twenty years, first in Girona and then in Barcelona, where he taught English and worked in educational publishing and as a travel writer. More recently, he worked as a Catalan and Spanish translator. He has also lived in Grenoble – researching the French Resistance movement – as well as in the Basque Country and Madrid.
Banquet of Beggars is his third novel set in Paris, featuring Detective Eddie Giral. The first, The Unwanted Dead, won the Historical Writers’ Association Gold Crown Award for best historical novel of the year, and was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Historical Dagger Award.
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Genre: Historical Crime Thriller
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THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE AWARD-WINNING OCCUPATION SERIES, FEATURING DETECTIVE EDDIE GIRAL
In Paris 1940, survival means sacrifice. Like most in the city, Detective Eddie Giral has already lost so much under Occupation: the people he once loved, the job he once believed in.
And his latest investigation into the murder of a black-marketeer has made it clearer than ever: Eddie is no longer just catching criminals. He's working for them. Because when a German trader is the next to die, the authorities decide it's innocent civilians who will pay the price – unless Eddie can find the killer in time.
As hunger grows, tensions rise and a fierce rebellion brews, Eddie will tread a dark path between doing whatever it takes to live with the enemy... and also with himself.
The Author:
After graduating in Spanish and French, Chris Lloyd lived in Catalonia for over twenty years, first in Girona and then in Barcelona, where he taught English and worked in educational publishing and as a travel writer. More recently, he worked as a Catalan and Spanish translator. He has also lived in Grenoble – researching the French Resistance movement – as well as in the Basque Country and Madrid.
Banquet of Beggars is his third novel set in Paris, featuring Detective Eddie Giral. The first, The Unwanted Dead, won the Historical Writers’ Association Gold Crown Award for best historical novel of the year, and was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Historical Dagger Award.
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David Moody
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Book title: Shadowlocked
Genre: Mystery/thriller
Format: Limited first edition hardcover
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The Book:
A disturbing psychological thriller from the author of the AUTUMN and HATER novels (optioned for film by Guillermo del Toro).
Heading home late after a night out, Adam and Lucy Logan are involved in a horrific road rage incident. Their car is forced off a bridge and ends up at the bottom of a swollen, fast-flowing river. Adam survives but Lucy drowns, trapped inside the sinking wreck.
When he's released from hospital, Adam vows to hunt down the driver responsible for his wife's death and take revenge. But according to the police the roads around the bridge were empty. There was no other car.
His world is turned upside down again when Lucy returns from the grave: an impossible shadow of her former self.
Adam's feelings for Lucy overtake his fear, and together they realise their only option is to find out what really happened on the bridge that tragic night. Until then, Lucy remains trapped on the fringes of reality between life and death. She's shadowlocked.
But the deeper Adam digs, the more he begins to realise there was much of Lucy's life - and subsequently her death - that he knew nothing about.
Praise for David Moody:
"Moody is as imaginative as Barker, as compulsory as King, and as addictive as Palahniuk." —Scream the Horror Magazine
"British horror at its absolute best." —Starburst
The author:
David Moody sold the film rights to his novel HATER to Mark Johnson (producer, Breaking Bad) and Guillermo Del Toro (director, The Shape of Water, Pan's Labyrinth). His seminal zombie novel AUTUMN was made into a movie starring Dexter Fletcher and David Carradine. Moody has an unhealthy fascination with the end of the world and likes to write books about ordinary folks going through absolute hell. Find out more about his work at http://davidmoody.net and http://infectedbooks.co.uk.
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A disturbing psychological thriller from the author of the AUTUMN and HATER novels (optioned for film by Guillermo del Toro).
Heading home late after a night out, Adam and Lucy Logan are involved in a horrific road rage incident. Their car is forced off a bridge and ends up at the bottom of a swollen, fast-flowing river. Adam survives but Lucy drowns, trapped inside the sinking wreck.
When he's released from hospital, Adam vows to hunt down the driver responsible for his wife's death and take revenge. But according to the police the roads around the bridge were empty. There was no other car.
His world is turned upside down again when Lucy returns from the grave: an impossible shadow of her former self.
Adam's feelings for Lucy overtake his fear, and together they realise their only option is to find out what really happened on the bridge that tragic night. Until then, Lucy remains trapped on the fringes of reality between life and death. She's shadowlocked.
But the deeper Adam digs, the more he begins to realise there was much of Lucy's life - and subsequently her death - that he knew nothing about.
Praise for David Moody:
"Moody is as imaginative as Barker, as compulsory as King, and as addictive as Palahniuk." —Scream the Horror Magazine
"British horror at its absolute best." —Starburst
The author:
David Moody sold the film rights to his novel HATER to Mark Johnson (producer, Breaking Bad) and Guillermo Del Toro (director, The Shape of Water, Pan's Labyrinth). His seminal zombie novel AUTUMN was made into a movie starring Dexter Fletcher and David Carradine. Moody has an unhealthy fascination with the end of the world and likes to write books about ordinary folks going through absolute hell. Find out more about his work at http://davidmoody.net and http://infectedbooks.co.uk.
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Ruth Hogan
Ruth Hogan
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Title: The Phoenix Ballroom
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Format: Hardback - First Edition
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From the wildly popular bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things: a heartfelt and inspiring story about a wealthy widow who revives a beloved famous local landmark—and restores joy and sparkle to her own life in the process.
It’s never too late to start dancing again...
For fifty years, Venetia Hargreaves’s world revolved around her husband. She built their life around his big career, with dinner on the table at six, a lovely home, and a dutiful son just as business-minded as his father. Now Venetia’s a wealthy widow left with a beautiful but empty home, an enviable bank balance, and a distinct feeling that she missed the boat. Once upon a time, she was a dance instructor who dreamed of opening her own ballroom school with a fellow teacher who won her heart. Instead, Venetia chose the safer path.
So, at seventy-four years of age, Venetia declares her independence, first with a makeover, and then by adopting a new dog. But something is still missing...until on one of her dog walks by the river she passes by a building she remembers all too well. In her youth it was the spectacular Phoenix Ballroom, where she used to teach waltzes and tangos. These days it’s a community center and spiritualist church, funded by a mysterious benefactor who only pays for the upkeep.
Eager to revive at least one meaningful thing from her past, Venetia buys the Phoenix Ballroom, and finds a supportive and loving community of lost souls who become a delightful multigenerational family-by-choice.
As the ballroom regains its former glory, the community and Venetia’s humdrum life are revived as well...proving wonderful things can come from the darkest of places.
The Author:
I was born in the house where my parents still live in Bedford: my sister was so pleased to have a sibling that she threw a thrupenny bit at me. As a child I read everything I could lay my hands on: The Moomintrolls, A Hundred Million Francs, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, the back of cereal packets and gravestones. I was mad about dogs and horses, but didn't like daddy-long-legs or sugar in my tea.
I studied English and Drama at Goldsmiths College which was brilliant, but then I came home and got a 'proper' job. I worked for ten years in a senior local government position (I was definitely a square peg in a round hole, but it paid the bills and mortgage) before a car accident left me unable to work full-time and convinced me to start writing seriously. It was going well, but then in 2012 I got cancer, which was bloody inconvenient but precipitated an exciting hair journey from bald to a peroxide blonde Annie Lennox crop. When chemo kept me up all night I passed the time writing and the eventual result was The Keeper of Lost Things.
I live in a chaotic Victorian house with an assortment of rescue dogs and my long-suffering partner (who has very recently become my husband - so I can't be that bad!) I am a magpie, always collecting treasures, and a huge John Betjeman fan. My favourite word is 'antimacassar' and I still like reading gravestones.
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Genre: Contemporary Fiction
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From the wildly popular bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things: a heartfelt and inspiring story about a wealthy widow who revives a beloved famous local landmark—and restores joy and sparkle to her own life in the process.
It’s never too late to start dancing again...
For fifty years, Venetia Hargreaves’s world revolved around her husband. She built their life around his big career, with dinner on the table at six, a lovely home, and a dutiful son just as business-minded as his father. Now Venetia’s a wealthy widow left with a beautiful but empty home, an enviable bank balance, and a distinct feeling that she missed the boat. Once upon a time, she was a dance instructor who dreamed of opening her own ballroom school with a fellow teacher who won her heart. Instead, Venetia chose the safer path.
So, at seventy-four years of age, Venetia declares her independence, first with a makeover, and then by adopting a new dog. But something is still missing...until on one of her dog walks by the river she passes by a building she remembers all too well. In her youth it was the spectacular Phoenix Ballroom, where she used to teach waltzes and tangos. These days it’s a community center and spiritualist church, funded by a mysterious benefactor who only pays for the upkeep.
Eager to revive at least one meaningful thing from her past, Venetia buys the Phoenix Ballroom, and finds a supportive and loving community of lost souls who become a delightful multigenerational family-by-choice.
As the ballroom regains its former glory, the community and Venetia’s humdrum life are revived as well...proving wonderful things can come from the darkest of places.
The Author:
I was born in the house where my parents still live in Bedford: my sister was so pleased to have a sibling that she threw a thrupenny bit at me. As a child I read everything I could lay my hands on: The Moomintrolls, A Hundred Million Francs, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, the back of cereal packets and gravestones. I was mad about dogs and horses, but didn't like daddy-long-legs or sugar in my tea.
I studied English and Drama at Goldsmiths College which was brilliant, but then I came home and got a 'proper' job. I worked for ten years in a senior local government position (I was definitely a square peg in a round hole, but it paid the bills and mortgage) before a car accident left me unable to work full-time and convinced me to start writing seriously. It was going well, but then in 2012 I got cancer, which was bloody inconvenient but precipitated an exciting hair journey from bald to a peroxide blonde Annie Lennox crop. When chemo kept me up all night I passed the time writing and the eventual result was The Keeper of Lost Things.
I live in a chaotic Victorian house with an assortment of rescue dogs and my long-suffering partner (who has very recently become my husband - so I can't be that bad!) I am a magpie, always collecting treasures, and a huge John Betjeman fan. My favourite word is 'antimacassar' and I still like reading gravestones.
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Eve Smith
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Title: ONE
Genre: thriller
Format: paperback
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One law. One child. Seven million crimes…
A catastrophic climate emergency has spawned a one-child policy in the UK, ruthlessly enforced by a totalitarian regime. Compulsory abortion of ‘excess’ pregnancies and mandatory contraceptive implants are now the norm, and families must adhere to strict consumption quotas as the world descends into chaos.
Kai is a 25-year-old ‘baby reaper’, working for the Ministry of Population and Family Planning. If any of her assigned families attempt to exceed their child quota, she ensures they pay the price.
Until, one morning, she discovers that an illegal sibling on her Ministry hit-list is hers. To protect her parents from severe penalties, she must secretly investigate before anyone else finds out.
Kai’s hunt for her forbidden sister unearths much more than a dark family secret. As she stumbles across a series of heinous crimes perpetrated by the people she trusted most, she makes a devastating discovery that could bring down the government … and tear her family apart.
The Author:
Eve Smith writes speculative thrillers, mainly about the things that scare her. She attributes her love of all things dark and dystopian to a childhood watching Tales of the Unexpected and Edgar Allen Poe double bills.
Longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize and described by Waterstones as "an exciting new voice in crime fiction", Eve’s debut novel, The Waiting Rooms, set in the aftermath of an antibiotic resistance crisis, was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize First Novel Award and was selected as a Guardian Book of the Month. It was followed by Off-Target, about a world where genetic engineering of children is routine, which was a Book of the Month in The Times.
Her latest thriller, ONE, is set in a near-future Britain where a One-Child policy is ruthlessly enforced by a totalitarian regime.
Eve’s previous job at an environmental charity took her to research projects across Asia, Africa and the Americas, and she has an ongoing passion for wild creatures, wild science and far-flung places.
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One law. One child. Seven million crimes…
A catastrophic climate emergency has spawned a one-child policy in the UK, ruthlessly enforced by a totalitarian regime. Compulsory abortion of ‘excess’ pregnancies and mandatory contraceptive implants are now the norm, and families must adhere to strict consumption quotas as the world descends into chaos.
Kai is a 25-year-old ‘baby reaper’, working for the Ministry of Population and Family Planning. If any of her assigned families attempt to exceed their child quota, she ensures they pay the price.
Until, one morning, she discovers that an illegal sibling on her Ministry hit-list is hers. To protect her parents from severe penalties, she must secretly investigate before anyone else finds out.
Kai’s hunt for her forbidden sister unearths much more than a dark family secret. As she stumbles across a series of heinous crimes perpetrated by the people she trusted most, she makes a devastating discovery that could bring down the government … and tear her family apart.
The Author:
Eve Smith writes speculative thrillers, mainly about the things that scare her. She attributes her love of all things dark and dystopian to a childhood watching Tales of the Unexpected and Edgar Allen Poe double bills.
Longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize and described by Waterstones as "an exciting new voice in crime fiction", Eve’s debut novel, The Waiting Rooms, set in the aftermath of an antibiotic resistance crisis, was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize First Novel Award and was selected as a Guardian Book of the Month. It was followed by Off-Target, about a world where genetic engineering of children is routine, which was a Book of the Month in The Times.
Her latest thriller, ONE, is set in a near-future Britain where a One-Child policy is ruthlessly enforced by a totalitarian regime.
Eve’s previous job at an environmental charity took her to research projects across Asia, Africa and the Americas, and she has an ongoing passion for wild creatures, wild science and far-flung places.
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Jon Richter
Jon Richter
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Book Title: Scarred
Genre: Fantasy
Format: Paperback (first edition)
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The Book:
Scarred is an epic fantasy story set in a mist-shrouded and desolate world. The denizens of the Enclave are trapped inside their crumbling city, tormented by the terrible plague that swirls within the fog beyond its walls, utterly reliant upon the kindness of their inscrutable god for survival. But when their deity’s mysterious, food-bearing emissaries cease to appear, the Enclave threatens to descend into chaos and starvation.
Now Freya, a brave but lowly servant, must journey across the barren landscape in search of salvation for her people. Her adventure will bring her face to face with courageous knights, terrifying dragons, monstrous giants and enigmatic wizards, and ultimately with her god himself. But nothing will prepare Freya for the truth about her scarred world - or for the shocking revelations unearthed from her own past.
Evoking classic quest sagas such as The Wizard of Oz and Stephen King's Dark Tower series, with a dash of Kazuo Ichiguro's The Buried Giant and Hugh Howey's Wool, Scarred balances stirring prose with a fast pace and gripping narrative.
The Author:
Jon lives in London and loves immersing himself in all things dark and sinister, whether they're books, films, video games or even board games – any way to tell a great story! Jon also co-hosts two podcasts: the dark fiction podcast, Dark Natter, and the cyberpunk podcast, Hosts In The Shell, which you can find wherever you get your podcast fix.
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Genre: Fantasy
Format: Paperback (first edition)
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Scarred is an epic fantasy story set in a mist-shrouded and desolate world. The denizens of the Enclave are trapped inside their crumbling city, tormented by the terrible plague that swirls within the fog beyond its walls, utterly reliant upon the kindness of their inscrutable god for survival. But when their deity’s mysterious, food-bearing emissaries cease to appear, the Enclave threatens to descend into chaos and starvation.
Now Freya, a brave but lowly servant, must journey across the barren landscape in search of salvation for her people. Her adventure will bring her face to face with courageous knights, terrifying dragons, monstrous giants and enigmatic wizards, and ultimately with her god himself. But nothing will prepare Freya for the truth about her scarred world - or for the shocking revelations unearthed from her own past.
Evoking classic quest sagas such as The Wizard of Oz and Stephen King's Dark Tower series, with a dash of Kazuo Ichiguro's The Buried Giant and Hugh Howey's Wool, Scarred balances stirring prose with a fast pace and gripping narrative.
The Author:
Jon lives in London and loves immersing himself in all things dark and sinister, whether they're books, films, video games or even board games – any way to tell a great story! Jon also co-hosts two podcasts: the dark fiction podcast, Dark Natter, and the cyberpunk podcast, Hosts In The Shell, which you can find wherever you get your podcast fix.
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Amanda James
Amanda James
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Book Title: The Garden of Memories
Genre: Women's Fiction
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With nothing but time on her hands, retired nurse Rose Lanyon finds herself drawn to the garden that had once been her husband’s pride and joy.
It may have started as a means of honouring her husband’s memory, but her little Cornish garden soon becomes so much more – a place where the lost and lonely can find solace, the forgotten can be remembered, and second chances take bloom. Because, as long as new life is growing, there will always be hope and new memories to make…
The Author:
Amanda James has written since she was a child, and as an eight-year-old, she asked her parents for a typewriter for Christmas. She never imagined her words would ever be published however. Then in 2010, after many twists and turns, the dream of becoming a writer came true when she had her first short story published for a Born Free anthology. She left teaching in 2013 to pursue her dream full-time.
Originally from Sheffield, Amanda now lives in Cornwall and is inspired every day by the wild and beautiful coastline near her home. She loves writing uplifting books with a twist of magic, as she thinks the world needs more joy in it right now. Amanda can usually be found playing on the beach with her family, or walking the cliff paths planning her next book.
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Genre: Women's Fiction
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With nothing but time on her hands, retired nurse Rose Lanyon finds herself drawn to the garden that had once been her husband’s pride and joy.
It may have started as a means of honouring her husband’s memory, but her little Cornish garden soon becomes so much more – a place where the lost and lonely can find solace, the forgotten can be remembered, and second chances take bloom. Because, as long as new life is growing, there will always be hope and new memories to make…
The Author:
Amanda James has written since she was a child, and as an eight-year-old, she asked her parents for a typewriter for Christmas. She never imagined her words would ever be published however. Then in 2010, after many twists and turns, the dream of becoming a writer came true when she had her first short story published for a Born Free anthology. She left teaching in 2013 to pursue her dream full-time.
Originally from Sheffield, Amanda now lives in Cornwall and is inspired every day by the wild and beautiful coastline near her home. She loves writing uplifting books with a twist of magic, as she thinks the world needs more joy in it right now. Amanda can usually be found playing on the beach with her family, or walking the cliff paths planning her next book.
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Sital Gorasia Chapman
Sital Gorasia Chapman
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Book Title: The Bedtime Boat
Genre: Picture Book
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A visually stunning, thoughtful and calming bedtime tale, featuring tried-and-tested mindfulness techniques.
“Watch the boat, Chandan, it floats on the ocean. It rises and falls with your breath’s gentle motion.”
Chandan has had an exciting day out with his mum – but now it’s time for bed, and however hard he tries, he just can’t sleep.
Luckily, his mum has some calming mindfulness techniqueS at her fingertips. The bedtime boat sits on Chandan’s tummy, rising and falling with his breath. As he travels on a voyage of imagination over the seas, the bedtime boat is always there to keep him grounded, and soon gently lulls him into a relaxed and peaceful sleep.
With stunning illustrations by award-winning illustrator Anastasia Suvorova, this lyrical rhyming picture book is the perfect way to help restless little ones drift off to sleep.
Bring the bedtime boat to life with the origami boat instructions inside the book.
The Author:
Sital Gorasia Chapman is a children's author from London.
She has always loved books! As a child she read as much as possible and the library was her favourite place to visit. When she wasn’t reading, she was writing, doodling or daydreaming about stories.
As a grownup, Sital spent many years working in a bank, then as a yoga teacher, then she had three children. It was while her youngest was a baby that she started writing again. And she hasn’t stopped since! She writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry for children.
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Genre: Picture Book
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The Book:
A visually stunning, thoughtful and calming bedtime tale, featuring tried-and-tested mindfulness techniques.
“Watch the boat, Chandan, it floats on the ocean. It rises and falls with your breath’s gentle motion.”
Chandan has had an exciting day out with his mum – but now it’s time for bed, and however hard he tries, he just can’t sleep.
Luckily, his mum has some calming mindfulness techniqueS at her fingertips. The bedtime boat sits on Chandan’s tummy, rising and falling with his breath. As he travels on a voyage of imagination over the seas, the bedtime boat is always there to keep him grounded, and soon gently lulls him into a relaxed and peaceful sleep.
With stunning illustrations by award-winning illustrator Anastasia Suvorova, this lyrical rhyming picture book is the perfect way to help restless little ones drift off to sleep.
Bring the bedtime boat to life with the origami boat instructions inside the book.
The Author:
Sital Gorasia Chapman is a children's author from London.
She has always loved books! As a child she read as much as possible and the library was her favourite place to visit. When she wasn’t reading, she was writing, doodling or daydreaming about stories.
As a grownup, Sital spent many years working in a bank, then as a yoga teacher, then she had three children. It was while her youngest was a baby that she started writing again. And she hasn’t stopped since! She writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry for children.
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Tia Fisher
Tia Fisher
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Book Title: Crossing the Line
Genre: Teen verse novel
Format: Paperback (First Edition)
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A powerful novel exploring how teenagers can be swept up into county lines. SHORTLISTED FOR THE YOTO CARNEGIE MEDAL 2024.
'Do you feel safe?'
Erik's life has been falling apart ever since his dad died. Homework and being good at school stop feeling important when you're the new man of the house.
When Erik's bad behaviour attracts the wrong crowd, he's sucked into a terrifying new world of drug dealing, trap houses and violence. Making money feels good but Erik soon learns that a small favour can become a huge debt, and when his sisters' lives are threatened, Erik will have to cross one more line to save them.
The Author:
Crossing the Line, a verse novel for teens, is Tia's debut novel. She works in a busy children's library in South London and has a master’s in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa University. Crossing the Line is currently listed for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for writing 2024, the UK Literacy Association Book Awards 2024 and numerous other awards. Teaching resources for Crossing the Line can be found on her website, TiaFisher dot com.
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Genre: Teen verse novel
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A powerful novel exploring how teenagers can be swept up into county lines. SHORTLISTED FOR THE YOTO CARNEGIE MEDAL 2024.
'Do you feel safe?'
Erik's life has been falling apart ever since his dad died. Homework and being good at school stop feeling important when you're the new man of the house.
When Erik's bad behaviour attracts the wrong crowd, he's sucked into a terrifying new world of drug dealing, trap houses and violence. Making money feels good but Erik soon learns that a small favour can become a huge debt, and when his sisters' lives are threatened, Erik will have to cross one more line to save them.
The Author:
Crossing the Line, a verse novel for teens, is Tia's debut novel. She works in a busy children's library in South London and has a master’s in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa University. Crossing the Line is currently listed for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for writing 2024, the UK Literacy Association Book Awards 2024 and numerous other awards. Teaching resources for Crossing the Line can be found on her website, TiaFisher dot com.
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Glynis Peters
Glynis Peters
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Title: The Orphan's Secret Library
Genre: Historical Romance
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For as long as Alice Carmichael can remember, the only thing she’s been able to count on is the written word. The war may have taken everything from her, but the stories she cherishes provide solace and escape into a world that is more hopeful than 1942 England.
So when Alice finds herself at the mercy and kindness of strangers, miles from everything she’s ever known, it’s little surprise that books become her purpose.
Now, Alice must channel the courage of her favourite heroines to risk everything for her country. Because it’s only in writing her own story that Alice can seize the destiny her beloved books have taught her she deserves…
The Author:
Glynis Peters is a British author and writes WWII historical romance novels. She lives by the sea in Essex with her husband of forty-plus years, they have three adult children, and four grandchildren. Glynis is a retired NHS nurse.
When not writing she enjoys time out with her husband and family, card-making and walking Harry their lively Cockapoo. Her son lives with his family in Cochrane, Alberta, Canada, hence the Canadian heroes and characters in her books.
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Genre: Historical Romance
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For as long as Alice Carmichael can remember, the only thing she’s been able to count on is the written word. The war may have taken everything from her, but the stories she cherishes provide solace and escape into a world that is more hopeful than 1942 England.
So when Alice finds herself at the mercy and kindness of strangers, miles from everything she’s ever known, it’s little surprise that books become her purpose.
Now, Alice must channel the courage of her favourite heroines to risk everything for her country. Because it’s only in writing her own story that Alice can seize the destiny her beloved books have taught her she deserves…
The Author:
Glynis Peters is a British author and writes WWII historical romance novels. She lives by the sea in Essex with her husband of forty-plus years, they have three adult children, and four grandchildren. Glynis is a retired NHS nurse.
When not writing she enjoys time out with her husband and family, card-making and walking Harry their lively Cockapoo. Her son lives with his family in Cochrane, Alberta, Canada, hence the Canadian heroes and characters in her books.
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Liz Davies
Liz Davies
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Book Title: The Cottage in Sweet Meadow Park
Genre: Romantic Comedy
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Enjoy a stroll in the park with this uplifting story of love, friendship and following your dreams.
When Molly Brown buys a derelict cottage in the middle of a rundown park, she hopes to return both the cottage and the park to their former glory. However, Molly soon begins to wonder whether she’s bitten off more than she can chew, especially when the good-looking guy from the council refuses to help.
In his role as Parks and Highways Officer, Jack Feathers doesn’t want to waste public funds on an overgrown, unloved park, no matter how gorgeous Molly is. But when he finds himself needing somewhere to live, Molly makes him an offer he can’t refuse – to move into her spare room, rent-free.
The catch? He has to help bring the park back to life.
It seems to be an ideal solution, until… Molly falls for Jack, the park is vandalised, and she realises he is still in love with his ex.
And soon Molly begins to regret letting Jack into her home, her life and her heart.
The Author:
Liz Davies writes feel-good, light-hearted stories with a hefty dose of romance, a smattering of humour, and a great deal of love.
She’s married to her best friend, has one grown-up daughter, and when she isn’t scribbling away in the notepad she carries with her everywhere (just in case inspiration strikes), you’ll find her searching for that perfect pair of shoes. She loves to cook but isn’t very good at it, and loves to eat - she’s much better at that! Liz also enjoys walking (preferably on the flat), cycling (also on the flat), and lots of sitting around in the garden on warm, sunny days.
She currently lives with her family in Wales, in the UK, but would ideally love to buy a camper van and travel the world in it.
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Genre: Romantic Comedy
Format: Hardback
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Enjoy a stroll in the park with this uplifting story of love, friendship and following your dreams.
When Molly Brown buys a derelict cottage in the middle of a rundown park, she hopes to return both the cottage and the park to their former glory. However, Molly soon begins to wonder whether she’s bitten off more than she can chew, especially when the good-looking guy from the council refuses to help.
In his role as Parks and Highways Officer, Jack Feathers doesn’t want to waste public funds on an overgrown, unloved park, no matter how gorgeous Molly is. But when he finds himself needing somewhere to live, Molly makes him an offer he can’t refuse – to move into her spare room, rent-free.
The catch? He has to help bring the park back to life.
It seems to be an ideal solution, until… Molly falls for Jack, the park is vandalised, and she realises he is still in love with his ex.
And soon Molly begins to regret letting Jack into her home, her life and her heart.
The Author:
Liz Davies writes feel-good, light-hearted stories with a hefty dose of romance, a smattering of humour, and a great deal of love.
She’s married to her best friend, has one grown-up daughter, and when she isn’t scribbling away in the notepad she carries with her everywhere (just in case inspiration strikes), you’ll find her searching for that perfect pair of shoes. She loves to cook but isn’t very good at it, and loves to eat - she’s much better at that! Liz also enjoys walking (preferably on the flat), cycling (also on the flat), and lots of sitting around in the garden on warm, sunny days.
She currently lives with her family in Wales, in the UK, but would ideally love to buy a camper van and travel the world in it.
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Barbara Avon
Barbara Avon
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Book Title: My Love is Deep
Genre: Romantic Suspense
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"I'm not ashamed for having loved. It is, I was once told, the best reason for dying and the only reason for living."
Peter Travis is an attractive, single man in his 50's. Yet he's lonely. He was engaged once but his heart is empty now. He lives a quiet life in the country just outside of Ottawa and although he's had his fair share of offers, he refuses to date. One woman remains on his mind and even more so now after he receives a letter. After nearly 20 years apart, she's invited him to meet her once again at the tree in Niagara Falls where they were engaged in 1986. Peter must fight with his own demons and summon the courage to reunite with his true love, a feisty Italian beauty who approached him in a bar in downtown Ottawa in the 80s. Will he have the courage to put his heart on the line once again? What forces will prevent them from rekindling their love? "My Love is Deep" is set in the year 2000 with 1980's flashbacks describing a love that many of us seek and some never find. Above all else, it will remind you to love deep, always. Book 1 in the "Peter Travis Love Stories" series. All four books read as standalone novels.
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Barbara Avon was born in Switzerland and immigrated to Canada when she was two years old. She grew up Italian in the Niagara Region and attended Notre Dame High School, and then Brock University. She moved to Ottawa, Ontario, in 1999 to pursue work. She has worked for two major Ottawa area magazines and is a published poet. In 2018, she won SpillWords Author of the Month, as well as FACES Magazine “Favourite Female Author”. Her work appears in various anthologies including Steering 23 Publications, Storytime for Grownups, and Beyond the Levee. In October of 2022, “Revived” was chosen as “Horror Book of the Year” by the “Feed My Reads” community. When she's not writing, she's experimenting in the kitchen, reading, watching 1980s movies, or engaging with her peers on Twitter. She lives in Ontario, Canada with her husband Danny, their tarantula Betsy, and their houseplant, “Romeo”.
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Genre: Romantic Suspense
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"I'm not ashamed for having loved. It is, I was once told, the best reason for dying and the only reason for living."
Peter Travis is an attractive, single man in his 50's. Yet he's lonely. He was engaged once but his heart is empty now. He lives a quiet life in the country just outside of Ottawa and although he's had his fair share of offers, he refuses to date. One woman remains on his mind and even more so now after he receives a letter. After nearly 20 years apart, she's invited him to meet her once again at the tree in Niagara Falls where they were engaged in 1986. Peter must fight with his own demons and summon the courage to reunite with his true love, a feisty Italian beauty who approached him in a bar in downtown Ottawa in the 80s. Will he have the courage to put his heart on the line once again? What forces will prevent them from rekindling their love? "My Love is Deep" is set in the year 2000 with 1980's flashbacks describing a love that many of us seek and some never find. Above all else, it will remind you to love deep, always. Book 1 in the "Peter Travis Love Stories" series. All four books read as standalone novels.
The Author:
Barbara Avon was born in Switzerland and immigrated to Canada when she was two years old. She grew up Italian in the Niagara Region and attended Notre Dame High School, and then Brock University. She moved to Ottawa, Ontario, in 1999 to pursue work. She has worked for two major Ottawa area magazines and is a published poet. In 2018, she won SpillWords Author of the Month, as well as FACES Magazine “Favourite Female Author”. Her work appears in various anthologies including Steering 23 Publications, Storytime for Grownups, and Beyond the Levee. In October of 2022, “Revived” was chosen as “Horror Book of the Year” by the “Feed My Reads” community. When she's not writing, she's experimenting in the kitchen, reading, watching 1980s movies, or engaging with her peers on Twitter. She lives in Ontario, Canada with her husband Danny, their tarantula Betsy, and their houseplant, “Romeo”.
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Nicky Moxey
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Title: Henry Baker
Genre: Children
Format: Paperback
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When Henry Baker finds a small, super-shiny black pencil on his way to school, his life is changed forever...
This nine-story compendium provides a gently stretching read for 7 to 9 year olds, or perfectly paced bedtime stories for younger children. The wide-ranging subject matter - from a friendship dilemma to helping a passing Viking; picking up the pieces from a karate disaster to finding a lost voice - will amuse your youngsters whilst quietly encouraging them to think.
Nicky is an amateur archaeologist and an author of adult historical fiction, as well as a karateka and the chair of the village Neighbourhood Plan committee - many of the stories are drawn from her research or every day life, giving them a depth of detail!
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I live in the middle of rural Suffolk, UK, and am currently owned by a slinky black cat who's far too clever for her own good.
In my spare time, I'm an amateur historian/archaeologist, and in dry daylight hours am usually out on a field somewhere with a metal detector and/or a trowel. I've added quite a few things to the Heritage England Record and the Portable Antiquities Scheme; but what really fascinates me is the stories behind the artefacts.
I love writing a series of short stories about Henry Baker, a boy who finds a magic pencil on the way to school - and who has lots of adventures as the pencil makes anything he draws, become real! He draws some historical artefacts, as well as things to get him out of the sort of trouble any 9 year old boy can find.
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Genre: Children
Format: Paperback
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When Henry Baker finds a small, super-shiny black pencil on his way to school, his life is changed forever...
This nine-story compendium provides a gently stretching read for 7 to 9 year olds, or perfectly paced bedtime stories for younger children. The wide-ranging subject matter - from a friendship dilemma to helping a passing Viking; picking up the pieces from a karate disaster to finding a lost voice - will amuse your youngsters whilst quietly encouraging them to think.
Nicky is an amateur archaeologist and an author of adult historical fiction, as well as a karateka and the chair of the village Neighbourhood Plan committee - many of the stories are drawn from her research or every day life, giving them a depth of detail!
The Author:
I live in the middle of rural Suffolk, UK, and am currently owned by a slinky black cat who's far too clever for her own good.
In my spare time, I'm an amateur historian/archaeologist, and in dry daylight hours am usually out on a field somewhere with a metal detector and/or a trowel. I've added quite a few things to the Heritage England Record and the Portable Antiquities Scheme; but what really fascinates me is the stories behind the artefacts.
I love writing a series of short stories about Henry Baker, a boy who finds a magic pencil on the way to school - and who has lots of adventures as the pencil makes anything he draws, become real! He draws some historical artefacts, as well as things to get him out of the sort of trouble any 9 year old boy can find.
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Ally Sherrick
Ally Sherrick
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Title: The Buried Crown
Genre: Children
Format: Audio Book
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It’s World War Two and Britain is on the brink of invasion.
Londoner George has been sent to live in the countryside while his brother and guardian, Charlie, trains as a fighter pilot. But the war is closer than he thinks. An ancient burial ground nearby contains a priceless treasure, a magical Anglo-Saxon crown Hitler is desperate to possess. Alongside Kitty, the granddaughter of a Jewish archaeologist, George must find and protect the crown from the Nazi invaders before it’s too late …
Read by Charlotte Strevens and published by Ulverscroft Ltd
The Author:
Ally is the award-winning author of stories full of history, mystery and adventure.
BLACK POWDER, her debut novel about a boy caught up in the Gunpowder Plot, won the Historical Association’s Young Quills Award. Other titles include THE BURIED CROWN, a wartime tale with a whiff of Anglo-Saxon myth and magic and THE QUEEN’S FOOL, a story of treachery and treason set at the court of King Henry VIII. Ally’s latest book, published February 2023 with Chicken House Books, is VITA AND THE GLADIATOR, the story of a young girl’s fight for justice in the high-stakes world of London’s gladiatorial arena.
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It’s World War Two and Britain is on the brink of invasion.
Londoner George has been sent to live in the countryside while his brother and guardian, Charlie, trains as a fighter pilot. But the war is closer than he thinks. An ancient burial ground nearby contains a priceless treasure, a magical Anglo-Saxon crown Hitler is desperate to possess. Alongside Kitty, the granddaughter of a Jewish archaeologist, George must find and protect the crown from the Nazi invaders before it’s too late …
Read by Charlotte Strevens and published by Ulverscroft Ltd
The Author:
Ally is the award-winning author of stories full of history, mystery and adventure.
BLACK POWDER, her debut novel about a boy caught up in the Gunpowder Plot, won the Historical Association’s Young Quills Award. Other titles include THE BURIED CROWN, a wartime tale with a whiff of Anglo-Saxon myth and magic and THE QUEEN’S FOOL, a story of treachery and treason set at the court of King Henry VIII. Ally’s latest book, published February 2023 with Chicken House Books, is VITA AND THE GLADIATOR, the story of a young girl’s fight for justice in the high-stakes world of London’s gladiatorial arena.
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Robert Welbourn
Robert Welbourn
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Book Title: Great Romances of the 20th Century
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Format: Paperback - first edition author copy
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The Book;
What if you don’t live happily ever after? What if you just, like, live?
Growing up on a diet of romcoms has convinced Oliver he won’t be okay until he is living happily ever after with The One. Stunningly beautiful Nicola from his office is The One; or so he believes.
It’s one thing to find The One, however, and another entirely to make her fall in love with you. And when you’re depressed, impatient, and actually quite stupid, sometimes life doesn’t always follow the script. Sometimes people forget their lines, miss their cues, or just don’t show up for filming at all.
And if Oliver believes everyone has The One, what if he isn’t Nicola’s? What if life isn’t actually like the movies?
The Author:
Robert Welbourn’s debut novel, Ideal Angels, was published in 2018 and received overwhelmingly positive reviews. Inspired by the likes of Jonathan Franzen, John Steinbeck, and Joan Didion, Robert’s writing asks the question: what is it to be human? With a BA and MA in Literature, Robert’s writing tries to find out how to survive in a world that feels like it doesn’t care. His fast-paced, ironic prose may look shallow on the surface, but in reality it makes us look into ourselves, to try and discover who we really are.
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Genre: Romantic Comedy
Format: Paperback - first edition author copy
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The Book;
What if you don’t live happily ever after? What if you just, like, live?
Growing up on a diet of romcoms has convinced Oliver he won’t be okay until he is living happily ever after with The One. Stunningly beautiful Nicola from his office is The One; or so he believes.
It’s one thing to find The One, however, and another entirely to make her fall in love with you. And when you’re depressed, impatient, and actually quite stupid, sometimes life doesn’t always follow the script. Sometimes people forget their lines, miss their cues, or just don’t show up for filming at all.
And if Oliver believes everyone has The One, what if he isn’t Nicola’s? What if life isn’t actually like the movies?
The Author:
Robert Welbourn’s debut novel, Ideal Angels, was published in 2018 and received overwhelmingly positive reviews. Inspired by the likes of Jonathan Franzen, John Steinbeck, and Joan Didion, Robert’s writing asks the question: what is it to be human? With a BA and MA in Literature, Robert’s writing tries to find out how to survive in a world that feels like it doesn’t care. His fast-paced, ironic prose may look shallow on the surface, but in reality it makes us look into ourselves, to try and discover who we really are.
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Susan E. Sage
Susan E. Sage
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Title: Dancing in the Ring
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
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Detroit in the 1920s proved to be the Paris of the West for many—including Catherine McIntosh and Robert Sage. These two law school students are as passionate about each other as they are their dreams. From a poor family in the neighborhood of Corktown, Catherine learned early on, the necessity of being resilient. She becomes one of the first women in Detroit to obtain a law degree. Bob, the 'battling barrister,' boxes in order to pay for law school. Despite his gruff and tough-boy personality, he is a friend to judges, cops, and even a couple members of the notorious Purple Gang. The couple becomes legendary in legal circles for their commitment to social justice causes—as well as notorious in the local speakeasies and dance halls. At first, their optimism seems boundless, as it had for many following an era of trauma and challenges that included the 1918 flu pandemic. It isn't long before their passionate courtship turns into a tempestuous marriage. Then the Great Depression hits and their lives are forever changed.
The Author:
Susan E. Sage is an American novelist and poet. Three of her books are published with a fourth to be released in December 2024. She has received has received the Literary Titan Book Award for her novel, DANCING IN THE RING. It was also a 2024 finalist in the Global Book Awards, and a 2023 finalist in the American Writing Awards.
Susan received an English degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. During her college years, she began publishing her poetry, and was a recipient of WSU’s Tompkins Award in Creative Writing.
After moving to the Flint area, she became a certified teacher in Language Arts, and also completed graduate coursework at the University of Michigan-Flint. An educator for over twenty years, Susan has worn many hats: an adult education teacher, educational coordinator, as well as an academic interventionist at both the elementary and secondary levels. During her years at Carman-Ainsworth High School, she served as both sponsor of the creative writing club, as well as editor of its annual magazine. She has also been active in a group of local authors, Writers as Instructors.
Her novels include INSOMINY (2010), A MENTOR AND HER MUSE (2018), and DANCING IN THE RING (2023). Susan's fourth novel, SILVER LADY, will be available for pre-order in the fall of 2024.
Susan enjoys travelling and stargazing. She lives in Flushing, Michigan, with her husband, Tom, and two cats. They have a daughter, Sarah, who is also an author.
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Genre: Historical Fiction
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The Book;
Detroit in the 1920s proved to be the Paris of the West for many—including Catherine McIntosh and Robert Sage. These two law school students are as passionate about each other as they are their dreams. From a poor family in the neighborhood of Corktown, Catherine learned early on, the necessity of being resilient. She becomes one of the first women in Detroit to obtain a law degree. Bob, the 'battling barrister,' boxes in order to pay for law school. Despite his gruff and tough-boy personality, he is a friend to judges, cops, and even a couple members of the notorious Purple Gang. The couple becomes legendary in legal circles for their commitment to social justice causes—as well as notorious in the local speakeasies and dance halls. At first, their optimism seems boundless, as it had for many following an era of trauma and challenges that included the 1918 flu pandemic. It isn't long before their passionate courtship turns into a tempestuous marriage. Then the Great Depression hits and their lives are forever changed.
The Author:
Susan E. Sage is an American novelist and poet. Three of her books are published with a fourth to be released in December 2024. She has received has received the Literary Titan Book Award for her novel, DANCING IN THE RING. It was also a 2024 finalist in the Global Book Awards, and a 2023 finalist in the American Writing Awards.
Susan received an English degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. During her college years, she began publishing her poetry, and was a recipient of WSU’s Tompkins Award in Creative Writing.
After moving to the Flint area, she became a certified teacher in Language Arts, and also completed graduate coursework at the University of Michigan-Flint. An educator for over twenty years, Susan has worn many hats: an adult education teacher, educational coordinator, as well as an academic interventionist at both the elementary and secondary levels. During her years at Carman-Ainsworth High School, she served as both sponsor of the creative writing club, as well as editor of its annual magazine. She has also been active in a group of local authors, Writers as Instructors.
Her novels include INSOMINY (2010), A MENTOR AND HER MUSE (2018), and DANCING IN THE RING (2023). Susan's fourth novel, SILVER LADY, will be available for pre-order in the fall of 2024.
Susan enjoys travelling and stargazing. She lives in Flushing, Michigan, with her husband, Tom, and two cats. They have a daughter, Sarah, who is also an author.
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Charles Spencer
Charles Spencer
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Book Title: A Very Private School
Genre: Royal Historical Biography
Format: Hardback
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
"A tour de force." --The Washington Post
In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend boarding school.
A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Charles Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt at aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness and the appalling inescapability of it all. Exploring the long-lasting impact of his experiences, Spencer presents a candid reckoning with his past and a reclamation of his childhood. And now, in a new afterword, Spencer reflects on the aftermath of his memoir's publication, including the outpouring of support and solidarity from fellow abuse survivors.
The Author:
Charles Spencer is an author, historian, public speaker, broadcaster and journalist. He is also the 9th Earl Spencer.
Charles Spencer is the author of seven non-fiction books, including three Sunday Times bestsellers: Blenheim, Battle for Europe, which was shortlisted for Historical Book of the Year at the 2005 National Book Awards; Killers of the King – which was the second highest selling History book in the UK in 2014; and The White Ship, the No. 1 bestseller on Amazon.
He has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of events in the UK, India, USA, South Africa, France, Australia, Canada, Spain, Portugal and New Zealand.
As a broadcaster, Charles Spencer worked for NBC News as an on-air correspondent from 1986 to 1995. He has been a reporter for Granada Television, has presented for the History Channel, and has appeared on many occasions as an expert on the BBC.
As a print journalist he has written in the UK for The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph, and others. In the United States he has written for Vanity Fair, Veranda, and Nest magazines.
Charles Spencer was educated at Eton, and at Oxford University, where he earned his MA in Modern History.
Most recently, Charles Spencer has enjoyed success with ‘The Rabbit Hole Detectives’, – his new podcast presented alongside Dr Cat Jarman, and the Rev. Richard Coles – which takes listeners on a fascinating dive into the origins of real and symbolic historical objects.
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Genre: Royal Historical Biography
Format: Hardback
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The Book:
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
"A tour de force." --The Washington Post
In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend boarding school.
A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Charles Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt at aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness and the appalling inescapability of it all. Exploring the long-lasting impact of his experiences, Spencer presents a candid reckoning with his past and a reclamation of his childhood. And now, in a new afterword, Spencer reflects on the aftermath of his memoir's publication, including the outpouring of support and solidarity from fellow abuse survivors.
The Author:
Charles Spencer is an author, historian, public speaker, broadcaster and journalist. He is also the 9th Earl Spencer.
Charles Spencer is the author of seven non-fiction books, including three Sunday Times bestsellers: Blenheim, Battle for Europe, which was shortlisted for Historical Book of the Year at the 2005 National Book Awards; Killers of the King – which was the second highest selling History book in the UK in 2014; and The White Ship, the No. 1 bestseller on Amazon.
He has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of events in the UK, India, USA, South Africa, France, Australia, Canada, Spain, Portugal and New Zealand.
As a broadcaster, Charles Spencer worked for NBC News as an on-air correspondent from 1986 to 1995. He has been a reporter for Granada Television, has presented for the History Channel, and has appeared on many occasions as an expert on the BBC.
As a print journalist he has written in the UK for The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph, and others. In the United States he has written for Vanity Fair, Veranda, and Nest magazines.
Charles Spencer was educated at Eton, and at Oxford University, where he earned his MA in Modern History.
Most recently, Charles Spencer has enjoyed success with ‘The Rabbit Hole Detectives’, – his new podcast presented alongside Dr Cat Jarman, and the Rev. Richard Coles – which takes listeners on a fascinating dive into the origins of real and symbolic historical objects.
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The Rabbit Hole Detectives
The Rabbit Hole Detectives
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Title: The Rabbit Hole Book
Genre: Trivia - Quiz Questions
Format: Paperback / Hardback
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A WARREN OF WEIRD AND WONDERFUL FACTS AND TALES RESCUED FROM OBSCURITY
The first trivia book from the team behind the hit history podcast The Rabbit Hole Detectives, investigating the provenance of historical objects, real and metaphorical, with intelligence and humour
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Ever fallen down a rabbit hole?
Ever got lost chasing a fact, a hunch or a curious piece of cultural ephemera?
Then the Rabbit Hole Detectives – Richard Coles, Cat Jarman and Charles Spencer – are here to do the burrowing for you.
Why were eight WWII Hurricane fighter planes buried in Ukraine?
What have chimpanzees to do with the invention of toilet paper?
How many dynamite sticks should not be used to blow up a whale?
Which ancient civilisation liked a short tongue and a shaved head?
Written to accompany the unforgettable hit podcast, The Rabbit Hole Book follows Richard, Cat and Charles as they investigate and elucidate weird and wonderful curiosities from history, telling stories that are as often dumbfounding as they are gripping, as unexpected as they are hilarious or deeply moving.
What are you waiting for?
Welcome to the warren . . .
Whatever you think you know, guess again.
The Authors:
Charles Spencer (Author)
Charles Spencer is a journalist, broadcaster and author of historical non-fiction. He is the author of seven non-fiction books, including the number one bestselling memoir A Very Private School and the bestselling histories Blenheim, Battle for Europe, Killers of the King and The White Ship. Charles has also written for numerous publications including Vanity Fair, The Spectator, The FT and The Guardian.
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Richard Coles (Author)
The Reverend Richard Coles is a writer, presenter and Church of England clergyman. He is the only vicar in Britain to have had a number-one hit single and appear on Strictly Come Dancing. Richard Coles is the author of the bestselling Murder Before Evensong mystery.
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Cat Jarman (Author)
Professor Cat Jarman is a bioarchaeologist and field archaeologist and the bestselling author of River Kings and The Bone Chests. She is also a historical adviser for museums and an experienced public speaker who frequently shares her expertise on BBC radio, podcasts, and TV. Professor Jarman's research has been covered by print and online news outlets internationally.
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Genre: Trivia - Quiz Questions
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The Book;
A WARREN OF WEIRD AND WONDERFUL FACTS AND TALES RESCUED FROM OBSCURITY
The first trivia book from the team behind the hit history podcast The Rabbit Hole Detectives, investigating the provenance of historical objects, real and metaphorical, with intelligence and humour
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Ever fallen down a rabbit hole?
Ever got lost chasing a fact, a hunch or a curious piece of cultural ephemera?
Then the Rabbit Hole Detectives – Richard Coles, Cat Jarman and Charles Spencer – are here to do the burrowing for you.
Why were eight WWII Hurricane fighter planes buried in Ukraine?
What have chimpanzees to do with the invention of toilet paper?
How many dynamite sticks should not be used to blow up a whale?
Which ancient civilisation liked a short tongue and a shaved head?
Written to accompany the unforgettable hit podcast, The Rabbit Hole Book follows Richard, Cat and Charles as they investigate and elucidate weird and wonderful curiosities from history, telling stories that are as often dumbfounding as they are gripping, as unexpected as they are hilarious or deeply moving.
What are you waiting for?
Welcome to the warren . . .
Whatever you think you know, guess again.
The Authors:
Charles Spencer (Author)
Charles Spencer is a journalist, broadcaster and author of historical non-fiction. He is the author of seven non-fiction books, including the number one bestselling memoir A Very Private School and the bestselling histories Blenheim, Battle for Europe, Killers of the King and The White Ship. Charles has also written for numerous publications including Vanity Fair, The Spectator, The FT and The Guardian.
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Richard Coles (Author)
The Reverend Richard Coles is a writer, presenter and Church of England clergyman. He is the only vicar in Britain to have had a number-one hit single and appear on Strictly Come Dancing. Richard Coles is the author of the bestselling Murder Before Evensong mystery.
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Cat Jarman (Author)
Professor Cat Jarman is a bioarchaeologist and field archaeologist and the bestselling author of River Kings and The Bone Chests. She is also a historical adviser for museums and an experienced public speaker who frequently shares her expertise on BBC radio, podcasts, and TV. Professor Jarman's research has been covered by print and online news outlets internationally.
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Title 1: The Order of the White Boar, books 1 and 2
Genre: Historical fiction / Children’s
Title 2: King in Waiting, books 3 and 4 of The Order of the White Boar
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The Order of the White Boar:
Welcome – to all new members of the Order of the White Boar!
The group of friends who have sworn lifelong loyalty – to each other and to their good lord, King Richard III.
Read about their adventures in The Order of the White Boar, The King’s Man and now King in Waiting and Sons of York (published in 2022)
The Order of the White Boar follows the adventures of Matthew Wansford, 12-year-old page to Duke Richard of Gloucester, and his friends, Alys, Roger, Elen and little Ed, at Middleham Castle from the summer of 1482. The King’s Man continues the story in the spring of 1483, as the Year of the Three Kings unfolds.
King in Waiting and Sons of York pick up the story of Matt and his friends in 1486, in the tumultuous early part of the reign of a certain Henry Tudor…
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Genre: Historical fiction / Children’s
Title 2: King in Waiting, books 3 and 4 of The Order of the White Boar
Genre: Historical fiction / Children’s
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The Order of the White Boar:
Welcome – to all new members of the Order of the White Boar!
The group of friends who have sworn lifelong loyalty – to each other and to their good lord, King Richard III.
Read about their adventures in The Order of the White Boar, The King’s Man and now King in Waiting and Sons of York (published in 2022)
The Order of the White Boar follows the adventures of Matthew Wansford, 12-year-old page to Duke Richard of Gloucester, and his friends, Alys, Roger, Elen and little Ed, at Middleham Castle from the summer of 1482. The King’s Man continues the story in the spring of 1483, as the Year of the Three Kings unfolds.
King in Waiting and Sons of York pick up the story of Matt and his friends in 1486, in the tumultuous early part of the reign of a certain Henry Tudor…
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Andrew Sanders
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Book Title: Whose Dog is This?
Genre: Children's Picture Book (4-6 years)
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There's a house full of mud, mess and cheese sauce. Is it the case that Albert has simply 'borrowed' his neighbour's dog and create chaos? Or, as Albert claims, is the clueless canine *really* a Secret Agent named Jonny Waffles - super spy extraordinaire - and the two of them have been trying to stop a bad goose from taking over the world?
This riotous, laugh-out-loud, story is the perfect bed-time treat, and was the runner up in the Waterstones Children's Book of the Year Award 2024.
The Author:
Andrew Sanders is a cheery Yorkshireman, and possesses two legs, one nose and quite a good belly button. He finds writing about himself in the third person a bit weird, and he often ends up getting a bit flustered and using silly words in the wrong places, which is very arboreal of him. To date, he has published two books with Pan Macmillan, including Whose Dog is This? and it's prequel, Where Has All the Cake Gone?
Andrew enjoys doing school and charity events and is a big believer in making both reading and life as fun as possible, because... well, why not?
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Genre: Children's Picture Book (4-6 years)
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There's a house full of mud, mess and cheese sauce. Is it the case that Albert has simply 'borrowed' his neighbour's dog and create chaos? Or, as Albert claims, is the clueless canine *really* a Secret Agent named Jonny Waffles - super spy extraordinaire - and the two of them have been trying to stop a bad goose from taking over the world?
This riotous, laugh-out-loud, story is the perfect bed-time treat, and was the runner up in the Waterstones Children's Book of the Year Award 2024.
The Author:
Andrew Sanders is a cheery Yorkshireman, and possesses two legs, one nose and quite a good belly button. He finds writing about himself in the third person a bit weird, and he often ends up getting a bit flustered and using silly words in the wrong places, which is very arboreal of him. To date, he has published two books with Pan Macmillan, including Whose Dog is This? and it's prequel, Where Has All the Cake Gone?
Andrew enjoys doing school and charity events and is a big believer in making both reading and life as fun as possible, because... well, why not?
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Nazima Pathan
Nazima Pathan
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Book Title: Dream Hunters
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy Adventure
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Set in a fantasy, reimagined India where dreams can be captured and bottled, a young girl adventures to save the king and rescue her parents.
Twelve-year-old Mimi lives with her Aunt Moyna in a centuries-old Citadel where she studies the ancient practice of making, capturing and recycling dreams. The Citadel was once run by Mimi’s parents who have been imprisoned by the king, accused of treason.
When Mimi spies a royal visitor, she uncovers a plot to transform the Citadel from a place of gentle, healing dream craft and a dangerous plot – the crown prince is purchasing nightmares from her aunt to poison the king.
With only her dream creature, Lalu, and her best friend Rafi, Mimi must escape the Citadel and begin a perilous journey across India. There are few people she can trust, but saving the life of the king and foiling her aunt’s scheme is in Mimi’s hands alone...
The Author:
Nazima was born in India and raised in London, moving later to Cambridge where she lives with her husband and two children. She is a children’s doctor and researcher but has always enjoyed reading and writing stories. In a way, science when conveyed well is a tale of the why’s, the how’s and therefore’s.
But children’s stories are special, important and fun, and after learning the craft of writing fiction, Nazima found a home in creating magical stories for curious children who believe in the right to dream.
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Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy Adventure
Format: Paperback (First Edition)
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The Book :
Set in a fantasy, reimagined India where dreams can be captured and bottled, a young girl adventures to save the king and rescue her parents.
Twelve-year-old Mimi lives with her Aunt Moyna in a centuries-old Citadel where she studies the ancient practice of making, capturing and recycling dreams. The Citadel was once run by Mimi’s parents who have been imprisoned by the king, accused of treason.
When Mimi spies a royal visitor, she uncovers a plot to transform the Citadel from a place of gentle, healing dream craft and a dangerous plot – the crown prince is purchasing nightmares from her aunt to poison the king.
With only her dream creature, Lalu, and her best friend Rafi, Mimi must escape the Citadel and begin a perilous journey across India. There are few people she can trust, but saving the life of the king and foiling her aunt’s scheme is in Mimi’s hands alone...
The Author:
Nazima was born in India and raised in London, moving later to Cambridge where she lives with her husband and two children. She is a children’s doctor and researcher but has always enjoyed reading and writing stories. In a way, science when conveyed well is a tale of the why’s, the how’s and therefore’s.
But children’s stories are special, important and fun, and after learning the craft of writing fiction, Nazima found a home in creating magical stories for curious children who believe in the right to dream.
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Amy Patricia Meade
Amy Patricia Meade
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Book Title: Game Over at Guild Hall
Genre: Mystery
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“It’s game on when the longtime organizer of the annual Game Supper is murdered right in front of the diners. Readers who enjoy mysteries set in colorful rural settings will love Game Over at Guild Hall.” —Sue Ann Jaffarian, author of the Odelia Grey and Ghost of Granny Apples mysteries
In rural Vermont, where hunting and trapping are a way of life, nothing is bigger than the annual wild game supper at Guild Hall. Stella can’t wait to sample the exotic dishes prepared by her neighbors, but when the longtime organizer of the supper falls dead, a victim of poisoning, Stella’s appetite—along with a roomful of suspects—vanishes. Then that same night someone ransacks the hall’s kitchen, presumably to destroy any evidence, and spots Stella snooping. Now she fears she may be the next target.
Certain the only way to save herself is to find the culprit, Stella digs into the victim’s life hoping to discover who might have wanted him dead. It turns out he’d made countless enemies over the years, as volunteers at the event were run ragged and hunters who wanted their food included were shunned. What’s more, Stella discovers the victim had unearthed a shameful and long-buried secret at the hall itself. With the list of possible suspects growing and her life in danger, Stella zeroes in on a clue that could break the case wide open—as long as she can stay out of the killer’s crosshairs . . .
The Author:
Author of the critically acclaimed Marjorie McClelland and Tish Tarragon Mysteries, Amy Patricia Meade is a native of Long Island, New York, where she cut her teeth on classic films and books featuring Nancy Drew and Encyclopedia Brown.
After stints as an Operations Manager and a freelance technical writer, Amy relocated to southwest England, where she was a featured author at Agatha Christie’s Annual Greenway Literary Festival. Now residing in Upstate New York, Amy spends her time writing mysteries with a humorous or historical bent. When not writing—which is rare these days—Amy enjoys traveling, testing out new recipes, and classic films
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Genre: Mystery
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“It’s game on when the longtime organizer of the annual Game Supper is murdered right in front of the diners. Readers who enjoy mysteries set in colorful rural settings will love Game Over at Guild Hall.” —Sue Ann Jaffarian, author of the Odelia Grey and Ghost of Granny Apples mysteries
In rural Vermont, where hunting and trapping are a way of life, nothing is bigger than the annual wild game supper at Guild Hall. Stella can’t wait to sample the exotic dishes prepared by her neighbors, but when the longtime organizer of the supper falls dead, a victim of poisoning, Stella’s appetite—along with a roomful of suspects—vanishes. Then that same night someone ransacks the hall’s kitchen, presumably to destroy any evidence, and spots Stella snooping. Now she fears she may be the next target.
Certain the only way to save herself is to find the culprit, Stella digs into the victim’s life hoping to discover who might have wanted him dead. It turns out he’d made countless enemies over the years, as volunteers at the event were run ragged and hunters who wanted their food included were shunned. What’s more, Stella discovers the victim had unearthed a shameful and long-buried secret at the hall itself. With the list of possible suspects growing and her life in danger, Stella zeroes in on a clue that could break the case wide open—as long as she can stay out of the killer’s crosshairs . . .
The Author:
Author of the critically acclaimed Marjorie McClelland and Tish Tarragon Mysteries, Amy Patricia Meade is a native of Long Island, New York, where she cut her teeth on classic films and books featuring Nancy Drew and Encyclopedia Brown.
After stints as an Operations Manager and a freelance technical writer, Amy relocated to southwest England, where she was a featured author at Agatha Christie’s Annual Greenway Literary Festival. Now residing in Upstate New York, Amy spends her time writing mysteries with a humorous or historical bent. When not writing—which is rare these days—Amy enjoys traveling, testing out new recipes, and classic films
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Lissa Morgan
Lissa Morgan
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Book Title: The Warriors of Wales (2 book set)
Genre: Historical Romance Fiction
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The Book : The Warriors of Wales. Book one - The Warriors Reluctant Wife; Book two - The Warriors Forbidden Maiden. Historical romance set in 12th century Wales.
Book one - The Warrior's Reluctant Wife: An arranged marriage, an unexpected love? Recently widowed, Rhianon hopes never to find herself bound to a man again, after being raised by a violent father and married to an unpredictable husband. But to seal a strategic alliance she’s forced to marry Peredur ab Eilyr—a warrior with a formidable reputation! Rhianon might be a reluctant wife but as they begin their new life in a remote frontier castle, her husband begins to reveal a passionate side that Rhianon is anything but reluctant to explore. Meanwhile war and treachery come ever closer…
Book two - The Warrior's Forbidden Maiden: Will forbidden love become forever love in this medieval romance?
Seven years ago, Llywelyn was ready to renounce everything to become a monk. But on the eve of his departure, he shared a forbidden night with his childhood sweetheart, Cristin. Then his world was turned upside down by the death of his brother, which left Llywelyn as his family’s sole heir, duty bound to fight on the battlefield. Now a hardened warrior, he’s reunited with Cristin once more. But when the war ends – be it in victory and freedom for Wales or in the defeat and conquest of his country - will Llywelyn return to his vocation or will he remain with his love?
Published by Harlequin Mills and Boon
The Author:
Lissa Morgan hails from Wales but has travelled far and wide over the years, usually in pursuit of the next new job. A history graduate and former archivist, she lives between the mountains and the sea in rugged north-west Wales, surrounded by medieval castles that provide the perfect inspiration for her writing. Vist Lissa at http://lissamorgan.com, http://Facebook.com/lissamorganhistoricalromance, https://Twitter.com/LissaMorganAuth.
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Genre: Historical Romance Fiction
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The Book : The Warriors of Wales. Book one - The Warriors Reluctant Wife; Book two - The Warriors Forbidden Maiden. Historical romance set in 12th century Wales.
Book one - The Warrior's Reluctant Wife: An arranged marriage, an unexpected love? Recently widowed, Rhianon hopes never to find herself bound to a man again, after being raised by a violent father and married to an unpredictable husband. But to seal a strategic alliance she’s forced to marry Peredur ab Eilyr—a warrior with a formidable reputation! Rhianon might be a reluctant wife but as they begin their new life in a remote frontier castle, her husband begins to reveal a passionate side that Rhianon is anything but reluctant to explore. Meanwhile war and treachery come ever closer…
Book two - The Warrior's Forbidden Maiden: Will forbidden love become forever love in this medieval romance?
Seven years ago, Llywelyn was ready to renounce everything to become a monk. But on the eve of his departure, he shared a forbidden night with his childhood sweetheart, Cristin. Then his world was turned upside down by the death of his brother, which left Llywelyn as his family’s sole heir, duty bound to fight on the battlefield. Now a hardened warrior, he’s reunited with Cristin once more. But when the war ends – be it in victory and freedom for Wales or in the defeat and conquest of his country - will Llywelyn return to his vocation or will he remain with his love?
Published by Harlequin Mills and Boon
The Author:
Lissa Morgan hails from Wales but has travelled far and wide over the years, usually in pursuit of the next new job. A history graduate and former archivist, she lives between the mountains and the sea in rugged north-west Wales, surrounded by medieval castles that provide the perfect inspiration for her writing. Vist Lissa at http://lissamorgan.com, http://Facebook.com/lissamorganhistoricalromance, https://Twitter.com/LissaMorganAuth.
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Alan Dapre
Alan Dapre
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Book Title: GRIZZLY BEN
Genre: Children's picture book
Format: Paperback - 1st Edition
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Ben loves grizzly bears so much that he wants a real one for his birthday. Instead, he gets a toy cuddly bear. Making the best of the situation, Ben tries to teach Cuddly Bear how to eat honey, fish and climb a tree like a grizzly bear.
Cuddly Bear is soon covered in honey, soggy and stuck in a tree! Every time the toy bear cannot do something, Ben gets more and more grizzly. So completely grizzly that he grows furry ears, a shiny black nose, paws, a furry coat, claws and a round tail. Ben becomes a grizzly bear.
What will it take for Grizzly Ben to become Ben again?
This gorgeously quirky tale of a grumpy and grizzly little boy will capture your heart, with Alex Ayliffe’s illustrations, which are full of energy and vitality, taking the reader on a familiar journey from tantrums to tucked up in bed.
A story with relatable themes of companionship, friendship, feelings, emotions and love. Perfect for your grizzly little bears.
The Author:
I'm the author of 60 books for children. My stories and plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio & published for use in schools. A former TV scriptwriter whose work was BAFTA nominated, I now write funny stories for young readers. Reviewers have picked up on the pacy plotting, inventive wordplay & quirky humour in my work. I don't write for boys or girls. I write for all children because stories are for everyone.
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Ben loves grizzly bears so much that he wants a real one for his birthday. Instead, he gets a toy cuddly bear. Making the best of the situation, Ben tries to teach Cuddly Bear how to eat honey, fish and climb a tree like a grizzly bear.
Cuddly Bear is soon covered in honey, soggy and stuck in a tree! Every time the toy bear cannot do something, Ben gets more and more grizzly. So completely grizzly that he grows furry ears, a shiny black nose, paws, a furry coat, claws and a round tail. Ben becomes a grizzly bear.
What will it take for Grizzly Ben to become Ben again?
This gorgeously quirky tale of a grumpy and grizzly little boy will capture your heart, with Alex Ayliffe’s illustrations, which are full of energy and vitality, taking the reader on a familiar journey from tantrums to tucked up in bed.
A story with relatable themes of companionship, friendship, feelings, emotions and love. Perfect for your grizzly little bears.
The Author:
I'm the author of 60 books for children. My stories and plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio & published for use in schools. A former TV scriptwriter whose work was BAFTA nominated, I now write funny stories for young readers. Reviewers have picked up on the pacy plotting, inventive wordplay & quirky humour in my work. I don't write for boys or girls. I write for all children because stories are for everyone.
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Kate Weston
Kate Weston
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Title 1: Murder on a School Night
Title 2:Murder on a Summer Break
Genre: YA Comedy Thriller
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Murder on a School Night
Sex Education meets A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder in this darkly hilarious YA murder mystery by Comedy Women in Print Prize and Carnegie Medal nominated author, Kate Weston.
Fiercely funny, feminist and FUN! I bloody loved it’ M.A. KUZNIAR
There’s never a good time to find a dead body. But finding a dead body while you’re trying to kiss your crush?
Dead awkward.
All Kerry wants to do is stay at home with her rom-coms and strict retainer schedule. Instead, her BFF Annie has roped her into going to their first sixth-form party to investigate who’s cyberbullying Heather, the most popular girl in school.
On the cusp of kissing her dreamy crush, Scott, Kerry discovers the body of Heather's second in command – suffocated with a menstrual cup. Within days, another student turns up dead, this time with a sanitary pad across the eyes. Now Annie and Kerry are officially on the case to stop the menstrual murderer . . . period.
Murder on a Summer Break
The hilarious, addictive sequel to YA murder mystery Murder on a School Night by Comedy Women in Print Prize and Carnegie Medal nominated author, Kate Weston. Perfect for fans of Sex Education and A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
‘Kate Weston’s hilarious YA murder mystery is a must’– Irish Independent on Murder on a School Night
School outcasts-turned-detective duo, Kerry and Annie, are BACK – and after solving last summer’s menstrual murders, they’re now known as The Tampon Two. (Kerry is uncomfortable with this level of attention, Annie is refreshing her follower count every two seconds.)
When they attend the Festival of Fame, it’s the chance to meet their favourite feminist influencer IRL – along with a host of social media stars, including a tiresome prankster Timmy, super-glam beauty vlogger Celeste and Mystic Millie, who makes very vague predictions.
But then one of the influencers ends up dead.
The festival goes into lockdown, Annie is delighted that she and Kerry are trapped in a yurt with celebrities – Kerry is more concerned that there’s a killer among them. Will the Tampon Two find out who it is before they strike again?
The Author:
Biography. Kate Weston is an ex-stand up comedian and the author of You May Now Kill the Bride, the YA Comedy Murder Mysteries: Murder On A School Night, and Murder On a Summer Break, and Diary of a Confused Feminist and Must Do Better.
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Title 2:Murder on a Summer Break
Genre: YA Comedy Thriller
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The Books:
Murder on a School Night
Sex Education meets A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder in this darkly hilarious YA murder mystery by Comedy Women in Print Prize and Carnegie Medal nominated author, Kate Weston.
Fiercely funny, feminist and FUN! I bloody loved it’ M.A. KUZNIAR
There’s never a good time to find a dead body. But finding a dead body while you’re trying to kiss your crush?
Dead awkward.
All Kerry wants to do is stay at home with her rom-coms and strict retainer schedule. Instead, her BFF Annie has roped her into going to their first sixth-form party to investigate who’s cyberbullying Heather, the most popular girl in school.
On the cusp of kissing her dreamy crush, Scott, Kerry discovers the body of Heather's second in command – suffocated with a menstrual cup. Within days, another student turns up dead, this time with a sanitary pad across the eyes. Now Annie and Kerry are officially on the case to stop the menstrual murderer . . . period.
Murder on a Summer Break
The hilarious, addictive sequel to YA murder mystery Murder on a School Night by Comedy Women in Print Prize and Carnegie Medal nominated author, Kate Weston. Perfect for fans of Sex Education and A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
‘Kate Weston’s hilarious YA murder mystery is a must’– Irish Independent on Murder on a School Night
School outcasts-turned-detective duo, Kerry and Annie, are BACK – and after solving last summer’s menstrual murders, they’re now known as The Tampon Two. (Kerry is uncomfortable with this level of attention, Annie is refreshing her follower count every two seconds.)
When they attend the Festival of Fame, it’s the chance to meet their favourite feminist influencer IRL – along with a host of social media stars, including a tiresome prankster Timmy, super-glam beauty vlogger Celeste and Mystic Millie, who makes very vague predictions.
But then one of the influencers ends up dead.
The festival goes into lockdown, Annie is delighted that she and Kerry are trapped in a yurt with celebrities – Kerry is more concerned that there’s a killer among them. Will the Tampon Two find out who it is before they strike again?
The Author:
Biography. Kate Weston is an ex-stand up comedian and the author of You May Now Kill the Bride, the YA Comedy Murder Mysteries: Murder On A School Night, and Murder On a Summer Break, and Diary of a Confused Feminist and Must Do Better.
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Book Title: You May Now Kill the Bride
Genre: Comedy Thriller
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You May Now Kill the Bride
Their hangovers may fade, but this is a hen party they'll never forget...
Lauren, Saskia, Dominica, Farah and Tansy have been friends since nursery. They wonder if that was the last time they all actually liked each other.
Reunited as bridesmaids at Tansy's spiritual hen party in the woods, it doesn't take long before old grudges begin to surface. Not to mention the secret they've been hiding for twenty years.
But what starts as a weekend of macramé and contraband vodka ends in murder when Tansy chokes to death on a poisoned cacao drink.
As the body count keeps climbing, the friends realise that one of their group must be the killer - and if any of them want to make it down the aisle, they need to watch their sash-covered backs.
Who will be left standing when the bouquet is thrown?
The Author:
Kate Weston is an ex-stand up comedian and the author of You May Now Kill the Bride, the YA Comedy Murder Mysteries: Murder On A School Night, and Murder On a Summer Break, and Diary of a Confused Feminist and Must Do Better.
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The Book:
You May Now Kill the Bride
Their hangovers may fade, but this is a hen party they'll never forget...
Lauren, Saskia, Dominica, Farah and Tansy have been friends since nursery. They wonder if that was the last time they all actually liked each other.
Reunited as bridesmaids at Tansy's spiritual hen party in the woods, it doesn't take long before old grudges begin to surface. Not to mention the secret they've been hiding for twenty years.
But what starts as a weekend of macramé and contraband vodka ends in murder when Tansy chokes to death on a poisoned cacao drink.
As the body count keeps climbing, the friends realise that one of their group must be the killer - and if any of them want to make it down the aisle, they need to watch their sash-covered backs.
Who will be left standing when the bouquet is thrown?
The Author:
Kate Weston is an ex-stand up comedian and the author of You May Now Kill the Bride, the YA Comedy Murder Mysteries: Murder On A School Night, and Murder On a Summer Break, and Diary of a Confused Feminist and Must Do Better.
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Lazza Ogden
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Book Title: The Resurrection of Dutch Courage
Genre: Comedy/ Humour/ Lad Lit
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The Book:
Twenty years on from the disastrous European tour that concluded with the loss of band vocalist ‘Bosco’ at sea, hapless indie rock band DUTCH COURAGE reform thanks to a chance encounter.
Now armed with top level management and enthusiastic new members, originals John Leonard and Martin McCarthy begin to at long last make headway in the music business.
TV shows, dream gigs at renown music festivals and a tour of the USA beckon for our rock heroes. Has the curse of Dutch Courage finally been lifted?
But there are of course downsides with the trappings of fame. Problems with drink and drugs raise their heads once again in all amusing manners and the band acquire a crazed stalker who makes life difficult for all the group members.
You’ve seen the pub gig and got the T-shirt. This time you’re going to need a visa for that plane ride as Dutch Courage rocket jet pants over the pond to traverse the American East and West coasts for a tour like no other.
Will everyone survive this time?
Will they be around to celebrate a fortieth anniversary?
Buckle up citizens and prepare yourself for crazies, religious fanatics, and the answers to those all-important questions of why your arse hair doesn’t go grey.
The Author:
Born a Libran in England's sporting capital city LA (Leicester Area). "The Curse of Dutch Courage" is / was my first book.
Other than writing i enjoy listening to most cutting edge music (If your 40+) like Mod, Punk, Ska, Indie, Metal & Oi.
The house i share with my wife and 2 cats resembles a record shop and there is even a check out till in the kitchen next to the toaster which is manned daily for authenticity (Closed Sundays). My place is just full of CDs, books and vinyl.
After drinking a strong Latte and doing the Rubiks cube of a morning, I can be found watching WWE wrestling, darts or speedway on the box.
I'm big in football and cricket and I'm a regular on the terraces of English non-league team Coalville Town FC.
My US teams are the Bruins (football) & Dodgers (baseball)
Many of the tales that make my book are TRUE. Many happened on some mad weekends away with various punk bands in the late nineties (Terrorist kidnap, nautical disaster anyone) & many other stories like turning up in the wrong country for a gig didn't make the cut as i don't think you'd believe them.
The difficult 2nd book is now upon us. More (mostly) true things that happened this time on tour in America. Welcome to the fold "The Resurrection of Dutch Courage"
Expect more violence and extremity.
If you travel with me....GET INSURANCE!
Now strap yourself in, buy my book, grab a beer and let's rocket jet pants into the world of humor!
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Genre: Comedy/ Humour/ Lad Lit
Format: Paperback
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Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book:
Twenty years on from the disastrous European tour that concluded with the loss of band vocalist ‘Bosco’ at sea, hapless indie rock band DUTCH COURAGE reform thanks to a chance encounter.
Now armed with top level management and enthusiastic new members, originals John Leonard and Martin McCarthy begin to at long last make headway in the music business.
TV shows, dream gigs at renown music festivals and a tour of the USA beckon for our rock heroes. Has the curse of Dutch Courage finally been lifted?
But there are of course downsides with the trappings of fame. Problems with drink and drugs raise their heads once again in all amusing manners and the band acquire a crazed stalker who makes life difficult for all the group members.
You’ve seen the pub gig and got the T-shirt. This time you’re going to need a visa for that plane ride as Dutch Courage rocket jet pants over the pond to traverse the American East and West coasts for a tour like no other.
Will everyone survive this time?
Will they be around to celebrate a fortieth anniversary?
Buckle up citizens and prepare yourself for crazies, religious fanatics, and the answers to those all-important questions of why your arse hair doesn’t go grey.
The Author:
Born a Libran in England's sporting capital city LA (Leicester Area). "The Curse of Dutch Courage" is / was my first book.
Other than writing i enjoy listening to most cutting edge music (If your 40+) like Mod, Punk, Ska, Indie, Metal & Oi.
The house i share with my wife and 2 cats resembles a record shop and there is even a check out till in the kitchen next to the toaster which is manned daily for authenticity (Closed Sundays). My place is just full of CDs, books and vinyl.
After drinking a strong Latte and doing the Rubiks cube of a morning, I can be found watching WWE wrestling, darts or speedway on the box.
I'm big in football and cricket and I'm a regular on the terraces of English non-league team Coalville Town FC.
My US teams are the Bruins (football) & Dodgers (baseball)
Many of the tales that make my book are TRUE. Many happened on some mad weekends away with various punk bands in the late nineties (Terrorist kidnap, nautical disaster anyone) & many other stories like turning up in the wrong country for a gig didn't make the cut as i don't think you'd believe them.
The difficult 2nd book is now upon us. More (mostly) true things that happened this time on tour in America. Welcome to the fold "The Resurrection of Dutch Courage"
Expect more violence and extremity.
If you travel with me....GET INSURANCE!
Now strap yourself in, buy my book, grab a beer and let's rocket jet pants into the world of humor!
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Book title: The House on the Shore
Genre: Romantic suspense
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The Book:
Heartbroken Anna MacDonald leaves Edinburgh to find peace at the edge of a Scottish loch. But mysterious accidents and unexplained events mean that her peace is short-lived.
The Author:
Victoria Howard is the author of three romantic suspense novels; The House on the Shore, (a 2009 Joan Hessayon Award finalist, and London Book Festival Honourable Mention: Fiction), Three Weeks Last Spring, and Ring of Lies. Several of her short stories have appeared in anthologies, including the Kindle short, A Little Protection.
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Genre: Romantic suspense
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Heartbroken Anna MacDonald leaves Edinburgh to find peace at the edge of a Scottish loch. But mysterious accidents and unexplained events mean that her peace is short-lived.
The Author:
Victoria Howard is the author of three romantic suspense novels; The House on the Shore, (a 2009 Joan Hessayon Award finalist, and London Book Festival Honourable Mention: Fiction), Three Weeks Last Spring, and Ring of Lies. Several of her short stories have appeared in anthologies, including the Kindle short, A Little Protection.
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Andy Shepherd
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The Book: The Ultimate Guide To Growing Dragon
Genre: Children’s fiction 7-9 years
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
An enchanting companion title to Andy Shepherd and Sara Ogilvie's bestselling THE BOY WHO GREW DRAGONS seriesTomas, the boy who grew dragons, is officially the Grand High Dragon Master. He's lived with his dragons - Flicker and Zing - and grown dozens more. He's an expert at caring for the dragonfruit tree. He knows all the tricks for training dragons, nurturing dragonfruit seedlings and defusing dragon poo. So - he has this brilliant idea. He and his friends have got to get all their dragon expertise down, in one easy-to-read place, for them, and anyone else who might find themselves growing dragons! The only problem is - Tomas's friends Ted, Kat, Kai, Liam and Aura are currently scattered all around the world, from Suffolk to Mexico to China. Perhaps, though, if they can get their heads together, they can figure this all out together, and create the most brilliant ULTIMATE GUIDE ever, together? Of course, what they don't realise is they still have a lot to learn about dragons!
The Author:
Andy is the author of the best-selling ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons’ books, which have now been translated into 24 languages. The first book in the series was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Sheffield Book Award, and long-listed for the Blue Peter Book Award.
Growing up on the coast in England, Andy spent most of her time scribbling stories and messing about in boats. She now lives near Cambridge with her husband, her two sons and an absurd number of tiny dragons, and spends her spare time trying to figure out how to move this beautiful city closer to the sea.
Disclaimer: Please note, all dragon-growing is undertaken entirely at the grower’s own risk and Andy cannot be held responsible for any damage your dragon may cause.
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Genre: Children’s fiction 7-9 years
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
An enchanting companion title to Andy Shepherd and Sara Ogilvie's bestselling THE BOY WHO GREW DRAGONS seriesTomas, the boy who grew dragons, is officially the Grand High Dragon Master. He's lived with his dragons - Flicker and Zing - and grown dozens more. He's an expert at caring for the dragonfruit tree. He knows all the tricks for training dragons, nurturing dragonfruit seedlings and defusing dragon poo. So - he has this brilliant idea. He and his friends have got to get all their dragon expertise down, in one easy-to-read place, for them, and anyone else who might find themselves growing dragons! The only problem is - Tomas's friends Ted, Kat, Kai, Liam and Aura are currently scattered all around the world, from Suffolk to Mexico to China. Perhaps, though, if they can get their heads together, they can figure this all out together, and create the most brilliant ULTIMATE GUIDE ever, together? Of course, what they don't realise is they still have a lot to learn about dragons!
The Author:
Andy is the author of the best-selling ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons’ books, which have now been translated into 24 languages. The first book in the series was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Sheffield Book Award, and long-listed for the Blue Peter Book Award.
Growing up on the coast in England, Andy spent most of her time scribbling stories and messing about in boats. She now lives near Cambridge with her husband, her two sons and an absurd number of tiny dragons, and spends her spare time trying to figure out how to move this beautiful city closer to the sea.
Disclaimer: Please note, all dragon-growing is undertaken entirely at the grower’s own risk and Andy cannot be held responsible for any damage your dragon may cause.
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Sarah Mallory
Sarah Mallory
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Title: Wed in Haste to the Duke
Genre: Historical Romance
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Marry in haste
Fall in love at leisure…?
Angeline Carlow’s hasty marriage to her childhood best friend Jason, Duke of Rotherton, is purely practical. She knows that he can never love her the way he loved his late wife. Yet in her new husband’s month-long absence she’s found her place as mistress of their estate. Now he’s back—just as guarded, but undeniably handsome. Can Angel find her place as his wife…and boldly claim their wedding night?
The Author:
write under the names of Melinda Hammond and Sarah Mallory.
I am a proud patron of the Lancashire Authors Association and a long-time
member of the Romantic Novelists Association
I have been telling stories for as long as I can remember – many of them born of frustration when I was stuck in a classroom longing to be rescued! I love anything romantic, whether it is a grand opera or a beautiful painting. It doesn’t necessarily have to be happy, as long as it is inspiring.
I was born in Bristol and grew up on Barton Hill, an area of small terraced houses built in the nineteenth century between the mills and the railway. I think my love of adventure stories is due to the fact that I grew up with three older brothers and lived in a street full of boys! My love of history and the English language was fostered at grammar school, where I soon discovered the delights of Georgian and Regency fiction, first of all with the works of Jane Austen and then Georgette Heyer.
After many years living on the West Yorkshire moors, I have now moved to the remote Scottish Highlands. The new house overlooks the sea, where the stunning scenery inspires me to write even more!
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Genre: Historical Romance
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The Book;
Marry in haste
Fall in love at leisure…?
Angeline Carlow’s hasty marriage to her childhood best friend Jason, Duke of Rotherton, is purely practical. She knows that he can never love her the way he loved his late wife. Yet in her new husband’s month-long absence she’s found her place as mistress of their estate. Now he’s back—just as guarded, but undeniably handsome. Can Angel find her place as his wife…and boldly claim their wedding night?
The Author:
write under the names of Melinda Hammond and Sarah Mallory.
I am a proud patron of the Lancashire Authors Association and a long-time
member of the Romantic Novelists Association
I have been telling stories for as long as I can remember – many of them born of frustration when I was stuck in a classroom longing to be rescued! I love anything romantic, whether it is a grand opera or a beautiful painting. It doesn’t necessarily have to be happy, as long as it is inspiring.
I was born in Bristol and grew up on Barton Hill, an area of small terraced houses built in the nineteenth century between the mills and the railway. I think my love of adventure stories is due to the fact that I grew up with three older brothers and lived in a street full of boys! My love of history and the English language was fostered at grammar school, where I soon discovered the delights of Georgian and Regency fiction, first of all with the works of Jane Austen and then Georgette Heyer.
After many years living on the West Yorkshire moors, I have now moved to the remote Scottish Highlands. The new house overlooks the sea, where the stunning scenery inspires me to write even more!
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Jane Lythell
Jane Lythell
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Three Book Bonanza
Title 1: THE EXES
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Domestic noir at its insidious, menacing best—this tale of twisted family ties and intricate revenge from “a wonderfully perceptive writer” (The Haphazardous Hippo).
When Holly is bequeathed a large but derelict house, she wants to share her good fortune. So she gets in touch with former boyfriend Ray, a builder who can project-manage the renovation in exchange for the basement flat. The spacious middle floor would make a glorious studio space—perfect for her friend and first love, Spencer. And before Holly knows it, the upper floor is let to soon-to-be ex-husband James, who’s on a path of reinvention from city highflyer to osteopath. What could possibly go wrong?
But no good deed goes unpunished, and soon the house is riddled with tension, rivalry, and petty spitefulness. And as Holly is beset with migraines, nausea and spiralling self-doubt, even the house itself seems to be turning against her. But for someone, everything is going to plan . . .
Title 2: WOMAN OF THE HOUR
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Meet Liz Lyon: respected TV producer, stressed-out executive, guilty single mother.
StoryWorld is the nation's favourite morning show, and producer Liz Lyon wants to keep it that way. Her job is to turn real-life stories into thrilling TV - and keep a lid on the scandals and backbiting that happen off-stage.
But then simmering tensions erupt at the station, trapping Liz in a game of one-upmanship where she doesn't know the rules. As the power struggle intensifies, can Liz keep her cool and keep her job? Does she even want to?
In this gripping novel of power, rivalry and betrayal, Jane Lythell draws on her experiences of working in the glamorous, pressurised world of live TV.
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Title 3: BEHIND HER BACK
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
In a TV station run by men, how do the women make themselves heard?
Liz Lyon is a television producer at StoryWorld, the UK's favourite morning show. Her job is stressful and demanding, but she is determined to show her teenage daughter that women can succeed.
Then a new female colleague joins the station. In this predatory climate of toxic masculinity Liz and Lori should be helping each other. But when Lori starts secretly building her power base with the bosses, Liz is desperate to know what's going on behind her back.
The author:
I grew up in a small seaside town in Norfolk; went to university in London and lived there for three decades. I now live in St Albans.
I write psychological thrillers because I'm fascinated by what drives people to do extreme things.
My most recent novel is THE EXES published by Bloodhound Books.
THE LIE OF YOU and AFTER THE STORM explore obsessive behaviour and were both USA Today bestsellers. THE LIE OF YOU is now a film, A WORKING MOM'S NIGHTMARE, starring Tuppence Middleton and screening on Lifetime Movies in the USA.
Before writing full-time I worked as a TV producer, was Deputy Director of the British Film Institute and then Chief Executive of BAFTA, followed by seven years at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
My third novel, WOMAN OF THE HOUR, reveals toxic goings in a TV station told through the eyes of producer Liz Lyon. It's a stand-alone read but there is a follow-up novel, BEHIND HER BACK, which features the same TV station setting and characters.
My agent is Gaia Banks of Sheil Land.
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Title 1: THE EXES
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Domestic noir at its insidious, menacing best—this tale of twisted family ties and intricate revenge from “a wonderfully perceptive writer” (The Haphazardous Hippo).
When Holly is bequeathed a large but derelict house, she wants to share her good fortune. So she gets in touch with former boyfriend Ray, a builder who can project-manage the renovation in exchange for the basement flat. The spacious middle floor would make a glorious studio space—perfect for her friend and first love, Spencer. And before Holly knows it, the upper floor is let to soon-to-be ex-husband James, who’s on a path of reinvention from city highflyer to osteopath. What could possibly go wrong?
But no good deed goes unpunished, and soon the house is riddled with tension, rivalry, and petty spitefulness. And as Holly is beset with migraines, nausea and spiralling self-doubt, even the house itself seems to be turning against her. But for someone, everything is going to plan . . .
Title 2: WOMAN OF THE HOUR
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Meet Liz Lyon: respected TV producer, stressed-out executive, guilty single mother.
StoryWorld is the nation's favourite morning show, and producer Liz Lyon wants to keep it that way. Her job is to turn real-life stories into thrilling TV - and keep a lid on the scandals and backbiting that happen off-stage.
But then simmering tensions erupt at the station, trapping Liz in a game of one-upmanship where she doesn't know the rules. As the power struggle intensifies, can Liz keep her cool and keep her job? Does she even want to?
In this gripping novel of power, rivalry and betrayal, Jane Lythell draws on her experiences of working in the glamorous, pressurised world of live TV.
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Title 3: BEHIND HER BACK
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
In a TV station run by men, how do the women make themselves heard?
Liz Lyon is a television producer at StoryWorld, the UK's favourite morning show. Her job is stressful and demanding, but she is determined to show her teenage daughter that women can succeed.
Then a new female colleague joins the station. In this predatory climate of toxic masculinity Liz and Lori should be helping each other. But when Lori starts secretly building her power base with the bosses, Liz is desperate to know what's going on behind her back.
The author:
I grew up in a small seaside town in Norfolk; went to university in London and lived there for three decades. I now live in St Albans.
I write psychological thrillers because I'm fascinated by what drives people to do extreme things.
My most recent novel is THE EXES published by Bloodhound Books.
THE LIE OF YOU and AFTER THE STORM explore obsessive behaviour and were both USA Today bestsellers. THE LIE OF YOU is now a film, A WORKING MOM'S NIGHTMARE, starring Tuppence Middleton and screening on Lifetime Movies in the USA.
Before writing full-time I worked as a TV producer, was Deputy Director of the British Film Institute and then Chief Executive of BAFTA, followed by seven years at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
My third novel, WOMAN OF THE HOUR, reveals toxic goings in a TV station told through the eyes of producer Liz Lyon. It's a stand-alone read but there is a follow-up novel, BEHIND HER BACK, which features the same TV station setting and characters.
My agent is Gaia Banks of Sheil Land.
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Book Title: Auntie Medusa and Me
Genre: Fantasy. Adventure. Historical / Myth. Funny.
Format: First Edition Paperback
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Hiya! I’m Silvia, an ordinary kid just like you.
At least, I was ordinary until I wound up in Ancient Rome as a demi-goddess. Yeah, that took me by surprise too.
But seriously, travelling back in time is nothing compared to what’s happening now: Medusa the gorgon wants her head back – and she’s chosen me to find it!
The Author:
Marie Basting writes funny fiction for middle-graders. Her debut novel, the critically acclaimed Princess BMX, has been praised by Gender Collect as one of the best books out there for smashing stereotypes and her latest book, My Family and Other Romans, was voted a Books For Topics book of the year 2023. Told by a careers adviser, that girls like her don’t become writers, Marie loves nothing more than inspiring others to believe in themselves and achieve their dreams whatever the limits put on them. Her school and festival events have inspired thousands of children to smash stereotypes and to read and write for pleasure.
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Genre: Fantasy. Adventure. Historical / Myth. Funny.
Format: First Edition Paperback
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Hiya! I’m Silvia, an ordinary kid just like you.
At least, I was ordinary until I wound up in Ancient Rome as a demi-goddess. Yeah, that took me by surprise too.
But seriously, travelling back in time is nothing compared to what’s happening now: Medusa the gorgon wants her head back – and she’s chosen me to find it!
The Author:
Marie Basting writes funny fiction for middle-graders. Her debut novel, the critically acclaimed Princess BMX, has been praised by Gender Collect as one of the best books out there for smashing stereotypes and her latest book, My Family and Other Romans, was voted a Books For Topics book of the year 2023. Told by a careers adviser, that girls like her don’t become writers, Marie loves nothing more than inspiring others to believe in themselves and achieve their dreams whatever the limits put on them. Her school and festival events have inspired thousands of children to smash stereotypes and to read and write for pleasure.
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Book title: The Storyteller by the Sea
Genre: Uplfting fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
Melody spends her days combing the shore for items washed up on her beach. She collects them in her basket and takes them back to Spindrift, her weathered little bungalow overlooking the sea, and weaves stories about her treasures.
Everything Melody thinks she could ever need is right where she is, cupped by the rocks that shape her bay. But Melody has been keeping a secret.
When she learns that her little corner of Devon is under threat from developers looking to modernise the strip of coast on which Spindrift stands, Melody realises she is about to lose all she has ever known. Is it time for her to tell her own story - a story of love, loss, secrets and lies?
The Author:
Phyllida Shrimpton is a full time UK author who first wanted to write a novel after having a vivid dream at the age of 15 which she thought might make a good plot for a book. Finally in 2015 she stopped procrastinating about it and turned this dream into a reality. Sunflowers in February, published in 2018 won the Red Book Award in Falkirk, Scotland and was shortlisted for the Centurion Book Awards for Bath and North East Somerset schools. The Colour of Shadows was published in 2019 and was shortlisted for the Amazing Book Awards.
Making the move to writing adult fiction, Every Shade of Happy, published in August 2022 by Aria Fiction was shortlisted for the Gorsedh Kernow’s Holyer an Gof Cornish culture awards.
The Storyteller by the Sea, published September 2023 is her latest novel.
Phyllida’s books are centred around uplifting fiction and with the firm belief that there are always two sides to every story.
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Genre: Uplfting fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
Melody spends her days combing the shore for items washed up on her beach. She collects them in her basket and takes them back to Spindrift, her weathered little bungalow overlooking the sea, and weaves stories about her treasures.
Everything Melody thinks she could ever need is right where she is, cupped by the rocks that shape her bay. But Melody has been keeping a secret.
When she learns that her little corner of Devon is under threat from developers looking to modernise the strip of coast on which Spindrift stands, Melody realises she is about to lose all she has ever known. Is it time for her to tell her own story - a story of love, loss, secrets and lies?
The Author:
Phyllida Shrimpton is a full time UK author who first wanted to write a novel after having a vivid dream at the age of 15 which she thought might make a good plot for a book. Finally in 2015 she stopped procrastinating about it and turned this dream into a reality. Sunflowers in February, published in 2018 won the Red Book Award in Falkirk, Scotland and was shortlisted for the Centurion Book Awards for Bath and North East Somerset schools. The Colour of Shadows was published in 2019 and was shortlisted for the Amazing Book Awards.
Making the move to writing adult fiction, Every Shade of Happy, published in August 2022 by Aria Fiction was shortlisted for the Gorsedh Kernow’s Holyer an Gof Cornish culture awards.
The Storyteller by the Sea, published September 2023 is her latest novel.
Phyllida’s books are centred around uplifting fiction and with the firm belief that there are always two sides to every story.
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Nicola Pryce
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Title: The Cornish Dressmaker
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
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Cornwall, 1796.
Seamstress Elowyn Liddicot's family believe they've secured the perfect future for her, in the arms of Nathan Cardew. But then one evening, Elowyn helps to rescue a dying man from the sea, and everything changes. William Cotterell, wild and self-assured, refuses to leave her thoughts or her side - but surely she can't love someone so unlike herself?
With Elowyn's dressmaking business suddenly under threat, her family's pressure to marry Nathan increasing, and her heart decidedly at odds with her head, Elowyn doesn't know who to trust any more. And when William uncovers a sinister conspiracy that affects her whole world, can Elowyn find the courage to support the people she loves in the face of all opposition?
The Author:
Nicola Pryce is published by Atlantic Books and is represented by Teresa Chris. She trained as a nurse at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, loves literature and history, and has an Open University degree in humanities. She is a qualified adult literacy support volunteer and lives with her husband in the Blackdown Hills in Somerset. She and her husband love sailing and together they sail the south coast of Cornwall in search of adventure. It is there where she sets her books.
Pengelly's Daughter was her debut novel, followed by The Captain's Girl, The Cornish Dressmaker, The Cornish Lady, A Cornish Betrothal, The Cornish Captive and The Cornish Rebel.
Nicola is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association and The Historical Writers' Association.
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Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
Cornwall, 1796.
Seamstress Elowyn Liddicot's family believe they've secured the perfect future for her, in the arms of Nathan Cardew. But then one evening, Elowyn helps to rescue a dying man from the sea, and everything changes. William Cotterell, wild and self-assured, refuses to leave her thoughts or her side - but surely she can't love someone so unlike herself?
With Elowyn's dressmaking business suddenly under threat, her family's pressure to marry Nathan increasing, and her heart decidedly at odds with her head, Elowyn doesn't know who to trust any more. And when William uncovers a sinister conspiracy that affects her whole world, can Elowyn find the courage to support the people she loves in the face of all opposition?
The Author:
Nicola Pryce is published by Atlantic Books and is represented by Teresa Chris. She trained as a nurse at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, loves literature and history, and has an Open University degree in humanities. She is a qualified adult literacy support volunteer and lives with her husband in the Blackdown Hills in Somerset. She and her husband love sailing and together they sail the south coast of Cornwall in search of adventure. It is there where she sets her books.
Pengelly's Daughter was her debut novel, followed by The Captain's Girl, The Cornish Dressmaker, The Cornish Lady, A Cornish Betrothal, The Cornish Captive and The Cornish Rebel.
Nicola is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association and The Historical Writers' Association.
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Book title: SHADOWS IN THE ASHES
Genre: Dual time romance (set partly in Roman times)
Format: Paperback
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The sunlight caught her gold bracelet, sending a flash that almost blinded her.
She closed her eyes, but jumped when the earth started shaking and there was an almighty boom behind her.
Present Day
Finally escaping an abusive marriage, Caterina Rossi takes her three-year-old daughter and flees to Italy. There she's drawn to research scientist Connor, who needs her translation help for his work on volcanology. Together they visit the ruins of Pompeii and, standing where Mount Vesuvius unleashed its fire on the city centuries before, Cat begins to see startling visions. Visions that appear to come from the antique bracelet handed down through her family's generations...
AD 79
Sold by his half-brother and enslaved as a gladiator in Roman Pompeii, Raedwald dreams only of surviving each fight, making the coin needed to return to his homeland and taking his revenge. That is, until he is hired to guard beautiful Aemilia. As their forbidden love grows, Raedwald's dreams shift like the ever more violent tremors of the earth beneath his feet.
The present starts eerily to mirror the past as Cat must fight to protect her safety, and to forge a new path from the ashes of her old life...
The Author:
Christina Courtenay lives in Herefordshire in the UK and is married with two children. Although born in England she has a Swedish mother and was brought up in Sweden. In her teens, the family moved to Japan where she had the opportunity to travel extensively in the Far East.
Christina is a Vice President and former chairman and of the UK’s Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA). She won their Elizabeth Goudge Trophy for a historical short story in 2001 and the Katie Fforde Bursary for a promising new writer in 2006.
Her novels have been shortlisted for and won several awards - 'Trade Winds' (Sept 2010) was short listed in 2011 for the RNA's Award for Best Historical Fiction, 'The Scarlet Kimono' won the Big Red Reads Best Historical Fiction Award the same year, 'Highland Storms' won the Best Historical Romantic Novel of the year award (RoNA) in 2012, 'The Silent Touch of Shadows' was shortlisted for the 2013 RoNAs (Historical) and won the Festival of Romance Award for Best Historical. 'The Gilded Fan' won the RoNA for Best Historical 2014. Echoes of the Runes won the RNA Fantasy Romantic Novel of the year 2021 and Hidden in the Mists was shortlisted for the same prize in 2022.
Christina also writes contemporary YA and 'New England Rocks' was shortlisted for the RNA's awards in 2014. The other three books in the series were published under a different name - Pia Fenton.
When she's not writing, she spends her time tracking down elusive ancestors for her family tree, and her other hobbies include archaeology (the armchair variety), listening to loud rock music and collecting things.
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Genre: Dual time romance (set partly in Roman times)
Format: Paperback
Signed: Yes Dedication is Available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book:
The sunlight caught her gold bracelet, sending a flash that almost blinded her.
She closed her eyes, but jumped when the earth started shaking and there was an almighty boom behind her.
Present Day
Finally escaping an abusive marriage, Caterina Rossi takes her three-year-old daughter and flees to Italy. There she's drawn to research scientist Connor, who needs her translation help for his work on volcanology. Together they visit the ruins of Pompeii and, standing where Mount Vesuvius unleashed its fire on the city centuries before, Cat begins to see startling visions. Visions that appear to come from the antique bracelet handed down through her family's generations...
AD 79
Sold by his half-brother and enslaved as a gladiator in Roman Pompeii, Raedwald dreams only of surviving each fight, making the coin needed to return to his homeland and taking his revenge. That is, until he is hired to guard beautiful Aemilia. As their forbidden love grows, Raedwald's dreams shift like the ever more violent tremors of the earth beneath his feet.
The present starts eerily to mirror the past as Cat must fight to protect her safety, and to forge a new path from the ashes of her old life...
The Author:
Christina Courtenay lives in Herefordshire in the UK and is married with two children. Although born in England she has a Swedish mother and was brought up in Sweden. In her teens, the family moved to Japan where she had the opportunity to travel extensively in the Far East.
Christina is a Vice President and former chairman and of the UK’s Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA). She won their Elizabeth Goudge Trophy for a historical short story in 2001 and the Katie Fforde Bursary for a promising new writer in 2006.
Her novels have been shortlisted for and won several awards - 'Trade Winds' (Sept 2010) was short listed in 2011 for the RNA's Award for Best Historical Fiction, 'The Scarlet Kimono' won the Big Red Reads Best Historical Fiction Award the same year, 'Highland Storms' won the Best Historical Romantic Novel of the year award (RoNA) in 2012, 'The Silent Touch of Shadows' was shortlisted for the 2013 RoNAs (Historical) and won the Festival of Romance Award for Best Historical. 'The Gilded Fan' won the RoNA for Best Historical 2014. Echoes of the Runes won the RNA Fantasy Romantic Novel of the year 2021 and Hidden in the Mists was shortlisted for the same prize in 2022.
Christina also writes contemporary YA and 'New England Rocks' was shortlisted for the RNA's awards in 2014. The other three books in the series were published under a different name - Pia Fenton.
When she's not writing, she spends her time tracking down elusive ancestors for her family tree, and her other hobbies include archaeology (the armchair variety), listening to loud rock music and collecting things.
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Book Title: WARNING: Magic Can Be Dangerous!
Genre: Children’s Magical/Fantasy/Humorous Fiction
Format: Paperback
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Tyler isn't thrilled to be spending yet another mundane afternoon at Great Uncle John's. And that's putting it mildly! But after his visit sparks a chain of inexplicable events, he delightedly discovers magic at his fingertips.
Being able to conjure up a swimming pool and a wodge of cash are certainly perks. Yet the magic proves tricky to control. What's more, it seems to be irreversible.
Unable to properly harness his new-found powers, Tyler ends up getting those around him into all manner of mischief and mayhem. And when things begin to go catastrophically wrong, he fears magic is a curse, rather than a blessing. Will normality ever be restored, or will Tyler be forced to adapt to his new, altered reality forever? It all depends on whether he's able to find Lottie's loophole...
The Author:
B. Ware is the pseudonym used by Jo Stacey when writing children’s books.
Born in August 1976, Jo was fortunate enough to spend the first eighteen years of her life just a stone’s throw from Dumpton Gap beach in the picturesque coastal town of Broadstairs. She always feels most at home when she’s close to the sea, and loves nothing more than lying on a beach somewhere, lost in a good book.
An avid reader from a young age, Jo’s childhood dream was to become an author. Her love of writing evolved whilst she was a pupil at Upton Junior School (Broadstairs). At night, she’d often read by torchlight under the bedclothes – or scribble story ideas into old exercise books – when she was supposed to be fast asleep! During secondary school break times and lunchtimes, she’d collaborate with friends to write murder mysteries before acting them out in the playground. But in her final years at Clarendon House Grammar School (Ramsgate), Jo decided to abandon her fascination with words in order to pursue a growing infatuation with numbers.
It wasn’t until she home-schooled her children during the COVID-19 lockdown that Jo's passion for creative writing was finally rekindled, and she wrote her first romance novel. Straight afterwards, she put pen to paper to complete the sequel. But with her children in mind, she then turned her hand to middle-grade fiction. WARNING: Magic Can Be Dangerous! is the first book she has published, under the guise of her alter ego, B. Ware. She’s now working on the second book in the WARNING series, which revolves around a dragon theme.
Jo currently lives in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire with her husband and children. But she hopes to one day move back to the seaside and make writing her full-time occupation.
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Genre: Children’s Magical/Fantasy/Humorous Fiction
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Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book:
Tyler isn't thrilled to be spending yet another mundane afternoon at Great Uncle John's. And that's putting it mildly! But after his visit sparks a chain of inexplicable events, he delightedly discovers magic at his fingertips.
Being able to conjure up a swimming pool and a wodge of cash are certainly perks. Yet the magic proves tricky to control. What's more, it seems to be irreversible.
Unable to properly harness his new-found powers, Tyler ends up getting those around him into all manner of mischief and mayhem. And when things begin to go catastrophically wrong, he fears magic is a curse, rather than a blessing. Will normality ever be restored, or will Tyler be forced to adapt to his new, altered reality forever? It all depends on whether he's able to find Lottie's loophole...
The Author:
B. Ware is the pseudonym used by Jo Stacey when writing children’s books.
Born in August 1976, Jo was fortunate enough to spend the first eighteen years of her life just a stone’s throw from Dumpton Gap beach in the picturesque coastal town of Broadstairs. She always feels most at home when she’s close to the sea, and loves nothing more than lying on a beach somewhere, lost in a good book.
An avid reader from a young age, Jo’s childhood dream was to become an author. Her love of writing evolved whilst she was a pupil at Upton Junior School (Broadstairs). At night, she’d often read by torchlight under the bedclothes – or scribble story ideas into old exercise books – when she was supposed to be fast asleep! During secondary school break times and lunchtimes, she’d collaborate with friends to write murder mysteries before acting them out in the playground. But in her final years at Clarendon House Grammar School (Ramsgate), Jo decided to abandon her fascination with words in order to pursue a growing infatuation with numbers.
It wasn’t until she home-schooled her children during the COVID-19 lockdown that Jo's passion for creative writing was finally rekindled, and she wrote her first romance novel. Straight afterwards, she put pen to paper to complete the sequel. But with her children in mind, she then turned her hand to middle-grade fiction. WARNING: Magic Can Be Dangerous! is the first book she has published, under the guise of her alter ego, B. Ware. She’s now working on the second book in the WARNING series, which revolves around a dragon theme.
Jo currently lives in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire with her husband and children. But she hopes to one day move back to the seaside and make writing her full-time occupation.
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Farrah Riaz
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Book Title: The Twirly Wiggly Dance
Genre: Children's Picture Book
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Farrah’s new book The Twirly Wiggly Dance is a relatable story about finding your own groove with the celebratory backdrop of a South Asian wedding.
Little Intisar has a BIG job at her Auntie Mahira's wedding: she's going to dance in the group performance! As she practises, she realizes there is one dance move that she just can't do-no matter how hard she twirls and wiggles. Intisar worries she'll ruin the whole routine, and disappoint Auntie Mahira. Can Intisar's family of movers and groovers show her that being herself is far more fun than being perfect?
The Author:
Farrah is a London-based author from a Hindustani background. She has always been a storyteller, first as a child playing with Barbies, then as an adult with The Sims. Creating characters in all sorts of narratives bring her a lot of joy. When she isn’t living in fantastical worlds or spending time with her loved ones, she works in Higher Education.
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Farrah’s new book The Twirly Wiggly Dance is a relatable story about finding your own groove with the celebratory backdrop of a South Asian wedding.
Little Intisar has a BIG job at her Auntie Mahira's wedding: she's going to dance in the group performance! As she practises, she realizes there is one dance move that she just can't do-no matter how hard she twirls and wiggles. Intisar worries she'll ruin the whole routine, and disappoint Auntie Mahira. Can Intisar's family of movers and groovers show her that being herself is far more fun than being perfect?
The Author:
Farrah is a London-based author from a Hindustani background. She has always been a storyteller, first as a child playing with Barbies, then as an adult with The Sims. Creating characters in all sorts of narratives bring her a lot of joy. When she isn’t living in fantastical worlds or spending time with her loved ones, she works in Higher Education.
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Kaye Umansky
Kaye Umansky
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Book Title: This Rock Is Mine
Genre: Children
Format: Hardback
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Friendship wins the day in this fabulously funny quarrel! Two frogs sit on an ordinary little rock. But . . . uh-oh! Both frogs think it’s their rock – and they really don’t want to share! The frogs fight and squabble furiously. But when a hungry heron swoops down, both frogs realise it’s time to find another rock . . . together! Kaye Umansky’s brilliantly simple rhyming story shows how two grumpy frogs go from fighting . . . to friendship (with lots of laughter along the way.) Alice McKinley’s hilarious illustrations bring to life every twist and turn of this wonderfully witty little drama.
Written in absolutely perfect rhyme, this story is a joy to read aloud.
Every parent and child will identify with these squabbling frogs.
An excellent (and very funny) lesson in how to resolve a quarrel!
The Author:
Kaye Umansky was born in Plymouth, Devon, in 1946. Her mother was a music teacher, so she played piano and sang from an early age. She was an only child – and a big reader. She also tried her hand at writing stories. Her best ever present was an ancient typewriter, given to her when she was ten years old. She still has it in the loft. She came to London aged 18 to attend teachers’ training college. She taught in London primary schools in the 1970’s. She met her husband, a bass player, and they played in several semi pro soul bands. She still lives in north London, with her husband and two cats. She has a grown up daughter, three step children and three step grandchildren. Her first book, a song book entitled Phantasmagoria, was published in 1985. Since then, she was written over 140 titles, including the popular Pongwiffy series. She has written picture books, music books, musicals, plays, first readers and novels, all for the primary age range. Awards include the Nottinghamshire Book Award, the Times Educational Junior Music Book Award, the 2009 Stockton Book Of The Year and the Spoken Word Award. Favourite colour: red. Favourite food: cheese.
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Genre: Children
Format: Hardback
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Friendship wins the day in this fabulously funny quarrel! Two frogs sit on an ordinary little rock. But . . . uh-oh! Both frogs think it’s their rock – and they really don’t want to share! The frogs fight and squabble furiously. But when a hungry heron swoops down, both frogs realise it’s time to find another rock . . . together! Kaye Umansky’s brilliantly simple rhyming story shows how two grumpy frogs go from fighting . . . to friendship (with lots of laughter along the way.) Alice McKinley’s hilarious illustrations bring to life every twist and turn of this wonderfully witty little drama.
Written in absolutely perfect rhyme, this story is a joy to read aloud.
Every parent and child will identify with these squabbling frogs.
An excellent (and very funny) lesson in how to resolve a quarrel!
The Author:
Kaye Umansky was born in Plymouth, Devon, in 1946. Her mother was a music teacher, so she played piano and sang from an early age. She was an only child – and a big reader. She also tried her hand at writing stories. Her best ever present was an ancient typewriter, given to her when she was ten years old. She still has it in the loft. She came to London aged 18 to attend teachers’ training college. She taught in London primary schools in the 1970’s. She met her husband, a bass player, and they played in several semi pro soul bands. She still lives in north London, with her husband and two cats. She has a grown up daughter, three step children and three step grandchildren. Her first book, a song book entitled Phantasmagoria, was published in 1985. Since then, she was written over 140 titles, including the popular Pongwiffy series. She has written picture books, music books, musicals, plays, first readers and novels, all for the primary age range. Awards include the Nottinghamshire Book Award, the Times Educational Junior Music Book Award, the 2009 Stockton Book Of The Year and the Spoken Word Award. Favourite colour: red. Favourite food: cheese.
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H S Norup
H S Norup
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Book Title: Into The Faerie Hill
Genre: Middle grade Fantasy
Format: Paperback
Dedication available: Yes
Bids accepted: Worldwide
The Book:
he moment Alfred arrives at his granny’s cottage, he feels like he’s being watched. The surrounding forests teem with unfamiliar life—even odd little faerie creatures only Alfred can see. It’s only when free-spirited Saga bursts into his life that he learns to appreciate the strange beauty around him.
But this special world is under threat: Alfred’s dad is working on a project to dig a giant motorway tunnel through the landscape. As he joins Saga in the protests against this project, Alfred draws ever closer to the perilous world of the faerie creatures, following a thread that will lead him deep into mysteries from his family’s past.
The Author:
H. S. Norup is the award-winning author of Into The Faerie Hill, The Hungry Ghost and The Missing Barbegazi—a Sunday Times Book of the Year in 2018. She grew up in Denmark, where she devoured fairy tales and escaped into books. After living in six different countries, she now resides in Switzerland and writes stories inspired by her travels, set in the borderlands between the real and imaginary worlds. When she’s not writing or reading, she spends her time outdoors either skiing, hiking, swimming or taking photos.
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Genre: Middle grade Fantasy
Format: Paperback
Dedication available: Yes
Bids accepted: Worldwide
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he moment Alfred arrives at his granny’s cottage, he feels like he’s being watched. The surrounding forests teem with unfamiliar life—even odd little faerie creatures only Alfred can see. It’s only when free-spirited Saga bursts into his life that he learns to appreciate the strange beauty around him.
But this special world is under threat: Alfred’s dad is working on a project to dig a giant motorway tunnel through the landscape. As he joins Saga in the protests against this project, Alfred draws ever closer to the perilous world of the faerie creatures, following a thread that will lead him deep into mysteries from his family’s past.
The Author:
H. S. Norup is the award-winning author of Into The Faerie Hill, The Hungry Ghost and The Missing Barbegazi—a Sunday Times Book of the Year in 2018. She grew up in Denmark, where she devoured fairy tales and escaped into books. After living in six different countries, she now resides in Switzerland and writes stories inspired by her travels, set in the borderlands between the real and imaginary worlds. When she’s not writing or reading, she spends her time outdoors either skiing, hiking, swimming or taking photos.
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Alison Belsham
Alison Belsham
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Book Title: The Girls on Chalk Hill
Genre: Crime
Format: First Edition Paperback
Signed - Yes, dedication available
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They lie on the hillside, wearing matching white dresses, tiaras in their blonde hair. Each of them clutches a red rose. They could be sleeping, but frost shines on the lashes of their wide blue eyes, frozen open forever…
On a green hill outside Canterbury, where a crown has been cut into the chalk, two girls are lying dead, left for Detective Lexi Bennett to find on her morning run.
The victims are quickly identified as sisters Lucy and Eden Carter. But they are triplets… and the third sister, Paige, is still missing.
The news makes Lexi’s blood run cold. She was a triplet too. And years ago, she and her sisters were abducted. Two of them escaped. One was lost forever.
Has the man who took her returned to send her a message? Will she be able to use her past to find answers? Or is she walking into a trap designed just for her…
A completely compelling serial killer thriller that will make your pulse race. Fans of Karin Slaughter, Angela Marsons and J M Dalgliesh will love The Girls on Chalk Hill.
The Author:
In 2016, I entered and won Bloody Scotland’s Pitch Perfect competition. This secured me an agent and a three-book publishing deal with Orion for my police procedural series set in the world of tattoos and tattooing. My first novel, The Tattoo Thief, was translated into 15 languages, was a No 1 bestseller in Italy and is the first instalment of the internationally acclaimed Tattoo Thief trilogy. I also write in collaboration with my brother Nick Higgins – Canelo has published our action thriller series set in Afghanistan, Death In Kabul and Death in Helmand. Now I’m embarking on a fresh crime series with Bookouture. It's set in Canterbury, featuring DI Lexi Bennett, newly appointed to lead the Major Incident Team after a spell working with the FBI’s specialist serial killer unit.
I divide my time between London and Edinburgh, where I am a co-founder of the Edinburgh Writers’ Forum, providing professional development and networking for writers.
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Genre: Crime
Format: First Edition Paperback
Signed - Yes, dedication available
Bids Accepted - UK only
The Book :
They lie on the hillside, wearing matching white dresses, tiaras in their blonde hair. Each of them clutches a red rose. They could be sleeping, but frost shines on the lashes of their wide blue eyes, frozen open forever…
On a green hill outside Canterbury, where a crown has been cut into the chalk, two girls are lying dead, left for Detective Lexi Bennett to find on her morning run.
The victims are quickly identified as sisters Lucy and Eden Carter. But they are triplets… and the third sister, Paige, is still missing.
The news makes Lexi’s blood run cold. She was a triplet too. And years ago, she and her sisters were abducted. Two of them escaped. One was lost forever.
Has the man who took her returned to send her a message? Will she be able to use her past to find answers? Or is she walking into a trap designed just for her…
A completely compelling serial killer thriller that will make your pulse race. Fans of Karin Slaughter, Angela Marsons and J M Dalgliesh will love The Girls on Chalk Hill.
The Author:
In 2016, I entered and won Bloody Scotland’s Pitch Perfect competition. This secured me an agent and a three-book publishing deal with Orion for my police procedural series set in the world of tattoos and tattooing. My first novel, The Tattoo Thief, was translated into 15 languages, was a No 1 bestseller in Italy and is the first instalment of the internationally acclaimed Tattoo Thief trilogy. I also write in collaboration with my brother Nick Higgins – Canelo has published our action thriller series set in Afghanistan, Death In Kabul and Death in Helmand. Now I’m embarking on a fresh crime series with Bookouture. It's set in Canterbury, featuring DI Lexi Bennett, newly appointed to lead the Major Incident Team after a spell working with the FBI’s specialist serial killer unit.
I divide my time between London and Edinburgh, where I am a co-founder of the Edinburgh Writers’ Forum, providing professional development and networking for writers.
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Brian Frederick
Brian Frederick
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Book Title: Siggy Loves Sausages
Genre: Complex Picture Book
Format: Paperback
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Siggy Loves Sausages
Can Siggy Keep His Word? Will this sweet little sausage dog be able to resist his favourite tasty temptations, stay true to his pledge, and save a Big Birthday Surprise?
Join Siggy, as he learns about the happiness that comes from keeping promises, during his romp through a fast and fabulous adventure that takes him into the deep dark woods, where magic sometimes happens...
The Author;
Brian’s background includes being a “bit of a lawyer,” but prefers writing stories rather than writing writs. His philosophy is that a great book is one that shares the beauty in everyday life. His relatability to children is evident, even if it involves fairies, as is in Siggy and The Phlower Phaeries. Brian’s hope is that his stories provide happiness and enjoyment to his young readers.
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Siggy Loves Sausages
Can Siggy Keep His Word? Will this sweet little sausage dog be able to resist his favourite tasty temptations, stay true to his pledge, and save a Big Birthday Surprise?
Join Siggy, as he learns about the happiness that comes from keeping promises, during his romp through a fast and fabulous adventure that takes him into the deep dark woods, where magic sometimes happens...
The Author;
Brian’s background includes being a “bit of a lawyer,” but prefers writing stories rather than writing writs. His philosophy is that a great book is one that shares the beauty in everyday life. His relatability to children is evident, even if it involves fairies, as is in Siggy and The Phlower Phaeries. Brian’s hope is that his stories provide happiness and enjoyment to his young readers.
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Clare Pooley
Clare Pooley
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Book Title: How To Age Disgracefully
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Format: Hardback , First Edition
Signed: Yes, dedication is available
Bids Accepted: UK only
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When age makes you invisible, secrets are easier to hide
Daphne knows that age is just a number. She also knows that society no longer pays her any attention – something she’s happy to exploit to help her hide a somewhat chequered past.
But finding herself alone on her 70th birthday, with only her plants to talk to and neighbours to stalk online, she decides she needs some friends. Joining a Senior Citizen's Social Club she’s horrified at the expectation she’ll spend her time enduring gentle crafting activities. Thankfully, the other members – including a failed actor addicted to shoplifting and a prolific yarn-bomber – agree.
After a tragic accident, the local council threaten to close the club – but they have underestimated the wrong group of pensioners...and with the help of a teenage dad and a geriatric, orphaned dog, the incongruous gang set out to prove it.
As long as their pasts don't catch up with them first…
The Author:
Clare Pooley graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge and spent twenty years in the heady world of advertising before becoming a full-time writer.
Clare’s memoir - The Sober Diaries - has helped thousands of people worldwide to quit drinking.
Clare’s first novel - The Authenticity Project - was a BBC Radio 2 Bookclub pick, a New York Times Bestseller and the winner of the RNA debut novel award. It has been translated into 30 languages. Her second novel, The People on Platform 5 (titled Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting in the USA) was published in 2022, and How to Age Disgracefully is out in June 2024.
Clare lives in London and Cornwall with her long-suffering husband, three children and two border terriers. When she's not writing, you'll find her cooking, at the theatre, walking the South-West cliff path or wild swimming on the North Cornish coast.
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Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Format: Hardback , First Edition
Signed: Yes, dedication is available
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book:
When age makes you invisible, secrets are easier to hide
Daphne knows that age is just a number. She also knows that society no longer pays her any attention – something she’s happy to exploit to help her hide a somewhat chequered past.
But finding herself alone on her 70th birthday, with only her plants to talk to and neighbours to stalk online, she decides she needs some friends. Joining a Senior Citizen's Social Club she’s horrified at the expectation she’ll spend her time enduring gentle crafting activities. Thankfully, the other members – including a failed actor addicted to shoplifting and a prolific yarn-bomber – agree.
After a tragic accident, the local council threaten to close the club – but they have underestimated the wrong group of pensioners...and with the help of a teenage dad and a geriatric, orphaned dog, the incongruous gang set out to prove it.
As long as their pasts don't catch up with them first…
The Author:
Clare Pooley graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge and spent twenty years in the heady world of advertising before becoming a full-time writer.
Clare’s memoir - The Sober Diaries - has helped thousands of people worldwide to quit drinking.
Clare’s first novel - The Authenticity Project - was a BBC Radio 2 Bookclub pick, a New York Times Bestseller and the winner of the RNA debut novel award. It has been translated into 30 languages. Her second novel, The People on Platform 5 (titled Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting in the USA) was published in 2022, and How to Age Disgracefully is out in June 2024.
Clare lives in London and Cornwall with her long-suffering husband, three children and two border terriers. When she's not writing, you'll find her cooking, at the theatre, walking the South-West cliff path or wild swimming on the North Cornish coast.
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E.M. Carter
E.M. Carter
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Title 1: Repression Ground
Title 2: Rebellion Ground
Genre: Young Adult - Dystopian
Format: Paperback
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Title 1: Repression Ground
Indoctrinated. Unnamed. Sealed behind the barriers under the shadow of a desperate secret.
Decades after the great plague that took out most of the population of Britain, the New Day Party rule Newland with an iron fist. Kids are raised by the state in training houses, and people judged on their usefulness to the state on an X-factor style game show.
Girl C has never known another way. She can’t wait for her Productivity Ceremony on her seventeenth birthday where, at last, she will be assigned a name of her own. She's certain of one thing: the Party only wants good for all its citizens.
But when her only two friends – one hated, one illegal – challenge the narrative, the questions won’t stop. Who is she? Why is she defective? What really happened in the Before?
But asking questions - and awakening to the reality of a repressive world full of secrets and shadows - turns out to be treachery against the state. Thrown into the Compound jail, she finds herself in grave danger and, together with Girl P and Boy T, she must find a way out before it’s too late. Can she escape the all-powerful Party forces, discover her identity, and survive her harsh new world?
Title 2: Rebellion Ground
Wanted for treason. Pursued by the Party. But their secret cannot stay hidden.
Stranded on the Outside, Carys, Jacob and Amy remain under an arrest and execution order. Lost amidst the ruins of an ancient city from the Before, they know they must hurry to escape their pursuers and tell the nation a secret that has been buried too long, but where will they run to and who will listen?
Resistance movements are growing in Outsiders camps, but they have no way of communicating with one another and no way of challenging the system. The Commander's power is stronger than ever, and when the three fugitives end up in the Centre Compound they find themselves political pawns, asked to deny all they believe in. Will they become part of the regime, or will they find the strength to rebel?
A rollercoaster ride of danger lies ahead, and only they can decide between truth and comfort.
The Author:
E.M. Carter (Liz) is an award-winning author, poet and editor who loves writing in all genres as she can’t get enough of words. She is the author of the dystopian Newland Trilogy: Repression Ground, Rebellion Ground and Redemption Ground.
Liz was the poet in residence for Wellington in Shropshire for 2022/23. For other writers, she offers a freelance service proofreading, formatting and designing book covers and interiors for paperbacks and e-books, edits videos, designs and maintains websites, offers commercial copywriting and produces designs for social media.
Liz likes to spend her days clad in vintage turquoise dresses trying not to eat chocolate, and is proud to be a grammar pedant.
She has also written three non-fiction books for the Christian/spirituality market as Liz Carter: “Catching Contentment”, “Treasure in Dark Places” and “Valuable”.
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Title 2: Rebellion Ground
Genre: Young Adult - Dystopian
Format: Paperback
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Title 1: Repression Ground
Indoctrinated. Unnamed. Sealed behind the barriers under the shadow of a desperate secret.
Decades after the great plague that took out most of the population of Britain, the New Day Party rule Newland with an iron fist. Kids are raised by the state in training houses, and people judged on their usefulness to the state on an X-factor style game show.
Girl C has never known another way. She can’t wait for her Productivity Ceremony on her seventeenth birthday where, at last, she will be assigned a name of her own. She's certain of one thing: the Party only wants good for all its citizens.
But when her only two friends – one hated, one illegal – challenge the narrative, the questions won’t stop. Who is she? Why is she defective? What really happened in the Before?
But asking questions - and awakening to the reality of a repressive world full of secrets and shadows - turns out to be treachery against the state. Thrown into the Compound jail, she finds herself in grave danger and, together with Girl P and Boy T, she must find a way out before it’s too late. Can she escape the all-powerful Party forces, discover her identity, and survive her harsh new world?
Title 2: Rebellion Ground
Wanted for treason. Pursued by the Party. But their secret cannot stay hidden.
Stranded on the Outside, Carys, Jacob and Amy remain under an arrest and execution order. Lost amidst the ruins of an ancient city from the Before, they know they must hurry to escape their pursuers and tell the nation a secret that has been buried too long, but where will they run to and who will listen?
Resistance movements are growing in Outsiders camps, but they have no way of communicating with one another and no way of challenging the system. The Commander's power is stronger than ever, and when the three fugitives end up in the Centre Compound they find themselves political pawns, asked to deny all they believe in. Will they become part of the regime, or will they find the strength to rebel?
A rollercoaster ride of danger lies ahead, and only they can decide between truth and comfort.
The Author:
E.M. Carter (Liz) is an award-winning author, poet and editor who loves writing in all genres as she can’t get enough of words. She is the author of the dystopian Newland Trilogy: Repression Ground, Rebellion Ground and Redemption Ground.
Liz was the poet in residence for Wellington in Shropshire for 2022/23. For other writers, she offers a freelance service proofreading, formatting and designing book covers and interiors for paperbacks and e-books, edits videos, designs and maintains websites, offers commercial copywriting and produces designs for social media.
Liz likes to spend her days clad in vintage turquoise dresses trying not to eat chocolate, and is proud to be a grammar pedant.
She has also written three non-fiction books for the Christian/spirituality market as Liz Carter: “Catching Contentment”, “Treasure in Dark Places” and “Valuable”.
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Angela Kecojevic
Angela Kecojevic
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Three Book Bundle
Title 1: Scareground
Genre: Middle-Grade Spooky
Format: Paperback
Title 2: Being Brave
Genre: Younger Middle-Grade Climate Fiction
Format: Picture Book
Title 3: Sleuth School: Jeremy Swift Investigates
Genre: Middle-Grade Mystery
Format: Picture Book
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Title 1: Scareground
Uncover a world of dark magic, forbidden adventures and family secrets when a spooky fairground returns to Victorian London.
Adopted by a family of bakers, 12-year-old orphan Nancy Crumpet's life is a delightful mix of flour, salt, and love, yet her mind is brimming with questions no one can answer. Where are her birth parents? Why must she keep her mysterious birthmark hidden? And why are all the adults terrified of the fairground?
Faced with an opportunity to enter the Scareground, Nancy and her best friend discover a place of dark magic, where rides come to life and there's a mystery around every corner. When she meets the fair's sinister owner, Skelter, Nancy faces secrets more horrifying than she could ever have imagined.
Title 2: Being Brave
A snow fox cub called Brave becomes lost in the Arctic tundra and must learn to live up to her name. Overcoming the tough conditions of a changing climate, she returns to her den with a story of bravery.
Title 3: Sleuth School: Jeremy Swift Investigates
At Manor Academy, the great detectives of tomorrow hone their sleuth skills. Jeremy Swift is one of the best in his class, but when his parents are accused of a devious crime, can he put his detecting gloves on and solve the mystery? This is a boarding-school sleuthing story which will keep readers guessing, and introduce them to the world of detective fiction.
This book is from Readerful's Independent Library. It is for children aged 10 to 11 to read without support.
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Books for Sharing: picture books to be read aloud by an adult for inspiring reading sessions
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How Readerful works:
- Read aloud the Books for Sharing for magical reading sessions that motivate children to read more.
- Then encourage children to choose a book to read by themselves, from Readerful's Independent Library or from Rise. You'll find links between the books' topics, vocabulary, characters and authors - all designed to keep children reading, boost their vocabulary and develop their knowledge of the world around them.
The Author
Angela has written extensively for the Oxford Reading Tree Programme (mostly for the award-winning Readerful series). Scareground, her debut middle-grade novel was published in 2023 with Neem Tree Press. This spooky adventure was most recently longlisted for the Historical Association's Young Quills Award ( Best Historical Fiction for Children).
She lives in Oxford with her family where she is currently working on her new middle-grade adventure 'Elliott Wonderful and the Rise of the Statues' (July 2025).
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Title 1: Scareground
Genre: Middle-Grade Spooky
Format: Paperback
Title 2: Being Brave
Genre: Younger Middle-Grade Climate Fiction
Format: Picture Book
Title 3: Sleuth School: Jeremy Swift Investigates
Genre: Middle-Grade Mystery
Format: Picture Book
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Title 1: Scareground
Uncover a world of dark magic, forbidden adventures and family secrets when a spooky fairground returns to Victorian London.
Adopted by a family of bakers, 12-year-old orphan Nancy Crumpet's life is a delightful mix of flour, salt, and love, yet her mind is brimming with questions no one can answer. Where are her birth parents? Why must she keep her mysterious birthmark hidden? And why are all the adults terrified of the fairground?
Faced with an opportunity to enter the Scareground, Nancy and her best friend discover a place of dark magic, where rides come to life and there's a mystery around every corner. When she meets the fair's sinister owner, Skelter, Nancy faces secrets more horrifying than she could ever have imagined.
Title 2: Being Brave
A snow fox cub called Brave becomes lost in the Arctic tundra and must learn to live up to her name. Overcoming the tough conditions of a changing climate, she returns to her den with a story of bravery.
Title 3: Sleuth School: Jeremy Swift Investigates
At Manor Academy, the great detectives of tomorrow hone their sleuth skills. Jeremy Swift is one of the best in his class, but when his parents are accused of a devious crime, can he put his detecting gloves on and solve the mystery? This is a boarding-school sleuthing story which will keep readers guessing, and introduce them to the world of detective fiction.
This book is from Readerful's Independent Library. It is for children aged 10 to 11 to read without support.
Readerful is a reading library specially designed to motivate children to read more. The series offers contemporary, inclusive books for children from 4 to 11 years, including:
Books for Sharing: picture books to be read aloud by an adult for inspiring reading sessions
Independent Library: fiction, graphic texts, character mini-series and non-fiction for children to read independently
Rise: fully decodable books for older struggling readers to read independently.
How Readerful works:
- Read aloud the Books for Sharing for magical reading sessions that motivate children to read more.
- Then encourage children to choose a book to read by themselves, from Readerful's Independent Library or from Rise. You'll find links between the books' topics, vocabulary, characters and authors - all designed to keep children reading, boost their vocabulary and develop their knowledge of the world around them.
The Author
Angela has written extensively for the Oxford Reading Tree Programme (mostly for the award-winning Readerful series). Scareground, her debut middle-grade novel was published in 2023 with Neem Tree Press. This spooky adventure was most recently longlisted for the Historical Association's Young Quills Award ( Best Historical Fiction for Children).
She lives in Oxford with her family where she is currently working on her new middle-grade adventure 'Elliott Wonderful and the Rise of the Statues' (July 2025).
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Title: The Reign of the Lionesses
Genre: Sport
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
England’s Lionesses are European champions and famous the world over, but other women footballers all across England are fighting a different battle. From training pitches to home stadia, from sponsorship to electricity bills, they want to be treated as footballers, not second-class citizens. This is the story of the season after the summer before.
The Author:
Carrie Dunn is one of the leading writers on women’s football. Her recent books include Unsuitable for Females: The Rise of the Lionesses and Women’s Football in England and The Pride of the Lionesses, a sequel to The Roar of the Lionesses: Women’s Football in England. In the last 15 years, Carrie has reported on Women’s World Cups and European Championships for The Times, The Guardian and Eurosport.com, and regularly features on BBC radio discussing and commentating on women's football.
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Genre: Sport
Format: Paperback
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England’s Lionesses are European champions and famous the world over, but other women footballers all across England are fighting a different battle. From training pitches to home stadia, from sponsorship to electricity bills, they want to be treated as footballers, not second-class citizens. This is the story of the season after the summer before.
The Author:
Carrie Dunn is one of the leading writers on women’s football. Her recent books include Unsuitable for Females: The Rise of the Lionesses and Women’s Football in England and The Pride of the Lionesses, a sequel to The Roar of the Lionesses: Women’s Football in England. In the last 15 years, Carrie has reported on Women’s World Cups and European Championships for The Times, The Guardian and Eurosport.com, and regularly features on BBC radio discussing and commentating on women's football.
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Book Title: The Love Interest
Genre: Young Adult Superhero Rom-com
Format: First Edition Paperback
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“With a beautiful blend of brave genuinely funny characters and a focus on the power of standing up for yourself and others, Comerford has perfected an authentically entertaining, feel-good young adult romantic comedy.”
INIS MAGAZINE, Children’s Books Ireland
A swoony, speculative and entirely electric YA debut with a humorous and satirical take on the conventions of the superhero-verse, for fans of Michelle Quach's Not Here To Be Liked and the Marvel Universe.
Seventeen-year-old Jenna Ray has just been saved by the world's newest superhero, Blaze. And, in the eyes of the public, that means one thing: Jenna Ray has been cast as the Love Interest.
No. Not happening. Not if Jenna has anything to say about it (even if Blaze is actually quite sweet and cute).
But her plans to defy the HPA (the Heroics and Power Authority) and turn down this new role are thwarted when the Villains begin to take an interest in her and offer a life-changing proposition; become Blaze's Love Interest, while avoiding catching feelings for him, to uncover the HPA's secret plans and find her missing mum.
To make matters even more complicated, just as Jenna starts to embrace her new-found career, she discovers she might be more on the side of the superheroes than she ever imagined …
The Author:
Helen left the busy world of backstage theatre to write fast, funny and action packed tales for children and young adults. When she’s not writing, you can generally find her leaping into cold water or hiking around the Welsh countryside with her dog, Cocoa.
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Genre: Young Adult Superhero Rom-com
Format: First Edition Paperback
Signed - Dedication is Available
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book:
“With a beautiful blend of brave genuinely funny characters and a focus on the power of standing up for yourself and others, Comerford has perfected an authentically entertaining, feel-good young adult romantic comedy.”
INIS MAGAZINE, Children’s Books Ireland
A swoony, speculative and entirely electric YA debut with a humorous and satirical take on the conventions of the superhero-verse, for fans of Michelle Quach's Not Here To Be Liked and the Marvel Universe.
Seventeen-year-old Jenna Ray has just been saved by the world's newest superhero, Blaze. And, in the eyes of the public, that means one thing: Jenna Ray has been cast as the Love Interest.
No. Not happening. Not if Jenna has anything to say about it (even if Blaze is actually quite sweet and cute).
But her plans to defy the HPA (the Heroics and Power Authority) and turn down this new role are thwarted when the Villains begin to take an interest in her and offer a life-changing proposition; become Blaze's Love Interest, while avoiding catching feelings for him, to uncover the HPA's secret plans and find her missing mum.
To make matters even more complicated, just as Jenna starts to embrace her new-found career, she discovers she might be more on the side of the superheroes than she ever imagined …
The Author:
Helen left the busy world of backstage theatre to write fast, funny and action packed tales for children and young adults. When she’s not writing, you can generally find her leaping into cold water or hiking around the Welsh countryside with her dog, Cocoa.
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Alex Marchant
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Title 1: The Order of the White Boar, books 1 and 2
Title 2: King in Waiting, books 3 and 4 of The Order of the White Boar
What happened to the ‘Princes in the Tower’? And does Matthew Wansford know the truth?
Read Books 3 and 4 of the bestselling ‘Order of the White Boar’ sequence, King in Waiting and Sons of York, together for the first time.
1486
These are dangerous days for the Order of the White Boar
King Richard III has been betrayed and killed
Victorious Henry Tudor sits uneasily on the throne of England
Richard’s loyal friend, Francis Lovell, plots revenge
Alys Langdown, ward of the Queen, awaits an unknown fate
And ever-loyal Matthew Wansford serves his new master, Edward Plantagenet, true King of England – who now must seek his own road …
From exile in Flanders to a homecoming in the dales of Yorkshire, Matthew, Alys and Roger must brave old enemies and rise to their greatest challenge
Can the Order and the King in Waiting claim victory against usurper Henry Tudor?
Format: Paperback
Signed: Dedication available – UK only
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Author:
Born and raised in the rolling Surrey downs, and following stints as in archaeology and publishing in London, Stirling and Gloucester, I now live and write surrounded by moors in King Richard III’s northern heartland.
My first novel, 'Time out of Time' (published June 2021), won the 2012 Chapter One Children’s Book Award and my second was put to one side in 2013 when the rediscovery of King Richard’s grave in a car park in Leicester was announced. A Ricardian since my teens, it prompted me at last to write a novel about the real Richard III for older children. So 'The Order of the White Boar' and its sequel 'The King’s Man' were born.
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Title 2: King in Waiting, books 3 and 4 of The Order of the White Boar
What happened to the ‘Princes in the Tower’? And does Matthew Wansford know the truth?
Read Books 3 and 4 of the bestselling ‘Order of the White Boar’ sequence, King in Waiting and Sons of York, together for the first time.
1486
These are dangerous days for the Order of the White Boar
King Richard III has been betrayed and killed
Victorious Henry Tudor sits uneasily on the throne of England
Richard’s loyal friend, Francis Lovell, plots revenge
Alys Langdown, ward of the Queen, awaits an unknown fate
And ever-loyal Matthew Wansford serves his new master, Edward Plantagenet, true King of England – who now must seek his own road …
From exile in Flanders to a homecoming in the dales of Yorkshire, Matthew, Alys and Roger must brave old enemies and rise to their greatest challenge
Can the Order and the King in Waiting claim victory against usurper Henry Tudor?
Format: Paperback
Signed: Dedication available – UK only
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Author:
Born and raised in the rolling Surrey downs, and following stints as in archaeology and publishing in London, Stirling and Gloucester, I now live and write surrounded by moors in King Richard III’s northern heartland.
My first novel, 'Time out of Time' (published June 2021), won the 2012 Chapter One Children’s Book Award and my second was put to one side in 2013 when the rediscovery of King Richard’s grave in a car park in Leicester was announced. A Ricardian since my teens, it prompted me at last to write a novel about the real Richard III for older children. So 'The Order of the White Boar' and its sequel 'The King’s Man' were born.
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Sophie Cleverley
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Book Title: A Case of High Stakes (The Violet Veil Mysteries #3)
Genre: Children’s Mystery
Format: Paperback first edition
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The third title in this breakout new detective series, from the author of the spine-tingling Scarlet and Ivy series.
When a large diamond goes missing from Silvershell Manor, who better to get to the bottom of the mystery than detective Violet Veil and her dog Bones?
But nothing is quite as it seems when it comes to the missing heirloom. When a trail of origami birds leads them to the mysterious Crane, a young casino owner and debt collector, Violet realises that it’s all just turned into a game of high stakes.
The Author:
Sophie Cleverly was born in Bath in 1989. She studied for a BA in Creative Writing and an MA in Writing For Young People. Her book series Scarlet and Ivy and The Violet Veil Mysteries are published by HarperCollins worldwide, as well as being translated into 9 different languages so far.
Aside from writing, she can often be found listening to symphonic metal, watching fantastical TV and struggling to find her way out of her ever-increasing pile of books.
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Genre: Children’s Mystery
Format: Paperback first edition
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The Book :
The third title in this breakout new detective series, from the author of the spine-tingling Scarlet and Ivy series.
When a large diamond goes missing from Silvershell Manor, who better to get to the bottom of the mystery than detective Violet Veil and her dog Bones?
But nothing is quite as it seems when it comes to the missing heirloom. When a trail of origami birds leads them to the mysterious Crane, a young casino owner and debt collector, Violet realises that it’s all just turned into a game of high stakes.
The Author:
Sophie Cleverly was born in Bath in 1989. She studied for a BA in Creative Writing and an MA in Writing For Young People. Her book series Scarlet and Ivy and The Violet Veil Mysteries are published by HarperCollins worldwide, as well as being translated into 9 different languages so far.
Aside from writing, she can often be found listening to symphonic metal, watching fantastical TV and struggling to find her way out of her ever-increasing pile of books.
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Title: The Teacher
Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Hardback - First Edition
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The Book;
He's a victim. But is he innocent?
THE BODY
In a village in South West England, an elderly man is found dead in his home. The angle of his neck says he fell down the stairs. The stab wound on his body tells a different story.
THE EVIDENCE
In the weeks before his murder, Alistair Moreton changed. He usually kept himself to himself, but people swear there was someone in the house when they checked on him, that there was a reason he wouldn't let them inside.
THE PUNISHMENT
Moreton made people's lives a misery, from his neighbours to his ex-pupils. While DS George Cross's list of suspects is long, every victim deserves justice.
But in all of Alistair's years, there was something important he never learned:
If you go through life making enemies, don't be surprised when they teach you a lesson.
The Author:
Tim Sullivan is an acclaimed screenwriter. He originally read English and Law at university - the latter forced on him by his Dad - but instead he wriggled free of those parental ambitions and pursued his own, to make films. His writing credits include A HANDFUL OF DUST, starring Kristen Scott Thomas, WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD, starring Helen Mirren and Helena Bonham Carter, JACK AND SARAH (which he also directed) starring Richard E Grant, Judi Dench and Ian McKellen and LETTERS TO JULIET, with Amanda Seyfried. He is also a Television director whose credits include SHERLOCK HOLMES and COLD FEET and CORONATIONSSTREET. He has written extensively in Hollywood in both live action and animation, working with Ron Howard, Scott Rudin and with Jeffrey Katzenberg on the fourth SHREK movie.
He has now embarked on a series of crime novels featuring the autistic, and brilliantly persistent DS George Cross.
He self-published the first two books and once they'd achieved over 200,000 downloads he came to the attention of Head of Zeus publishers. So thanks to all his readers for this success and their shared love of George.
The novels are set in Bristol in the south west of England, Cross’ methods often infuriate his colleagues and superiors “not so much a thorn in my side as a pain in my arse,” according to his boss DCI Carson. But his conviction rate, thanks to his dogged persistence and attention to detail, is the best in the force. Tim has now written the first four in the series with The Patient being published on March 3rd 2022.
Tim feels confident in his claim that he is the only crime writer around who has also co-produced and written a My Little Pony movie for Hasbro. MY LITTLE PONY - A NEW GENERATION is now available on Netflix.
Tim lives in North London with his wife Rachel, the Emmy award-winning producer of THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA and PIONEER WOMAN. Their daughters live near by.
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Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Hardback - First Edition
Signed - Dedication is Available
Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book;
He's a victim. But is he innocent?
THE BODY
In a village in South West England, an elderly man is found dead in his home. The angle of his neck says he fell down the stairs. The stab wound on his body tells a different story.
THE EVIDENCE
In the weeks before his murder, Alistair Moreton changed. He usually kept himself to himself, but people swear there was someone in the house when they checked on him, that there was a reason he wouldn't let them inside.
THE PUNISHMENT
Moreton made people's lives a misery, from his neighbours to his ex-pupils. While DS George Cross's list of suspects is long, every victim deserves justice.
But in all of Alistair's years, there was something important he never learned:
If you go through life making enemies, don't be surprised when they teach you a lesson.
The Author:
Tim Sullivan is an acclaimed screenwriter. He originally read English and Law at university - the latter forced on him by his Dad - but instead he wriggled free of those parental ambitions and pursued his own, to make films. His writing credits include A HANDFUL OF DUST, starring Kristen Scott Thomas, WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD, starring Helen Mirren and Helena Bonham Carter, JACK AND SARAH (which he also directed) starring Richard E Grant, Judi Dench and Ian McKellen and LETTERS TO JULIET, with Amanda Seyfried. He is also a Television director whose credits include SHERLOCK HOLMES and COLD FEET and CORONATIONSSTREET. He has written extensively in Hollywood in both live action and animation, working with Ron Howard, Scott Rudin and with Jeffrey Katzenberg on the fourth SHREK movie.
He has now embarked on a series of crime novels featuring the autistic, and brilliantly persistent DS George Cross.
He self-published the first two books and once they'd achieved over 200,000 downloads he came to the attention of Head of Zeus publishers. So thanks to all his readers for this success and their shared love of George.
The novels are set in Bristol in the south west of England, Cross’ methods often infuriate his colleagues and superiors “not so much a thorn in my side as a pain in my arse,” according to his boss DCI Carson. But his conviction rate, thanks to his dogged persistence and attention to detail, is the best in the force. Tim has now written the first four in the series with The Patient being published on March 3rd 2022.
Tim feels confident in his claim that he is the only crime writer around who has also co-produced and written a My Little Pony movie for Hasbro. MY LITTLE PONY - A NEW GENERATION is now available on Netflix.
Tim lives in North London with his wife Rachel, the Emmy award-winning producer of THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA and PIONEER WOMAN. Their daughters live near by.
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Book Title: Faedom
Genre: Folklore & Mythology Narrative Non-fiction Picture Book
Format: First edition, large-format hardback
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Explore the legendary world of fairies in this stunningly illustrated guide to the mythical realm.
Faedom will take you on an enchanting ride through fascinating fairy facts and fictions, revealing the secrets of where fairies come from and what lies behind their spectacular powers and personalities.
Inspired by the age-old myths that have long insisted that fairies are very much real, this book draws upon the great store of cultural and literary references from around the world to create a comprehensive compendium of these fascinating creatures. Fairy tales come to life across the pages, with vibrant stories, songs, poems, facts, figures and folklore to entertain and inform readers of all ages.
Author: Agnes Monod-Gayraud
Agnes Monod-Gayraud is an author and translator, with a focus on non-fiction titles rooted in science, nature, art and foklore. Winner of the 2017 Educational Writers' Award from the UK’s Society of Authors for The Book of Bees (Thames and Hudson/Abrams). Language editor for the Astronomy & Astrophysics academic journal, based at the Paris Observatory. Holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature/Psychology from New York University and an M.A. in Cultural Studies from the University of Warsaw. A native New Yorker, she currently lives with her family in London.
Author: Lorna White
Lorna White is a writer who is fascinated by all things mystical and magical. She draws her inspiration from European folklore, fairy tales and Greek and Roman myths. Half French, half English, she grew up flitting between the two nations. She currently lives in London with her husband and two daughters.
Illustrated by: Nadzeya Makeyeva
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Genre: Folklore & Mythology Narrative Non-fiction Picture Book
Format: First edition, large-format hardback
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Explore the legendary world of fairies in this stunningly illustrated guide to the mythical realm.
Faedom will take you on an enchanting ride through fascinating fairy facts and fictions, revealing the secrets of where fairies come from and what lies behind their spectacular powers and personalities.
Inspired by the age-old myths that have long insisted that fairies are very much real, this book draws upon the great store of cultural and literary references from around the world to create a comprehensive compendium of these fascinating creatures. Fairy tales come to life across the pages, with vibrant stories, songs, poems, facts, figures and folklore to entertain and inform readers of all ages.
Author: Agnes Monod-Gayraud
Agnes Monod-Gayraud is an author and translator, with a focus on non-fiction titles rooted in science, nature, art and foklore. Winner of the 2017 Educational Writers' Award from the UK’s Society of Authors for The Book of Bees (Thames and Hudson/Abrams). Language editor for the Astronomy & Astrophysics academic journal, based at the Paris Observatory. Holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature/Psychology from New York University and an M.A. in Cultural Studies from the University of Warsaw. A native New Yorker, she currently lives with her family in London.
Author: Lorna White
Lorna White is a writer who is fascinated by all things mystical and magical. She draws her inspiration from European folklore, fairy tales and Greek and Roman myths. Half French, half English, she grew up flitting between the two nations. She currently lives in London with her husband and two daughters.
Illustrated by: Nadzeya Makeyeva
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Clare Harlow
Clare Harlow
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Book Title: Tidemagic: The Many Faces of Ista Flit
Genre: Children - Middle-grade Fantasy
Format: Paperback (First Edition)
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In misty Shelwich, magic rises and falls with the tide. When the river is high, anything can happen - and people have started to disappear. Rumour has it they are being snatched by monsters, but Ista Flit doesn’t want to believe that. Not when her own father is among the missing.
Ista is a face-changer, able to take on the appearance of anyone she’s ever seen, making her the perfect detective. Teaming up with unexpected allies Nat and Ruby, who have both lost family too, Ista must venture into the hidden caverns beneath Shelwich. But what they find down there is stranger than any of them have bargained for…
The Author:
Once upon a time, Clare was an actor, touring theatres all over the UK and Ireland. A few years ago, she turned her love of storytelling from stage to page and became a writer, too. She lives in southeast London, where she spends a lot of time walking by the river in the hope that a little Tidemagic might rub off on her.
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Genre: Children - Middle-grade Fantasy
Format: Paperback (First Edition)
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In misty Shelwich, magic rises and falls with the tide. When the river is high, anything can happen - and people have started to disappear. Rumour has it they are being snatched by monsters, but Ista Flit doesn’t want to believe that. Not when her own father is among the missing.
Ista is a face-changer, able to take on the appearance of anyone she’s ever seen, making her the perfect detective. Teaming up with unexpected allies Nat and Ruby, who have both lost family too, Ista must venture into the hidden caverns beneath Shelwich. But what they find down there is stranger than any of them have bargained for…
The Author:
Once upon a time, Clare was an actor, touring theatres all over the UK and Ireland. A few years ago, she turned her love of storytelling from stage to page and became a writer, too. She lives in southeast London, where she spends a lot of time walking by the river in the hope that a little Tidemagic might rub off on her.
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Nicola May
Nicola May
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The Ferry Lane Market Four Book Series
Title 1: Welcome to Ferry Lane Market
Although thirty-three-year-old Kara Moon loves her hometown of Hartmouth in Cornwall, she has always wondered if she should have followed her dream of going off to study floristry. But she couldn't bring herself to abandon her emotionally delicate single father, and has worked on Ferry Lane Market's flower stall ever since leaving school.
When her good-for-nothing boyfriend cheats on her and steals her life savings, she finally dumps him and rents out her spare room as an Airbnb. Gossip flies around the town as Kara welcomes a series of foreign guests to her flat overlooking the estuary.
Then an anonymous postcard arrives, along with a plane ticket to New York. And there begins the first of three trips of a lifetime, during which she will learn important lessons about herself, her life and what she wants from it - and perhaps find love along the way.
Title 2: Starry Skies in Ferry Lane Market
When Star Bligh got pregnant at the age of sixteen, she thought her life was over. Now thirty-three, mother to Skye and owner of the successful jewellery stall in Ferry Lane Market in Hartmouth, Cornwall, she wouldn't change a thing about it.
Well, maybe one. A few months ago she fell hard for American visitor Jack, but then he left without even saying goodbye and ever since she has struggled to get him out of her head. Until the handsome, roguish Conor turns up and sweeps her off her feet. But then one day, Star is shocked to bump into Jack. He's back in Hartmouth to tell her why he left - but is she ready to listen?
As things get more complicated with her love life, another revelation threatens to turn the lovely world she has built for her and Skye upside down. But could this be the one thing that will make it complete?
Title 3: Rainbows End in Ferry Lane Market
39-year-old Glanna Pascoe - also known as 'the Rainbow Painter' - runs the Hartmouth Gallery in Ferry Lane Market in Cornwall. She is just getting her head and broken heart around being single, childless, and sober when Cupid flies in, shooting arrows all over the place.
Meeting the mysterious and fascinating Isaac Benson, famous local artist, and recluse, allows Glanna's disillusioned heart and attitude to soften, and she begins to learn more about herself than she ever thought possible. Confused by her growing feelings for Isaac, Glanna throws herself into organising a life-drawing class at her gallery, using both male and female nudes - and setting local tongues wagging.
A theft from her gallery and the return of ex-love Oliver Trueman cause Glanna to wonder if a pot of gold will be appearing at the end of her rainbow. And will it bring her the happiness, she has sought for so long?
Title 4: A Holiday Romance in Ferry Lane Market
To escape a public scandal, a jilted actress journeys to Ferry Lane Market
When soap actor Sabrina Swift loses her way due to a public scandal, she packs up her life, heads to Cornwall and finds herself running a gift shop in the quaint and quirky Ferry Lane Market.
Changing her looks and identity to keep her anonymity, the newcomer starts to make friends and enemies as she walks a frosty path in the established marketplace community.
And as rumours start circling that the outside market is going to be shut down, Sabrina is not only ensconced in an unexpected love triangle but is also faced with a difficult decision that could alter both her life and those of the inhabitants of Hartmouth forever.
Charming characters and a beautifully written setting make for a delightful and uplifting tale that explores themes of self-discovery, belonging and the importance of following your heart.
Genre: Romantic Comedies
Format: Paperbacks
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Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Author:
Nicola May is a rom-com superstar. She is the author of seventeen romantic comedies, all of which have appeared in the Kindle bestseller charts. Two of them won awards at the Festival of Romance, and another was named ebook of the week in The Sun. The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay became the best-selling Kindle book in the UK, across all genres, in January 2019, and was Amazon’s third-bestselling novel in that year. Described by Winifred Robinson of BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours as ‘the invisible bestselling author’, Nicola campaigned successfully for the introduction of ebook charts in the publishing trade press.
She lives near Ascot racecourse with her black-and-white rescue cat, Stan.
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Title 1: Welcome to Ferry Lane Market
Although thirty-three-year-old Kara Moon loves her hometown of Hartmouth in Cornwall, she has always wondered if she should have followed her dream of going off to study floristry. But she couldn't bring herself to abandon her emotionally delicate single father, and has worked on Ferry Lane Market's flower stall ever since leaving school.
When her good-for-nothing boyfriend cheats on her and steals her life savings, she finally dumps him and rents out her spare room as an Airbnb. Gossip flies around the town as Kara welcomes a series of foreign guests to her flat overlooking the estuary.
Then an anonymous postcard arrives, along with a plane ticket to New York. And there begins the first of three trips of a lifetime, during which she will learn important lessons about herself, her life and what she wants from it - and perhaps find love along the way.
Title 2: Starry Skies in Ferry Lane Market
When Star Bligh got pregnant at the age of sixteen, she thought her life was over. Now thirty-three, mother to Skye and owner of the successful jewellery stall in Ferry Lane Market in Hartmouth, Cornwall, she wouldn't change a thing about it.
Well, maybe one. A few months ago she fell hard for American visitor Jack, but then he left without even saying goodbye and ever since she has struggled to get him out of her head. Until the handsome, roguish Conor turns up and sweeps her off her feet. But then one day, Star is shocked to bump into Jack. He's back in Hartmouth to tell her why he left - but is she ready to listen?
As things get more complicated with her love life, another revelation threatens to turn the lovely world she has built for her and Skye upside down. But could this be the one thing that will make it complete?
Title 3: Rainbows End in Ferry Lane Market
39-year-old Glanna Pascoe - also known as 'the Rainbow Painter' - runs the Hartmouth Gallery in Ferry Lane Market in Cornwall. She is just getting her head and broken heart around being single, childless, and sober when Cupid flies in, shooting arrows all over the place.
Meeting the mysterious and fascinating Isaac Benson, famous local artist, and recluse, allows Glanna's disillusioned heart and attitude to soften, and she begins to learn more about herself than she ever thought possible. Confused by her growing feelings for Isaac, Glanna throws herself into organising a life-drawing class at her gallery, using both male and female nudes - and setting local tongues wagging.
A theft from her gallery and the return of ex-love Oliver Trueman cause Glanna to wonder if a pot of gold will be appearing at the end of her rainbow. And will it bring her the happiness, she has sought for so long?
Title 4: A Holiday Romance in Ferry Lane Market
To escape a public scandal, a jilted actress journeys to Ferry Lane Market
When soap actor Sabrina Swift loses her way due to a public scandal, she packs up her life, heads to Cornwall and finds herself running a gift shop in the quaint and quirky Ferry Lane Market.
Changing her looks and identity to keep her anonymity, the newcomer starts to make friends and enemies as she walks a frosty path in the established marketplace community.
And as rumours start circling that the outside market is going to be shut down, Sabrina is not only ensconced in an unexpected love triangle but is also faced with a difficult decision that could alter both her life and those of the inhabitants of Hartmouth forever.
Charming characters and a beautifully written setting make for a delightful and uplifting tale that explores themes of self-discovery, belonging and the importance of following your heart.
Genre: Romantic Comedies
Format: Paperbacks
Signed - Dedications are Available
Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Author:
Nicola May is a rom-com superstar. She is the author of seventeen romantic comedies, all of which have appeared in the Kindle bestseller charts. Two of them won awards at the Festival of Romance, and another was named ebook of the week in The Sun. The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay became the best-selling Kindle book in the UK, across all genres, in January 2019, and was Amazon’s third-bestselling novel in that year. Described by Winifred Robinson of BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours as ‘the invisible bestselling author’, Nicola campaigned successfully for the introduction of ebook charts in the publishing trade press.
She lives near Ascot racecourse with her black-and-white rescue cat, Stan.
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Lucy Jane Wood
Lucy Jane Wood
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Book Title: Rewitched
Genre: Fantasy
Format: Hardback First Edition
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'Sometimes all you want is the novel equivalent of Gilmore Girls and this rather lovely debut hits those notes . . . Just add a spiced latte' - Stylist
It's time to rediscover her magic . . .
With found family, a dash of romance and an uplifting message about self-love, Rewitched is a cosy autumnal fantasy that will leave readers spellbound.
Belladonna Blackthorn hasn’t lost her magical spark, but she hasn’t seen it in a while either. Balancing work at her beloved London bookshop, Lunar Books, with handling her toxic boss and concealing her witchcraft from those around her – Belle is burnt out. Perfecting the potential of her magic is the last thing on her mind.
But, when her thirtieth birthday brings a summons from her coven and a trial that tests her worthiness as a witch, Belle risks losing her magic for ever. With the month of October to fix things and signs that dark forces may be working against her, Belle will need all the help she can get – from the women in her life, from an unlikely mentor figure and even from an (infuriating) coven watchman who’s sworn to protect her . . .
The Author: Lucy Jane Wood
Lucy Jane Wood is an online content creator, avid reader and cosiness-seeker from the Wirral. These days, you’ll find her living in London, giant coffee in hand, and being headbutted at any given time by her cat.
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Genre: Fantasy
Format: Hardback First Edition
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The Book:
'Sometimes all you want is the novel equivalent of Gilmore Girls and this rather lovely debut hits those notes . . . Just add a spiced latte' - Stylist
It's time to rediscover her magic . . .
With found family, a dash of romance and an uplifting message about self-love, Rewitched is a cosy autumnal fantasy that will leave readers spellbound.
Belladonna Blackthorn hasn’t lost her magical spark, but she hasn’t seen it in a while either. Balancing work at her beloved London bookshop, Lunar Books, with handling her toxic boss and concealing her witchcraft from those around her – Belle is burnt out. Perfecting the potential of her magic is the last thing on her mind.
But, when her thirtieth birthday brings a summons from her coven and a trial that tests her worthiness as a witch, Belle risks losing her magic for ever. With the month of October to fix things and signs that dark forces may be working against her, Belle will need all the help she can get – from the women in her life, from an unlikely mentor figure and even from an (infuriating) coven watchman who’s sworn to protect her . . .
The Author: Lucy Jane Wood
Lucy Jane Wood is an online content creator, avid reader and cosiness-seeker from the Wirral. These days, you’ll find her living in London, giant coffee in hand, and being headbutted at any given time by her cat.
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Joanna Dodd
Joanna Dodd
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Book Title: The Summer Dare
Genre: Crime Fiction
Format: Paperback
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Six weeks of friendship. A lifetime paying for it.
They were the cool girls. Two years older, oozing glamour. She could prove herself worthy of their friendship. She could do the dare.
Twenty-five years later, Lucy has a perfect life. She is still friends with the cool girls. All except one. Maddie. The one they never saw again after the dare. They don't talk about her. They don’t think about her. It is as though she never existed until…
Lucy gets a text from an unknown number. Why didn't you tell them where I was?
The past hurtles into the present and secrets push their way to the surface.
Who is the message from? Is Maddie back? Or is someone else set on exposing the truth and seeking revenge?
A gripping domestic psych thriller perfect for fans of Shari Lapena, S.E. Lynes and Lisa Jewell.
The Author:
Joanna Dodd is fascinated by toxic friendship and family groups, and the long shadows cast by old secrets. She lives in London, where she enjoys acting in plays, running very slowly, and spending time with her (lovely and not at all toxic) family and friends.
She’s wanted to be a crime writer since she became addicted to Murder She Wrote as a teenager (although her real-life sleuthing skills are probably not quite as honed as Jessica Fletcher’s). When she’s not writing crime fiction, she also loves reading it!
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Genre: Crime Fiction
Format: Paperback
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Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book:
Six weeks of friendship. A lifetime paying for it.
They were the cool girls. Two years older, oozing glamour. She could prove herself worthy of their friendship. She could do the dare.
Twenty-five years later, Lucy has a perfect life. She is still friends with the cool girls. All except one. Maddie. The one they never saw again after the dare. They don't talk about her. They don’t think about her. It is as though she never existed until…
Lucy gets a text from an unknown number. Why didn't you tell them where I was?
The past hurtles into the present and secrets push their way to the surface.
Who is the message from? Is Maddie back? Or is someone else set on exposing the truth and seeking revenge?
A gripping domestic psych thriller perfect for fans of Shari Lapena, S.E. Lynes and Lisa Jewell.
The Author:
Joanna Dodd is fascinated by toxic friendship and family groups, and the long shadows cast by old secrets. She lives in London, where she enjoys acting in plays, running very slowly, and spending time with her (lovely and not at all toxic) family and friends.
She’s wanted to be a crime writer since she became addicted to Murder She Wrote as a teenager (although her real-life sleuthing skills are probably not quite as honed as Jessica Fletcher’s). When she’s not writing crime fiction, she also loves reading it!
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Zoe Allison
Zoe Allison
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Book Title: The Wedding Engagement
Genre: rom com
Format: Paperback. First Edition
Signed: Yes, dedication is available
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book:
Planning a wedding with the man you’re secretly in love with… what could go wrong?
Liv Holland has a secret: she’s been crushing on Arran Adebayo, her brother’s best friend, for years. They’re ‘just friends’ but she can’t help the butterflies in her stomach whenever she’s around him.
When they’re asked to help plan festivities for Liv's brother's wedding, Liv and Arran can no longer deny the sparks between them. But with both having their own chequered romantic history, risking everything for love could mean losing each other forever…
As the wedding bells ring, will Liv and Arran finally find their own happy ever after?
The Author:
Zoe lives in Scotland with her husband, two children, and massive notebook collection—having been brought up in a mixed-race family in Yorkshire. Her favourite past times include reading, movies, music and pop culture, and walking into rooms and then forgetting what she went in there for.
Growing up, she always enjoyed stories about falling in love. But rather than daydreaming of being rescued by a knight in shining armour, she would imagine fighting dragons alongside him.
As an adult, she went to medical school and became a doctor. However as time passed, she began to crave a creative outlet to counter the burnout that her career inflicted upon her, and also to achieve the happy endings that were so often lacking in the real world.
A Zoe Allison novel promises a heroine who is not only her hero’s equal in ability and intellect, but whose hero equals her in emotional intelligence. Her characters overcome conflict infused with spine tingling sexual tension to forge a deep connection as soul mates as well as lovers, and ultimately, they both rescue each other emotionally. Even if they might begin their journey as enemies…
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Genre: rom com
Format: Paperback. First Edition
Signed: Yes, dedication is available
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book:
Planning a wedding with the man you’re secretly in love with… what could go wrong?
Liv Holland has a secret: she’s been crushing on Arran Adebayo, her brother’s best friend, for years. They’re ‘just friends’ but she can’t help the butterflies in her stomach whenever she’s around him.
When they’re asked to help plan festivities for Liv's brother's wedding, Liv and Arran can no longer deny the sparks between them. But with both having their own chequered romantic history, risking everything for love could mean losing each other forever…
As the wedding bells ring, will Liv and Arran finally find their own happy ever after?
The Author:
Zoe lives in Scotland with her husband, two children, and massive notebook collection—having been brought up in a mixed-race family in Yorkshire. Her favourite past times include reading, movies, music and pop culture, and walking into rooms and then forgetting what she went in there for.
Growing up, she always enjoyed stories about falling in love. But rather than daydreaming of being rescued by a knight in shining armour, she would imagine fighting dragons alongside him.
As an adult, she went to medical school and became a doctor. However as time passed, she began to crave a creative outlet to counter the burnout that her career inflicted upon her, and also to achieve the happy endings that were so often lacking in the real world.
A Zoe Allison novel promises a heroine who is not only her hero’s equal in ability and intellect, but whose hero equals her in emotional intelligence. Her characters overcome conflict infused with spine tingling sexual tension to forge a deep connection as soul mates as well as lovers, and ultimately, they both rescue each other emotionally. Even if they might begin their journey as enemies…
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Pari Thomson
Pari Thomson
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Title: Greenwild: The World Behind the Door
Format: Hardback
Dedication available: Yes
Bids accepted: UK only
The Book:
Open the door to a spellbinding world where the wilderness is alive and a deep magic rises from the earth itself.
Daisy Thistledown has escaped from boarding school and has a mystery to solve. Her search for her missing mother will lead her across London and through a hidden doorway to another world, filled with plants and bursting with magic: the Greenwild.
But all is not well in this astonishing land. Before long Daisy finds herself confronting a dangerous presence that threatens green magic on both sides of the door. Daisy must band together with a botanical genius, a boy who can talk to animals, and a cat with an attitude, to channel the power that can revive the Greenwild and find her missing mother - and save her own world too.
Prepare to embark on an unforgettable adventure through the Greenwild, beautifully illustrated by Elisa Paganelli.
The Author:
Pari Thomson is Editorial Director for picture books at Bloomsbury Children’s Books. Half Persian, half English, she lived in many places while she was growing up, including India, Pakistan, the USA, the UK and Belgium. She studied at Oxford University and now lives near the river in London, not far from Kew Gardens. Greenwild: The World Behind the Door is her debut novel.
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Format: Hardback
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The Book:
Open the door to a spellbinding world where the wilderness is alive and a deep magic rises from the earth itself.
Daisy Thistledown has escaped from boarding school and has a mystery to solve. Her search for her missing mother will lead her across London and through a hidden doorway to another world, filled with plants and bursting with magic: the Greenwild.
But all is not well in this astonishing land. Before long Daisy finds herself confronting a dangerous presence that threatens green magic on both sides of the door. Daisy must band together with a botanical genius, a boy who can talk to animals, and a cat with an attitude, to channel the power that can revive the Greenwild and find her missing mother - and save her own world too.
Prepare to embark on an unforgettable adventure through the Greenwild, beautifully illustrated by Elisa Paganelli.
The Author:
Pari Thomson is Editorial Director for picture books at Bloomsbury Children’s Books. Half Persian, half English, she lived in many places while she was growing up, including India, Pakistan, the USA, the UK and Belgium. She studied at Oxford University and now lives near the river in London, not far from Kew Gardens. Greenwild: The World Behind the Door is her debut novel.
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Tony Riches
Tony Riches
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Book Title: Penelope – Tudor Baroness
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback (First Edition)
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A Life of Love and Scandal
Lady Penelope is one of the most beautiful and sought-after women in Elizabethan England. Daughter of the queen's nemesis, Lady Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex, she becomes the stepdaughter of Robert Dudley when he marries her mother in secret.
Penelope's life is full of love and scandal. The inspiration for Sir Philip Sidney’s sonnet Astrophel and Stella, she is inevitably caught up in her brother Robert's fateful rebellion.
A complex and fascinating woman, her life is a story of love, betrayal, and tragedy. Discover how Penelope charms her way out of serious charges of treason, adultery, and forgery, and becomes one of the last truly great ladies of the Tudor court.
The Author:
Tony Riches is a full-time UK author of Tudor historical fiction. He lives with his wife in Pembrokeshire, West Wales and is a specialist in the lives of the early Tudors. As well as his Elizabethan series, Tony’s historical fiction novels include the best-selling Tudor trilogy and his Brandon trilogy, (about Charles Brandon and his wives).
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Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback (First Edition)
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A Life of Love and Scandal
Lady Penelope is one of the most beautiful and sought-after women in Elizabethan England. Daughter of the queen's nemesis, Lady Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex, she becomes the stepdaughter of Robert Dudley when he marries her mother in secret.
Penelope's life is full of love and scandal. The inspiration for Sir Philip Sidney’s sonnet Astrophel and Stella, she is inevitably caught up in her brother Robert's fateful rebellion.
A complex and fascinating woman, her life is a story of love, betrayal, and tragedy. Discover how Penelope charms her way out of serious charges of treason, adultery, and forgery, and becomes one of the last truly great ladies of the Tudor court.
The Author:
Tony Riches is a full-time UK author of Tudor historical fiction. He lives with his wife in Pembrokeshire, West Wales and is a specialist in the lives of the early Tudors. As well as his Elizabethan series, Tony’s historical fiction novels include the best-selling Tudor trilogy and his Brandon trilogy, (about Charles Brandon and his wives).
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Title 1: MURDER AMONG THE ROSES
‘Although there’s a distinctly dark edge to the story at times, there’s a really lovely lightness to the writing — with plenty of warmth, and the most perfectly judged touches of humour. This is the kind of crime writing I enjoy.’ Annie Williams, RNA Media Star of the Year
MEET ABBY FINCH. SHE’S THE BUSY MUM OF THREE, AN EXPERT GARDENER AND THE STAR OF YOUR NEW FAVOURITE COZY MURDER MYSTERY.
In the peaceful Cotswolds village of Maybridge, you wouldn’t expect to find a dead body in the rose garden. And certainly not two.
Abby is horrified to discover the bones of a baby buried under a rose bush. It’s in the garden of her soon-to-be ex-husband Howard’s family home.
She immediately calls the police. But she can’t get hold of Howard. He’s off on a jolly with the woman he’s got pregnant.
And then, just two days later, Abby finds Howard himself.
Lying dead in the very same rose garden.
Throat slashed with her own garden spade.
Now Abby is the prime suspect . . .
Title 2: MURDER UNDER THE MISTLETOE
MEET ABBY FINCH. SHE’S THE BUSY MUM OF THREE, AN EXPERT GARDENER AND THE STAR OF YOUR NEW FAVOURITE COZY MURDER MYSTERY.
Abby Finch arrives at the old church hall armed with festive mistletoe and holly, ready to decorate. But within moments of her walking through the door, tragedy strikes . . .
Edward Marsh reaches to test the antique star at the top of the tree. There’s a fizz and the lights go out.
Abby hears the sickening thud of a body hitting the floor. When the lights turn back on, Edward is dead.
It soon becomes clear it was no accident.
The real victim should have been Gregory Tatton. Dapper silver fox. Popular with the ladies of the seniors’ lunch club. A known blackmailer . . .
Abby is desperate to find out the truth, but putting herself in danger isn’t on her Christmas wish list.
Who’s been naughty? Who’s been nice? Who’s hiding the fact they’re a murderer?
Title 3: MURDER IN BLOOM
MEET ABBY FINCH. SHE’S A BUSY MUM OF THREE, AN EXPERT GARDENER AND THE STAR OF YOUR NEW FAVOURITE COZY MURDER MYSTERY.
One part jealousy. Two parts rage. Somewhere in Abby’s sleepy little village, the perfect murder is brewing . . .
Abby enters the Maybridge Flower Show, never dreaming for one moment that she’ll win the gold. Or an invitation to appear on telly, alongside gardening legend Daisy Dashwood!
Some people say Daisy’s a tiresome diva. But starry-eyed Abby can’t wait for the cameras to start rolling. Until . . .
Daisy staggers out on stage. Only to collapse at Abby’s feet.
Her demise might seem like a tragic accident, resulting from a cocktail of booze and hay-fever medicine.
But Abby’s not so sure. She starts digging, to uncover shifty suspects at every turn. From snarky co-stars to a toy-boy lover, they all had reason to want Daisy dead and gone.
And that’s not the only puzzle playing on Abby’s mind . . .
In life, Daisy went nowhere without her trusty caddy of healing teas. Now it’s vanished.
What if someone’s been tampering with Daisy’s favourite cuppa?
Genre: Cosy Crime
Format: Paperbacks
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The Author:
Liz Fielding worked as a secretary in Africa and the Middle East and was co-ordinator of the Brecon Jazz Festival before writing full time. Her books are published worldwide in multiple languages, she has won the Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA award for both The Best Man & the Bridesmaid and The Marriage Miracle and in 2019 was honoured with an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association in the UK.
She is now writing cozy crime for Joffe Books and her first Maybridge Mystery, Murder Among the Roses is available now.
Liz lives in West Sussex,
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‘Although there’s a distinctly dark edge to the story at times, there’s a really lovely lightness to the writing — with plenty of warmth, and the most perfectly judged touches of humour. This is the kind of crime writing I enjoy.’ Annie Williams, RNA Media Star of the Year
MEET ABBY FINCH. SHE’S THE BUSY MUM OF THREE, AN EXPERT GARDENER AND THE STAR OF YOUR NEW FAVOURITE COZY MURDER MYSTERY.
In the peaceful Cotswolds village of Maybridge, you wouldn’t expect to find a dead body in the rose garden. And certainly not two.
Abby is horrified to discover the bones of a baby buried under a rose bush. It’s in the garden of her soon-to-be ex-husband Howard’s family home.
She immediately calls the police. But she can’t get hold of Howard. He’s off on a jolly with the woman he’s got pregnant.
And then, just two days later, Abby finds Howard himself.
Lying dead in the very same rose garden.
Throat slashed with her own garden spade.
Now Abby is the prime suspect . . .
Title 2: MURDER UNDER THE MISTLETOE
MEET ABBY FINCH. SHE’S THE BUSY MUM OF THREE, AN EXPERT GARDENER AND THE STAR OF YOUR NEW FAVOURITE COZY MURDER MYSTERY.
Abby Finch arrives at the old church hall armed with festive mistletoe and holly, ready to decorate. But within moments of her walking through the door, tragedy strikes . . .
Edward Marsh reaches to test the antique star at the top of the tree. There’s a fizz and the lights go out.
Abby hears the sickening thud of a body hitting the floor. When the lights turn back on, Edward is dead.
It soon becomes clear it was no accident.
The real victim should have been Gregory Tatton. Dapper silver fox. Popular with the ladies of the seniors’ lunch club. A known blackmailer . . .
Abby is desperate to find out the truth, but putting herself in danger isn’t on her Christmas wish list.
Who’s been naughty? Who’s been nice? Who’s hiding the fact they’re a murderer?
Title 3: MURDER IN BLOOM
MEET ABBY FINCH. SHE’S A BUSY MUM OF THREE, AN EXPERT GARDENER AND THE STAR OF YOUR NEW FAVOURITE COZY MURDER MYSTERY.
One part jealousy. Two parts rage. Somewhere in Abby’s sleepy little village, the perfect murder is brewing . . .
Abby enters the Maybridge Flower Show, never dreaming for one moment that she’ll win the gold. Or an invitation to appear on telly, alongside gardening legend Daisy Dashwood!
Some people say Daisy’s a tiresome diva. But starry-eyed Abby can’t wait for the cameras to start rolling. Until . . .
Daisy staggers out on stage. Only to collapse at Abby’s feet.
Her demise might seem like a tragic accident, resulting from a cocktail of booze and hay-fever medicine.
But Abby’s not so sure. She starts digging, to uncover shifty suspects at every turn. From snarky co-stars to a toy-boy lover, they all had reason to want Daisy dead and gone.
And that’s not the only puzzle playing on Abby’s mind . . .
In life, Daisy went nowhere without her trusty caddy of healing teas. Now it’s vanished.
What if someone’s been tampering with Daisy’s favourite cuppa?
Genre: Cosy Crime
Format: Paperbacks
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Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Author:
Liz Fielding worked as a secretary in Africa and the Middle East and was co-ordinator of the Brecon Jazz Festival before writing full time. Her books are published worldwide in multiple languages, she has won the Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA award for both The Best Man & the Bridesmaid and The Marriage Miracle and in 2019 was honoured with an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association in the UK.
She is now writing cozy crime for Joffe Books and her first Maybridge Mystery, Murder Among the Roses is available now.
Liz lives in West Sussex,
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* 2 Book Bundle *
Book One Title: The Anne Boleyn Bible
Genre: British History
Format: Hardback
Book Two Title: I Love The Tudors
Genre: British History
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The Book - The Anne Boleyn Bible
Anne Boleyn sells, but she sells in segments; a biography here, a study over there on her guilt and something else yonder concerned with where she lived or what she liked to wear. This book, covering not just her life but her life onscreen, in theatre, on TV and also the impact of the first black actress to play her, is the definitive, all-encompassing story of Anne Boleyn from 1501 (or thereabouts) to 2023. Having examined the ardent fandom of Anne Boleyn for his doctorate, Dr Mickey Mayhew is in a unique position to offer something new to say on this much-discussed ‘tragic’ Tudor queen and is not afraid to tackle some of the less palatable aspects of her life.
Also, this book is the first to examine with authenticity the reality of Anne’s relationship with the most important man in her life, the man whose name she repeated in comfort whilst facing the Swordsman of Calais on the scaffold, having spent her life promulgating his doctrine; Jesus Christ himself. As for the aforementioned executioner, Dr Mayhew’s research in Calais and Saint-Omer can now lift a lid on a few of the particulars of this elusive and yet essential figure of Anne Boleyn mythos; and yes, now he even has a name as well.
The Anne Boleyn Bible also offers a straightforward retelling of Anne’s actual historical life, albeit one that outlines an entirely fresh and empowering perspective on her rise to prominence; this is followed by a series of considered arguments on the ‘for’ and ‘against’ in regard to her guilt & execution; then her entry into popular culture.
The Book: I Love The Tudors
Did you know that Henry VIII was too fat to walk down the stairs? That Mary Queen of Scots was almost killed by an earthquake at Sheffield Castle? Or that Elizabeth I wore poisonous makeup? This book, containing 400 fantastic facts about the Tudor era and more than 100 illustrations, will delight Tudor fans everywhere!
The Author:
Lifelong Londoner Mickey Mayhew has a PhD concerning the online cult surrounding the tragic queens Anne Boleyn and Mary Queen of Scots. He is co-author of three books relating to Jack the Ripper, published by The History Press. His first non-fiction work, The Little Book of Mary Queen of Scots, was also published by The History Press in January 2015; I Love the Tudors, by Pitkin Publishing, arrived in 2016. He has a semi-regular column in the journal of The Whitechapel Society and was previously a freelance film and theatre reviewer for various London lifestyle magazines. Through 2018/2020 he worked as an assistant researcher on several research projects for London South Bank University. Rasputin and his Russian Queen is his third book for Pen and Sword, following the release of House of Tudor and Imprisoning Mary Queen of Scots.
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Book One Title: The Anne Boleyn Bible
Genre: British History
Format: Hardback
Book Two Title: I Love The Tudors
Genre: British History
Format: Hardback
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Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book - The Anne Boleyn Bible
Anne Boleyn sells, but she sells in segments; a biography here, a study over there on her guilt and something else yonder concerned with where she lived or what she liked to wear. This book, covering not just her life but her life onscreen, in theatre, on TV and also the impact of the first black actress to play her, is the definitive, all-encompassing story of Anne Boleyn from 1501 (or thereabouts) to 2023. Having examined the ardent fandom of Anne Boleyn for his doctorate, Dr Mickey Mayhew is in a unique position to offer something new to say on this much-discussed ‘tragic’ Tudor queen and is not afraid to tackle some of the less palatable aspects of her life.
Also, this book is the first to examine with authenticity the reality of Anne’s relationship with the most important man in her life, the man whose name she repeated in comfort whilst facing the Swordsman of Calais on the scaffold, having spent her life promulgating his doctrine; Jesus Christ himself. As for the aforementioned executioner, Dr Mayhew’s research in Calais and Saint-Omer can now lift a lid on a few of the particulars of this elusive and yet essential figure of Anne Boleyn mythos; and yes, now he even has a name as well.
The Anne Boleyn Bible also offers a straightforward retelling of Anne’s actual historical life, albeit one that outlines an entirely fresh and empowering perspective on her rise to prominence; this is followed by a series of considered arguments on the ‘for’ and ‘against’ in regard to her guilt & execution; then her entry into popular culture.
The Book: I Love The Tudors
Did you know that Henry VIII was too fat to walk down the stairs? That Mary Queen of Scots was almost killed by an earthquake at Sheffield Castle? Or that Elizabeth I wore poisonous makeup? This book, containing 400 fantastic facts about the Tudor era and more than 100 illustrations, will delight Tudor fans everywhere!
The Author:
Lifelong Londoner Mickey Mayhew has a PhD concerning the online cult surrounding the tragic queens Anne Boleyn and Mary Queen of Scots. He is co-author of three books relating to Jack the Ripper, published by The History Press. His first non-fiction work, The Little Book of Mary Queen of Scots, was also published by The History Press in January 2015; I Love the Tudors, by Pitkin Publishing, arrived in 2016. He has a semi-regular column in the journal of The Whitechapel Society and was previously a freelance film and theatre reviewer for various London lifestyle magazines. Through 2018/2020 he worked as an assistant researcher on several research projects for London South Bank University. Rasputin and his Russian Queen is his third book for Pen and Sword, following the release of House of Tudor and Imprisoning Mary Queen of Scots.
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Two Book Special
Book 1 Title: Missing
Book 2 Title: Guilty
Genre: Psychological Thriller s
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Title 1: Missing
Single mum Ellie is shown a missing person post on Facebook.
It’s of her three-year-old son, Tyler…
But he’s right there, holding her hand.
Surely this is some kind of prank – she knows her friend Louise can go too far with her jokes sometimes. And Ellie is used to the other mums gossiping at the school gates…
But now the other parents are questioning whether Tyler is really her child.
Ellie does everything she can to prove the post is fake, but the longer it goes on she knows it is malicious. Who would do this to her? And why?
It could be her ex, Darren, but deep down she knows it must be linked to what happened all those years ago – the night she’s been doing her best to forget…
All she knows is that she has to keep her son safe – no matter what.
Title 2: Guilty
A tense, gripping thriller where time is running out and you don't know who to trust!
“You’re invited to my farewell party. I’ve got something to tell you before I die…”
Heather wants to leave this world with a clear conscience.
One confession. One secret. Two scores to settle.
Heather accepted the fate of her terminal diagnosis long ago, but now the time is nearing, she arranges a huge farewell party for her nearest and dearest.
She wants to say goodbye to everyone personally, but there’s another reason she wants the people in her life to gather.
She knows who killed young Simon Eyre all those years ago, and she needs to tell. The boy deserves justice.
But she doesn’t realise that by freeing her own inner demons, she’s unleashing much worse secrets, and putting everyone at risk…
The Author:
Ruby Speechley is a bestselling psychological thriller writer, whose titles include Missing and Gone, published by Boldwood Books. Her new novel, Guilty, was published on 7 June 2024.
Ruby loves to weave real-life dilemmas into her domestic based stories, often focussing on mother and child relationships.
Born in Lisbon, Portugal, Ruby came to the UK as a baby and has lived here ever since. She moved to Cheshire during lockdown in 2020 with her husband and two of her three children (and two Springer spaniels) to be near her eldest son and daughter-in-law and their two children.
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Title 1: Missing
Single mum Ellie is shown a missing person post on Facebook.
It’s of her three-year-old son, Tyler…
But he’s right there, holding her hand.
Surely this is some kind of prank – she knows her friend Louise can go too far with her jokes sometimes. And Ellie is used to the other mums gossiping at the school gates…
But now the other parents are questioning whether Tyler is really her child.
Ellie does everything she can to prove the post is fake, but the longer it goes on she knows it is malicious. Who would do this to her? And why?
It could be her ex, Darren, but deep down she knows it must be linked to what happened all those years ago – the night she’s been doing her best to forget…
All she knows is that she has to keep her son safe – no matter what.
Title 2: Guilty
A tense, gripping thriller where time is running out and you don't know who to trust!
“You’re invited to my farewell party. I’ve got something to tell you before I die…”
Heather wants to leave this world with a clear conscience.
One confession. One secret. Two scores to settle.
Heather accepted the fate of her terminal diagnosis long ago, but now the time is nearing, she arranges a huge farewell party for her nearest and dearest.
She wants to say goodbye to everyone personally, but there’s another reason she wants the people in her life to gather.
She knows who killed young Simon Eyre all those years ago, and she needs to tell. The boy deserves justice.
But she doesn’t realise that by freeing her own inner demons, she’s unleashing much worse secrets, and putting everyone at risk…
The Author:
Ruby Speechley is a bestselling psychological thriller writer, whose titles include Missing and Gone, published by Boldwood Books. Her new novel, Guilty, was published on 7 June 2024.
Ruby loves to weave real-life dilemmas into her domestic based stories, often focussing on mother and child relationships.
Born in Lisbon, Portugal, Ruby came to the UK as a baby and has lived here ever since. She moved to Cheshire during lockdown in 2020 with her husband and two of her three children (and two Springer spaniels) to be near her eldest son and daughter-in-law and their two children.
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Six of the Best: The Accidental Witch Series
Title 1: The Accidental Witch
Title 2: Flying High
Title 3: Ghostly Getaway
Title 4: Unexpected Guests
Title 5: Stage Fright
Title 6: Magic Ever After
Genre: Children - Fantasy
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Title 1: The Accidental Witch
Monday 20th September
I’M AT WITCH SCHOOL! Now would be a really good time to discover I can do magic…
Bea Black has just moved to Little Spellshire, a town with a magical secret. When her dad accidentally enrols her at the local witch school, she has to get to grips with some interesting new classes, like, NOW! Also on her to do list? Make friends, look after the grumpy class frog AND do everything humanly magically possible to stay on a broom…
But with the Halloween Ball on the horizon, will she be able to master her wand skills in time to WOW? And more importantly can she keep her newfound magical abilities a secret from dad?
Title 2: Flying High
Monday 1st November
There’s only fifty days until the Winter Solstice, the longest and witchiest night of the year. But before that there’s the Grand Tournament – the biggest and sportiest day in the witchy calendar! And I can’t wait!
Bea Black is all settled into her new life in Little Spellshire, a town with a magical secret. She’s made tonnes of friends at witch school, learned how to levitate frogs (just about) and been working hard on polishing up her broom skills. So when the Winter Solstice Grand Tournament rolls round, she’s ready to rise to the next challenge and fly high.
But then Ms Sparks decides that this year’s tournament will be a bit … er … different. That is, it won’t be an Extraordinary Grand Tournament at all, but rather a very ordinary sports day with Spellshire Academy! With magic firmly forbidden and rivalry reaching new heights, who will emerge victorious? And more importantly, will Bea’s friendship with her best non-witchy friend Ash survive the competition?
Title 3: Ghostly Getaway
Monday 17th January
It’s finally time for the school trip! And we’re off to the SPOOKIEST castle I have EVER seen!
Bea Black is in her second term at witch school and she can’t wait for the Year Seven residential trip to the haunted Cadabra Castle. The students are excited to fly around the famous GO pitch, explore the ancient turrets and have a magical time … if they can just stop arguing! Except Ms Sparks has other plans – this isn’t a holiday, it’s a team-building exercise for a class who desperately need to learn to work together.
But with rumours of a ghost terrorizing the castle, Bea has a lot more to contend with than scavenger hunts and hikes! Not least being paired up with Blair Smith-Smythe, her ULTIMATE frenemy! Will the class learn anything from their time at Cadabra? And more importantly, will Bea and Blair manage to avoid hexing each other for long enough to solve the spooky mystery?
Title 4: Unexpected Guests
Friday 4th February
It feels like I’ve only been asleep for a minute but I can’t risk being late for school today – the Very Important Witches are coming!
Bea Black is determined to become the BEST witch she can be and learn EVERYTHING about magic. So when a school visit from some VERY important guests is announced, Bea is thrilled! It’s her chance to help Little Spellshire School for the Extraordinary Arts and show off what she’s learned so far.
But when the visitors arrive, they are NOT who the students and teachers were expecting. In fact, they’re the opposite! With the witch school at risk of being exposed, it’s up to Bea to use her ordinary special skills to save the day.
Title 5: Stage Fright
Friday 18th February
Binxy has just reminded us that we have to put on this play in front of the WHOLE SCHOOL and now we’re a mixture of excited and SCARED!
When Bea’s class is tasked with putting on the school play, she can’t wait to get started. Her friends are nothing if not dramatic, and now her magic is getting stronger, perhaps she can use that to create some special effects!
But before long the drama takes over the school – with overenthusiastic set design, nervous performers and transformation mishaps. It’s time for Bea and her friends to put their teamwork to the test and put on an unFROGettable performance…
Title 6: Magic Ever After
Tuesday 12th April
We’re all still talking about our plans for the holidays and Fabi has had a GENIUS idea. When I get back from visiting my grandparents, we’re going to have a Finkelspark Club May Day treehouse sleepover. Can’t wait.
The school holidays are coming up and Bea is excited to see family, practise magic and spend time with ALL her friends! It’d be perfect, except something’s up. Dad is OBSESSED with learning magic (he can’t even levitate a pea!) and Taffy keeps having to do some SERIOUS THINKING. What’s going on?
Then Bea finds out Dad and Taffy’s secret... They want to get married! Bea’s To-Do list just got a lot longer – she’s got a wedding day to plan, MORE secrets to keep and magic to learn teach! With help from her family and friends (new, old and VERY OLD), Bea is determined to make everything PERFECT and throw the best party of the year EVER!
A perfect potion of magic and mischief, DIARY OF AN ACCIDENTAL WITCH is THE WORST WITCH meets TOM GATES.
The Authors:
Honor and Perdita Cargill are a daughter/mother writing partnership and the authors of WAITING FOR CALLBACK and DIARY OF AN ACCIDENTAL WITCH. Originally from the Scottish Highlands, Perdita spent many years as a barrister before turning to writing fiction. Honor, having recently graduated from Oxford, is working on fiction and non-fiction writing projects as well as studying for a Masters at The Courtauld Institute. They both live in London.
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Title 1: The Accidental Witch
Title 2: Flying High
Title 3: Ghostly Getaway
Title 4: Unexpected Guests
Title 5: Stage Fright
Title 6: Magic Ever After
Genre: Children - Fantasy
Format: Paperbacks
All Books are Signed - Dedications are Available
Bids Accepted: UK Only
Title 1: The Accidental Witch
Monday 20th September
I’M AT WITCH SCHOOL! Now would be a really good time to discover I can do magic…
Bea Black has just moved to Little Spellshire, a town with a magical secret. When her dad accidentally enrols her at the local witch school, she has to get to grips with some interesting new classes, like, NOW! Also on her to do list? Make friends, look after the grumpy class frog AND do everything humanly magically possible to stay on a broom…
But with the Halloween Ball on the horizon, will she be able to master her wand skills in time to WOW? And more importantly can she keep her newfound magical abilities a secret from dad?
Title 2: Flying High
Monday 1st November
There’s only fifty days until the Winter Solstice, the longest and witchiest night of the year. But before that there’s the Grand Tournament – the biggest and sportiest day in the witchy calendar! And I can’t wait!
Bea Black is all settled into her new life in Little Spellshire, a town with a magical secret. She’s made tonnes of friends at witch school, learned how to levitate frogs (just about) and been working hard on polishing up her broom skills. So when the Winter Solstice Grand Tournament rolls round, she’s ready to rise to the next challenge and fly high.
But then Ms Sparks decides that this year’s tournament will be a bit … er … different. That is, it won’t be an Extraordinary Grand Tournament at all, but rather a very ordinary sports day with Spellshire Academy! With magic firmly forbidden and rivalry reaching new heights, who will emerge victorious? And more importantly, will Bea’s friendship with her best non-witchy friend Ash survive the competition?
Title 3: Ghostly Getaway
Monday 17th January
It’s finally time for the school trip! And we’re off to the SPOOKIEST castle I have EVER seen!
Bea Black is in her second term at witch school and she can’t wait for the Year Seven residential trip to the haunted Cadabra Castle. The students are excited to fly around the famous GO pitch, explore the ancient turrets and have a magical time … if they can just stop arguing! Except Ms Sparks has other plans – this isn’t a holiday, it’s a team-building exercise for a class who desperately need to learn to work together.
But with rumours of a ghost terrorizing the castle, Bea has a lot more to contend with than scavenger hunts and hikes! Not least being paired up with Blair Smith-Smythe, her ULTIMATE frenemy! Will the class learn anything from their time at Cadabra? And more importantly, will Bea and Blair manage to avoid hexing each other for long enough to solve the spooky mystery?
Title 4: Unexpected Guests
Friday 4th February
It feels like I’ve only been asleep for a minute but I can’t risk being late for school today – the Very Important Witches are coming!
Bea Black is determined to become the BEST witch she can be and learn EVERYTHING about magic. So when a school visit from some VERY important guests is announced, Bea is thrilled! It’s her chance to help Little Spellshire School for the Extraordinary Arts and show off what she’s learned so far.
But when the visitors arrive, they are NOT who the students and teachers were expecting. In fact, they’re the opposite! With the witch school at risk of being exposed, it’s up to Bea to use her ordinary special skills to save the day.
Title 5: Stage Fright
Friday 18th February
Binxy has just reminded us that we have to put on this play in front of the WHOLE SCHOOL and now we’re a mixture of excited and SCARED!
When Bea’s class is tasked with putting on the school play, she can’t wait to get started. Her friends are nothing if not dramatic, and now her magic is getting stronger, perhaps she can use that to create some special effects!
But before long the drama takes over the school – with overenthusiastic set design, nervous performers and transformation mishaps. It’s time for Bea and her friends to put their teamwork to the test and put on an unFROGettable performance…
Title 6: Magic Ever After
Tuesday 12th April
We’re all still talking about our plans for the holidays and Fabi has had a GENIUS idea. When I get back from visiting my grandparents, we’re going to have a Finkelspark Club May Day treehouse sleepover. Can’t wait.
The school holidays are coming up and Bea is excited to see family, practise magic and spend time with ALL her friends! It’d be perfect, except something’s up. Dad is OBSESSED with learning magic (he can’t even levitate a pea!) and Taffy keeps having to do some SERIOUS THINKING. What’s going on?
Then Bea finds out Dad and Taffy’s secret... They want to get married! Bea’s To-Do list just got a lot longer – she’s got a wedding day to plan, MORE secrets to keep and magic to learn teach! With help from her family and friends (new, old and VERY OLD), Bea is determined to make everything PERFECT and throw the best party of the year EVER!
A perfect potion of magic and mischief, DIARY OF AN ACCIDENTAL WITCH is THE WORST WITCH meets TOM GATES.
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Honor and Perdita Cargill are a daughter/mother writing partnership and the authors of WAITING FOR CALLBACK and DIARY OF AN ACCIDENTAL WITCH. Originally from the Scottish Highlands, Perdita spent many years as a barrister before turning to writing fiction. Honor, having recently graduated from Oxford, is working on fiction and non-fiction writing projects as well as studying for a Masters at The Courtauld Institute. They both live in London.
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Book Title: Bones of Contention
Genre: Crime
Format: Paperback
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A police doctor tries to extricate herself from a tricky situation in this gripping medical thriller
When human remains are discovered in the garden of a house in the seaside town of Hastings, Dr Callie Hughes can’t resist trying to dig up the truth.
However, her amateur sleuthing is put on the backburner when her car is vandalised. She seems to have a stalker, and they are becoming increasingly intent on terrorising her.
DI Steve Miller suspects it is a released criminal whom Callie helped put behind bars. But even with the detective sleeping outside her home and her friend Kate Ward protecting her, the situation escalates.
Perhaps it is time to up sticks, leave the south coast for good, and head to Belfast where her boyfriend is waiting.
Or perhaps someone with a bone to pick will stop Callie in her tracks.
The Author:
Candy Denman trained as a nurse, and worked in the NHS almost all her life, until managing recently to disengage herself in order to become a full-time crime writer. She has also written a number of scripts for such highly-acclaimed TV series as The Bill and Heartbeat which gave her the idea to write a crime series that also includes medical stories.
Dead Pretty, the first in a series featuring feisty female protagonist Dr Callie Hughes, is a serial killer thriller set in a seaside town in Southern England.
Candy also writes medical thrillers under the name Annie Payne.
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Genre: Crime
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The Book:
A police doctor tries to extricate herself from a tricky situation in this gripping medical thriller
When human remains are discovered in the garden of a house in the seaside town of Hastings, Dr Callie Hughes can’t resist trying to dig up the truth.
However, her amateur sleuthing is put on the backburner when her car is vandalised. She seems to have a stalker, and they are becoming increasingly intent on terrorising her.
DI Steve Miller suspects it is a released criminal whom Callie helped put behind bars. But even with the detective sleeping outside her home and her friend Kate Ward protecting her, the situation escalates.
Perhaps it is time to up sticks, leave the south coast for good, and head to Belfast where her boyfriend is waiting.
Or perhaps someone with a bone to pick will stop Callie in her tracks.
The Author:
Candy Denman trained as a nurse, and worked in the NHS almost all her life, until managing recently to disengage herself in order to become a full-time crime writer. She has also written a number of scripts for such highly-acclaimed TV series as The Bill and Heartbeat which gave her the idea to write a crime series that also includes medical stories.
Dead Pretty, the first in a series featuring feisty female protagonist Dr Callie Hughes, is a serial killer thriller set in a seaside town in Southern England.
Candy also writes medical thrillers under the name Annie Payne.
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Title: Victoria & Abdul
Genre: History/Biography
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
The tall, handsome Abdul Karim was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables during Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. An assistant clerk at Agra Central Jail, he suddenly found himself a personal attendant to the Empress of India herself. Within a year, he was established as a powerful figure at court, becoming the queen's teacher, or Munshi, and instructing her in Urdu and Indian affairs. Devastated by the death of John Brown, her Scottish gillie, the queen had at last found his replacement. But her intense and controversial relationship with the Munshi led to a near-revolt in the royal household. Victoria & Abdul examines how a young Indian Muslim came to play a central role at the heart of the Empire, and his influence over the queen at a time when independence movements in the sub-continent were growing in force. Yet, at its heart, it is a tender love story between an ordinary Indian and his elderly queen, a relationship that survived the best attempts to destroy it.
The Author:
Shrabani Basu is an author and a journalist. She was born in Kolkata and grew up in Dhaka, Kathmandu and Delhi. Her books include Victoria & Abdul: The Extraordinary True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant, now a major motion picture, Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan and For King and Another Country: Indian Soldiers on the Western Front, 1914-18. In 2010, she set up the Noor Inayat Khan Memorial Trust and campaigned for a memorial for the Second World War heroine, which was unveiled by Princess Anne in London in November 2012.
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Genre: History/Biography
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The tall, handsome Abdul Karim was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables during Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. An assistant clerk at Agra Central Jail, he suddenly found himself a personal attendant to the Empress of India herself. Within a year, he was established as a powerful figure at court, becoming the queen's teacher, or Munshi, and instructing her in Urdu and Indian affairs. Devastated by the death of John Brown, her Scottish gillie, the queen had at last found his replacement. But her intense and controversial relationship with the Munshi led to a near-revolt in the royal household. Victoria & Abdul examines how a young Indian Muslim came to play a central role at the heart of the Empire, and his influence over the queen at a time when independence movements in the sub-continent were growing in force. Yet, at its heart, it is a tender love story between an ordinary Indian and his elderly queen, a relationship that survived the best attempts to destroy it.
The Author:
Shrabani Basu is an author and a journalist. She was born in Kolkata and grew up in Dhaka, Kathmandu and Delhi. Her books include Victoria & Abdul: The Extraordinary True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant, now a major motion picture, Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan and For King and Another Country: Indian Soldiers on the Western Front, 1914-18. In 2010, she set up the Noor Inayat Khan Memorial Trust and campaigned for a memorial for the Second World War heroine, which was unveiled by Princess Anne in London in November 2012.
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Book title: What the World Doesn’t See
Genre: Young Adult contemporary Literary Fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
Run away from what they see. Discover who you are.
Maudie and Jake's family is falling to pieces - their mum's been struggling with her grief since they lost Dad and one night she vanishes. When Jake is put into care, Maudie can't take it any more. She comes up with a wild plan to pull their family back together - by kidnapping Jake. On the run in Cornwall, Jake and Maudie each find something they hadn't expected - freedom and love. But can they find Mum and a way to heal together?
A powerful and insightful novel about grief, disability and first love; a story about getting lost and finding yourself.
The Author:
Mel Darbon spent a large part of her childhood inventing stories to keep her brother, who had learning disabilities, happy on car journeys. Having worked as a theatre designer and freelance artist, as well as teaching young adults with learning disabilities and running creative workshops for teenage mums, young offenders and toddlers, Mel now writes young adult novels. She is a graduate of Bath Spa's MA in Writing For Young People, where she found a channel to give voice to young people who otherwise might not be heard. Her first book, Rosie Loves Jack, was a World Book Night and Empathy Lab selection.
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Genre: Young Adult contemporary Literary Fiction
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The Book:
Run away from what they see. Discover who you are.
Maudie and Jake's family is falling to pieces - their mum's been struggling with her grief since they lost Dad and one night she vanishes. When Jake is put into care, Maudie can't take it any more. She comes up with a wild plan to pull their family back together - by kidnapping Jake. On the run in Cornwall, Jake and Maudie each find something they hadn't expected - freedom and love. But can they find Mum and a way to heal together?
A powerful and insightful novel about grief, disability and first love; a story about getting lost and finding yourself.
The Author:
Mel Darbon spent a large part of her childhood inventing stories to keep her brother, who had learning disabilities, happy on car journeys. Having worked as a theatre designer and freelance artist, as well as teaching young adults with learning disabilities and running creative workshops for teenage mums, young offenders and toddlers, Mel now writes young adult novels. She is a graduate of Bath Spa's MA in Writing For Young People, where she found a channel to give voice to young people who otherwise might not be heard. Her first book, Rosie Loves Jack, was a World Book Night and Empathy Lab selection.
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Hayley Hoskins
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Book title: ‘The Whisperling Twins’
Genre: Middle grade, spooky kid lit
Format: Paperback, first edition
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Gloucester, 1918.
Nin and Lemon Esmond share a special bond. They're sisters - twins - whisperlings. Which means they have the power to speak with ghosts.
Britain is at war, and Lemon - the more daring of the pair - is frustrated that they have to stay at home. Surely they can use their special gift to help in some way?
Nin doesn't share her sister's need for adventure, but when they see reports of missing whisperlings in the papers, the twins know they must work together to solve what's happening...before they're next.
Yet what awaits them on the dark streets of Gloucester isn't simply an adventure, but a battle of their very own...
Praise for The Whisperling:
'One of the best debuts I've read in YEARS!' - Emma Carroll
'A thrilling Gothic page-turner' - Jacqueline Wilson
'A captivating and spine-tingling read...paints a vivid picture of the Victorian era' - BookTrust
'Sends multiple shivers down the spine and delivers thrilling twists along the way' - LoveReading4Kid
The Author:
Originally from the Forest of Dean, Hayley lives with her family and hairy breeze-block of a dog (who features in both of The Whisperling books) in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Her debut children's novel, The Whisperling, was long-listed for the Branford Boase Award. The follow up, The Whisperling Twins, publishes on 4th July 2024.
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Genre: Middle grade, spooky kid lit
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Gloucester, 1918.
Nin and Lemon Esmond share a special bond. They're sisters - twins - whisperlings. Which means they have the power to speak with ghosts.
Britain is at war, and Lemon - the more daring of the pair - is frustrated that they have to stay at home. Surely they can use their special gift to help in some way?
Nin doesn't share her sister's need for adventure, but when they see reports of missing whisperlings in the papers, the twins know they must work together to solve what's happening...before they're next.
Yet what awaits them on the dark streets of Gloucester isn't simply an adventure, but a battle of their very own...
Praise for The Whisperling:
'One of the best debuts I've read in YEARS!' - Emma Carroll
'A thrilling Gothic page-turner' - Jacqueline Wilson
'A captivating and spine-tingling read...paints a vivid picture of the Victorian era' - BookTrust
'Sends multiple shivers down the spine and delivers thrilling twists along the way' - LoveReading4Kid
The Author:
Originally from the Forest of Dean, Hayley lives with her family and hairy breeze-block of a dog (who features in both of The Whisperling books) in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Her debut children's novel, The Whisperling, was long-listed for the Branford Boase Award. The follow up, The Whisperling Twins, publishes on 4th July 2024.
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TM Logan
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Book Title: The Dream Home
Genre: Thriller
Format: Hardback -First Edition (Paperback available if preferred)
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IF YOU HAD NEVER OPENED THE DOOR, YOUR FAMILY WOULD BE SAFE . . .
THE UNMISSABLE NEW THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING MASTER OF THE UP-ALL-NIGHT THRILLER
Adam and Jess, along with their three children, move into a beautiful new home: a rambling Victorian house in a nice neighbourhood, right at the top of their price range. Then Adam discovers a door hidden behind a fitted wardrobe, concealing a secret room . . .
But like the house, Adam has his secrets too. And soon he will find himself setting in motion a series of events that will place his family in terrible danger . . .
The Author:
T. M. Logan, the bestselling author of LIES, was born in Berkshire to an English father and a German mother. He studied at Queen Mary and Cardiff universities before becoming a national newspaper journalist. He currently works in communications and lives in Nottinghamshire with his wife and two children.
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IF YOU HAD NEVER OPENED THE DOOR, YOUR FAMILY WOULD BE SAFE . . .
THE UNMISSABLE NEW THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING MASTER OF THE UP-ALL-NIGHT THRILLER
Adam and Jess, along with their three children, move into a beautiful new home: a rambling Victorian house in a nice neighbourhood, right at the top of their price range. Then Adam discovers a door hidden behind a fitted wardrobe, concealing a secret room . . .
But like the house, Adam has his secrets too. And soon he will find himself setting in motion a series of events that will place his family in terrible danger . . .
The Author:
T. M. Logan, the bestselling author of LIES, was born in Berkshire to an English father and a German mother. He studied at Queen Mary and Cardiff universities before becoming a national newspaper journalist. He currently works in communications and lives in Nottinghamshire with his wife and two children.
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Laura Baker
Laura Baker
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Bundle of 4 Monsters books!
Includes Monsters In Trucks, Monsters At Christmas, Monsters At School and Monsters At Bedtime
Genre: Children's picture books
Format: Paperback first edition
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Tall monsters, small monsters, monsters here and there. Hairy monsters, scary monsters... monsters everywhere!
Children will love these super-fun titles packed with hilarious monsters. Follow the monsters as they try out all sorts of trucks, get ready for Christmas, experience their first day at school and wind down for bed.
There is plenty to spot on every page, with playful, bright artwork and lots of amusing mishaps. Energetic, whacky and characterful monsters are drawn in a vibrant, contemporary style by Ukrainian illustrator Nina Dzyvulska. Laura Baker's simple narrative with fun wordplay and a gentle rhyme is perfect for reading aloud, ideal for preschoolers and early readers as they build up their vocabulary and reading confidence.
These bold, bright and playful books are sure to be enjoyed time and time again!
The Author:
Laura Baker grew up in Canada with a passion for stories. She now lives in a lovely coastal town in Wales with her husband, two sons and big basset hound and has written over 50 books for children. She loves finding special stories to tell in the everyday, relatable world of a child (or dog).
The Illustrator:
Nina Dzyvulska is an illustrator from Ukraine, who now lives in Colorado, USA. She is passionate about merging the world of motherhood with her art. Nina studied at the Kiev Academy of Arts and Architecture. Her brightly coloured, fun loving illustrations portray a sense of joy and youthfulness.
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Includes Monsters In Trucks, Monsters At Christmas, Monsters At School and Monsters At Bedtime
Genre: Children's picture books
Format: Paperback first edition
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Tall monsters, small monsters, monsters here and there. Hairy monsters, scary monsters... monsters everywhere!
Children will love these super-fun titles packed with hilarious monsters. Follow the monsters as they try out all sorts of trucks, get ready for Christmas, experience their first day at school and wind down for bed.
There is plenty to spot on every page, with playful, bright artwork and lots of amusing mishaps. Energetic, whacky and characterful monsters are drawn in a vibrant, contemporary style by Ukrainian illustrator Nina Dzyvulska. Laura Baker's simple narrative with fun wordplay and a gentle rhyme is perfect for reading aloud, ideal for preschoolers and early readers as they build up their vocabulary and reading confidence.
These bold, bright and playful books are sure to be enjoyed time and time again!
The Author:
Laura Baker grew up in Canada with a passion for stories. She now lives in a lovely coastal town in Wales with her husband, two sons and big basset hound and has written over 50 books for children. She loves finding special stories to tell in the everyday, relatable world of a child (or dog).
The Illustrator:
Nina Dzyvulska is an illustrator from Ukraine, who now lives in Colorado, USA. She is passionate about merging the world of motherhood with her art. Nina studied at the Kiev Academy of Arts and Architecture. Her brightly coloured, fun loving illustrations portray a sense of joy and youthfulness.
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Tim Peake
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Title: Limitless
Genre: Biography
Format: Hardback
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'What surprised me was how entirely serene I felt. I was weightless, no forces exerting themselves on my body. To my left was the Space Station. Below me, gradually going into shadow, was the Earth. And over my right shoulder was the universe.'
In fascinating and personal detail, and drawing on exclusive diaries and audio recordings from his mission, astronaut Tim Peake takes readers closer than ever before to experience what life in space is really like: the sights, the smells, the fear, the sacrifice, the exhilaration and the deep and abiding wonder of the view.
Warm, inspiring and often funny, Tim also charts his surprising road to becoming an astronaut, from a shy and unassuming boy from Chichester who had a passion for flight, to a young British Army officer, Apache helicopter pilot, flight instructor and test pilot who served around the world. Tim's extensive eighteen-year career in the Army included the command of a platoon of soldiers in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, deployment in Bosnia, and operations in Afghanistan.
Full of life lessons for readers of all ages, Limitless is the story of how ordinary can become extraordinary.
The Author:
Tim is a former Apache pilot, flight instructor, test pilot and current European Space Agency astronaut. In 2015, Tim became the first British ESA astronaut to work on board the International Space Station and to conduct a spacewalk.
A veteran of eighteen years’ military service, Tim has flown over 3,000 hours on multiple aircraft types, graduating top of his class from the prestigious Empire Test Pilot's School. He commanded a platoon of soldiers in Northern Ireland during the Troubles and deployed on operations to Bosnia and Afghanistan.
Following a year-long selection process, Tim was chosen from over 8000 applicants to be one of six new astronauts as part of the European Astronaut Corps. During astronaut training he spent seven days living in a cave and twelve days living underwater.
Tim's six month mission 'Principia' to the ISS inspired a nation, engaging with more than 2 million students as part of a hugely successful outreach programme. Whilst in space, he conducted over 250 scientific experiments, oversaw an emergency spacewalk and also ran the 2016 London marathon.
Tim’s autobiography Limitless, tells the often very amusing story of how a short, ginger lad with a passion for flight and all things outdoors went from Soldier, Pilot, Parent to Astronaut.
Now back on Earth Tim continues to work to promote opportunities for young people as an ambassador for STEM education, The Prince’s Trust and The Scout Association.
He is the best selling author of Hello is this Planet Earth?, Ask an Astronaut and The Astronaut Selection Test Book. The proceeds from which were donated to support the work of The Prince’s Trust (https://www.princes-trust.org.uk/ ).
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Genre: Biography
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
'What surprised me was how entirely serene I felt. I was weightless, no forces exerting themselves on my body. To my left was the Space Station. Below me, gradually going into shadow, was the Earth. And over my right shoulder was the universe.'
In fascinating and personal detail, and drawing on exclusive diaries and audio recordings from his mission, astronaut Tim Peake takes readers closer than ever before to experience what life in space is really like: the sights, the smells, the fear, the sacrifice, the exhilaration and the deep and abiding wonder of the view.
Warm, inspiring and often funny, Tim also charts his surprising road to becoming an astronaut, from a shy and unassuming boy from Chichester who had a passion for flight, to a young British Army officer, Apache helicopter pilot, flight instructor and test pilot who served around the world. Tim's extensive eighteen-year career in the Army included the command of a platoon of soldiers in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, deployment in Bosnia, and operations in Afghanistan.
Full of life lessons for readers of all ages, Limitless is the story of how ordinary can become extraordinary.
The Author:
Tim is a former Apache pilot, flight instructor, test pilot and current European Space Agency astronaut. In 2015, Tim became the first British ESA astronaut to work on board the International Space Station and to conduct a spacewalk.
A veteran of eighteen years’ military service, Tim has flown over 3,000 hours on multiple aircraft types, graduating top of his class from the prestigious Empire Test Pilot's School. He commanded a platoon of soldiers in Northern Ireland during the Troubles and deployed on operations to Bosnia and Afghanistan.
Following a year-long selection process, Tim was chosen from over 8000 applicants to be one of six new astronauts as part of the European Astronaut Corps. During astronaut training he spent seven days living in a cave and twelve days living underwater.
Tim's six month mission 'Principia' to the ISS inspired a nation, engaging with more than 2 million students as part of a hugely successful outreach programme. Whilst in space, he conducted over 250 scientific experiments, oversaw an emergency spacewalk and also ran the 2016 London marathon.
Tim’s autobiography Limitless, tells the often very amusing story of how a short, ginger lad with a passion for flight and all things outdoors went from Soldier, Pilot, Parent to Astronaut.
Now back on Earth Tim continues to work to promote opportunities for young people as an ambassador for STEM education, The Prince’s Trust and The Scout Association.
He is the best selling author of Hello is this Planet Earth?, Ask an Astronaut and The Astronaut Selection Test Book. The proceeds from which were donated to support the work of The Prince’s Trust (https://www.princes-trust.org.uk/ ).
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Thiago de Moraes
Thiago de Moraes
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Book Title: Let Sleeping Gods Lie
Genre: Middle grade fiction
Format: Paperback, First Edition
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The Book:
When Trixie's grandma's magical cauldron goes missing, Trixie is thrust into the underworld, and the only friends she can call on are the hardest to keep in line: Loki, the Monkey King and more of the most devious gods on this or any other planet.
The Author:
Thiago de Moraes spends most of his time in a tiny shed at the bottom of his garden, writing and illustrating books, comics and bits of old cardboard boxes.
He enjoys telling all sorts of stories, from non-fiction books like Myth Atlas and its sequels to picture books and fiction, including the A Mummy Ate My Homework series and Old Gods New Tricks. He also creates comics for The Phoenix magazine.
Thiago has won the Sheffield Children’s Book Award, was longlisted for the Klaus Flugge Prize and twice nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal. His books have been translated into 24 languages, with surprisingly few complaints so far.
He is 90% beard, dangerously fond of bacon and lives in England with his wife, kids and a pet tortoise called Nibbles.
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Genre: Middle grade fiction
Format: Paperback, First Edition
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The Book:
When Trixie's grandma's magical cauldron goes missing, Trixie is thrust into the underworld, and the only friends she can call on are the hardest to keep in line: Loki, the Monkey King and more of the most devious gods on this or any other planet.
The Author:
Thiago de Moraes spends most of his time in a tiny shed at the bottom of his garden, writing and illustrating books, comics and bits of old cardboard boxes.
He enjoys telling all sorts of stories, from non-fiction books like Myth Atlas and its sequels to picture books and fiction, including the A Mummy Ate My Homework series and Old Gods New Tricks. He also creates comics for The Phoenix magazine.
Thiago has won the Sheffield Children’s Book Award, was longlisted for the Klaus Flugge Prize and twice nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal. His books have been translated into 24 languages, with surprisingly few complaints so far.
He is 90% beard, dangerously fond of bacon and lives in England with his wife, kids and a pet tortoise called Nibbles.
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Sarah Merrett
Sarah Merrett
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Book Title: The Others
Genre: Children’s middle grade – historical sci-fi adventure
Format: Paperback, first edition
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The Book:
Reuben lives in an observatory with his astronomer grandma who is determined to win the Guzman Prize, a real historical prize for discovering and contacting aliens. But Grandma has a competitor: the evil professor Pinfield. Reuben isn't allowed to leave the observatory but one day he sneaks out and discovers an alien whom he calls blue. Can Reuben save blue from the evil professor?
The Author:
Sarah Merrett had worked as a librarian and bookseller. She was a finalist for Undiscovered Voices, came second place in Wells Book for Children competition, and was shortlisted for Searchlight Best Novel Opening Award, and longlisted for Bath Children’s Novel, Mslexia Children’s Novel and WriteMentor children’s novel awards.
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Genre: Children’s middle grade – historical sci-fi adventure
Format: Paperback, first edition
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The Book:
Reuben lives in an observatory with his astronomer grandma who is determined to win the Guzman Prize, a real historical prize for discovering and contacting aliens. But Grandma has a competitor: the evil professor Pinfield. Reuben isn't allowed to leave the observatory but one day he sneaks out and discovers an alien whom he calls blue. Can Reuben save blue from the evil professor?
The Author:
Sarah Merrett had worked as a librarian and bookseller. She was a finalist for Undiscovered Voices, came second place in Wells Book for Children competition, and was shortlisted for Searchlight Best Novel Opening Award, and longlisted for Bath Children’s Novel, Mslexia Children’s Novel and WriteMentor children’s novel awards.
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Anne Fletcher
Anne Fletcher
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Book Title: From the Mill to Monte Carlo
Genre: Non fiction/history/genealogy
Format: Hardback
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The Book:
This is the story of a man who went from Yorkshire mill worker to Monte Carlo millionaire. Amongst the men ‘who broke the bank at Monte Carlo’, Joseph Hobson Jagger is unique. He is the only one known to have devised an infallible and completely legal system to defeat the odds at roulette and win a fortune. But he was not what might be expected. He wasn’t a gentleman or an aristocrat, he wasn’t a professional gambler, he was a Yorkshire textile worker who had laboured in the Victorian mills of Bradford since childhood. What led a man like this to travel nearly a thousand miles to the exclusive world of the Riviera when most people lived and died within a few miles of where they were born? The trains that took him there were still new and dangerous, he did not speak French and had never left the north of England. His motivation was strong. Joseph, his wife and four children, the youngest of whom was only two, faced a situation so grave that their only escape seemed to be his desperate gamble on the roulette tables of Monte Carlo. Today Jagger’s legacy is felt in casinos worldwide and yet he is virtually unknown. Anne Fletcher is his great-great-great niece and in this true-life detective story she uncovers how he was able to win a fortune, what happened to his millions and why Jagger should now be regarded as the real ‘man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo’.
The Author:
Anne Fletcher read history at Oxford University. She has a successful career in heritage and has worked at some of the most exciting historic sites in the country including Hampton Court Palace, St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Bletchley Park and Tower Bridge. Her most recent book is Widows of the Ice, the true story of the women widowed bt Scott's fatal Antarctic expedition.
Anne is the great-great-great niece of Joseph Hobson Jagger, ‘the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo’ and the subject of her first book From the Mill to Monte Carlo. Her search for his story started with only a photograph, a newspaper article and the lyrics of the famous song.
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Genre: Non fiction/history/genealogy
Format: Hardback
Signed: Yes
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book:
This is the story of a man who went from Yorkshire mill worker to Monte Carlo millionaire. Amongst the men ‘who broke the bank at Monte Carlo’, Joseph Hobson Jagger is unique. He is the only one known to have devised an infallible and completely legal system to defeat the odds at roulette and win a fortune. But he was not what might be expected. He wasn’t a gentleman or an aristocrat, he wasn’t a professional gambler, he was a Yorkshire textile worker who had laboured in the Victorian mills of Bradford since childhood. What led a man like this to travel nearly a thousand miles to the exclusive world of the Riviera when most people lived and died within a few miles of where they were born? The trains that took him there were still new and dangerous, he did not speak French and had never left the north of England. His motivation was strong. Joseph, his wife and four children, the youngest of whom was only two, faced a situation so grave that their only escape seemed to be his desperate gamble on the roulette tables of Monte Carlo. Today Jagger’s legacy is felt in casinos worldwide and yet he is virtually unknown. Anne Fletcher is his great-great-great niece and in this true-life detective story she uncovers how he was able to win a fortune, what happened to his millions and why Jagger should now be regarded as the real ‘man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo’.
The Author:
Anne Fletcher read history at Oxford University. She has a successful career in heritage and has worked at some of the most exciting historic sites in the country including Hampton Court Palace, St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Bletchley Park and Tower Bridge. Her most recent book is Widows of the Ice, the true story of the women widowed bt Scott's fatal Antarctic expedition.
Anne is the great-great-great niece of Joseph Hobson Jagger, ‘the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo’ and the subject of her first book From the Mill to Monte Carlo. Her search for his story started with only a photograph, a newspaper article and the lyrics of the famous song.
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Jack Meggitt-Phillips
Jack Meggitt-Phillips
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Book bundle that includes all 5 books in The Beast and the Bethany series:
The Beast and the Bethany
Revenge of the Beast
Battle of the Beast
Child of the Beast
The Final Feast
Plus an exclusive short story from the world of The Beast and the Bethany
Genre: Children’s Book
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Books;
A book series about a young 500-year-old, a hungry beast, and a rebellious prankster who’s about to be eaten.
"Fans of Lemony Snicket and Roald Dahl will love these macabre adventures, that keep just the right side of terrifying and are packed with humour and imagination." - LoveReading4Kids
The Author:
ack Meggitt-Phillips is the author of The Beast and the Bethany, Revenge of the Beast and Battle of the Beast – a children’s series about a young 500-year-old, a hungry beast, and a rebellious prankster who’s about to be eaten. The series has been translated into over 30 languages, and has had a major film deal announced with Harry Potter producer, Heyday Films. The series has also won the West Sussex Children’s Book Award, the Alexandra Palace Children’s Book Award, the Stockport Children’s Book Award, the Fantastic Book Award, the Awesome Book Award, and the Channel Island Children’s Book Award.
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The Beast and the Bethany
Revenge of the Beast
Battle of the Beast
Child of the Beast
The Final Feast
Plus an exclusive short story from the world of The Beast and the Bethany
Genre: Children’s Book
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Books;
A book series about a young 500-year-old, a hungry beast, and a rebellious prankster who’s about to be eaten.
"Fans of Lemony Snicket and Roald Dahl will love these macabre adventures, that keep just the right side of terrifying and are packed with humour and imagination." - LoveReading4Kids
The Author:
ack Meggitt-Phillips is the author of The Beast and the Bethany, Revenge of the Beast and Battle of the Beast – a children’s series about a young 500-year-old, a hungry beast, and a rebellious prankster who’s about to be eaten. The series has been translated into over 30 languages, and has had a major film deal announced with Harry Potter producer, Heyday Films. The series has also won the West Sussex Children’s Book Award, the Alexandra Palace Children’s Book Award, the Stockport Children’s Book Award, the Fantastic Book Award, the Awesome Book Award, and the Channel Island Children’s Book Award.
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Jennie Godfrey
Jennie Godfrey
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Title: The List Of Suspicious Things
Genre: Book Club Fiction
Format: Hardback, First Edition
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The Book;
'What if we decided to try and find him?'
'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are we going to catch the Yorkshire Ripper, when the police haven't even managed to?'
I sighed. Her questioning my ideas was a recent and unwelcome element to our friendship. But it was a valid point. How would we catch him? We needed some sort of plan, a way of gathering clues and putting them into order.
I thought about what the policeman had said about structure, and then about Aunty Jean and her notebook, and the idea I had hardened like toffee. I knew exactly what we needed to do.
'We'll make a list,' I said. 'A list of the people and things we see that are suspicious.
And then . . . And then we'll investigate them.'
The List of Suspicious Things is a tender and moving coming of age story about family, friendship and community. Sometimes the strongest connections are found in the most unlikely of places.
The Author:
Jennie Godfrey was raised in West Yorkshire and her debut novel, The List of Suspicious Things, is inspired by her childhood there in the 1970s. Jennie is from a mill-working family, but as the first of the generation born after the mills closed, she went to university and built a career in the corporate world. In 2020 she left and began to write. She is now a writer and part-time Waterstones bookseller and lives in the Somerset countryside
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Genre: Book Club Fiction
Format: Hardback, First Edition
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The Book;
'What if we decided to try and find him?'
'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are we going to catch the Yorkshire Ripper, when the police haven't even managed to?'
I sighed. Her questioning my ideas was a recent and unwelcome element to our friendship. But it was a valid point. How would we catch him? We needed some sort of plan, a way of gathering clues and putting them into order.
I thought about what the policeman had said about structure, and then about Aunty Jean and her notebook, and the idea I had hardened like toffee. I knew exactly what we needed to do.
'We'll make a list,' I said. 'A list of the people and things we see that are suspicious.
And then . . . And then we'll investigate them.'
The List of Suspicious Things is a tender and moving coming of age story about family, friendship and community. Sometimes the strongest connections are found in the most unlikely of places.
The Author:
Jennie Godfrey was raised in West Yorkshire and her debut novel, The List of Suspicious Things, is inspired by her childhood there in the 1970s. Jennie is from a mill-working family, but as the first of the generation born after the mills closed, she went to university and built a career in the corporate world. In 2020 she left and began to write. She is now a writer and part-time Waterstones bookseller and lives in the Somerset countryside
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P.G. Bell
P.G. Bell
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Book: The Beanstalk Murder
Genre: Children's murder mystery/fantasy
Format: Hardback, signed 1st edition, US edition
Signed: Yes, dedication is available
Bids accepted: UK only
The Book:
THE BFG meets MURDER MOST UNLADYLIKE in this giant-sized whodunnit with a witchy twist, from the author of the bestselling The Train to Impossible Places.
Trainee meadow witch Anwen is having a bad day - which gets much worse when a dead giant falls from the sky and destroys her village. But when she examines the body she discovers something interesting. This giant was murdered, which means a killer is on the loose!
Tasked with sending a message to the giant kingdom via beanstalk, Anwen and her nemesis, trainee sorceress Cerys, accidentally find themselves whipped up into the sky and deposited in the giants' royal palace - where the king is missing. Using their perfect spy-size and witchy skills, the girls must track down his killer. But how can you investigate a murder mystery when you risk being stepped on by your suspects?
The Author:
P.G. Bell is the bestselling author of The Train To Impossible Places Adventures, and The Beanstalk Murder. The Train To Impossible Places was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Branford Boase Award, the Independent Bookshop Book Week Award, and the Awesome Book Awards.
A native of south Wales, P.G. Bell was raised on a diet of Greek mythology, ghost stories and Doctor Who. He's had all sorts of jobs over the years, from lifeguard to roller coaster operator, but all he's ever really wanted to do is write stories for a living. And now he does! He lives in Wales with his wife Anna, and their two children.
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Genre: Children's murder mystery/fantasy
Format: Hardback, signed 1st edition, US edition
Signed: Yes, dedication is available
Bids accepted: UK only
The Book:
THE BFG meets MURDER MOST UNLADYLIKE in this giant-sized whodunnit with a witchy twist, from the author of the bestselling The Train to Impossible Places.
Trainee meadow witch Anwen is having a bad day - which gets much worse when a dead giant falls from the sky and destroys her village. But when she examines the body she discovers something interesting. This giant was murdered, which means a killer is on the loose!
Tasked with sending a message to the giant kingdom via beanstalk, Anwen and her nemesis, trainee sorceress Cerys, accidentally find themselves whipped up into the sky and deposited in the giants' royal palace - where the king is missing. Using their perfect spy-size and witchy skills, the girls must track down his killer. But how can you investigate a murder mystery when you risk being stepped on by your suspects?
The Author:
P.G. Bell is the bestselling author of The Train To Impossible Places Adventures, and The Beanstalk Murder. The Train To Impossible Places was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the Branford Boase Award, the Independent Bookshop Book Week Award, and the Awesome Book Awards.
A native of south Wales, P.G. Bell was raised on a diet of Greek mythology, ghost stories and Doctor Who. He's had all sorts of jobs over the years, from lifeguard to roller coaster operator, but all he's ever really wanted to do is write stories for a living. And now he does! He lives in Wales with his wife Anna, and their two children.
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Trevor Wood
Trevor Wood
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Book Title: The Silent Killer
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Format: Hardback, First Edition
Signed: Yes, dedication is Available
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book:
The first in a Newcastle-set police procedural series with a twist. DCI Jack Parker has a secret. He has Early Onset Dementia and he will do anything and everything to keep it hidden from his peers and the criminals he's investigating.
THE CLOCK IS TICKING. THERE'S NO ESCAPE.
DCI Jack Parker has faced down hardened villains and raving, drug-addled lunatics. He's disarmed a machete-wielding psychopath and broken devastating news of a loved one's death more times than he can remember.
With a serial killer stalking the Newcastle streets and one of his closest colleagues lying in the mortuary following a hit and run he thinks things are about as tough as they've ever been. But he should know that trouble always comes in threes.
Jack is about to face the biggest challenge of his life, one that will end his career and destroy his family: Early Onset Dementia.
As he does everything he can to hide his deteriorating condition from his family and colleagues, Jack believes that the serial killer is haunted by his childhood while his own memories are built on increasingly shifting sands.
The race against time to save lives, including his own, has begun.
Whilst staying within the realms of the police procedural genre, this cracking thriller will explore character in depth and with sensitivity, as well as with the author's trademark dark humour.
The Author:
Trevor Wood has lived in Newcastle for 30 years and considers himself an adopted Geordie, though he still can’t speak the language. He's a successful playwright who has also worked as a journalist and spin-doctor for the City Council. Prior to that he served in the Royal Navy for 16 years joining, presciently, as a Writer. Trevor holds an MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) from UEA. His first novel, The Man on the Street, won the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, the Crimefest Specsavers Best Crime Debut Award and was shortlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. He is represented by Oli Munson at AM Heath. Trevor is a founder member of the Northern Crime Syndicate and a volunteer cook at the People's Kitchen in Newcastle, which feeds more than 200 members of the homeless community every day.
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Format: Hardback, First Edition
Signed: Yes, dedication is Available
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book:
The first in a Newcastle-set police procedural series with a twist. DCI Jack Parker has a secret. He has Early Onset Dementia and he will do anything and everything to keep it hidden from his peers and the criminals he's investigating.
THE CLOCK IS TICKING. THERE'S NO ESCAPE.
DCI Jack Parker has faced down hardened villains and raving, drug-addled lunatics. He's disarmed a machete-wielding psychopath and broken devastating news of a loved one's death more times than he can remember.
With a serial killer stalking the Newcastle streets and one of his closest colleagues lying in the mortuary following a hit and run he thinks things are about as tough as they've ever been. But he should know that trouble always comes in threes.
Jack is about to face the biggest challenge of his life, one that will end his career and destroy his family: Early Onset Dementia.
As he does everything he can to hide his deteriorating condition from his family and colleagues, Jack believes that the serial killer is haunted by his childhood while his own memories are built on increasingly shifting sands.
The race against time to save lives, including his own, has begun.
Whilst staying within the realms of the police procedural genre, this cracking thriller will explore character in depth and with sensitivity, as well as with the author's trademark dark humour.
The Author:
Trevor Wood has lived in Newcastle for 30 years and considers himself an adopted Geordie, though he still can’t speak the language. He's a successful playwright who has also worked as a journalist and spin-doctor for the City Council. Prior to that he served in the Royal Navy for 16 years joining, presciently, as a Writer. Trevor holds an MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) from UEA. His first novel, The Man on the Street, won the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, the Crimefest Specsavers Best Crime Debut Award and was shortlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. He is represented by Oli Munson at AM Heath. Trevor is a founder member of the Northern Crime Syndicate and a volunteer cook at the People's Kitchen in Newcastle, which feeds more than 200 members of the homeless community every day.
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M W Arnold
M W Arnold
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Book Title: The Lumberjills
Genre: WW2 Historical Saga/Romance/Mystery
Format: Audiobook on CD
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The Book:
Berry Chambers and her co-workers have joined the Women's Timber Corps—known as the Lumberjills—to do their bit for Britain. On their first day felling trees, they rescue an RAF pilot and become entangled in the loveless marriage of her new landlords.
Danger is never far away, be it an ill-timed axe swing or the occasional activity of the Luftwaffe overhead. Add a psychotic farm cat, a couple of young runaway evacuees, a spate of malicious packages, and the jealousy of the Land Girls next door, and life for Berry and her friends is never boring.
Can the girls find the balance between their vital war work and the natural pull of love?
The Author:
M W Arnold lives near Northampton, UK and is known to his family and friends as, Mick. He was in the Royal Air Force for 16 years, visiting many different countries and very much enjoying himself; thank you, Queen Elizabeth II. He began writing as these characters needed their own voices. For a few years now, he's been a member of the Romantic Novelists Association, a wonderful group of writers who've welcomed this bloke into their fold with open arms.
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Genre: WW2 Historical Saga/Romance/Mystery
Format: Audiobook on CD
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The Book:
Berry Chambers and her co-workers have joined the Women's Timber Corps—known as the Lumberjills—to do their bit for Britain. On their first day felling trees, they rescue an RAF pilot and become entangled in the loveless marriage of her new landlords.
Danger is never far away, be it an ill-timed axe swing or the occasional activity of the Luftwaffe overhead. Add a psychotic farm cat, a couple of young runaway evacuees, a spate of malicious packages, and the jealousy of the Land Girls next door, and life for Berry and her friends is never boring.
Can the girls find the balance between their vital war work and the natural pull of love?
The Author:
M W Arnold lives near Northampton, UK and is known to his family and friends as, Mick. He was in the Royal Air Force for 16 years, visiting many different countries and very much enjoying himself; thank you, Queen Elizabeth II. He began writing as these characters needed their own voices. For a few years now, he's been a member of the Romantic Novelists Association, a wonderful group of writers who've welcomed this bloke into their fold with open arms.
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Kristin Hannah
Kristin Hannah
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Book Title: The Women
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Hardback, First Edition
Signed: Yes, Dedication Available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book:
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.
As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over- whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. Each day is a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant. In war, she meets—and becomes one of—the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost.
But war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam.
The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm’s way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten. A novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism, The Women is a richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era.
The Author:
Kristin Hannah is the award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels including the international blockbuster, The Nightingale, which was named Goodreads Best Historical fiction novel for 2015 and won the coveted People's Choice award for best fiction in the same year. It was named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, iTunes, Buzzfeed, the Wall Street Journal, Paste, and The Week. In 2018,
The Great Alone became an instant New York Times #1 bestseller and was named the Best Historical Novel of the Year by Goodreads.
The Four Winds was published in February of 2021 and immediately hit #1 on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Indie bookstore's bestseller lists. Additionally, it was selected as a book club pick by the both Today Show and The Book Of the Month club, which named it the best book of 2021.
Firefly Lane, her beloved novel about two best friends, was the #1 Netflix series around the world, in the week it came out.
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Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Hardback, First Edition
Signed: Yes, Dedication Available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book:
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.
As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over- whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. Each day is a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant. In war, she meets—and becomes one of—the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost.
But war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam.
The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm’s way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten. A novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism, The Women is a richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era.
The Author:
Kristin Hannah is the award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels including the international blockbuster, The Nightingale, which was named Goodreads Best Historical fiction novel for 2015 and won the coveted People's Choice award for best fiction in the same year. It was named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, iTunes, Buzzfeed, the Wall Street Journal, Paste, and The Week. In 2018,
The Great Alone became an instant New York Times #1 bestseller and was named the Best Historical Novel of the Year by Goodreads.
The Four Winds was published in February of 2021 and immediately hit #1 on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Indie bookstore's bestseller lists. Additionally, it was selected as a book club pick by the both Today Show and The Book Of the Month club, which named it the best book of 2021.
Firefly Lane, her beloved novel about two best friends, was the #1 Netflix series around the world, in the week it came out.
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£ 25
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Tom Hindle
Tom Hindle
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Book Title: Murder on Lake Garda
Genre: Crime / Murder Mystery
Format: Hardback (First Edition)
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The Book:
On the private island of Castello Fiore - surrounded by the glittering waters of Lake Garda - the illustrious Heywood family gathers for their son Laurence's wedding to Italian influencer Eva Bianchi.
But as the ceremony begins, a blood-curdling scream brings the proceedings to a devastating halt.
With the wedding guests trapped as they await the police, old secrets come to light and family rivalries threaten to bubble over.
Everyone is desperate to know . . .
Who is the killer?
And can they be found before they strike again?
The Author:
Originally hailing from Leeds, Tom Hindle lives in Oxfordshire with his wife, a cat and two surprisingly cunning tortoises. He is the author of A Fatal Crossing, The Murder Game and Murder on Lake Garda - which were inspired by masters of the crime genre such as Agatha Christie and Anthony Horowitz.
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Genre: Crime / Murder Mystery
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The Book:
On the private island of Castello Fiore - surrounded by the glittering waters of Lake Garda - the illustrious Heywood family gathers for their son Laurence's wedding to Italian influencer Eva Bianchi.
But as the ceremony begins, a blood-curdling scream brings the proceedings to a devastating halt.
With the wedding guests trapped as they await the police, old secrets come to light and family rivalries threaten to bubble over.
Everyone is desperate to know . . .
Who is the killer?
And can they be found before they strike again?
The Author:
Originally hailing from Leeds, Tom Hindle lives in Oxfordshire with his wife, a cat and two surprisingly cunning tortoises. He is the author of A Fatal Crossing, The Murder Game and Murder on Lake Garda - which were inspired by masters of the crime genre such as Agatha Christie and Anthony Horowitz.
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£ 13
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Linda Corbett
Linda Corbett
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Title: What Would Jane Austen Do?
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperback
Signed: Yes, dedication is available
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book:
It’s a truth often acknowledged that when a journalist and Jane Austen fan girl ends up living next door to a cynical but handsome crime writer, romantic sparks will fly!
When Maddy Shaw is told her Dear Jane column has been cancelled, she has no choice but to look outside of London’s rental market. That is until she’s left an idyllic country home by the black sheep of the family, long-not-so-lost Cousin Nigel.
But of course there’s a stipulation… and not only is Maddy made chair of the committee for the annual village literary festival, she also has to put up with bestselling crime author –and romance sceptic – Cameron Massey as her new neighbour.
When Maddy challenges Cameron to write romantic fiction, which he claims is so easy to do, sparks fly both on and off the page…
The Author:
Linda Corbett lives in Surrey with her husband Andrew and three permanently hungry guinea pigs. As well as being an author, Linda is a member and former Treasurer of Shine Surrey - a volunteer-led charity that supports individuals and families living with spina bifida and hydrocephalus. For many years she also wrote a regular column for Link, a disability magazine, illustrating the humorous aspects of life with a complex disability and she is a passionate advocate of disability representation in fiction. What Would Jane Austen Do? is her second published novel.
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Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperback
Signed: Yes, dedication is available
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book:
It’s a truth often acknowledged that when a journalist and Jane Austen fan girl ends up living next door to a cynical but handsome crime writer, romantic sparks will fly!
When Maddy Shaw is told her Dear Jane column has been cancelled, she has no choice but to look outside of London’s rental market. That is until she’s left an idyllic country home by the black sheep of the family, long-not-so-lost Cousin Nigel.
But of course there’s a stipulation… and not only is Maddy made chair of the committee for the annual village literary festival, she also has to put up with bestselling crime author –and romance sceptic – Cameron Massey as her new neighbour.
When Maddy challenges Cameron to write romantic fiction, which he claims is so easy to do, sparks fly both on and off the page…
The Author:
Linda Corbett lives in Surrey with her husband Andrew and three permanently hungry guinea pigs. As well as being an author, Linda is a member and former Treasurer of Shine Surrey - a volunteer-led charity that supports individuals and families living with spina bifida and hydrocephalus. For many years she also wrote a regular column for Link, a disability magazine, illustrating the humorous aspects of life with a complex disability and she is a passionate advocate of disability representation in fiction. What Would Jane Austen Do? is her second published novel.
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Piu DasGupta
Piu DasGupta
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Book Title: Secrets of the Snakestone
Genre: Children’s Adventure, Middle Grade (age 9-12)
Format: Paperback (First Edition)
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Bids Accepted: Worldwide
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Piu will be adding to a signed & dedicated copy of Secrets of the Snakestone a snakey pencil case/makeup bag, 100-piece mini Louvre jigsaw puzzle, and some French chocolate! (chocolate will be similar to but may vary from that pictured).
The Book :
In this breathtaking adventure, Zélie and Jules face a deadly race to solve a family mystery and a vicious crime that stretches from the jungles of Calcutta to the sewers of Paris.
Zélie is often accused of being a witch, but she doesn't believe in magic. Until Jules climbs up from the reeking Parisian sewer and hands Zélie the golden locket he discovered there. The locket once held the magical Snakestone, and Zélie knows that if she can find the stone, she might also find her missing father.
But a dangerous secret society are equally desperate to get their hands on the Snakestone and its powers. With their lives under threat, Zélie and Jules embark on a desperate hunt for the treasure, facing strange riddles, a mysterious circus, and the miles of murky tunnels that twist beneath the ancient city above…..
Official Children’s Bestseller & The Times Children's Book of the Week
"A crowd-pleasing tale, colourfully told...Sparkling" - The Times
"Featuring gutsy, likable characters, full-throttle action and an atmospheric setting, this 9+ debut marks DasGupta out as an author to watch" - The Guardian
“Spellbinding – vivid storytelling” - The Observer, ‘Children’s chapter books of the month'
“Elegant, exciting and evocative, this delightful debut” - New Statesman’s,‘best children’s books for Spring’ Roundup
The Author:
Piu DasGupta was born in Kolkata, India, and grew up in India and the UK before settling in Paris, France, where she now lives with her family. Her first children's book is Secrets of the Snakestone which was an official Children’s Bestseller, a Times Children’s Book of the Week, a Book of the Month in The Observer, Book of the Week in The Week Junior, Book of the Day with BookTrust, and included in the Spring round-up of The New Statesman, to name but some of the extensive press coverage.
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Genre: Children’s Adventure, Middle Grade (age 9-12)
Format: Paperback (First Edition)
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Bids Accepted: Worldwide
Bonus:
Piu will be adding to a signed & dedicated copy of Secrets of the Snakestone a snakey pencil case/makeup bag, 100-piece mini Louvre jigsaw puzzle, and some French chocolate! (chocolate will be similar to but may vary from that pictured).
The Book :
In this breathtaking adventure, Zélie and Jules face a deadly race to solve a family mystery and a vicious crime that stretches from the jungles of Calcutta to the sewers of Paris.
Zélie is often accused of being a witch, but she doesn't believe in magic. Until Jules climbs up from the reeking Parisian sewer and hands Zélie the golden locket he discovered there. The locket once held the magical Snakestone, and Zélie knows that if she can find the stone, she might also find her missing father.
But a dangerous secret society are equally desperate to get their hands on the Snakestone and its powers. With their lives under threat, Zélie and Jules embark on a desperate hunt for the treasure, facing strange riddles, a mysterious circus, and the miles of murky tunnels that twist beneath the ancient city above…..
Official Children’s Bestseller & The Times Children's Book of the Week
"A crowd-pleasing tale, colourfully told...Sparkling" - The Times
"Featuring gutsy, likable characters, full-throttle action and an atmospheric setting, this 9+ debut marks DasGupta out as an author to watch" - The Guardian
“Spellbinding – vivid storytelling” - The Observer, ‘Children’s chapter books of the month'
“Elegant, exciting and evocative, this delightful debut” - New Statesman’s,‘best children’s books for Spring’ Roundup
The Author:
Piu DasGupta was born in Kolkata, India, and grew up in India and the UK before settling in Paris, France, where she now lives with her family. Her first children's book is Secrets of the Snakestone which was an official Children’s Bestseller, a Times Children’s Book of the Week, a Book of the Month in The Observer, Book of the Week in The Week Junior, Book of the Day with BookTrust, and included in the Spring round-up of The New Statesman, to name but some of the extensive press coverage.
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£ 12
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Katherine Dyson
Katherine Dyson
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*2 Book Bundle*
Book One: Lily Bennett’s Bucket List
Book Two: Eva Mallory’s Husband Hunt
Genre: Romance/women’s fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book - Lily Bennett’s Bucket List
What would Lily Bennett do?
This is the question Lydia Grey finds herself repeatedly asking ever since she discovers Lily’s bucket list at the bottom of her shopping trolley. Lily clearly knows how to live life and it’s about time Lydia started to live hers. And what better start than to tick off all Lily’s life-long dreams . . .
1. Ride a horse
2. Jump off the 10m diving board
3. Climb a mountain
4. Go camping
5. Ride a rollercoaster
6. Learn to surf
7. Go stargazing
8. Get a tattoo
9. Do the scariest thing you can think of
After all, how hard can it be to complete the list? Except number nine means that Lydia must open herself up to her past to move on with her future .
The Book: Eva Mallory’s Husband Hunt
Will finding love break the family curse?
Fact 1: Eva Mallory is the unluckiest woman in the world.
Fact 2: Her misfortune is down to the curse of the family name.
Fact 3: Her sister Hanna’s luck has completely changed since her wedding day.
Fact 4: Eva’s only solution is to find a husband, and fast.
As Eva sets out on her journey to find a husband and rid herself of the Mallory misfortune, she meets the gorgeous and charming Luke. He seems to be perfect and she soon forgets about the dreaded curse. But unfortunately, the curse has not forgotten about her…
The Author:
Katherine Dyson studied Creative Writing at the University of Leeds and worked as a marketing copywriter and a greeting card verse writer for over fifteen years before finding her way back to fiction. These days she works as a teaching assistant in a reception class by day, and by night she writes uplifting stories about love, everyday heartbreak, and the common joys and fragilities which make us human.
Katherine lives on the outskirts of Barnsley with her husband, two children and two belligerent cats. When she's not writing you'll find her merrily eating cake, swearing at her sewing machine or taking eight million photos of a really good sky out of her bathroom window.
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Book One: Lily Bennett’s Bucket List
Book Two: Eva Mallory’s Husband Hunt
Genre: Romance/women’s fiction
Format: Paperback
Signed - Dedication is Available
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book - Lily Bennett’s Bucket List
What would Lily Bennett do?
This is the question Lydia Grey finds herself repeatedly asking ever since she discovers Lily’s bucket list at the bottom of her shopping trolley. Lily clearly knows how to live life and it’s about time Lydia started to live hers. And what better start than to tick off all Lily’s life-long dreams . . .
1. Ride a horse
2. Jump off the 10m diving board
3. Climb a mountain
4. Go camping
5. Ride a rollercoaster
6. Learn to surf
7. Go stargazing
8. Get a tattoo
9. Do the scariest thing you can think of
After all, how hard can it be to complete the list? Except number nine means that Lydia must open herself up to her past to move on with her future .
The Book: Eva Mallory’s Husband Hunt
Will finding love break the family curse?
Fact 1: Eva Mallory is the unluckiest woman in the world.
Fact 2: Her misfortune is down to the curse of the family name.
Fact 3: Her sister Hanna’s luck has completely changed since her wedding day.
Fact 4: Eva’s only solution is to find a husband, and fast.
As Eva sets out on her journey to find a husband and rid herself of the Mallory misfortune, she meets the gorgeous and charming Luke. He seems to be perfect and she soon forgets about the dreaded curse. But unfortunately, the curse has not forgotten about her…
The Author:
Katherine Dyson studied Creative Writing at the University of Leeds and worked as a marketing copywriter and a greeting card verse writer for over fifteen years before finding her way back to fiction. These days she works as a teaching assistant in a reception class by day, and by night she writes uplifting stories about love, everyday heartbreak, and the common joys and fragilities which make us human.
Katherine lives on the outskirts of Barnsley with her husband, two children and two belligerent cats. When she's not writing you'll find her merrily eating cake, swearing at her sewing machine or taking eight million photos of a really good sky out of her bathroom window.
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£ 11
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Alex Atkinson
Alex Atkinson
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*signed book plus bookmark, ghost badge, Creep It Real glasses and a pumpkin decoration
Book Title: Spooksmiths Investigate: The Cinderman
Genre: Children’s horror-mystery with humour
Format: Paperback (First Edition)
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The Book:
Indigo and Rusty might live in a funeral parlour, but they don’t believe in ghosts. That is, until Indigo finds a secret crypt and accidentally releases the Cinderman, a terrifying ghostly ash monster. If they can’t stop him, he will smother the town in ashes and turn everyone – including their parents – into zombies.
So when Indigo and Rusty discover they can talk to ghosts, thanks to their newly awakened Spooksmith skills, they set out to enlist a friendly phantom battle crew. But can spooks like the Blasted Banshee and Chuckles the Phantom Toddler really help them put the Cinderman in his grave for good before Ashmageddon strikes?
The Author:
Alex Atkinson loves scary books filled with oddball characters. She blames her idyllic North Yorkshire childhood spent playing murder-in-the-dark and listening to her dad’s blood-curdling bedtime stories.
After studying English and Politics at Newcastle University, she worked as a website content editor. She lives in a busy village in Hertfordshire with her husband, kids and dogs, but dreams of deserted towns, abandoned houses, ghosts and zombies.
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Book Title: Spooksmiths Investigate: The Cinderman
Genre: Children’s horror-mystery with humour
Format: Paperback (First Edition)
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Indigo and Rusty might live in a funeral parlour, but they don’t believe in ghosts. That is, until Indigo finds a secret crypt and accidentally releases the Cinderman, a terrifying ghostly ash monster. If they can’t stop him, he will smother the town in ashes and turn everyone – including their parents – into zombies.
So when Indigo and Rusty discover they can talk to ghosts, thanks to their newly awakened Spooksmith skills, they set out to enlist a friendly phantom battle crew. But can spooks like the Blasted Banshee and Chuckles the Phantom Toddler really help them put the Cinderman in his grave for good before Ashmageddon strikes?
The Author:
Alex Atkinson loves scary books filled with oddball characters. She blames her idyllic North Yorkshire childhood spent playing murder-in-the-dark and listening to her dad’s blood-curdling bedtime stories.
After studying English and Politics at Newcastle University, she worked as a website content editor. She lives in a busy village in Hertfordshire with her husband, kids and dogs, but dreams of deserted towns, abandoned houses, ghosts and zombies.
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Rachel Dove
Rachel Dove
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Title 1: The Long Walk Back
Genre: Romance
Title 2: A Baby To Change Their Lives
Genre: Medical Romance
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Book 1;
A broken soldier. Shattered lives. A second chance worth fighting for?
Trauma surgeon Kate Harper knows how to keep her head in the most high pressure of situations. Although back home in England her marriage is falling apart, out in the desert she’s doing what she does best - saving lives. Until she meets Captain Thomas Cooper.
With his life hanging by a thread, it’s down to Kate to save Cooper’s life. But Cooper doesn’t want to be saved...
Arrogant, damaged and broken, Cooper thinks his life’s over, and he only blames one person - Kate. But when the tables are turned and Kate needs his help, Cooper has to put aside his anger and support the woman who ruined his life.
But in helping Kate, Cooper is given another chance at life. And maybe another chance at love. Because this isn’t the end for Cooper and Kate. It’s only beginning…
Book 2:
Frenemies to for ever family?
Paediatrician Lucy has had a hate/hate relationship with infuriating, sexy emergency doctor Jackson for years. Then a tragedy suddenly changes their lives, leaving them with joint guardianship of adorable toddler Zoe. They agree to put their differences aside and raise Zoe together. But living up close and personal soon creates another problem—their deeply buried passion! Could surrendering to it be the first step to a surprising yet much-deserved happy-ever-after?
The Author:
I am a writer and teacher, living in West Yorkshire with my husband, our two sons, and our furry pets.
In July 2015, I won the Prima magazine and Mills & Boon Flirty Fiction Competition, with my entry, The Chic Boutique on Baker Street, out now in ebook and paperback.
The Flower Shop on Foxley Street followed this in 2017 and both books hit the Amazon top 200. Chic Boutique got to #2 in the rural life humour chart. In 2020, The Second Chance Hotel got to #80 on the main Amazon chart. I have written 20 books to date, including many for the Mills & Boon Medical line. I signed with Boldwood Books in 2022, and my first release is the 2023 romance, Ten Dates.
I am the winner of the Writers Bureau Writer of the Year Award in 2016 and I have had work published in the UK and overseas in various magazines and newspaper publications.
I love to write romantic fiction, both rom-com and harder hitting women's fiction.
I am also a qualified post 16 teacher and nursery nurse, Cert EYP Practitioner and I have an MA in Creative Writing at Teesside University. I am a passionate autism awareness advocate and support families wherever I can. My eldest son, Jayden Dove published his own picture book for children in 2020, called Autistic Alfie.
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Genre: Romance
Title 2: A Baby To Change Their Lives
Genre: Medical Romance
Format: Paperbacks
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Book 1;
A broken soldier. Shattered lives. A second chance worth fighting for?
Trauma surgeon Kate Harper knows how to keep her head in the most high pressure of situations. Although back home in England her marriage is falling apart, out in the desert she’s doing what she does best - saving lives. Until she meets Captain Thomas Cooper.
With his life hanging by a thread, it’s down to Kate to save Cooper’s life. But Cooper doesn’t want to be saved...
Arrogant, damaged and broken, Cooper thinks his life’s over, and he only blames one person - Kate. But when the tables are turned and Kate needs his help, Cooper has to put aside his anger and support the woman who ruined his life.
But in helping Kate, Cooper is given another chance at life. And maybe another chance at love. Because this isn’t the end for Cooper and Kate. It’s only beginning…
Book 2:
Frenemies to for ever family?
Paediatrician Lucy has had a hate/hate relationship with infuriating, sexy emergency doctor Jackson for years. Then a tragedy suddenly changes their lives, leaving them with joint guardianship of adorable toddler Zoe. They agree to put their differences aside and raise Zoe together. But living up close and personal soon creates another problem—their deeply buried passion! Could surrendering to it be the first step to a surprising yet much-deserved happy-ever-after?
The Author:
I am a writer and teacher, living in West Yorkshire with my husband, our two sons, and our furry pets.
In July 2015, I won the Prima magazine and Mills & Boon Flirty Fiction Competition, with my entry, The Chic Boutique on Baker Street, out now in ebook and paperback.
The Flower Shop on Foxley Street followed this in 2017 and both books hit the Amazon top 200. Chic Boutique got to #2 in the rural life humour chart. In 2020, The Second Chance Hotel got to #80 on the main Amazon chart. I have written 20 books to date, including many for the Mills & Boon Medical line. I signed with Boldwood Books in 2022, and my first release is the 2023 romance, Ten Dates.
I am the winner of the Writers Bureau Writer of the Year Award in 2016 and I have had work published in the UK and overseas in various magazines and newspaper publications.
I love to write romantic fiction, both rom-com and harder hitting women's fiction.
I am also a qualified post 16 teacher and nursery nurse, Cert EYP Practitioner and I have an MA in Creative Writing at Teesside University. I am a passionate autism awareness advocate and support families wherever I can. My eldest son, Jayden Dove published his own picture book for children in 2020, called Autistic Alfie.
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Molly Gartland
Molly Gartland
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Title: The Girl from the Hermitage
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
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Galina was born into a world of horrors. So why does she mourn its passing?
Shortlisted for the Impress Prize, longlisted for the Bath Novel Award and the Grindstone Novel Award
It is December 1941, and eight-year-old Galina and her friend Vera are caught in the siege of Leningrad, eating wallpaper soup and dead rats. Galina s artist father Mikhail has been kept away from the front to help save the treasures of the Hermitage. Its cellars could provide a safe haven, as long as Mikhail can survive the perils of a commission from one of Stalin s colonels.
Three decades on, Galina is a teacher at the Leningrad Art Institute. What ought to be a celebratory weekend at her forest dacha turns sour when she makes an unwelcome discovery. The painting she starts that day will hold a grim significance for the rest of her life, as the old Soviet Union makes way for the new Russia and her world changes out of all recognition.
Warm, wise and utterly enthralling, Molly Gartland s debut novel guides us from the old communist era, with its obvious terrors and its more surprising comforts, into the bling of 21st-century St Petersburg. Galina s story is an insightful meditation on ageing and nostalgia as well as a compelling page-turner.
The Author:
Originally from Michigan, Molly Gartland worked in Moscow from 1994 to 2000 and has been fascinated by Russian culture ever since.
She has an MA in Creative Writing from St Mary’s University, Twickenham and lives in London.
The manuscript for her debut novel The Girl from the Hermitage was shortlisted for the Impress Prize and longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition, the Bath Novel Award and Grindstone Novel Award.
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Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
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Galina was born into a world of horrors. So why does she mourn its passing?
Shortlisted for the Impress Prize, longlisted for the Bath Novel Award and the Grindstone Novel Award
It is December 1941, and eight-year-old Galina and her friend Vera are caught in the siege of Leningrad, eating wallpaper soup and dead rats. Galina s artist father Mikhail has been kept away from the front to help save the treasures of the Hermitage. Its cellars could provide a safe haven, as long as Mikhail can survive the perils of a commission from one of Stalin s colonels.
Three decades on, Galina is a teacher at the Leningrad Art Institute. What ought to be a celebratory weekend at her forest dacha turns sour when she makes an unwelcome discovery. The painting she starts that day will hold a grim significance for the rest of her life, as the old Soviet Union makes way for the new Russia and her world changes out of all recognition.
Warm, wise and utterly enthralling, Molly Gartland s debut novel guides us from the old communist era, with its obvious terrors and its more surprising comforts, into the bling of 21st-century St Petersburg. Galina s story is an insightful meditation on ageing and nostalgia as well as a compelling page-turner.
The Author:
Originally from Michigan, Molly Gartland worked in Moscow from 1994 to 2000 and has been fascinated by Russian culture ever since.
She has an MA in Creative Writing from St Mary’s University, Twickenham and lives in London.
The manuscript for her debut novel The Girl from the Hermitage was shortlisted for the Impress Prize and longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition, the Bath Novel Award and Grindstone Novel Award.
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Nikki Saunders
Nikki Saunders
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Title: Ready Eddie Go (The Birthday Party)
Genre: Children
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
Developed from the Ready, Eddie, Go! animated TV show, each book in this series highlights an area that autistic children find challenging and provides gentle and supportive strategies to help children find ways of coping, which all children can benefit from. The books use clear structure as well as visuals to help readers understand the story and identify strategies that may help when they face similar experiences. There are prompts and interactive elements that can be followed independently, or with a trusted adult.
In this book, Eddie goes to his friend Nina's birthday. He finds out what to expect, and what to do if things become overwhelming. Eddie realises that parties can be a lot of fun!
Beautifully illustrated, and presented in Eddie's trademark friendly voice, the Ready, Eddie, Go! series is designed to speak directly to young autistic children and to provide them with the reassurance and advice they need to be happy day-to-day.
The Author:
Nikki was born in Suffolk, she has two children and worked in Special Education. Nikki's eldest son was diagnosed autistic at the age of 3 in 2013 and she found a lack of inclusion on the bookshelves. In 2019 Nikki’s son wanted to explore his autism diagnosis further as he grew older. She searched again for books and resources with relatable characters, finding nothing available at that time. Nikki decided to create a book for her son, with a special relatable character who reflected her son’s lovely blonde hair, beautiful dark eyes and cheeky smile, naming the character Eddie! Eddie is named after Nikki’s grandfather who passed away shortly after her son was born. The book explored neurodiversity, how we are all different, unique and special. It was such a success for her son that she published it, naming it ‘My Awesome Autism’ to help Eddie reach more children and families worldwide. She went on to write more resources to support children in different social situations and navigate new environments.
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Genre: Children
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
Developed from the Ready, Eddie, Go! animated TV show, each book in this series highlights an area that autistic children find challenging and provides gentle and supportive strategies to help children find ways of coping, which all children can benefit from. The books use clear structure as well as visuals to help readers understand the story and identify strategies that may help when they face similar experiences. There are prompts and interactive elements that can be followed independently, or with a trusted adult.
In this book, Eddie goes to his friend Nina's birthday. He finds out what to expect, and what to do if things become overwhelming. Eddie realises that parties can be a lot of fun!
Beautifully illustrated, and presented in Eddie's trademark friendly voice, the Ready, Eddie, Go! series is designed to speak directly to young autistic children and to provide them with the reassurance and advice they need to be happy day-to-day.
The Author:
Nikki was born in Suffolk, she has two children and worked in Special Education. Nikki's eldest son was diagnosed autistic at the age of 3 in 2013 and she found a lack of inclusion on the bookshelves. In 2019 Nikki’s son wanted to explore his autism diagnosis further as he grew older. She searched again for books and resources with relatable characters, finding nothing available at that time. Nikki decided to create a book for her son, with a special relatable character who reflected her son’s lovely blonde hair, beautiful dark eyes and cheeky smile, naming the character Eddie! Eddie is named after Nikki’s grandfather who passed away shortly after her son was born. The book explored neurodiversity, how we are all different, unique and special. It was such a success for her son that she published it, naming it ‘My Awesome Autism’ to help Eddie reach more children and families worldwide. She went on to write more resources to support children in different social situations and navigate new environments.
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Catherine Fletcher
Catherine Fletcher
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Book Title: The Roads to Rome: A History
Genre: Non-Fiction/History
Format: Hardback (First Edition)
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'All roads lead to Rome.' It's a medieval proverb, but it's also true: today's European roads still follow the networks of the ancient empire, as Rome’s extraordinary legacy continues to grip our imaginations.
Over the two thousand years since they were first built, the roads have been walked by crusaders and pilgrims, liberators and dictators, but also by tourists and writers, refugees and artists. As channels of trade and travel, and routes for conquest and creativity, Catherine Fletcher shows how the roads forever transformed the cultures, and intertwined the fates, of a vast panoply of people across Europe and beyond.
Reflecting on his own walk on the Appian Way, Charles Dickens observed that here is ‘a history in every stone that strews the ground.’ Based on outstanding original research, and brimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore two thousand years of history through one of the greatest imperial networks ever built.
The Author:
I'm a historian of Renaissance and early modern Europe and author of books including The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance, The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici and The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story. My next book, coming June 2024 in the UK with international editions to follow is The Roads to Rome: A History. Podcast and radio credits include "You're Dead to Me", "In Our Time" and "Free Thinking". I'm currently Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Genre: Non-Fiction/History
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'All roads lead to Rome.' It's a medieval proverb, but it's also true: today's European roads still follow the networks of the ancient empire, as Rome’s extraordinary legacy continues to grip our imaginations.
Over the two thousand years since they were first built, the roads have been walked by crusaders and pilgrims, liberators and dictators, but also by tourists and writers, refugees and artists. As channels of trade and travel, and routes for conquest and creativity, Catherine Fletcher shows how the roads forever transformed the cultures, and intertwined the fates, of a vast panoply of people across Europe and beyond.
Reflecting on his own walk on the Appian Way, Charles Dickens observed that here is ‘a history in every stone that strews the ground.’ Based on outstanding original research, and brimming with life and drama, this is the first book to explore two thousand years of history through one of the greatest imperial networks ever built.
The Author:
I'm a historian of Renaissance and early modern Europe and author of books including The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance, The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici and The Divorce of Henry VIII: The Untold Story. My next book, coming June 2024 in the UK with international editions to follow is The Roads to Rome: A History. Podcast and radio credits include "You're Dead to Me", "In Our Time" and "Free Thinking". I'm currently Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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Claire Huston
Claire Huston
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Book Title: Bella's Countryside Christmas
Genre: Cosy winter romance
Format: Paperback
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Fleeing her heartache and horrendous job, Bella stumbles upon a December wedding in the beautiful village of Haileybrook and the spirit of the season moves her to act as a fake date to handsome stranger Jack.
Jack and Bella hit it off, but Bella has to leave in a hurry and their magical evening soon becomes nothing more than a blissful memory.
A year later, Bella is returning to Haileybrook, seeking a fresh start and a quieter life. With a new job close to her cosy cottage home, a peaceful Christmas is surely only days away.
But it’s not long before family surprises, small-town feuds and romantic drama disrupt Bella’s plans, and she has to wonder if being alone is what she really wants for Christmas …
The Author:
Claire Huston lives in Warwickshire, UK, with her husband and two children. She writes uplifting modern love stories about characters who are meant for each other but sometimes need a little help to realise it.
A keen amateur baker, she enjoys making cakes, biscuits and brownies almost as much as eating them. You can find recipes for all the cakes mentioned in Art and Soul at http://clairehuston.co.uk along with over 150 other recipes. This is also where she talks about and reviews books.
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Genre: Cosy winter romance
Format: Paperback
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Fleeing her heartache and horrendous job, Bella stumbles upon a December wedding in the beautiful village of Haileybrook and the spirit of the season moves her to act as a fake date to handsome stranger Jack.
Jack and Bella hit it off, but Bella has to leave in a hurry and their magical evening soon becomes nothing more than a blissful memory.
A year later, Bella is returning to Haileybrook, seeking a fresh start and a quieter life. With a new job close to her cosy cottage home, a peaceful Christmas is surely only days away.
But it’s not long before family surprises, small-town feuds and romantic drama disrupt Bella’s plans, and she has to wonder if being alone is what she really wants for Christmas …
The Author:
Claire Huston lives in Warwickshire, UK, with her husband and two children. She writes uplifting modern love stories about characters who are meant for each other but sometimes need a little help to realise it.
A keen amateur baker, she enjoys making cakes, biscuits and brownies almost as much as eating them. You can find recipes for all the cakes mentioned in Art and Soul at http://clairehuston.co.uk along with over 150 other recipes. This is also where she talks about and reviews books.
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Julie Haworth
Julie Haworth
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Title: New Beginnings at the Cosy Cat Cafe
Genre: Contemporary romance
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New Beginnings at The Cosy Cat Café tells the story of Tori who, after being dumped and left stranded by her long-term boyfriend Ryan on a trip of a lifetime to Asia, returns home to the sleepy Sussex village of Blossom Heath with her tail between her legs and her dreams shattered. Donning her frilly apron to help her Mum, Joyce, behind the counter at The Cosy Cup Café, Tori starts to believe – with the help of a hunky fireman and a clowder of rescue cats - that perhaps the secret to her future happiness might lie closer to home than she ever thought possible.
If you love your romance with a side order of cake, cats and cosy community dynamics, this is the purrfect uplifting, feel-good read from the winner of the RNA Katie Fforde Debut Novel of the Year 2023.
The Author:
With a degree in English and American Literature, Julie Haworth worked as an English teacher for a number of years, specialising in working with learners with literacy difficulties, before launching her own freelance copywriting business. She is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and her debut novel, Always By Your Side, which she wrote whilst recovering from Covid in 2020, won the Katie Fforde Debut Romantic Novel Award in 2023.
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Genre: Contemporary romance
Format: Paperback
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New Beginnings at The Cosy Cat Café tells the story of Tori who, after being dumped and left stranded by her long-term boyfriend Ryan on a trip of a lifetime to Asia, returns home to the sleepy Sussex village of Blossom Heath with her tail between her legs and her dreams shattered. Donning her frilly apron to help her Mum, Joyce, behind the counter at The Cosy Cup Café, Tori starts to believe – with the help of a hunky fireman and a clowder of rescue cats - that perhaps the secret to her future happiness might lie closer to home than she ever thought possible.
If you love your romance with a side order of cake, cats and cosy community dynamics, this is the purrfect uplifting, feel-good read from the winner of the RNA Katie Fforde Debut Novel of the Year 2023.
The Author:
With a degree in English and American Literature, Julie Haworth worked as an English teacher for a number of years, specialising in working with learners with literacy difficulties, before launching her own freelance copywriting business. She is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and her debut novel, Always By Your Side, which she wrote whilst recovering from Covid in 2020, won the Katie Fforde Debut Romantic Novel Award in 2023.
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Stephanie Ward
Stephanie Ward
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Book Title: Allen The Alien
Genre: Children's Picture Book
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Allen and his pet Byte are Earth’s newest Visitors. The Earthlings seem very friendly to Allen - in fact, they run and scream whenever they see him! Thankfully, Allen has brought some of his favourite alien toys along so that he can play with the Earthlings. They’re sure to love his supersonic horn and his x-ray gun, right? Allen is having a lot of fun playing, but maybe Earthlings aren’t quite ready for a guest like him! Written by Stephanie Ward, illustrated by Aleck Morton and published by Riveted Press.
The Author:
After many years in marketing, Stephanie Ward now spends her time writing sweet, silly and sidesplitting stories for children. She is the author of ARABELLA AND THE MAGIC PENCIL, illustrated by Shaney Hyde, published by EK Books, HELLO SHARK!, illustrated by Bethany Carr, published by Imagine That and DON'T LAUGH, GIRAFFE!, illustrated by Carrie Hennon and Brad Hunt, published by Imagine That. Currently, she can be found writing in London, England with her husband and young son.
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Genre: Children's Picture Book
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Allen and his pet Byte are Earth’s newest Visitors. The Earthlings seem very friendly to Allen - in fact, they run and scream whenever they see him! Thankfully, Allen has brought some of his favourite alien toys along so that he can play with the Earthlings. They’re sure to love his supersonic horn and his x-ray gun, right? Allen is having a lot of fun playing, but maybe Earthlings aren’t quite ready for a guest like him! Written by Stephanie Ward, illustrated by Aleck Morton and published by Riveted Press.
The Author:
After many years in marketing, Stephanie Ward now spends her time writing sweet, silly and sidesplitting stories for children. She is the author of ARABELLA AND THE MAGIC PENCIL, illustrated by Shaney Hyde, published by EK Books, HELLO SHARK!, illustrated by Bethany Carr, published by Imagine That and DON'T LAUGH, GIRAFFE!, illustrated by Carrie Hennon and Brad Hunt, published by Imagine That. Currently, she can be found writing in London, England with her husband and young son.
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Eibhlís Carcione
Eibhlís Carcione
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Title 1: Black Gables
Title 2: Welcome to Dead Town Raven McKay
Genre: Children (Middle - Grade) - Ghosts
Format: Paperbacks
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Title 1: Black Gables:
You’re about to enter the world’s creepiest school
Welcome to Black Gables the world’s creepiest school with the creepiest headmaster. Even the pets are eerie.
Rosella’s mother has lost her memory and her family have returned to Black Gables where she grew up in thrldwidee hope something will stir her memory. But all is not right at Black Gables-in fact everything is wrong.
The headmaster, Mr Edge is beyond sinister and he seems to be communicating with the lake ghouls.
Title 2: Welcome to Dead Town Raven McKay
Eibhlís Carcione’s debut novel is a stunning, lyrical tale of loss that’s also a gripping thriller and ghost story. When her parents disappear, 12 -year-old Raven McKay is put into foster care in the town of Grave’s Pass. But this is no ordinary town. It’s a place where the living and the dead live side by side…
The Author:
I am a children’s author and teacher.
I’m also a bilingual poet who writes in Irish and English.
I have published three poetry books in Irish and have won many prestigious prizes. I have written hundreds of poems, often about the power of nature, mermaids, myths, magic, and the occasional ghost.
I live in Cork city with my husband, daughter and two faithful canine companions.
I am represented by the wonderful Silvia Molteni of Peters Fraser and Dunlop.
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Title 2: Welcome to Dead Town Raven McKay
Genre: Children (Middle - Grade) - Ghosts
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Title 1: Black Gables:
You’re about to enter the world’s creepiest school
Welcome to Black Gables the world’s creepiest school with the creepiest headmaster. Even the pets are eerie.
Rosella’s mother has lost her memory and her family have returned to Black Gables where she grew up in thrldwidee hope something will stir her memory. But all is not right at Black Gables-in fact everything is wrong.
The headmaster, Mr Edge is beyond sinister and he seems to be communicating with the lake ghouls.
Title 2: Welcome to Dead Town Raven McKay
Eibhlís Carcione’s debut novel is a stunning, lyrical tale of loss that’s also a gripping thriller and ghost story. When her parents disappear, 12 -year-old Raven McKay is put into foster care in the town of Grave’s Pass. But this is no ordinary town. It’s a place where the living and the dead live side by side…
The Author:
I am a children’s author and teacher.
I’m also a bilingual poet who writes in Irish and English.
I have published three poetry books in Irish and have won many prestigious prizes. I have written hundreds of poems, often about the power of nature, mermaids, myths, magic, and the occasional ghost.
I live in Cork city with my husband, daughter and two faithful canine companions.
I am represented by the wonderful Silvia Molteni of Peters Fraser and Dunlop.
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Liz Flannigan
Liz Flannigan
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Three Fantastic Books from The Wildsmith Series
Title1: Into The Dark Forest
Title 2: City of Secrets
Title 3: The Hidden Sea
Genre: Children (Middle Grade) Action & Adventure
Format: Paperbacks
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Title1: Into The Dark Forest
When war comes to her city, Rowan and her mum must flee to the Dark Forest to live with the grandfather Rowan never knew she had - and his white wolf Arto. Although she misses her father, Rowan makes new friends, including a trio of powerful witches. When she rescues a baby dragon from poachers, she discovers the secret of her own identity: could Rowan really be a wildsmith just like her grandfather? And when new danger threatens, Rowan will need all her courage and more.
Title 2: City of Secrets
In the second adventure, Rowan starts to embrace her gifts as a magical wildsmith who heals and speaks to animals. But saving a young pegasus brings difficult decisions. Danger comes closer than ever, threatening her family and even Rowan’s own life. When she is betrayed, which friends can she trust? With her family divided and war still raging, where does Rowan belong now?
Title 3: The Hidden Sea
Rowan has been working as a wildsmith, rescuing magical animals. But when she finds herself alone and far from home, this time Rowan is the one who needs to be rescued.
Travelling deep into enemy territory, Rowan makes some surprising discoveries, coming face to face with great danger. With the help of new friends – and old ones – will she ever make it home again?
*Winner of the UKLA Awards 2024 (7-10 category), Winner of the Spark Book Awards (7+ category), Winner of the Stockton Book of the Year Award, Winner of a Fantastic Book Award 2024, Shortlisted for The Week Junior Book Awards 2023, and the Book Awards St Helens.
The Author:
Liz's books include Eden Summer (nominated for the Carnegie Medal), Dragon Daughter (Winner of the Leeds Book Award and the Calderdale Book of the Year Award) Rise of the Shadow Dragons (May 2020) and the Wildsmith series, illustrated by Joe Todd-Stanton.
Her stories are exciting and gripping, whether they are fantasy (Wildsmith and Legends of the Sky series) or contemporary realism (Eden Summer, set in her home town of Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire).
Liz loves to meet her readers and often runs workshops and school assemblies. She would have loved to be a wildsmith who can talk to animals, or to find a bag of dragon eggs - like Milla in Dragon Daughter. She has to make do instead with her dogs, her cat, and a whole series of foster kittens.
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Title1: Into The Dark Forest
Title 2: City of Secrets
Title 3: The Hidden Sea
Genre: Children (Middle Grade) Action & Adventure
Format: Paperbacks
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Title1: Into The Dark Forest
When war comes to her city, Rowan and her mum must flee to the Dark Forest to live with the grandfather Rowan never knew she had - and his white wolf Arto. Although she misses her father, Rowan makes new friends, including a trio of powerful witches. When she rescues a baby dragon from poachers, she discovers the secret of her own identity: could Rowan really be a wildsmith just like her grandfather? And when new danger threatens, Rowan will need all her courage and more.
Title 2: City of Secrets
In the second adventure, Rowan starts to embrace her gifts as a magical wildsmith who heals and speaks to animals. But saving a young pegasus brings difficult decisions. Danger comes closer than ever, threatening her family and even Rowan’s own life. When she is betrayed, which friends can she trust? With her family divided and war still raging, where does Rowan belong now?
Title 3: The Hidden Sea
Rowan has been working as a wildsmith, rescuing magical animals. But when she finds herself alone and far from home, this time Rowan is the one who needs to be rescued.
Travelling deep into enemy territory, Rowan makes some surprising discoveries, coming face to face with great danger. With the help of new friends – and old ones – will she ever make it home again?
*Winner of the UKLA Awards 2024 (7-10 category), Winner of the Spark Book Awards (7+ category), Winner of the Stockton Book of the Year Award, Winner of a Fantastic Book Award 2024, Shortlisted for The Week Junior Book Awards 2023, and the Book Awards St Helens.
The Author:
Liz's books include Eden Summer (nominated for the Carnegie Medal), Dragon Daughter (Winner of the Leeds Book Award and the Calderdale Book of the Year Award) Rise of the Shadow Dragons (May 2020) and the Wildsmith series, illustrated by Joe Todd-Stanton.
Her stories are exciting and gripping, whether they are fantasy (Wildsmith and Legends of the Sky series) or contemporary realism (Eden Summer, set in her home town of Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire).
Liz loves to meet her readers and often runs workshops and school assemblies. She would have loved to be a wildsmith who can talk to animals, or to find a bag of dragon eggs - like Milla in Dragon Daughter. She has to make do instead with her dogs, her cat, and a whole series of foster kittens.
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Website: https://lizflanagan.co.uk
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£ 25
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Rick Thompson
Rick Thompson
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Title: A Year on the Fosse
Genre: History - Home & Garden
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
This book follows the 230 miles of the Fosse Way that spears straight through the heart of England, telling the history of the towns and cities that grew up along the Roman road, and describing the wildlife to be found in nature reserves and green spaces along the route as the seasons change. Month by month, we travel from the flatlands of Lincolnshire, through the East Midlands Wolds and Shakespeare's Warwickshire, to the golden Cotswolds and the sumptuous West Country. From bloody battles that changed the course of history, to ancient traditions still followed, this beautifully written book is full of fascinating information, folklore, philosophy, bird identification, and some unexpected tales, with the need to value and protect our natural environment shining through.
The Author:
Rick worked for BBC News for many years, as a TV reporter and producer, then as a senior editor in the regional, national and international BBC services. He then formed his own training and consultancy network, ‘T-Media’, helping the development of public service broadcasting across Europe.
Now he is a writer on natural history in the English Midlands, and is a moderator of international conferences on environmental themes. Rick also helps to research the eleven hundred year history of his home town, Warwick, and writes dramatic reconstructions on court cases heard there in former centuries. He is a member of the Town Council’s volunteers who organise community events.
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Genre: History - Home & Garden
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
This book follows the 230 miles of the Fosse Way that spears straight through the heart of England, telling the history of the towns and cities that grew up along the Roman road, and describing the wildlife to be found in nature reserves and green spaces along the route as the seasons change. Month by month, we travel from the flatlands of Lincolnshire, through the East Midlands Wolds and Shakespeare's Warwickshire, to the golden Cotswolds and the sumptuous West Country. From bloody battles that changed the course of history, to ancient traditions still followed, this beautifully written book is full of fascinating information, folklore, philosophy, bird identification, and some unexpected tales, with the need to value and protect our natural environment shining through.
The Author:
Rick worked for BBC News for many years, as a TV reporter and producer, then as a senior editor in the regional, national and international BBC services. He then formed his own training and consultancy network, ‘T-Media’, helping the development of public service broadcasting across Europe.
Now he is a writer on natural history in the English Midlands, and is a moderator of international conferences on environmental themes. Rick also helps to research the eleven hundred year history of his home town, Warwick, and writes dramatic reconstructions on court cases heard there in former centuries. He is a member of the Town Council’s volunteers who organise community events.
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£ 14
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Petr Horacek
Petr Horacek
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Title: Blue Monster
Genre: Children
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
A wonderfully funny and surprising picture book from a much-loved illustrator
Blue Monster wants to play with Rabbit – but Rabbit is sleeping and doesn’t want to play. SO... what should Blue Monster do?
Blue Monster does something you should NEVER do and then... he does it again and again!
Now he DEFINITELY has no one to play with! He feels sad, lonely and VERY guilty. But when Blue Monster openshis mouth and YAWNS... what a surprise!
Things may get better after all! If Blue Monster only says he’s sorry.
A wonderfully funny and surprising picture book about friendship and forgiveness, that’s perfect for reading aloud.
A laugh-out-loud, warm-hearted picture book about friendship and forgiveness.
The Author:
I was born on Friday 30th June 1967 in Prague in Czechoslovakia. I have no memories of the day at all. I grow up on the periphery of Prague. My childhood was fun. I really have no complaints and I enjoyed it enormously.
At the age of 15 I went to study at the High School of Art in Prague - Střední umělecká škola Václava Hollara. It was good, we did everything arty there - printing, drawing, photography, design, sculpture ... and painting (my favourite subject). Ok, so it was school, but I have good memories of it.
For 2 years, from the age of 19, I worked in a state advertising and design agency. It was a joke. In communist Czechoslovakia there was nothing much to advertise or design, so I had time to paint and attend life drawing classes where I prepared myself for further studies. The experience of working at the state design agency during communism wasn’t a complete waste of time. I met many clever and creative people and looking back, it was an ‘interesting time’ to be growing up.
Then I went to study at the Academy of Fine Art in Prague. There I worked hard for 6 years. I drew and painted from morning to evening. In November 1989 there was the ‘Velvet Revolution’. The revolution started with a student strike. Students occupied their universities and schools around the country. Great fun! An exciting time which resulted in new art departments at the Academy of Fine Art, new professors, new inspirations and of course, most importantly the end of communism in Czechoslovakia.
Soon after the revolution an English girl called Claire arrived in our studio to study as a postgraduate. We fell in love and we have been together ever since.
In 1994 I got my Master of Fine Art degree and Claire and I moved to England. We got married in 1995 and had two daughters - Tereza and Cecilia. When I became a dad I made my first book. Walker Books published two of my board books: ‘Strawberries are Red' and 'What is Black and White' in 2001. In the same year I received the Books For Children 'Newcomer 2001' award. That’s what started my career as a writer and illustrator.
Since then I have had many books published in England and lots of other countries. I love what I'm doing - it's fun!
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Genre: Children
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
A wonderfully funny and surprising picture book from a much-loved illustrator
Blue Monster wants to play with Rabbit – but Rabbit is sleeping and doesn’t want to play. SO... what should Blue Monster do?
Blue Monster does something you should NEVER do and then... he does it again and again!
Now he DEFINITELY has no one to play with! He feels sad, lonely and VERY guilty. But when Blue Monster openshis mouth and YAWNS... what a surprise!
Things may get better after all! If Blue Monster only says he’s sorry.
A wonderfully funny and surprising picture book about friendship and forgiveness, that’s perfect for reading aloud.
A laugh-out-loud, warm-hearted picture book about friendship and forgiveness.
The Author:
I was born on Friday 30th June 1967 in Prague in Czechoslovakia. I have no memories of the day at all. I grow up on the periphery of Prague. My childhood was fun. I really have no complaints and I enjoyed it enormously.
At the age of 15 I went to study at the High School of Art in Prague - Střední umělecká škola Václava Hollara. It was good, we did everything arty there - printing, drawing, photography, design, sculpture ... and painting (my favourite subject). Ok, so it was school, but I have good memories of it.
For 2 years, from the age of 19, I worked in a state advertising and design agency. It was a joke. In communist Czechoslovakia there was nothing much to advertise or design, so I had time to paint and attend life drawing classes where I prepared myself for further studies. The experience of working at the state design agency during communism wasn’t a complete waste of time. I met many clever and creative people and looking back, it was an ‘interesting time’ to be growing up.
Then I went to study at the Academy of Fine Art in Prague. There I worked hard for 6 years. I drew and painted from morning to evening. In November 1989 there was the ‘Velvet Revolution’. The revolution started with a student strike. Students occupied their universities and schools around the country. Great fun! An exciting time which resulted in new art departments at the Academy of Fine Art, new professors, new inspirations and of course, most importantly the end of communism in Czechoslovakia.
Soon after the revolution an English girl called Claire arrived in our studio to study as a postgraduate. We fell in love and we have been together ever since.
In 1994 I got my Master of Fine Art degree and Claire and I moved to England. We got married in 1995 and had two daughters - Tereza and Cecilia. When I became a dad I made my first book. Walker Books published two of my board books: ‘Strawberries are Red' and 'What is Black and White' in 2001. In the same year I received the Books For Children 'Newcomer 2001' award. That’s what started my career as a writer and illustrator.
Since then I have had many books published in England and lots of other countries. I love what I'm doing - it's fun!
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Website: https://www.petrhoracek.co.uk
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£ 15
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Donna Ashcroft
Donna Ashcroft
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Book Title: Winter Wishes in the Scottish Highlands
Genre: Romance
Format: Paperback
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Bundle up warm and take a sleigh ride to Christmas Resort, the wintry haven where a fire is always roaring and hot chocolate is on tap. But can Ivy Heart let down her defenses and fall in love at the most wonderful time of the year?
Singleton and city-girl Ivy Heart has just turned thirty. She’s a chronic list-maker, married to her five-year plan, and can’t remember when she last had a Christmas off. This year is no different; PA to Lady Miriam Ballentine, Ivy has been tasked with bringing her estranged grandson home before Christmas Eve in return for a reference. With her dream job on the line, Ivy packs her bags for the snowy Scottish Highlands to track down the heir to the Ballentine estate.
But when Ivy arrives at Christmas Resort, she discovers Ross Ballentine is far from a polished Laird-to-be. Rough around the edges, free-spirited and jaw-droppingly gorgeous, Ivy is shocked when he drives off on his snowmobile at the first mention of his grandmother. Not taking his frosty tracks as an answer, Ivy books herself onto his reindeer spotting tour, determined to convince this recluse to return to his responsibilities at the crumbling family castle.
But events don’t follow Ivy’s meticulous schedule as she spends time with Ross in his rustic cabin, switching her phone and mind off to the demands of city life. Soon it’s not just the log fire heating up between them. Does Ivy have more in common with this grumpy woodsman than she thought?
As sparks of romance roar under snowy skies, can Ivy get Ross home in time to secure the job she’s worked so hard for? Will Ivy’s ambition and Ross’s stubbornness drive them apart, or give them a Christmas they will never forget?
The Author:
Donna Ashcroft is the author of thirteen romance novels. Six of which reached the Amazon top 100. She was also shortlisted for the RNA Debut Romantic Novel of the Year in 2019.
She lies in Hertfordshire with her family and two neurotic cats. She loves a happy ending and is never happier than when she’s escaping into a romance novel or movie.
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Genre: Romance
Format: Paperback
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The Book :
Bundle up warm and take a sleigh ride to Christmas Resort, the wintry haven where a fire is always roaring and hot chocolate is on tap. But can Ivy Heart let down her defenses and fall in love at the most wonderful time of the year?
Singleton and city-girl Ivy Heart has just turned thirty. She’s a chronic list-maker, married to her five-year plan, and can’t remember when she last had a Christmas off. This year is no different; PA to Lady Miriam Ballentine, Ivy has been tasked with bringing her estranged grandson home before Christmas Eve in return for a reference. With her dream job on the line, Ivy packs her bags for the snowy Scottish Highlands to track down the heir to the Ballentine estate.
But when Ivy arrives at Christmas Resort, she discovers Ross Ballentine is far from a polished Laird-to-be. Rough around the edges, free-spirited and jaw-droppingly gorgeous, Ivy is shocked when he drives off on his snowmobile at the first mention of his grandmother. Not taking his frosty tracks as an answer, Ivy books herself onto his reindeer spotting tour, determined to convince this recluse to return to his responsibilities at the crumbling family castle.
But events don’t follow Ivy’s meticulous schedule as she spends time with Ross in his rustic cabin, switching her phone and mind off to the demands of city life. Soon it’s not just the log fire heating up between them. Does Ivy have more in common with this grumpy woodsman than she thought?
As sparks of romance roar under snowy skies, can Ivy get Ross home in time to secure the job she’s worked so hard for? Will Ivy’s ambition and Ross’s stubbornness drive them apart, or give them a Christmas they will never forget?
The Author:
Donna Ashcroft is the author of thirteen romance novels. Six of which reached the Amazon top 100. She was also shortlisted for the RNA Debut Romantic Novel of the Year in 2019.
She lies in Hertfordshire with her family and two neurotic cats. She loves a happy ending and is never happier than when she’s escaping into a romance novel or movie.
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£ 16
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Margaret Rooke
Margaret Rooke
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Title: Meet the Dyslexia Club!: The Amazing Talents, Skills and Everyday Life of Children with Dyslexia
Genre: Education
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
If you're dyslexic, you might struggle with reading and spelling, writing neatly, or staying focused when people give you lots of instructions. This book shows how you can help yourself and how adults can help you.
You will meet a group of dyslexic children who talk about their lives, what their schooldays are like and what they are great at.
You might recognise some of their strengths as things that you can do too! Some dyslexic children are fantastic at storytelling, some are great at helping other people, some love all sorts of art and design, some are problem-solvers, and some are brilliant at spotting patterns in groups of numbers.
This book also provides guidance for parents and teachers, with advice on how they can support children with suspected or diagnosed dyslexia, and signposts further resources and bonus content.
The Author:
Margaret Rooke has been a writer for more than 25 years in books, newspapers and magazines, and has a daughter with dyslexia. She has written the bestselling Creative, Successful Dyslexic, Dyslexia is My Superpower (Most of the Time), and You Can Change the World.I
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Genre: Education
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
If you're dyslexic, you might struggle with reading and spelling, writing neatly, or staying focused when people give you lots of instructions. This book shows how you can help yourself and how adults can help you.
You will meet a group of dyslexic children who talk about their lives, what their schooldays are like and what they are great at.
You might recognise some of their strengths as things that you can do too! Some dyslexic children are fantastic at storytelling, some are great at helping other people, some love all sorts of art and design, some are problem-solvers, and some are brilliant at spotting patterns in groups of numbers.
This book also provides guidance for parents and teachers, with advice on how they can support children with suspected or diagnosed dyslexia, and signposts further resources and bonus content.
The Author:
Margaret Rooke has been a writer for more than 25 years in books, newspapers and magazines, and has a daughter with dyslexia. She has written the bestselling Creative, Successful Dyslexic, Dyslexia is My Superpower (Most of the Time), and You Can Change the World.I
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£ 11
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Ciar Byrne
Ciar Byrne
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Title: A Deadly Discovery
Genre: Cosy Crime
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ONE PRICELESS ARTEFACT. TWO UNLIKELY SLEUTHS. A MURDER STRANGER THAN FICTION.
In the shadow of Lewes castle lies buried an ancient tablet. Hours after discovering it, dashing local archaeologist Gideon Rivers is dead.
Writer Virginia Woolf and her artist sister, Vanessa, both know firsthand that it doesn’t take much to cause a stir in town. And when Gideon returned home from a dig in Syria with a glamorous Parisian heiresss on his arm, all eyes were on him.
But who would have conspired to murder such a charming young man? There are more suspects in his circle than it first seems: an ambitious fiancée, a jealous best friend, and a string of scorned former lovers.
With the police chasing false leads and the murderer hunting down a second victim – one far closer to home – Ginny and Nessa are forced to take investigations into their own hands.
Solving this mystery calls for a little creativity…
The Author:
Ciar is an author and journalist living with her husband and three children in the historic country town of Lewes in Sussex, UK, which inspired her debut novel. When she is not dreaming up murderous plots involving members of the Bloomsbury Group, she writes about gardening for national publications. For three years she volunteered in the beautiful walled garden at Charleston farmhouse, the country home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and spent long hours while weeding imagining what life must have been like when they lived there. As a graduate of English Literature from Edinburgh University, she probably spends more time than is healthy thinking about Virginia Woolf, who lived with her husband Leonard just down the road at Monk's House in the village of Rodmell. When she is not writing she is usually to be found in her garden shed, or up on her allotment overlooking the South Downs.
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Genre: Cosy Crime
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The Book;
ONE PRICELESS ARTEFACT. TWO UNLIKELY SLEUTHS. A MURDER STRANGER THAN FICTION.
In the shadow of Lewes castle lies buried an ancient tablet. Hours after discovering it, dashing local archaeologist Gideon Rivers is dead.
Writer Virginia Woolf and her artist sister, Vanessa, both know firsthand that it doesn’t take much to cause a stir in town. And when Gideon returned home from a dig in Syria with a glamorous Parisian heiresss on his arm, all eyes were on him.
But who would have conspired to murder such a charming young man? There are more suspects in his circle than it first seems: an ambitious fiancée, a jealous best friend, and a string of scorned former lovers.
With the police chasing false leads and the murderer hunting down a second victim – one far closer to home – Ginny and Nessa are forced to take investigations into their own hands.
Solving this mystery calls for a little creativity…
The Author:
Ciar is an author and journalist living with her husband and three children in the historic country town of Lewes in Sussex, UK, which inspired her debut novel. When she is not dreaming up murderous plots involving members of the Bloomsbury Group, she writes about gardening for national publications. For three years she volunteered in the beautiful walled garden at Charleston farmhouse, the country home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and spent long hours while weeding imagining what life must have been like when they lived there. As a graduate of English Literature from Edinburgh University, she probably spends more time than is healthy thinking about Virginia Woolf, who lived with her husband Leonard just down the road at Monk's House in the village of Rodmell. When she is not writing she is usually to be found in her garden shed, or up on her allotment overlooking the South Downs.
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R. L. Graham
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Book Title: Death on the Lusitania
Genre: Historical crime/thriller
Format: Paperback first edition
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'An instant classic' – Daily Mail
The ship was doomed before it ever left port. His fate was sealed before he ever stepped on board. From R. L. Graham, Death on the Lusitania is an immersive WW1 historical novel set aboard the ill-fated ocean liner.
Welcome on board the Lusitania’s final voyage . . .
New York, 1915. RMS Lusitania, one of the world’s most luxurious ocean liners, departs for war-torn Europe. Among those on board is Patrick Gallagher, a civil servant in Her Majesty’s government tasked with escorting a British diplomat back to England.
When a fellow passenger is believed to have shot himself in his cabin, Gallagher is asked by the captain to investigate the scene. But one crucial detail doesn’t fit. The man’s body was discovered in a locked cabin with the key inside and no gun to be found. Was it really suicide? Or murder?
Gallagher believes one of the passengers is a deadly killer - one who could strike again at any moment. And all the while, the ship sails on towards Europe, where enemy submarines patrol dark waters . . .
The Author:
RL Graham is the pseudonym of Morgen Witzel and Marilyn Livingstone, an Anglo-Canadian husband and wife team of writers with a broad range of interests in many periods of history, including the belle époque and the tumultuous years leading up to the First World War and the post-war re-ordering of the world.
They are very much drawn to the shadowy world of crime, espionage and political intrigue. They are particularly fascinated by historical mysteries: things which have happened but have no apparent explanation. Originally from Canada, they now live in a small village in Devon.
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'An instant classic' – Daily Mail
The ship was doomed before it ever left port. His fate was sealed before he ever stepped on board. From R. L. Graham, Death on the Lusitania is an immersive WW1 historical novel set aboard the ill-fated ocean liner.
Welcome on board the Lusitania’s final voyage . . .
New York, 1915. RMS Lusitania, one of the world’s most luxurious ocean liners, departs for war-torn Europe. Among those on board is Patrick Gallagher, a civil servant in Her Majesty’s government tasked with escorting a British diplomat back to England.
When a fellow passenger is believed to have shot himself in his cabin, Gallagher is asked by the captain to investigate the scene. But one crucial detail doesn’t fit. The man’s body was discovered in a locked cabin with the key inside and no gun to be found. Was it really suicide? Or murder?
Gallagher believes one of the passengers is a deadly killer - one who could strike again at any moment. And all the while, the ship sails on towards Europe, where enemy submarines patrol dark waters . . .
The Author:
RL Graham is the pseudonym of Morgen Witzel and Marilyn Livingstone, an Anglo-Canadian husband and wife team of writers with a broad range of interests in many periods of history, including the belle époque and the tumultuous years leading up to the First World War and the post-war re-ordering of the world.
They are very much drawn to the shadowy world of crime, espionage and political intrigue. They are particularly fascinated by historical mysteries: things which have happened but have no apparent explanation. Originally from Canada, they now live in a small village in Devon.
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Andrea Carter
Andrea Carter
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Book Title - Death Writes
Genre - Crime, mystery
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The Book;
'A perfect summer read' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
The next gripping book in the Ben O'Keefe series.
A very public death in front of an adoring crowd... or something more sinister?
Early summer in Glendara and the town's literary festival, Glenfest, is about to begin with Phyllis Kettle, the bookshop owner, at the helm. The big news is that Gavin Featherstone, the peninsula's bestselling but reclusive writer, has been persuaded to take part.
An eager crowd awaits his first public appearance in ten years. Unexpectedly charming, he is just about to read from his new memoir when he collapses and dies on stage.
Ben discovers that she holds Featherstone's will at the office, drafted by her predecessor. But just as it is confirmed that the author's death was murder, his assistant appears in Ben's office, brandishing a rival will which is very different from the one Ben has.
Ben and Molloy are thrown into an investigation where they are pitted against a killer who has nothing left to lose. And although working together, there are secrets Ben has to keep from Molloy... but is he keeping his own secrets from her?
Praise for Andrea Carter's Inishowen Mysteries series
'Atmospheric and vivid' The Irish Times
'I adored this traditional crime novel; it's modern day Agatha Christie with Ben as Miss Marple' Irish Examiner
'The colourful cast of characters may be fictional, but the landscapes, towns and villages are instantly recognisable' Irish Daily Mail
'A beguiling heroine - clever, sympathetic and bearing a weight of guilt' The Times
The Author:
Andrea Carter grew up in Laois and studied law at Trinity College Dublin, before moving to the Inishowen peninsula in Co. Donegal where she ran the most northerly solicitors’ practice in the country. In 2006 she returned to Dublin to work as a barrister before turning to write crime novels.
Andrea's books are published by Little, Brown in the UK, Goldmann Verlag in Germany, Oceanview in the US and will be adapted for television next summer.
The Sunday Times has said ‘Carter excels in re-creating the cloistered, gossipy confines of a small Irish village…the Inishowen peninsula community where everybody knows everybody else’s business is a fine stand-in for the mannered drawing room society of a Christie mystery.’
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Genre - Crime, mystery
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The Book;
'A perfect summer read' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
The next gripping book in the Ben O'Keefe series.
A very public death in front of an adoring crowd... or something more sinister?
Early summer in Glendara and the town's literary festival, Glenfest, is about to begin with Phyllis Kettle, the bookshop owner, at the helm. The big news is that Gavin Featherstone, the peninsula's bestselling but reclusive writer, has been persuaded to take part.
An eager crowd awaits his first public appearance in ten years. Unexpectedly charming, he is just about to read from his new memoir when he collapses and dies on stage.
Ben discovers that she holds Featherstone's will at the office, drafted by her predecessor. But just as it is confirmed that the author's death was murder, his assistant appears in Ben's office, brandishing a rival will which is very different from the one Ben has.
Ben and Molloy are thrown into an investigation where they are pitted against a killer who has nothing left to lose. And although working together, there are secrets Ben has to keep from Molloy... but is he keeping his own secrets from her?
Praise for Andrea Carter's Inishowen Mysteries series
'Atmospheric and vivid' The Irish Times
'I adored this traditional crime novel; it's modern day Agatha Christie with Ben as Miss Marple' Irish Examiner
'The colourful cast of characters may be fictional, but the landscapes, towns and villages are instantly recognisable' Irish Daily Mail
'A beguiling heroine - clever, sympathetic and bearing a weight of guilt' The Times
The Author:
Andrea Carter grew up in Laois and studied law at Trinity College Dublin, before moving to the Inishowen peninsula in Co. Donegal where she ran the most northerly solicitors’ practice in the country. In 2006 she returned to Dublin to work as a barrister before turning to write crime novels.
Andrea's books are published by Little, Brown in the UK, Goldmann Verlag in Germany, Oceanview in the US and will be adapted for television next summer.
The Sunday Times has said ‘Carter excels in re-creating the cloistered, gossipy confines of a small Irish village…the Inishowen peninsula community where everybody knows everybody else’s business is a fine stand-in for the mannered drawing room society of a Christie mystery.’
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Dr Joanne Paul
Dr Joanne Paul
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Book Title: The House of Dudley
Genre: History, Non-Fiction
Format: Hardback US Edition
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Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving and manipulative Tudor family you've never heard of . . .
'A tour-de-force of Tudor history. Remarkable' DAN JONES
'Exciting and immersive. An immensely entertaining history' SUNDAY TIMES
'This is riveting stuff: death, desire, power and scandal'SPECTATOR
'A twist on the Tudors . . . Enormously entertaining - a sheer joy to read' THE TIMES
Was the House of Dudley out to steal the throne?
This was the question on the mind of Elizabeth I's courtiers when a forbidden book accused generations of the Dudley family of poisonings, plottings, murders, treason, incitement and other 'evil stratagems.'
For decades, the Dudleys had been close to the throne, rising from nobodies to the land's highest offices.
Under Henrys VII and VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and, finally, Elizabeth, they risked execution and imprisonment as they audaciously stole, murdered and swindled in the name of the monarch.
But were they loyally protecting the crown, or did they secretly covet it for themselves?
The Author:
Dr Joanne Paul is an award-winning historian, broadcaster and writer with a passion for sharing her research on Renaissance and Tudor history. She is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex and a 2017 AHRC/BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker. She has published in the Cambridge University Press 'Ideas in Context' series and has been widely praised for her work on Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes. The House of Dudley is her acclaimed history of the Dudley family. Picked as a Times Book of the Week and Book of 2022 by The Times, The Telegraph and History Today, The House of Dudley also garnered stellar reviews in The Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, Literary Review, Spectator and Wall Street Journal.
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Genre: History, Non-Fiction
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Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving and manipulative Tudor family you've never heard of . . .
'A tour-de-force of Tudor history. Remarkable' DAN JONES
'Exciting and immersive. An immensely entertaining history' SUNDAY TIMES
'This is riveting stuff: death, desire, power and scandal'SPECTATOR
'A twist on the Tudors . . . Enormously entertaining - a sheer joy to read' THE TIMES
Was the House of Dudley out to steal the throne?
This was the question on the mind of Elizabeth I's courtiers when a forbidden book accused generations of the Dudley family of poisonings, plottings, murders, treason, incitement and other 'evil stratagems.'
For decades, the Dudleys had been close to the throne, rising from nobodies to the land's highest offices.
Under Henrys VII and VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and, finally, Elizabeth, they risked execution and imprisonment as they audaciously stole, murdered and swindled in the name of the monarch.
But were they loyally protecting the crown, or did they secretly covet it for themselves?
The Author:
Dr Joanne Paul is an award-winning historian, broadcaster and writer with a passion for sharing her research on Renaissance and Tudor history. She is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex and a 2017 AHRC/BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker. She has published in the Cambridge University Press 'Ideas in Context' series and has been widely praised for her work on Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes. The House of Dudley is her acclaimed history of the Dudley family. Picked as a Times Book of the Week and Book of 2022 by The Times, The Telegraph and History Today, The House of Dudley also garnered stellar reviews in The Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, Literary Review, Spectator and Wall Street Journal.
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Julie Shackman
Julie Shackman
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Title: First seven titles in Scottish Escapes series
Genre: Feel-good romance
Format: Paperback
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Book Blurb:: Escape to Scotland with the first seven titles in the One More Chapter (HarperCollins imprint) bestselling series of feel-good romance novels by Julie Shackman.
Author Bio:: Julie Shackman is a former journalist from Scotland, who has always wanted to write feel-good romance. As well as being an author, Julie also writes verses and captions for greetings card companies. Julie admits to having an obsession with stationery and handbags. She is married, has two sons and adopted a Romanian rescue puppy, Cooper. A Scottish Highland Hideaway is Julie's eleventh novel.
Genre: Feel-good romance
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Book Blurb:: Escape to Scotland with the first seven titles in the One More Chapter (HarperCollins imprint) bestselling series of feel-good romance novels by Julie Shackman.
Author Bio:: Julie Shackman is a former journalist from Scotland, who has always wanted to write feel-good romance. As well as being an author, Julie also writes verses and captions for greetings card companies. Julie admits to having an obsession with stationery and handbags. She is married, has two sons and adopted a Romanian rescue puppy, Cooper. A Scottish Highland Hideaway is Julie's eleventh novel.
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Sue Reed
Sue Reed
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Title: The Rewilding of Molly McFLynn
Genre: Young Adult /Crossover
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It’s spring 2020 and fifteen-year-old Molly McFlynn is uprooted from town life by her mam to live with her bohemian grandparents in rural Northumberland. Molly is furious – her friends abandon her, the food is inedible and her grandmother is doing strange things in the garden at night.
Life takes a new direction when she meets a girl in the woods who appears to be on the run. Martha is from the seventeenth century, and a life lived on the edge of society. She is fleeing from the witch finder and the men who have hurled her mother, Ann Watson, into the dungeons in Newcastle. As Molly’s friendship with Martha grows, Molly reconciles with her true self, develops a love of nature and moves away from her consumerist lifestyle.
However, as Covid strikes, and a local witch hunt takes place, Martha’s is not the only life that is in danger. Molly must stand up for what is right, help heal family rifts and come to the rescue in a moment of peril.
The Author:
It’s spring 2020 and fifteen-year-old Molly McFlynn is uprooted from town life by her mam to live with her bohemian grandparents in rural Northumberland. Molly is furious – her friends abandon her, the food is inedible and her grandmother is doing strange things in the garden at night.
Life takes a new direction when she meets a girl in the woods who appears to be on the run. Martha is from the seventeenth century, and a life lived on the edge of society. She is fleeing from the witch finder and the men who have hurled her mother, Ann Watson, into the dungeons in Newcastle. As Molly’s friendship with Martha grows, Molly reconciles with her true self, develops a love of nature and moves away from her consumerist lifestyle.
However, as Covid strikes, and a local witch hunt takes place, Martha’s is not the only life that is in danger. Molly must stand up for what is right, help heal family rifts and come to the rescue in a moment of peril.
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It’s spring 2020 and fifteen-year-old Molly McFlynn is uprooted from town life by her mam to live with her bohemian grandparents in rural Northumberland. Molly is furious – her friends abandon her, the food is inedible and her grandmother is doing strange things in the garden at night.
Life takes a new direction when she meets a girl in the woods who appears to be on the run. Martha is from the seventeenth century, and a life lived on the edge of society. She is fleeing from the witch finder and the men who have hurled her mother, Ann Watson, into the dungeons in Newcastle. As Molly’s friendship with Martha grows, Molly reconciles with her true self, develops a love of nature and moves away from her consumerist lifestyle.
However, as Covid strikes, and a local witch hunt takes place, Martha’s is not the only life that is in danger. Molly must stand up for what is right, help heal family rifts and come to the rescue in a moment of peril.
The Author:
It’s spring 2020 and fifteen-year-old Molly McFlynn is uprooted from town life by her mam to live with her bohemian grandparents in rural Northumberland. Molly is furious – her friends abandon her, the food is inedible and her grandmother is doing strange things in the garden at night.
Life takes a new direction when she meets a girl in the woods who appears to be on the run. Martha is from the seventeenth century, and a life lived on the edge of society. She is fleeing from the witch finder and the men who have hurled her mother, Ann Watson, into the dungeons in Newcastle. As Molly’s friendship with Martha grows, Molly reconciles with her true self, develops a love of nature and moves away from her consumerist lifestyle.
However, as Covid strikes, and a local witch hunt takes place, Martha’s is not the only life that is in danger. Molly must stand up for what is right, help heal family rifts and come to the rescue in a moment of peril.
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David Goodman
David Goodman
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Book Title: A Reluctant Spy
Genre: Spy Thriller
Format: Hardback, First Edition
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RIGHT PLACE. RIGHT TIME. WRONG MAN.
'In the very top tier of espionage fiction' M. W. CRAVEN
'A twisting, edge-of-your-seat tale of mercenaries, greed, corruption, and espionage' I.S. BERRY
'Ultra-modern espionage, globe-trotting action and high-octane fun - this is Spooks on steroids' TIM GLISTER
Jamie Tulloch is a successful exec at a top tech company, a long way from the tough upbringing that drove him to rise so far and so quickly.
But he has a secret...since the age of 23, he's had a helping hand from the Legend Programme, a secret intelligence effort to prepare impenetrable backstories for undercover agents. Real people, living real lives, willing to hand over their identities for a few weeks in return for a helping hand with plum jobs, influence and access.
When his tap on the shoulder finally comes, it's swiftly followed by the thud of a body. Arriving at a French airport ready to hand over his identity, Jamie finds his primary contact dead, the agent who's supposed to step into his life AWOL and his options for escape non-existent.
Pitched into a deadly mission on hostile territory, Jamie must contend with a rogue Russian general, arms dealers, elite hackers, CIA tac-ops and the discovery of a brewing plan for war. Dangerously out of his depth, he must convince his sceptical mission handler he can do the job of a trained field agent while using his own life story as convincing cover.
Can Jamie play himself well enough to avoid being killed - and to avert a lethal global conflict?
'I was on the edge of my seat the whole time' ANTONY JOHNSTON
'A rip-roaring page-turning keep-you-up-all-night thriller' NICHOLAS BINGE, author of ASCENSION
'Smart, riveting, and eerily prescient' SUNYI DEAN, Sunday Times Bestselling author of THE BOOK EATERS
'A pulse-pounding, twisting thrill-a-minute read that Slow Horses fans are going to absolutely love' ADAM SIMCOX
The Author:
David Goodman is a novelist and short story writer based in East Lothian, Scotland. His debut novel, 'A Reluctant Spy', is out from Headline Books on September 12th 2024. He writes in a range of genres, from spy novels to space operas, and he has been previously published in Clarkesworld and Analog Magazines. He is represented by Harry Illingworth of DHH Literary. Learn more and subscribe to his monthly newsletter at his website.
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Genre: Spy Thriller
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RIGHT PLACE. RIGHT TIME. WRONG MAN.
'In the very top tier of espionage fiction' M. W. CRAVEN
'A twisting, edge-of-your-seat tale of mercenaries, greed, corruption, and espionage' I.S. BERRY
'Ultra-modern espionage, globe-trotting action and high-octane fun - this is Spooks on steroids' TIM GLISTER
Jamie Tulloch is a successful exec at a top tech company, a long way from the tough upbringing that drove him to rise so far and so quickly.
But he has a secret...since the age of 23, he's had a helping hand from the Legend Programme, a secret intelligence effort to prepare impenetrable backstories for undercover agents. Real people, living real lives, willing to hand over their identities for a few weeks in return for a helping hand with plum jobs, influence and access.
When his tap on the shoulder finally comes, it's swiftly followed by the thud of a body. Arriving at a French airport ready to hand over his identity, Jamie finds his primary contact dead, the agent who's supposed to step into his life AWOL and his options for escape non-existent.
Pitched into a deadly mission on hostile territory, Jamie must contend with a rogue Russian general, arms dealers, elite hackers, CIA tac-ops and the discovery of a brewing plan for war. Dangerously out of his depth, he must convince his sceptical mission handler he can do the job of a trained field agent while using his own life story as convincing cover.
Can Jamie play himself well enough to avoid being killed - and to avert a lethal global conflict?
'I was on the edge of my seat the whole time' ANTONY JOHNSTON
'A rip-roaring page-turning keep-you-up-all-night thriller' NICHOLAS BINGE, author of ASCENSION
'Smart, riveting, and eerily prescient' SUNYI DEAN, Sunday Times Bestselling author of THE BOOK EATERS
'A pulse-pounding, twisting thrill-a-minute read that Slow Horses fans are going to absolutely love' ADAM SIMCOX
The Author:
David Goodman is a novelist and short story writer based in East Lothian, Scotland. His debut novel, 'A Reluctant Spy', is out from Headline Books on September 12th 2024. He writes in a range of genres, from spy novels to space operas, and he has been previously published in Clarkesworld and Analog Magazines. He is represented by Harry Illingworth of DHH Literary. Learn more and subscribe to his monthly newsletter at his website.
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Title: The Marriage Season
Genre: Historical Romance
Format: Hardback - First Edition
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‘It’s not a fair world I’m afraid. Beauty or fortune carries the day. You have the beauty and I the fortune, so there’s every chance we’ll succeed’
In Regency England, marriage is everything. For young widow Sybella Lovatt, the time has come to find a suitable husband for her sister and ward Lucie. Male suitors are scarce near their Wiltshire estate, so the sisters resolve to head to London in time for the Season to begin.
Once ensconced at the Mayfair home of Lady Godley, Lucie’s godmother, the whirl of balls, parties and promenades can begin. But the job of finding a husband is fraught with rules and tradition. Jostling for attention are the two lords – the charming and irresistible Freddie Lynwood and the preternaturally handsome Valentine Ravenell, their enigmatic neighbour from Shotten Hall, Mr Brabazon, and the dangerous libertine Lord Rockliffe, with whom the brooding Brabazon is locked in deadly rivalry.
Against the backdrop of glamorous Regency England, Sybella must settle Lucie’s future, protect her own reputation, and resist the disreputable rakes determined to seduce the beautiful widow. As the Season ends, will the sisters have found the rarest of things – a suitable marriage with a love story to match?
Sunday Times bestselling author Jane Dunn brings the Regency period irresistibly to life in a page-turning novel packed with surprising revelations, which all comes wittily, gloriously, good in the end.
The Author:
My first job after university was at British Vogue - I was runner-up in their annual talent competition and lucky enough to be offered a job in the editorial side - it was such a fantastic start to grown-up life and work and I had a ball! Then real life kicked in and as a young mother at home with toddlers I began my career as a biographer. To my amazement my books were well-reviewed and I had one Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller - my examination of the relationship between Elizabeth l and Mary Queen of Scots.
Only recently have I discovered the joy of writing historical fiction, specifically set in the Regency in the time of the Napoleonic Wars. My first novel, 'The Marriage Season', was published 26th January 2023, the second, 'An Unsuitable Heiress', on 22nd May 2023 and my third 'A Scandalous Match' is published 17th January 2024.
My love of this period dates back to my first biography, of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, when I met the poets, Shelley and Byron and the young romantics navigating their way in a dynamic and fast changing world. It delights me that the characters and stories in 'The Marriage Season', and the subsequent novels, all standalone, exist in their historic context with language and mores they would have understood at the time.
My biographies are: 'Moon in Eclipse: A Life of Mary Shelley'; 'A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf'; 'Antonia White: A Life'. 'Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens' spent seven weeks in the top ten of the Sunday Times bestseller list. This was followed by 'Read my Heart: Dorothy Osborne and Sir William Temple, a Love Story in the Age of Revolution' and then 'Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters'.
I am honoured to be an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and live in Berkshire with my husband, the Classicist, Nicholas Ostler, and an elderly rescue whippet.
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Genre: Historical Romance
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‘It’s not a fair world I’m afraid. Beauty or fortune carries the day. You have the beauty and I the fortune, so there’s every chance we’ll succeed’
In Regency England, marriage is everything. For young widow Sybella Lovatt, the time has come to find a suitable husband for her sister and ward Lucie. Male suitors are scarce near their Wiltshire estate, so the sisters resolve to head to London in time for the Season to begin.
Once ensconced at the Mayfair home of Lady Godley, Lucie’s godmother, the whirl of balls, parties and promenades can begin. But the job of finding a husband is fraught with rules and tradition. Jostling for attention are the two lords – the charming and irresistible Freddie Lynwood and the preternaturally handsome Valentine Ravenell, their enigmatic neighbour from Shotten Hall, Mr Brabazon, and the dangerous libertine Lord Rockliffe, with whom the brooding Brabazon is locked in deadly rivalry.
Against the backdrop of glamorous Regency England, Sybella must settle Lucie’s future, protect her own reputation, and resist the disreputable rakes determined to seduce the beautiful widow. As the Season ends, will the sisters have found the rarest of things – a suitable marriage with a love story to match?
Sunday Times bestselling author Jane Dunn brings the Regency period irresistibly to life in a page-turning novel packed with surprising revelations, which all comes wittily, gloriously, good in the end.
The Author:
My first job after university was at British Vogue - I was runner-up in their annual talent competition and lucky enough to be offered a job in the editorial side - it was such a fantastic start to grown-up life and work and I had a ball! Then real life kicked in and as a young mother at home with toddlers I began my career as a biographer. To my amazement my books were well-reviewed and I had one Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller - my examination of the relationship between Elizabeth l and Mary Queen of Scots.
Only recently have I discovered the joy of writing historical fiction, specifically set in the Regency in the time of the Napoleonic Wars. My first novel, 'The Marriage Season', was published 26th January 2023, the second, 'An Unsuitable Heiress', on 22nd May 2023 and my third 'A Scandalous Match' is published 17th January 2024.
My love of this period dates back to my first biography, of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, when I met the poets, Shelley and Byron and the young romantics navigating their way in a dynamic and fast changing world. It delights me that the characters and stories in 'The Marriage Season', and the subsequent novels, all standalone, exist in their historic context with language and mores they would have understood at the time.
My biographies are: 'Moon in Eclipse: A Life of Mary Shelley'; 'A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf'; 'Antonia White: A Life'. 'Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens' spent seven weeks in the top ten of the Sunday Times bestseller list. This was followed by 'Read my Heart: Dorothy Osborne and Sir William Temple, a Love Story in the Age of Revolution' and then 'Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters'.
I am honoured to be an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and live in Berkshire with my husband, the Classicist, Nicholas Ostler, and an elderly rescue whippet.
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Louise Swanson
Louise Swanson
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Title: Lights Out
Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Hardback
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When darkness is everywhere, nowhere is safe...
A state of emergency has been declared in the UK. From now on, at 8pm every night, all electricity cuts out.
The Government promises it's a temporary measure. They promise they are always thinking of your safety.
But for Grace, the darkness is anything but safe.
Someone is coming into her house under its cover every night while she lies in bed upstairs, too terrified to sleep. Someone who knows her past, who knows why she has more reason to fear the dark than most...
And every morning she wakes to a new message from the intruder:
I have you in my sights. Love, The Night
But how can Grace escape, when there's nowhere safe left to hide?
The Author:
Louise Swanson's debut, End of Story, was written during the final lockdown of 2020 - also following a family tragedy, it offered refuge in the fiction she created. The themes of the book - grief, isolation, love of the arts, the power of storytelling - came from a very real place.
Swanson, a mother of two who lives in East Yorkshire with her husband, regularly blogs, talks at events, and is a huge advocate of openly discussing mental health and suicide.
She also writes as Louise Beech. Beech's nine books have won the Best magazine Book of the Year 2019, shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year, longlisted for the Polari Prize, and been a Clare Mackintosh Book Club Pick. Her memoir, Daffodils, was released in audiobook in 2022, and the paperback version, Eighteen Seconds, in April 2023..
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Genre: Crime Thriller
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When darkness is everywhere, nowhere is safe...
A state of emergency has been declared in the UK. From now on, at 8pm every night, all electricity cuts out.
The Government promises it's a temporary measure. They promise they are always thinking of your safety.
But for Grace, the darkness is anything but safe.
Someone is coming into her house under its cover every night while she lies in bed upstairs, too terrified to sleep. Someone who knows her past, who knows why she has more reason to fear the dark than most...
And every morning she wakes to a new message from the intruder:
I have you in my sights. Love, The Night
But how can Grace escape, when there's nowhere safe left to hide?
The Author:
Louise Swanson's debut, End of Story, was written during the final lockdown of 2020 - also following a family tragedy, it offered refuge in the fiction she created. The themes of the book - grief, isolation, love of the arts, the power of storytelling - came from a very real place.
Swanson, a mother of two who lives in East Yorkshire with her husband, regularly blogs, talks at events, and is a huge advocate of openly discussing mental health and suicide.
She also writes as Louise Beech. Beech's nine books have won the Best magazine Book of the Year 2019, shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year, longlisted for the Polari Prize, and been a Clare Mackintosh Book Club Pick. Her memoir, Daffodils, was released in audiobook in 2022, and the paperback version, Eighteen Seconds, in April 2023..
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David Litchfield
David Litchfield
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Book Title: The Dinosaur Next Door
Genre: Picture Book
Format: Hardback/ First Edition
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A beautiful and heartwarming dinosaur story from the author of The Bear and the Piano and The Boy and the Giant
Liz is sure that her next-door neighbor has a secret. He's got a very long neck, clumpy feet, and a strange taste for green leaves . . . he's a dinosaur! Unfortunately, she's not the only one who's noticed. When Mr. Wilson is taken away by scientists, Liz realizes that everyone is free to live the life they wish, and she must help save her friend. A beautiful story about acceptance and letting people live the life they want from the prize-winning and bestselling author of The Bear and the Piano, The Boy and the Giant, and Kid Christmas.
The Author:
David Litchfield is a multi-award winning illustrator and author represented by The Bright Agency. David first started to draw when he was very young, creating Star Wars and Indiana Jones ‘mash up’ comics for his older brother and sister. Since then David’s work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, books and on T-shirts. He has also exhibited his illustrations in both solo and group shows in the U.K, Europe and America. David’s author/illustrator picture books ‘The Bear & The Piano’ ‘Grandad’s Secret Giant’ ‘The Bear, The Piano, The Dog & The Fiddle’ ‘Lights On Cotton Rock’ ‘The Bear, The Piano & Little Bear’s Concert’ and book ‘Kid Christmas: Of The Claus Brothers Toyshop’ are out now. David has also illustrated a number of picture books and novels for authors such as Ross Montgomery, Gregory Maguire and Smritti Halls as well as book covers for David Almond, Kate Dicamillo, Neil Patrick Harris, Chloe Daykin and many more. David lives with his family in Bedford, England
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A beautiful and heartwarming dinosaur story from the author of The Bear and the Piano and The Boy and the Giant
Liz is sure that her next-door neighbor has a secret. He's got a very long neck, clumpy feet, and a strange taste for green leaves . . . he's a dinosaur! Unfortunately, she's not the only one who's noticed. When Mr. Wilson is taken away by scientists, Liz realizes that everyone is free to live the life they wish, and she must help save her friend. A beautiful story about acceptance and letting people live the life they want from the prize-winning and bestselling author of The Bear and the Piano, The Boy and the Giant, and Kid Christmas.
The Author:
David Litchfield is a multi-award winning illustrator and author represented by The Bright Agency. David first started to draw when he was very young, creating Star Wars and Indiana Jones ‘mash up’ comics for his older brother and sister. Since then David’s work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, books and on T-shirts. He has also exhibited his illustrations in both solo and group shows in the U.K, Europe and America. David’s author/illustrator picture books ‘The Bear & The Piano’ ‘Grandad’s Secret Giant’ ‘The Bear, The Piano, The Dog & The Fiddle’ ‘Lights On Cotton Rock’ ‘The Bear, The Piano & Little Bear’s Concert’ and book ‘Kid Christmas: Of The Claus Brothers Toyshop’ are out now. David has also illustrated a number of picture books and novels for authors such as Ross Montgomery, Gregory Maguire and Smritti Halls as well as book covers for David Almond, Kate Dicamillo, Neil Patrick Harris, Chloe Daykin and many more. David lives with his family in Bedford, England
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Claire Douglas
Claire Douglas
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Title: The Wrong Sister
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Format: Hardback, First Edition
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The Book;
You’ve known her all your life . . .
Or have you?
Tasha and sister Alice look alike, but couldn’t be more different.
Tasha’s married with kids, settled near their home town of Bristol.
While Alice travels the world with her husband. Yet each trusts the other with her life.
So when Tasha wants a break,Alice offers to stay in her home with the kids, so her sister can have a holiday. Tasha knows they’re in safe hands.
She couldn’t be more wrong.
The call sends Tasha rushing home.
Alice is in intensive care.
Her husband is dead.
The police are hunting for suspects and motives.
But Tasha can’t think why anyone would hurt her sister.
Then the note arrives, addressed to Tasha:
It was supposed to be you . . .
The Author:
Claire Douglas is the Sunday Times number one bestselling author of eight stand alone novels: The Sisters (2015), Local Girl Missing (2016), Last Seen Alive (2017), Do Not Disturb (2018), Then She Vanishes (2019) and Just Like The Other Girls (2020). Her seventh, The Couple At No 9 (2021) was an Amazon number one bestseller, a number three Sunday Times bestseller and most recently hit number one on Germany's Der Spiegel paperback bestsellers chart. The Girls Who Disappeared was a Richard and Judy book club pick for Autumn 2022 and was an instant number one Sunday Times bestseller. Her books have sold over a million copies in the UK and have been published worldwide.
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Format: Hardback, First Edition
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The Book;
You’ve known her all your life . . .
Or have you?
Tasha and sister Alice look alike, but couldn’t be more different.
Tasha’s married with kids, settled near their home town of Bristol.
While Alice travels the world with her husband. Yet each trusts the other with her life.
So when Tasha wants a break,Alice offers to stay in her home with the kids, so her sister can have a holiday. Tasha knows they’re in safe hands.
She couldn’t be more wrong.
The call sends Tasha rushing home.
Alice is in intensive care.
Her husband is dead.
The police are hunting for suspects and motives.
But Tasha can’t think why anyone would hurt her sister.
Then the note arrives, addressed to Tasha:
It was supposed to be you . . .
The Author:
Claire Douglas is the Sunday Times number one bestselling author of eight stand alone novels: The Sisters (2015), Local Girl Missing (2016), Last Seen Alive (2017), Do Not Disturb (2018), Then She Vanishes (2019) and Just Like The Other Girls (2020). Her seventh, The Couple At No 9 (2021) was an Amazon number one bestseller, a number three Sunday Times bestseller and most recently hit number one on Germany's Der Spiegel paperback bestsellers chart. The Girls Who Disappeared was a Richard and Judy book club pick for Autumn 2022 and was an instant number one Sunday Times bestseller. Her books have sold over a million copies in the UK and have been published worldwide.
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Hazel Prior
Hazel Prior
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Title: Gone with the Penguins
Genre: Humour
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
"Emperor penguins defy the odds, and I shall too.”
Still fiery and feisty at eighty-seven, Veronica McCreedy, the very first Penguin Ambassador, is determined to prove that nothing is impossible when you put your mind to it.
Eileen, Veronica’s ever-patient assistant, is content taking care of other people. But when a new adventure calls, it makes her question everything...
Ten-year-old, penguin-obsessed Daisy can’t wait to be reunited with Mrs McCreedy in her huge house by the sea for the school holidays.
When they discover that the local Sea Life Centre is under threat, the unlikely trio are determined to save it and the penguins that live there.
Inspired by the penguins and fuelled by Darjeeling tea and finger sandwiches, they embark on an epic fundraising walk. But soon, their mission becomes so much more and it might just lead each of them to a new beginning...
The Author:
Hazel Prior is the author of bestselling novels Away With The Penguins, Call Of The Penguins and Ellie And The Harp Maker. Life And Otter Miracles, due to be published this September, is her fourth book. Published by Penguin Random House, all her books are quirky, character-led stories with beautiful settings and strong wildlife themes. Away With The Penguins was chosen by Richard & Judy for their prestigious Book Club as well as for BBC Radio 2’s Book Club. It was the number one bestseller in both ebook and audiobook. Hazel’s books have so far been translated into 18 foreign languages.
Hazel is also a self-taught freelance Celtic harpist. At book events she has a habit of bringing her harp along too, to accompany readings. When she isn’t writing she is often singing with friends or walking in the countryside. She lives in the wilds of Exmoor, where she and her husband are slaves to a huge ginger cat.
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Genre: Humour
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The Book;
"Emperor penguins defy the odds, and I shall too.”
Still fiery and feisty at eighty-seven, Veronica McCreedy, the very first Penguin Ambassador, is determined to prove that nothing is impossible when you put your mind to it.
Eileen, Veronica’s ever-patient assistant, is content taking care of other people. But when a new adventure calls, it makes her question everything...
Ten-year-old, penguin-obsessed Daisy can’t wait to be reunited with Mrs McCreedy in her huge house by the sea for the school holidays.
When they discover that the local Sea Life Centre is under threat, the unlikely trio are determined to save it and the penguins that live there.
Inspired by the penguins and fuelled by Darjeeling tea and finger sandwiches, they embark on an epic fundraising walk. But soon, their mission becomes so much more and it might just lead each of them to a new beginning...
The Author:
Hazel Prior is the author of bestselling novels Away With The Penguins, Call Of The Penguins and Ellie And The Harp Maker. Life And Otter Miracles, due to be published this September, is her fourth book. Published by Penguin Random House, all her books are quirky, character-led stories with beautiful settings and strong wildlife themes. Away With The Penguins was chosen by Richard & Judy for their prestigious Book Club as well as for BBC Radio 2’s Book Club. It was the number one bestseller in both ebook and audiobook. Hazel’s books have so far been translated into 18 foreign languages.
Hazel is also a self-taught freelance Celtic harpist. At book events she has a habit of bringing her harp along too, to accompany readings. When she isn’t writing she is often singing with friends or walking in the countryside. She lives in the wilds of Exmoor, where she and her husband are slaves to a huge ginger cat.
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Jeff Young
Jeff Young
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Title: Wild Twin
Genre: Travel - Education
Format: Paperback
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'To become invisible is what I want most, the dream of disappearing.'
One morning in the 1970s Jeff Young slips out of his parents home with the intention of hitch-hiking to Paris in search of a version of himself he calls the 'wild twin,' a shadow boy, a feral drifter. There he falls headlong into a fever dream of dive hotels, rough sleeping, getting lost, squats, violence, poverty, thieving, illness and madness. Journeying across Europe, from cathedrals to doss houses, from Red Light district to deportation and breakdown, finally Young returns to present-day Liverpool, caring for his dying father in the house he ran away from fifty years earlier, remembering the past with a man who can no longer remember.
From the author of the Costa Prize shortlisted Ghost Town, Wild Twin is a hallucinatory dream book of loss and loneliness, a book of wild images and a love song to cities.
The Author:
Jeff Young is a Liverpool based scriptwriter, poet and lecturer who has written many scripts for theatre, radio and TV. He also works as a writer and performer in collaboration with other artists and musicians to make installations, site specific events and sound art. Recent work includes ‘Bright Phoenix’ for the Liverpool Everyman; City of Lights’, a large-scale sound and light installation for Liverpool Lantern Company; ‘Kaleidoscope of Muses’ for BBC Radio 3. His memoir, ‘Ghost Town, a Liverpool Shadowplay’ was published in March 2020 by Little Toller.
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Genre: Travel - Education
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The Book;
'To become invisible is what I want most, the dream of disappearing.'
One morning in the 1970s Jeff Young slips out of his parents home with the intention of hitch-hiking to Paris in search of a version of himself he calls the 'wild twin,' a shadow boy, a feral drifter. There he falls headlong into a fever dream of dive hotels, rough sleeping, getting lost, squats, violence, poverty, thieving, illness and madness. Journeying across Europe, from cathedrals to doss houses, from Red Light district to deportation and breakdown, finally Young returns to present-day Liverpool, caring for his dying father in the house he ran away from fifty years earlier, remembering the past with a man who can no longer remember.
From the author of the Costa Prize shortlisted Ghost Town, Wild Twin is a hallucinatory dream book of loss and loneliness, a book of wild images and a love song to cities.
The Author:
Jeff Young is a Liverpool based scriptwriter, poet and lecturer who has written many scripts for theatre, radio and TV. He also works as a writer and performer in collaboration with other artists and musicians to make installations, site specific events and sound art. Recent work includes ‘Bright Phoenix’ for the Liverpool Everyman; City of Lights’, a large-scale sound and light installation for Liverpool Lantern Company; ‘Kaleidoscope of Muses’ for BBC Radio 3. His memoir, ‘Ghost Town, a Liverpool Shadowplay’ was published in March 2020 by Little Toller.
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Rhian Tracey
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Book Title: Hide and Seek: a Bletchley Park Mystery
Genre: Mystery/adventure
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The Book;
A thrilling mystery adventure based on true historical events, from the author of I, SPY: A BLETCHLEY PARK MYSTERY.
Before the war starts, Ned is resigned to a future working in the family funeral parlour. Then the covert operations at Bletchley Park begin and his life is transformed.
Ned and his mother leave Bletchley Park on a vital wartime mission into the remote Welsh countryside. Their task: to protect the priceless artwork that is being stored in a slate mine in the village of Manod. As long as its whereabouts are secret, they'll keep the national treasures out of the hands of the enemy.
But when it appears that someone in the village is trying to expose the truth, suspicion turns to the newcomers - Ned, his mother, and a young Jewish refugee, Anni. Can Ned, Anni and their friend Harri prove their loyalty to the mission and keep the secret safe?
The Author:
Rhian Tracey was born in Swansea but moved to the Brecon Beacons where she went to school before leaving Wales for the Cotswolds, where she completed her GCSEs and A-Levels. She moved back to Wales to study English Literature at Aberystwyth then trained in Cheltenham, as a Drama & English teacher.
Rhian wrote her debut novel during her first few years as a teacher in Birmingham.
Rhian works as a SEN teacher, helping neurodiverse students with their studies.
Rhian and her family volunteer with the charity, Medical Detection Dogs, helping to socialise puppies who will go on to be assistance dogs.
Rhian lives with her teenagers and their dog, and is currently working on the bestselling Bletchley Park Mystery series.
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The Book;
A thrilling mystery adventure based on true historical events, from the author of I, SPY: A BLETCHLEY PARK MYSTERY.
Before the war starts, Ned is resigned to a future working in the family funeral parlour. Then the covert operations at Bletchley Park begin and his life is transformed.
Ned and his mother leave Bletchley Park on a vital wartime mission into the remote Welsh countryside. Their task: to protect the priceless artwork that is being stored in a slate mine in the village of Manod. As long as its whereabouts are secret, they'll keep the national treasures out of the hands of the enemy.
But when it appears that someone in the village is trying to expose the truth, suspicion turns to the newcomers - Ned, his mother, and a young Jewish refugee, Anni. Can Ned, Anni and their friend Harri prove their loyalty to the mission and keep the secret safe?
The Author:
Rhian Tracey was born in Swansea but moved to the Brecon Beacons where she went to school before leaving Wales for the Cotswolds, where she completed her GCSEs and A-Levels. She moved back to Wales to study English Literature at Aberystwyth then trained in Cheltenham, as a Drama & English teacher.
Rhian wrote her debut novel during her first few years as a teacher in Birmingham.
Rhian works as a SEN teacher, helping neurodiverse students with their studies.
Rhian and her family volunteer with the charity, Medical Detection Dogs, helping to socialise puppies who will go on to be assistance dogs.
Rhian lives with her teenagers and their dog, and is currently working on the bestselling Bletchley Park Mystery series.
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Steve Cavanagh
Steve Cavanagh
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Book Title: Witness 8
Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Hardback - First Edition
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The Book:
Ruby Johnson is a nanny and maid to wealthy families in Manhattan's West 74th Street.
She knows their routines. Their secrets.
One night, on her way home, Ruby witnesses a neighbour's murder.
She knows the victim. She knows the killer.
She makes an anonymous call to the police and names the murderer.
But Ruby didn't tell the truth...
Because there's something wrong with Ruby Johnson.
Eddie Flynn, conman turned trial lawyer, must defend an innocent man accused of this terrible crime.
As Ruby's deadly game begins, one thing is certain.
It won't be the last murder this witness is involved in...
The Author:
Steve Cavanagh is a critically acclaimed, Sunday Times best-selling author of the Eddie Flynn series which has sold a million copies in the UK. His third novel, The Liar, won the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the year 2018. Thirteen won the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime novel of the year 2019. FIFTY FIFTY was a Richard and Judy Book club choice, and the BBC Between The Covers book club choice. All of his novels have been nominated for major awards. He is a consistent International bestseller.
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Genre: Crime Thriller
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Ruby Johnson is a nanny and maid to wealthy families in Manhattan's West 74th Street.
She knows their routines. Their secrets.
One night, on her way home, Ruby witnesses a neighbour's murder.
She knows the victim. She knows the killer.
She makes an anonymous call to the police and names the murderer.
But Ruby didn't tell the truth...
Because there's something wrong with Ruby Johnson.
Eddie Flynn, conman turned trial lawyer, must defend an innocent man accused of this terrible crime.
As Ruby's deadly game begins, one thing is certain.
It won't be the last murder this witness is involved in...
The Author:
Steve Cavanagh is a critically acclaimed, Sunday Times best-selling author of the Eddie Flynn series which has sold a million copies in the UK. His third novel, The Liar, won the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the year 2018. Thirteen won the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime novel of the year 2019. FIFTY FIFTY was a Richard and Judy Book club choice, and the BBC Between The Covers book club choice. All of his novels have been nominated for major awards. He is a consistent International bestseller.
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Adrienne Chinn
Adrienne Chinn
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Three Book Special
Book 1 Title: Love in a Time of War
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
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Three sisters, the Great War, the end of innocence...
In 1913, in a quiet corner of London, the three Fry sisters are coming of age, dreaming of all the possibilities the bright future offers. But when war erupts their innocence is shattered and a new era of uncertainty begins.
Cecelia loves Max but his soldier’s uniform is German, not British, and suddenly the one man she loves is the one man she can’t have.
Jessie enlists in the army as a nurse and finally finds the adventure she’s craved when she’s sent to Gallipoli and Egypt, but it comes with an unimaginable cost.
Etta elopes to Capri with her Italian love, Carlo, but though her growing bump is real, her marriage certificate is a lie.
As the three sisters embark on journeys they never could have imagined, their mother Christina worries about the harsh new realities they face, and what their exposure to the wider world means for the secrets she’s been keeping…
Book 2 Title: The Paris Sister
Genre: Historical Fiction
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Three sisters separated by distance but bound by love.
The Fry sisters enter the Roaring Twenties forever changed by their experiences during the Great War. Now, as each of their lives unfold in different corners of the globe, they come to realise that the most important bond is that of family.
Desperate to save the man she loves, Etta leaves behind the life she has made for herself in Capri and enters the decadent world of Parisian society with all its secrets and scandals.
Celie’s new life on the Canadian prairies brings mixed blessings – a daughter to adore, but a husband who isn’t the man who holds her heart.
In Egypt, Jessie’s world is forever changed by a devastating loss.
And back in London – where each of their adventures began – their mother Christina watches as the pieces of her carefully orchestrated existence begin to shatter…with implications for them all…
Book 3 Title: In the Shadow of War
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
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One war may be over, but their fight for survival continues…
For sisters Etta, Jessie and Celie Fry, the Great War and the hardships of the years that followed have taken a heavy toll.
Determined to leave her painful past behind her, Etta heads to the bright lights of Hollywood whilst Jessie, determined to train as a doctor and use her skills to help others, is hampered by the men who dominate her profession. On the vast, empty plains of the Canadian prairies, Celie and her small family stand on the brink of losing everything.
As whispers of a new war make their way to each sister, each must face the possibility of the unthinkable happening again…
Author Bio:
Adrienne Chinn was born in Grand Falls, Newfoundland, grew up in Quebec, and eventually made her way to London, England after a career as a journalist. In England she worked as a TV and film researcher before embarking on a career as an interior designer, lecturer, and writer. Her second novel, The English Wife -- a timeslip story set in World War II England and contemporary Newfoundland -- was published in June 2020 and has become an international bestseller. She is currently working on the final book in the 4-book series, The Three Fry Sisters, as well as a standalone Tudor timeslip novel.
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Book 1 Title: Love in a Time of War
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: Yes
Postage & Packaging: Free
Bids Accepted: UK
Book Blurb:
Three sisters, the Great War, the end of innocence...
In 1913, in a quiet corner of London, the three Fry sisters are coming of age, dreaming of all the possibilities the bright future offers. But when war erupts their innocence is shattered and a new era of uncertainty begins.
Cecelia loves Max but his soldier’s uniform is German, not British, and suddenly the one man she loves is the one man she can’t have.
Jessie enlists in the army as a nurse and finally finds the adventure she’s craved when she’s sent to Gallipoli and Egypt, but it comes with an unimaginable cost.
Etta elopes to Capri with her Italian love, Carlo, but though her growing bump is real, her marriage certificate is a lie.
As the three sisters embark on journeys they never could have imagined, their mother Christina worries about the harsh new realities they face, and what their exposure to the wider world means for the secrets she’s been keeping…
Book 2 Title: The Paris Sister
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: Yes
Postage & Packaging: Free
Bids Accepted: UK
Three sisters separated by distance but bound by love.
The Fry sisters enter the Roaring Twenties forever changed by their experiences during the Great War. Now, as each of their lives unfold in different corners of the globe, they come to realise that the most important bond is that of family.
Desperate to save the man she loves, Etta leaves behind the life she has made for herself in Capri and enters the decadent world of Parisian society with all its secrets and scandals.
Celie’s new life on the Canadian prairies brings mixed blessings – a daughter to adore, but a husband who isn’t the man who holds her heart.
In Egypt, Jessie’s world is forever changed by a devastating loss.
And back in London – where each of their adventures began – their mother Christina watches as the pieces of her carefully orchestrated existence begin to shatter…with implications for them all…
Book 3 Title: In the Shadow of War
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: Yes
Postage & Packaging: Free
Bids Accepted: UK
One war may be over, but their fight for survival continues…
For sisters Etta, Jessie and Celie Fry, the Great War and the hardships of the years that followed have taken a heavy toll.
Determined to leave her painful past behind her, Etta heads to the bright lights of Hollywood whilst Jessie, determined to train as a doctor and use her skills to help others, is hampered by the men who dominate her profession. On the vast, empty plains of the Canadian prairies, Celie and her small family stand on the brink of losing everything.
As whispers of a new war make their way to each sister, each must face the possibility of the unthinkable happening again…
Author Bio:
Adrienne Chinn was born in Grand Falls, Newfoundland, grew up in Quebec, and eventually made her way to London, England after a career as a journalist. In England she worked as a TV and film researcher before embarking on a career as an interior designer, lecturer, and writer. Her second novel, The English Wife -- a timeslip story set in World War II England and contemporary Newfoundland -- was published in June 2020 and has become an international bestseller. She is currently working on the final book in the 4-book series, The Three Fry Sisters, as well as a standalone Tudor timeslip novel.
Website: https://www.adrienne-chinn.co.uk
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Liz Fenwick
Liz Fenwick
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Title: The Secret Shore
Genre: Historical Fiction
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The next gloriously uplifting, escapist, historical read from ‘the queen of the contemporary Cornish novel’ (Guardian)
As one of the Navy's most skilled mapmakers, Merry knows that lives depend on her work in the War Office. But when a family crisis draws her back to her beloved Cornwall, she finds herself working alongside Jake, an enigmatic American officer, on secret operations spanning the rugged coasts of Cornwall and Brittany which she knows so well.
As rumours and suspicion swirl around her family, Merry is increasingly drawn to Jake, despite the defences she's built around her heart. It's a dangerous time to fall in love; the tides of war are rising and there is everything to lose…
The award-winning author Liz Fenwick returns with a glorious, sweeping novel full of intrigue and passion.
The Author:
Novelist, slave to two cats and dreamer turned doer....
Award winning author of The Cornish House, A Cornish Affair, A Cornish Stranger, Under A Cornish Sky, The Returning Tide, One Cornish Summer, The Path to the Sea, The River Between Us, The Secret Shore and the novellas A Cornish Christmas Carol and Delivering Christmas. She lives in Cornwall with her husband and spends her time wrangling two mad cats, plot walking, reading and procrastinating on social media.
The paperback of The Secret Shore is out now and she’s writing her next novel.
Her books are available in Dutch, Germany, Portuguese, French, Estonia, Norwegian, Danish, Turkish, Swedish, Latvian, Serbian, Czech, Hungarian, Italian and Finnish.
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Genre: Historical Fiction
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The Book;
The next gloriously uplifting, escapist, historical read from ‘the queen of the contemporary Cornish novel’ (Guardian)
As one of the Navy's most skilled mapmakers, Merry knows that lives depend on her work in the War Office. But when a family crisis draws her back to her beloved Cornwall, she finds herself working alongside Jake, an enigmatic American officer, on secret operations spanning the rugged coasts of Cornwall and Brittany which she knows so well.
As rumours and suspicion swirl around her family, Merry is increasingly drawn to Jake, despite the defences she's built around her heart. It's a dangerous time to fall in love; the tides of war are rising and there is everything to lose…
The award-winning author Liz Fenwick returns with a glorious, sweeping novel full of intrigue and passion.
The Author:
Novelist, slave to two cats and dreamer turned doer....
Award winning author of The Cornish House, A Cornish Affair, A Cornish Stranger, Under A Cornish Sky, The Returning Tide, One Cornish Summer, The Path to the Sea, The River Between Us, The Secret Shore and the novellas A Cornish Christmas Carol and Delivering Christmas. She lives in Cornwall with her husband and spends her time wrangling two mad cats, plot walking, reading and procrastinating on social media.
The paperback of The Secret Shore is out now and she’s writing her next novel.
Her books are available in Dutch, Germany, Portuguese, French, Estonia, Norwegian, Danish, Turkish, Swedish, Latvian, Serbian, Czech, Hungarian, Italian and Finnish.
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Kate Galley
Kate Galley
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Three Book Bundle:
Old Girls Behaving Badly
The Golden Girls’ Road Trip
The Second Chance Holiday Club
Genre: Uplit
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Book 1 - Old Girls Behaving Badly
Gina Knight is looking forward to the prospect of retirement with her husband of forty-three years. Until, to her surprise, said husband decides he needs to 'find himself' – alone – and disappears to Santa Fe, leaving a Dear John letter in his wake.
Now Gina needs a new role in life, not to mention somewhere to live, so she applies for the position of Companion to elderly Dorothy Reed. At eighty-nine, ‘Dot’ needs someone to help her around the house – or at least, her family seems to think so. Her companion’s first role would be to accompany Dot for a week-long extravagant wedding party.
But when Gina arrives at the large Norfolk estate where the wedding will take place, she quickly discovers Dot has an ulterior motive for hiring her. While the other guests are busy sipping champagne and playing croquet, Dot needs Georgina to help her solve a mystery – about a missing painting, which she believes is hidden somewhere in the house.
Because, after all, who would suspect two old ladies of getting up to mischief?
Book 2 - The Golden Girls’ Road Trip
Constance Fitzgerald may be approaching 70, but she's never been one for putting down roots. She's spent her life untethered and free, but when she finds herself newly engaged and a soon-to-be grandmother, Constance is forced to accept it may be time – perhaps – to settle down. Until a chance encounter throws open a window to her past, and Constance decides to head to the Highlands to find an old friend...
Book 3 - The Second Chance Holiday Club
Evelyn Pringle isn't the sort to make rash decisions. Or any decisions, really – she's always left that sort of thing up to her husband. But he's been found dead, wearing his best suit, with a diamond ring in his pocket that doesn't fit her. When Evelyn finds a letter addressed to a woman on the Isle of Wight, she decides to deliver it. By hand.
So begins a very unusual holiday, and an adventure no one could have predicted – least of all Evelyn herself. With the help of some unexpected new friends, and a little effort on her part, Evelyn discovers that it's never too late to have a second chance at life and forge friendships that are well-worth living for.
The Author:
Kate Galley writes UpLit and Bookclub fiction full of heart and humour. The older generation are at the centre of her stories and are usually wrapped up in a mystery.
She lives with her family in Buckinghamshire and works part time as a mobile hairdresser in the surrounding Chiltern villages.
In her spare time she crochets blankets, knits jumpers and also disappears into her workshop to play with kiln formed glass.
Kate is the author of The Second Chance Holiday Club – which has been optioned for TV – and The Golden Girls' Road Trip. Old Girls Behaving Badly is the first book in a new series introducing Gina Knight.
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Old Girls Behaving Badly
The Golden Girls’ Road Trip
The Second Chance Holiday Club
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Format: Paperbacks
Signed: Yes, dedication available
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Book 1 - Old Girls Behaving Badly
Gina Knight is looking forward to the prospect of retirement with her husband of forty-three years. Until, to her surprise, said husband decides he needs to 'find himself' – alone – and disappears to Santa Fe, leaving a Dear John letter in his wake.
Now Gina needs a new role in life, not to mention somewhere to live, so she applies for the position of Companion to elderly Dorothy Reed. At eighty-nine, ‘Dot’ needs someone to help her around the house – or at least, her family seems to think so. Her companion’s first role would be to accompany Dot for a week-long extravagant wedding party.
But when Gina arrives at the large Norfolk estate where the wedding will take place, she quickly discovers Dot has an ulterior motive for hiring her. While the other guests are busy sipping champagne and playing croquet, Dot needs Georgina to help her solve a mystery – about a missing painting, which she believes is hidden somewhere in the house.
Because, after all, who would suspect two old ladies of getting up to mischief?
Book 2 - The Golden Girls’ Road Trip
Constance Fitzgerald may be approaching 70, but she's never been one for putting down roots. She's spent her life untethered and free, but when she finds herself newly engaged and a soon-to-be grandmother, Constance is forced to accept it may be time – perhaps – to settle down. Until a chance encounter throws open a window to her past, and Constance decides to head to the Highlands to find an old friend...
Book 3 - The Second Chance Holiday Club
Evelyn Pringle isn't the sort to make rash decisions. Or any decisions, really – she's always left that sort of thing up to her husband. But he's been found dead, wearing his best suit, with a diamond ring in his pocket that doesn't fit her. When Evelyn finds a letter addressed to a woman on the Isle of Wight, she decides to deliver it. By hand.
So begins a very unusual holiday, and an adventure no one could have predicted – least of all Evelyn herself. With the help of some unexpected new friends, and a little effort on her part, Evelyn discovers that it's never too late to have a second chance at life and forge friendships that are well-worth living for.
The Author:
Kate Galley writes UpLit and Bookclub fiction full of heart and humour. The older generation are at the centre of her stories and are usually wrapped up in a mystery.
She lives with her family in Buckinghamshire and works part time as a mobile hairdresser in the surrounding Chiltern villages.
In her spare time she crochets blankets, knits jumpers and also disappears into her workshop to play with kiln formed glass.
Kate is the author of The Second Chance Holiday Club – which has been optioned for TV – and The Golden Girls' Road Trip. Old Girls Behaving Badly is the first book in a new series introducing Gina Knight.
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Samantha Tonge
Samantha Tonge
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Title: The Promise Of Tomorrow
Genre: Contemporary - Women's Fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Elena Swan hasn’t done everything yet. She’s not brave like her daredevil friend Rory. She’s never been to Paris. She always wanted to skydive too. She hasn’t even fallen in love.
She always hoped she had her whole lifetime to fulfil these dreams. But then a series of events happen, each putting her life in terrible danger, and Elena remembers…
The promise she made – all those years ago, when her mother was so ill – when she spoke to a stranger in the woods. A promise that would keep her mother safe, but put Elena’s own life at risk, instead, when she grew up and turned thirty.
Elena had put the promise to the back of her mind, over the years. But she’s twenty-nine now, and suddenly she’s realising the possibility that her days could be numbered.
Without the promise of tomorrow, can Elena fulfil all her dreams before fate comes for her? Even her dream of falling in love…?
A completely powerful, uplifting and romantic story, about friendship, love and fate; guaranteed to have readers reaching for the tissues!
The Author:
Samantha Tonge lives in Manchester UK with her husband and children. She studied German and French at university and has worked abroad, including a stint at Disneyland Paris. She has travelled widely.
Samantha has sold many dozens of short stories to women’s magazines. She is represented by Darley Anderson Agency & Associates. In 2015 her summer novel, Game of Scones, hit #5 in the UK Kindle chart and won the Love Stories Awards Best Romantic Ebook category. In 2020 one of her novels won the RNA's Jackie Collins Romantic Thriller Award. Currently Samantha writes uplifting, emotional women's fiction for Boldwood Books.
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Genre: Contemporary - Women's Fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Elena Swan hasn’t done everything yet. She’s not brave like her daredevil friend Rory. She’s never been to Paris. She always wanted to skydive too. She hasn’t even fallen in love.
She always hoped she had her whole lifetime to fulfil these dreams. But then a series of events happen, each putting her life in terrible danger, and Elena remembers…
The promise she made – all those years ago, when her mother was so ill – when she spoke to a stranger in the woods. A promise that would keep her mother safe, but put Elena’s own life at risk, instead, when she grew up and turned thirty.
Elena had put the promise to the back of her mind, over the years. But she’s twenty-nine now, and suddenly she’s realising the possibility that her days could be numbered.
Without the promise of tomorrow, can Elena fulfil all her dreams before fate comes for her? Even her dream of falling in love…?
A completely powerful, uplifting and romantic story, about friendship, love and fate; guaranteed to have readers reaching for the tissues!
The Author:
Samantha Tonge lives in Manchester UK with her husband and children. She studied German and French at university and has worked abroad, including a stint at Disneyland Paris. She has travelled widely.
Samantha has sold many dozens of short stories to women’s magazines. She is represented by Darley Anderson Agency & Associates. In 2015 her summer novel, Game of Scones, hit #5 in the UK Kindle chart and won the Love Stories Awards Best Romantic Ebook category. In 2020 one of her novels won the RNA's Jackie Collins Romantic Thriller Award. Currently Samantha writes uplifting, emotional women's fiction for Boldwood Books.
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Title 1: You’d Look Better as a Ghost
Genre: Crime Thriller - Humour
Format: Paperback US Edition
Title 2: The Dead Friend Project
Genre: Crime Thriller - Humour
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Title 1: You’d Look Better as a Ghost
'A welcome addition to darkly humorous female serial killer novels' - GUARDIAN
'Utterly unique, an absolute rollercoaster of a read' - DAILY MAIL
'Splendidly funny and buoyant' - DAILY EXPRESS
I have a gift. I see people as ghosts before they die.
Of course, it helps that I'm the one killing them.
The night after her father's funeral, Claire meets Lucas in a bar. Lucas doesn't know it, but it's not a chance meeting. One thoughtless mistyped email has put him in the crosshairs of an extremely put-out serial killer. But even before they make eye contact, before Claire lets him buy her a drink, before she takes him home and carves him up into little pieces, something about that night is very wrong. Because someone is watching Claire. Someone who is about to discover her murderous little hobby.
The thing is, it's not sensible to tangle with a part-time serial killer, even one who is distracted by attending a weekly bereavement support group and trying to get her art career off the ground. Claire will do anything to keep her secret hidden - not to mention the bodies buried in her garden. Let the games begin...
Title 2: The Dead Friend Project
Everyone needs a hobby...
Things haven't been going well for Beth. Her husband has left her for one of her friends. Her fellow school mums judge her for swearing too much and not shifting the baby weight. And now she's stuck in A&E after her son fell off the climbing wall on the first day of school.
In fact, things haven't been going well for Beth since Charlotte died - her best friend, a favourite at the school pick-ups and the only person to ever run an interesting PTA meeting. But after being hit by a car while on an ill-timed evening jog, Charlotte is no longer there to help Beth pick up the pieces of her increasingly difficult life.
That is, until Beth discovers that Charlotte left her toddler alone in the house during that fatal run. The Charlotte she knew would never do something so irresponsible, and suddenly Beth is questioning whether Charlotte's death was really an accident. With a newfound purpose and a glass of wine in hand, it's time for Beth to uncover what really happened to her best friend. And what better place to start than the circle of chatty school mums, who can't be as perfect as they pretend. But which of them is hiding something? Beth's determined to find out. Once she's put the kids to bed, of course...
The Author:
Joanna Wallace studied Law at Birmingham University before working as a commercial litigation solicitor in London. She now runs a family business and lives in Buckinghamshire with her husband, four children and dog. She was partly inspired to write You'd Look Better as a Ghost, her debut, following her father's diagnosis of early onset dementia. Joanna's second novel, The Dead Friend Project, will be published in 2024.
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Genre: Crime Thriller - Humour
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Title 2: The Dead Friend Project
Genre: Crime Thriller - Humour
Format: Hardback - First Edition
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Title 1: You’d Look Better as a Ghost
'A welcome addition to darkly humorous female serial killer novels' - GUARDIAN
'Utterly unique, an absolute rollercoaster of a read' - DAILY MAIL
'Splendidly funny and buoyant' - DAILY EXPRESS
I have a gift. I see people as ghosts before they die.
Of course, it helps that I'm the one killing them.
The night after her father's funeral, Claire meets Lucas in a bar. Lucas doesn't know it, but it's not a chance meeting. One thoughtless mistyped email has put him in the crosshairs of an extremely put-out serial killer. But even before they make eye contact, before Claire lets him buy her a drink, before she takes him home and carves him up into little pieces, something about that night is very wrong. Because someone is watching Claire. Someone who is about to discover her murderous little hobby.
The thing is, it's not sensible to tangle with a part-time serial killer, even one who is distracted by attending a weekly bereavement support group and trying to get her art career off the ground. Claire will do anything to keep her secret hidden - not to mention the bodies buried in her garden. Let the games begin...
Title 2: The Dead Friend Project
Everyone needs a hobby...
Things haven't been going well for Beth. Her husband has left her for one of her friends. Her fellow school mums judge her for swearing too much and not shifting the baby weight. And now she's stuck in A&E after her son fell off the climbing wall on the first day of school.
In fact, things haven't been going well for Beth since Charlotte died - her best friend, a favourite at the school pick-ups and the only person to ever run an interesting PTA meeting. But after being hit by a car while on an ill-timed evening jog, Charlotte is no longer there to help Beth pick up the pieces of her increasingly difficult life.
That is, until Beth discovers that Charlotte left her toddler alone in the house during that fatal run. The Charlotte she knew would never do something so irresponsible, and suddenly Beth is questioning whether Charlotte's death was really an accident. With a newfound purpose and a glass of wine in hand, it's time for Beth to uncover what really happened to her best friend. And what better place to start than the circle of chatty school mums, who can't be as perfect as they pretend. But which of them is hiding something? Beth's determined to find out. Once she's put the kids to bed, of course...
The Author:
Joanna Wallace studied Law at Birmingham University before working as a commercial litigation solicitor in London. She now runs a family business and lives in Buckinghamshire with her husband, four children and dog. She was partly inspired to write You'd Look Better as a Ghost, her debut, following her father's diagnosis of early onset dementia. Joanna's second novel, The Dead Friend Project, will be published in 2024.
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Julie Mae Cohen
Julie Mae Cohen
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Title: Eat Slay Love
Genre: Crime Thriller - Dark Humour
Format: Hardback - First Edition
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The Book;
A good friend will help you move on.
A best friend will help you move the body . . .
The razor-sharp, hilarious new 2024 black comedy thriller from the bestselling author of Bad Men - now available to pre-order in hardback, eBook and audiobook.
Marina is a divorced mother of three preschoolers.
Lilah is a shy and lonely librarian.
Opal is a broke post-menopausal fitness guru.
These three women have absolutely nothing in common - except for the charming, attractive man who's been
lying to all of them. Now that he's tied up in a basement, they may just have something to bond over.
But how far is each willing to go to get revenge? As this shared secret brings them closer together, other, deadlier problems come crashing into their lives. Can they put their differences aside to save themselves - and each other?
The Author:
Julie Mae Cohen is the darker, funnier side of Julie Cohen - an award-winning, million-copy bestselling author. She is an Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Reading and a Vice President of the Romantic Novelists' Association and a founder of their Rainbow Chapter for LGBTQ+ writers. She lives in Berkshire, UK with her teenager and a terrier of dubious origin.
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The Book;
A good friend will help you move on.
A best friend will help you move the body . . .
The razor-sharp, hilarious new 2024 black comedy thriller from the bestselling author of Bad Men - now available to pre-order in hardback, eBook and audiobook.
Marina is a divorced mother of three preschoolers.
Lilah is a shy and lonely librarian.
Opal is a broke post-menopausal fitness guru.
These three women have absolutely nothing in common - except for the charming, attractive man who's been
lying to all of them. Now that he's tied up in a basement, they may just have something to bond over.
But how far is each willing to go to get revenge? As this shared secret brings them closer together, other, deadlier problems come crashing into their lives. Can they put their differences aside to save themselves - and each other?
The Author:
Julie Mae Cohen is the darker, funnier side of Julie Cohen - an award-winning, million-copy bestselling author. She is an Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Reading and a Vice President of the Romantic Novelists' Association and a founder of their Rainbow Chapter for LGBTQ+ writers. She lives in Berkshire, UK with her teenager and a terrier of dubious origin.
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Book Title: No Son of Mine
Genre: Psychological Thriller
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The Book:
A heart-stopping new psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell.
They say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree…
When her fifteen-year-old son Milo goes off the rails, Alex Harding is terrified she’s passed on her abusive father’s ‘bad’ genes. When she then makes the shocking discovery that her estranged son, Samuel, who she gave up for adoption as a baby, has been accused of murder, she becomes even more convinced nature not nurture is the cause.
The only way Alex sees to help Milo, is to get to know Samuel and understand the crime that he has been accused of. But it isn’t long before Alex starts to wonder if she has made the biggest mistake of her life by inviting this man she barely knows into her family.
As Alex becomes increasingly obsessed with Samuel, it gets harder to know who she can trust and who is lying to her. But if she can’t uncover the truth, she risks losing everything and everyone she loves…
You won’t be able to put down this totally gripping new psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Claire Douglas and Adele Parks.
The Author:
C L Swatman has been a writer for more than 25 years. Her debut psychological thriller, No Son of Mine, will be released in September 2024. She also writes commercial women's fiction as Clare Swatman.
Clare lives in Hertfordshire in the UK with her husband and two boys. Even the cat is male, which means she's destined to be outnumbered forever.
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Genre: Psychological Thriller
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The Book:
A heart-stopping new psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell.
They say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree…
When her fifteen-year-old son Milo goes off the rails, Alex Harding is terrified she’s passed on her abusive father’s ‘bad’ genes. When she then makes the shocking discovery that her estranged son, Samuel, who she gave up for adoption as a baby, has been accused of murder, she becomes even more convinced nature not nurture is the cause.
The only way Alex sees to help Milo, is to get to know Samuel and understand the crime that he has been accused of. But it isn’t long before Alex starts to wonder if she has made the biggest mistake of her life by inviting this man she barely knows into her family.
As Alex becomes increasingly obsessed with Samuel, it gets harder to know who she can trust and who is lying to her. But if she can’t uncover the truth, she risks losing everything and everyone she loves…
You won’t be able to put down this totally gripping new psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Claire Douglas and Adele Parks.
The Author:
C L Swatman has been a writer for more than 25 years. Her debut psychological thriller, No Son of Mine, will be released in September 2024. She also writes commercial women's fiction as Clare Swatman.
Clare lives in Hertfordshire in the UK with her husband and two boys. Even the cat is male, which means she's destined to be outnumbered forever.
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Book Title: Last Christmas
Genre: Women’s Fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
‘Bea was always early for everything. Even, it turned out, when she was running away from her life.’
As Christmas approaches, Bea Preston has a choice.
Looking up at the departures board in Heathrow airport, her flight to New York boarding soon, she knows that getting on that plane changes everything. Her life in London has grown stale, her relationship with boyfriend Dom has run its course, and New York has always been her dream. But it’s a risk – she’ll miss her parents, her friends, her job.
What if Bea could live both lives? In one she goes back home for Christmas, and in another she heads to the Big Apple. Would her fate remain the same, or can one decision really change everything?
In a grand sliding-doors love story that spans oceans, years and lives, Clare Swatman’s unforgettable tale of fate and friendship is perfect for all fans of Jojo Moyes, Beth Moran and Ruth Jones.
The Author:
Clare Swatman is the author of nine women's fiction novels. Her latest, Last Christmas, is a sliding doors love story set in New York and London in the early 2000s. Before writing books, Clare spent 20 years writing for women's magazines in the UK.
Her next book will be her debut psychological thriller, No Son of Mine, under the name CL Swatman. It will be out on 1st December. Her next Clare Swatman book, as yet untitled, is out in April 2025.
Clare lives in Hertfordshire in the UK with her husband and two boys. Even the cat is male, which means she's destined to be outnumbered forever.
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‘Bea was always early for everything. Even, it turned out, when she was running away from her life.’
As Christmas approaches, Bea Preston has a choice.
Looking up at the departures board in Heathrow airport, her flight to New York boarding soon, she knows that getting on that plane changes everything. Her life in London has grown stale, her relationship with boyfriend Dom has run its course, and New York has always been her dream. But it’s a risk – she’ll miss her parents, her friends, her job.
What if Bea could live both lives? In one she goes back home for Christmas, and in another she heads to the Big Apple. Would her fate remain the same, or can one decision really change everything?
In a grand sliding-doors love story that spans oceans, years and lives, Clare Swatman’s unforgettable tale of fate and friendship is perfect for all fans of Jojo Moyes, Beth Moran and Ruth Jones.
The Author:
Clare Swatman is the author of nine women's fiction novels. Her latest, Last Christmas, is a sliding doors love story set in New York and London in the early 2000s. Before writing books, Clare spent 20 years writing for women's magazines in the UK.
Her next book will be her debut psychological thriller, No Son of Mine, under the name CL Swatman. It will be out on 1st December. Her next Clare Swatman book, as yet untitled, is out in April 2025.
Clare lives in Hertfordshire in the UK with her husband and two boys. Even the cat is male, which means she's destined to be outnumbered forever.
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Kay Brelland
Kay Brelland
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Title 1: A Sister’s Heartbreak
Genre: Historical Fiction -Based On True Events
Format: Hardback
Title 2: East End Orphan
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Book 1; A Sister’s Heartbreak
She is her family's only hope.
1916. East London. When sixteen-year-old Clover Cooper's mother, Iris, calls her home from work one day, the last thing Clover expects is to find that her mother has given birth to another baby. After all, Clover's unpleasant father, Sidney, has been in France for longer than nine months. Banned from questions, and bound to secrecy by her beloved mother, Clover leaves her infant brother at a nunnery for safekeeping, despite her heartbreak at parting with him.
But when Sidney unexpectedly returns from the Western Front, life at home suddenly feels more dangerous than a battlefield. Strained by keeping such a secret, Clover turns to her fiercely protective grandmother, Elsie, for advice. But Elsie has her own life-changing decision to make. Then tragedy strikes, and Clover will have to find a way to keep her family together and safeguard all that she holds dear.
Book 2: East End Orphan
Abandoned twice, can he find a way to trust again?
When orphaned Jake Harding is sent away from his adoptive home aged just seven, he does not understand why - especially as his adopted brother, Toby, is kept by their mother.
Forced to make his own way in the world, Jake falls in with a gang of petty thieves, who make their living lifting valuables from those who are better off. At sixteen, he crosses paths with the charismatic Johnny Cooper and his nemesis George Payne, and risks making an enemy when he attracts the attention of George's beautiful daughter Rebecca.
Johnny Cooper is a rogue with a heart of gold. He senses a kindred spirit in Jake and a talent he could put to good use if Jake worked for him. However, Jake is determined to make something of himself so that no one can ever reject him again. But as he forges his own path, he cannot escape the reach of Johnny, George and their network of cronies, all of which will have far reaching consequences for Jake's future in ways he could never have imagined.
The Author:
Kay Brellend was born in north London and her first saga, based in the early twentieth century slums of Islington, was published in 2011. The opening novel in the Bittersweet Legacy trilogy came out in 2017. Published by Piatkus, this series was set in a London sweet factory and on the Somme battlefields. Kay’s Workhouse to War trilogy was also set during the Great War, beginning in the Whitechapel Union Workhouse and moving to the bustling markets of East London, between 1914 and 1918. Now she’s beginning a new trilogy with A Daughter’s Heartbreak, inspired by true wartime events in the Silvertown area of East London. Kay writes with all the heart, grit and personal connection that distinguishes her as one of the most exciting voices in the saga genre.
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Genre: Historical Fiction -Based On True Events
Format: Hardback
Title 2: East End Orphan
Genre: Historical Fiction -Based On True Events
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Book 1; A Sister’s Heartbreak
She is her family's only hope.
1916. East London. When sixteen-year-old Clover Cooper's mother, Iris, calls her home from work one day, the last thing Clover expects is to find that her mother has given birth to another baby. After all, Clover's unpleasant father, Sidney, has been in France for longer than nine months. Banned from questions, and bound to secrecy by her beloved mother, Clover leaves her infant brother at a nunnery for safekeeping, despite her heartbreak at parting with him.
But when Sidney unexpectedly returns from the Western Front, life at home suddenly feels more dangerous than a battlefield. Strained by keeping such a secret, Clover turns to her fiercely protective grandmother, Elsie, for advice. But Elsie has her own life-changing decision to make. Then tragedy strikes, and Clover will have to find a way to keep her family together and safeguard all that she holds dear.
Book 2: East End Orphan
Abandoned twice, can he find a way to trust again?
When orphaned Jake Harding is sent away from his adoptive home aged just seven, he does not understand why - especially as his adopted brother, Toby, is kept by their mother.
Forced to make his own way in the world, Jake falls in with a gang of petty thieves, who make their living lifting valuables from those who are better off. At sixteen, he crosses paths with the charismatic Johnny Cooper and his nemesis George Payne, and risks making an enemy when he attracts the attention of George's beautiful daughter Rebecca.
Johnny Cooper is a rogue with a heart of gold. He senses a kindred spirit in Jake and a talent he could put to good use if Jake worked for him. However, Jake is determined to make something of himself so that no one can ever reject him again. But as he forges his own path, he cannot escape the reach of Johnny, George and their network of cronies, all of which will have far reaching consequences for Jake's future in ways he could never have imagined.
The Author:
Kay Brellend was born in north London and her first saga, based in the early twentieth century slums of Islington, was published in 2011. The opening novel in the Bittersweet Legacy trilogy came out in 2017. Published by Piatkus, this series was set in a London sweet factory and on the Somme battlefields. Kay’s Workhouse to War trilogy was also set during the Great War, beginning in the Whitechapel Union Workhouse and moving to the bustling markets of East London, between 1914 and 1918. Now she’s beginning a new trilogy with A Daughter’s Heartbreak, inspired by true wartime events in the Silvertown area of East London. Kay writes with all the heart, grit and personal connection that distinguishes her as one of the most exciting voices in the saga genre.
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Caroline Montague
Caroline Montague
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Title: The Pieces of Us
Genre: Historical Fiction - Romance
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The Book;
Marina and Hugh were once madly in love. But after the loss of their beautiful little daughter, grief has created a distance between them that feels impossible to bridge. Marina knows leaving Italy is the only way they will be able to move on, but Thorncliffe Hall, Hugh's family home in England, is so grey and unwelcoming.
Just when life feels like it may never regain colour, Marina and Hugh come across a striking china coffee pot in a London shop window, adorned with a fox flying through the night sky. The coffee pot comes attached with a mystery, one that is connected with Hugh's own family many years ago.
By digging into the past, Marina is about to discover a story far beyond her wildest dreams. But will the past help her heal the present?
The Author:
Caroline Montague lives with her husband at Burnt Norton House in the Cotswolds made famous by TS Eliot in the first of his four quartets. She is also a designer and mother to seven children and step-children. She divides her time between England and Italy.
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Genre: Historical Fiction - Romance
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Marina and Hugh were once madly in love. But after the loss of their beautiful little daughter, grief has created a distance between them that feels impossible to bridge. Marina knows leaving Italy is the only way they will be able to move on, but Thorncliffe Hall, Hugh's family home in England, is so grey and unwelcoming.
Just when life feels like it may never regain colour, Marina and Hugh come across a striking china coffee pot in a London shop window, adorned with a fox flying through the night sky. The coffee pot comes attached with a mystery, one that is connected with Hugh's own family many years ago.
By digging into the past, Marina is about to discover a story far beyond her wildest dreams. But will the past help her heal the present?
The Author:
Caroline Montague lives with her husband at Burnt Norton House in the Cotswolds made famous by TS Eliot in the first of his four quartets. She is also a designer and mother to seven children and step-children. She divides her time between England and Italy.
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Rose Sgueglia
Rose Sgueglia
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Title: The Real Leonardo Da Vinci
Genre: Historical Biography
Format: Hardback
Signed: Yes, dedication is available
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The Book;
Leonardo Da Vinci was left-handed.
That’s probably why he wrote backwards from right to left to avoid smudging ink on his hand as he made notes on his latest works and visionary discoveries.
Words could only be read with the help of a mirror making it taxing for anyone but himself to quickly decode his handwriting.
There are many theories exploring the reason why he kept using “mirror writing” in all his manuscripts.
Some historians say that he was trying to make it more challenging for people to steal his ideas while others claim that it was a clever attempt to hide scientific findings from the intolerant Roman Catholic Church of the Renaissance.
Whatever the logic behind this, the constant association with mirror writing and studies on the human body anatomy, made him one of the most enigmatic figures of his and then of our century. This biography investigates Leonardo and his different roles from anatomist to inventor, architect, painter, rumoured to be templar and scientific pioneer.
Despite leaving several of his works incomplete, Leonardo managed to influence generations of artists and still today remains a highly regarded figure in both the artistic and scientific sector.
The Author:
Rose Sgueglia is a writer, journalist and marketing consultant based in Cardiff. She is the founder of Miss Squiggles, a digital magazine and content agency. Her work has been published in different publications including GQ, La Repubblica, Yahoo and WI Life (a magazine for members of The Women’s Institute). She holds a BA in Journalism, Film and Media and a Post Graduate Diploma in Magazine Journalism from Cardiff University. She is currently working on her PhD in Media Studies with a research project on the impact material culture and audio-visual material has had on Chanel.
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Genre: Historical Biography
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
Leonardo Da Vinci was left-handed.
That’s probably why he wrote backwards from right to left to avoid smudging ink on his hand as he made notes on his latest works and visionary discoveries.
Words could only be read with the help of a mirror making it taxing for anyone but himself to quickly decode his handwriting.
There are many theories exploring the reason why he kept using “mirror writing” in all his manuscripts.
Some historians say that he was trying to make it more challenging for people to steal his ideas while others claim that it was a clever attempt to hide scientific findings from the intolerant Roman Catholic Church of the Renaissance.
Whatever the logic behind this, the constant association with mirror writing and studies on the human body anatomy, made him one of the most enigmatic figures of his and then of our century. This biography investigates Leonardo and his different roles from anatomist to inventor, architect, painter, rumoured to be templar and scientific pioneer.
Despite leaving several of his works incomplete, Leonardo managed to influence generations of artists and still today remains a highly regarded figure in both the artistic and scientific sector.
The Author:
Rose Sgueglia is a writer, journalist and marketing consultant based in Cardiff. She is the founder of Miss Squiggles, a digital magazine and content agency. Her work has been published in different publications including GQ, La Repubblica, Yahoo and WI Life (a magazine for members of The Women’s Institute). She holds a BA in Journalism, Film and Media and a Post Graduate Diploma in Magazine Journalism from Cardiff University. She is currently working on her PhD in Media Studies with a research project on the impact material culture and audio-visual material has had on Chanel.
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Carrie Sellon
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Book Title: Pizza Pete and the Missing Magic (book 2 of the Pizza Pete series)
Genre: Children’s, Humour
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
Pizza Pete is back! But he’s worried about seeing his friends after a long summer holiday selling pizzas from his van with Dad. He’s also in great danger. Someone wants the magical potions and will stop at nothing to get them… When they go missing, Pete has to summon all his courage to save the day.
The second book in the trilogy, filled with flying, friendship and of course…pizza!
The Author:
Carrie Sellon was born in Bristol and now lives in Hampshire with her husband, three children and a variety of animals. She used to travel the world making wildlife films for the BBC. Pizza Pete is her début children’s series, inspired by creative pizza-making with her family during Covid lockdowns.
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The Book:
Pizza Pete is back! But he’s worried about seeing his friends after a long summer holiday selling pizzas from his van with Dad. He’s also in great danger. Someone wants the magical potions and will stop at nothing to get them… When they go missing, Pete has to summon all his courage to save the day.
The second book in the trilogy, filled with flying, friendship and of course…pizza!
The Author:
Carrie Sellon was born in Bristol and now lives in Hampshire with her husband, three children and a variety of animals. She used to travel the world making wildlife films for the BBC. Pizza Pete is her début children’s series, inspired by creative pizza-making with her family during Covid lockdowns.
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Anna Rainbow
Anna Rainbow
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Title: Diamond Jack
Genre: Children's Fiction
Format: Paperback, First Edition
Signed: Yes, dedication is available
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The Book;
While helping in Grandpa's shop, Bramble discovers a strange scarlet mask. A tingling in her fingers tells her to try it on, but when she does she can't take it off . . .
And when she looks in the mirror, the face of a famous highwayman Diamond Jack stares back.
It seems Bramble has been chosen for a mission. Time to stand and deliver – your magic or your life!
The Author:
Anna Rainbow grew up and still lives in North East England and works as a Clinical Psychologist with people with disabilities. Anna loves music and has always been in various choirs, singing quartets, bands, and orchestras. In 2015 she was shortlisted for the Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition which led to Chicken House publishing The Fandom, her series for young adults (as Anna Day) – it sold in 24 territories and was optioned for TV development by Fox.
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Genre: Children's Fiction
Format: Paperback, First Edition
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The Book;
While helping in Grandpa's shop, Bramble discovers a strange scarlet mask. A tingling in her fingers tells her to try it on, but when she does she can't take it off . . .
And when she looks in the mirror, the face of a famous highwayman Diamond Jack stares back.
It seems Bramble has been chosen for a mission. Time to stand and deliver – your magic or your life!
The Author:
Anna Rainbow grew up and still lives in North East England and works as a Clinical Psychologist with people with disabilities. Anna loves music and has always been in various choirs, singing quartets, bands, and orchestras. In 2015 she was shortlisted for the Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition which led to Chicken House publishing The Fandom, her series for young adults (as Anna Day) – it sold in 24 territories and was optioned for TV development by Fox.
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Dev Kothari
Dev Kothari
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* One signed copy of The Times, Children's Book of the Week: Bringing Back Kay-Kay
* One handcrafted notebook
* Two handcrafted pencil cases
Book Title: Bringing Back Kay-Kay
Genre: Mystery-Adventure Middle Grade
Format: Paperback
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The Book : Steeped in mystery and adventure, this brisk and beautifully crafted middle-grade debut set in modern-day India explores the complexities of the sibling bond.
When her older brother, Karthik—Kay-Kay, the golden child of the family—heads to camp for two weeks, Lena’s parents begin showering her with all the attention she craves. For a time, she’s the golden child and secretly wishes her brother wouldn’t come home. But when the scheduled train arrives and Karthik isn’t on it, Lena is stricken with guilt and fear for her beloved Kay-Kay. Her brother has vanished without a trace, and the police view him as a runaway. Incredulous, Lena undertakes a search of her own—reading mysterious poems left in his backpack, interrogating his fellows from the train, retracing his route, and encountering shadowy strangers along the way. Convinced Kay-Kay is still alive even when the rest of her family has given up, Lena steadily unearths her brother’s secrets as her determination to bring him home leads to a heart-stopping discovery. Perhaps Kay-Kay isn’t a golden child after all? Set in a vividly evoked modern-day India, this character-driven middle-grade mystery tackles rich themes—from the sibling bond to self-worth—in a taut and suspenseful adventure.
This compelling debut tells a hopeful and heartfelt tale of a sister on a mission — The Times, Children’s Book of the Week
This mystery story has a precision worthy of Agatha Christie — The Telegraph
A fast-paced mystery thoughtfully exploring family relationships — Kirkus Reviews
This mystery story, set in contemporary India, is both gripping and emotional — BookTrust, Book of the Day
The Author: Dev Kothari grew up in a sleepy hamlet near Mumbai, where she read obsessively, wrote furtively and daydreamed endlessly. She won the Commonword Diversity YA novel prize in 2018 and went on to study for an MA in Writing for Children at Bath Spa University, which is where she first conceived her debut novel, Bringing Back Kay-Kay, a contemporary middle-grade mystery set in India. Dev lives in London.
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* One handcrafted notebook
* Two handcrafted pencil cases
Book Title: Bringing Back Kay-Kay
Genre: Mystery-Adventure Middle Grade
Format: Paperback
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Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book : Steeped in mystery and adventure, this brisk and beautifully crafted middle-grade debut set in modern-day India explores the complexities of the sibling bond.
When her older brother, Karthik—Kay-Kay, the golden child of the family—heads to camp for two weeks, Lena’s parents begin showering her with all the attention she craves. For a time, she’s the golden child and secretly wishes her brother wouldn’t come home. But when the scheduled train arrives and Karthik isn’t on it, Lena is stricken with guilt and fear for her beloved Kay-Kay. Her brother has vanished without a trace, and the police view him as a runaway. Incredulous, Lena undertakes a search of her own—reading mysterious poems left in his backpack, interrogating his fellows from the train, retracing his route, and encountering shadowy strangers along the way. Convinced Kay-Kay is still alive even when the rest of her family has given up, Lena steadily unearths her brother’s secrets as her determination to bring him home leads to a heart-stopping discovery. Perhaps Kay-Kay isn’t a golden child after all? Set in a vividly evoked modern-day India, this character-driven middle-grade mystery tackles rich themes—from the sibling bond to self-worth—in a taut and suspenseful adventure.
This compelling debut tells a hopeful and heartfelt tale of a sister on a mission — The Times, Children’s Book of the Week
This mystery story has a precision worthy of Agatha Christie — The Telegraph
A fast-paced mystery thoughtfully exploring family relationships — Kirkus Reviews
This mystery story, set in contemporary India, is both gripping and emotional — BookTrust, Book of the Day
The Author: Dev Kothari grew up in a sleepy hamlet near Mumbai, where she read obsessively, wrote furtively and daydreamed endlessly. She won the Commonword Diversity YA novel prize in 2018 and went on to study for an MA in Writing for Children at Bath Spa University, which is where she first conceived her debut novel, Bringing Back Kay-Kay, a contemporary middle-grade mystery set in India. Dev lives in London.
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Natalie Marlow
Natalie Marlow
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Title: The Red Hollow
Genre: Literary Crime
Format: Hardback, First Edition
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The Book;
Warwickshire, 1934
Deep in a hamlet in the Warwickshire countryside, Red Hollow Hall is a male-only sanatorium run by the charismatic psychiatrist Dr Moon. However, all is not well, and Dr Moon's patients are leaving Red Hollow in droves.
Recent disturbances, which originally appeared to be pranks, have descended into something more sinister, and now the men believe they have a malevolent visitor - the mermaid of Red Hollow. The ghost of a murdered girl, they believe the mermaid wreaks bloody revenge on unsuspecting men each time the hamlet floods.
When private enquiry agent, William Garrett, and freshly minted detective, Phyll Hall, are called in to uncover the identity of the intruder, they become trapped in a world of madness, the occult, and grisly murder. A world where William must use all his strength to differentiate between the real-life monster haunting Red Hollow Hall and the monsters of the mind.
The Author:
Natalie Marlow is a historical novelist with a fascination for the people and landscapes of the Midlands. Family histories and classic crime fiction inspire much of her writing. She holds an MA in Creative Writing (Crime Writing) from the University of East Anglia.
Her first novel, Needless Alley, was a Val McDermid New Blood pick at the 2023 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. The Red Hollow, the second in the William Garrett series, was published in March 2024.
She lives in Warwickshire with her family.
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Genre: Literary Crime
Format: Hardback, First Edition
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The Book;
Warwickshire, 1934
Deep in a hamlet in the Warwickshire countryside, Red Hollow Hall is a male-only sanatorium run by the charismatic psychiatrist Dr Moon. However, all is not well, and Dr Moon's patients are leaving Red Hollow in droves.
Recent disturbances, which originally appeared to be pranks, have descended into something more sinister, and now the men believe they have a malevolent visitor - the mermaid of Red Hollow. The ghost of a murdered girl, they believe the mermaid wreaks bloody revenge on unsuspecting men each time the hamlet floods.
When private enquiry agent, William Garrett, and freshly minted detective, Phyll Hall, are called in to uncover the identity of the intruder, they become trapped in a world of madness, the occult, and grisly murder. A world where William must use all his strength to differentiate between the real-life monster haunting Red Hollow Hall and the monsters of the mind.
The Author:
Natalie Marlow is a historical novelist with a fascination for the people and landscapes of the Midlands. Family histories and classic crime fiction inspire much of her writing. She holds an MA in Creative Writing (Crime Writing) from the University of East Anglia.
Her first novel, Needless Alley, was a Val McDermid New Blood pick at the 2023 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. The Red Hollow, the second in the William Garrett series, was published in March 2024.
She lives in Warwickshire with her family.
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Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson
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Two Book Bundle!
Book Title 1: Eternal City
Book Title 2: Dust
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Format: Paperbacks
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Book 1 - Eternal City
m the BESTSELLING author of Dust Life can change in a split second, and so it does for twenty-eight-year-old photographer Finn Chambers. One careless decision at the Cimitero Acattolico in the eternal city of Rome, finds him falling head first onto Shelley's tomb, to his death. He awakes to a beautiful afterlife surrounded by long-dead poets, artists and thinkers, including Shelley, Keats, Gramsci, Sanchez and the delightful Lady Mary von Haas, and these luminaries test Finn's values and principles in a way they have never been tested before. Uncomfortable truths require honest assessment when the 21st century's lust for celebrity, drugs, and fifteen minutes of fame, is questioned by others from centuries past but his new life finds much in common with his previous life, with love, art, sex, music, humour and irreverence, all experienced on this different and fascinating plane. For Finn Chambers there is life after death - and it's a life worth living.
Book 2 - Dust
"Early in life, my grandfather told me that only three things were certain: birth, death and time. And time only ticked one way; it went forward and never back. It came to be a recurring wish with me, the desire to turn back the clock, to undo what I had done. Always wishing for the impossible, my feet stuck firm in the molasses of the present, unable to shrug off decisions I had made and their unforeseen or disregarded consequences."
J.J Walsh and Tony 'El Greco' Papadakis are inseparable. Smoking Kents out on an abandoned cannery dock, and watching gulls sway on rusting buoys in the sea, they dream of adventure...a time when they can act as adults. The day they'll see the mighty Pacific Ocean.
Set in small-town New Jersey in the 1960s, against the backdrop of the Vietnam war, Dust follows the boys through the dry heat of a formative summer. They face religious piety and its murderous consequences, alcohol, girls, sex, loss, tragedy and ultimately the tiny things that combine to make life what it is for the two friends - a great adventure.
But it's a road trip through the heart of southern America with J.J.'s father that truly reveals a darker side to life - the two halves of a divided nation, where wealth, poverty and racial bigotry collide. This beautifully written debut novel would not be out of place alongside the work of Steinbeck and Philipp Meyer's American Rust.
At turns funny, and at others heart-achingly sad, their story unfolds around the honest and frequently irreverent observations of two young people trying to grow up fast in a world that is at times confusing, and at others seen with a clarity only the young may possess.
The Author:
Raised in Stockton-on-Tees, England, Mark Thompson is the internationally published author of Dust, published by RedDoor in the United Kingdom, translated into German and published in German as El Greco Und Ich by Mare Verlag, as El Greco Und Ich German audiobook by Parlando Verlag, and in Chinese as Dust by Donmei Publishing, Taiwan. The author spent many years living in London before moving to Andalucia in southern Spain. He has travelled extensively throughout the United States and several other countries over many years, harvesting material for writing both literature and songs. He plays guitar in a rock band, and now lives happily in York, England, with his partner Liz, two rabbits and a tortoise.
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Book Title 1: Eternal City
Book Title 2: Dust
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Format: Paperbacks
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Book 1 - Eternal City
m the BESTSELLING author of Dust Life can change in a split second, and so it does for twenty-eight-year-old photographer Finn Chambers. One careless decision at the Cimitero Acattolico in the eternal city of Rome, finds him falling head first onto Shelley's tomb, to his death. He awakes to a beautiful afterlife surrounded by long-dead poets, artists and thinkers, including Shelley, Keats, Gramsci, Sanchez and the delightful Lady Mary von Haas, and these luminaries test Finn's values and principles in a way they have never been tested before. Uncomfortable truths require honest assessment when the 21st century's lust for celebrity, drugs, and fifteen minutes of fame, is questioned by others from centuries past but his new life finds much in common with his previous life, with love, art, sex, music, humour and irreverence, all experienced on this different and fascinating plane. For Finn Chambers there is life after death - and it's a life worth living.
Book 2 - Dust
"Early in life, my grandfather told me that only three things were certain: birth, death and time. And time only ticked one way; it went forward and never back. It came to be a recurring wish with me, the desire to turn back the clock, to undo what I had done. Always wishing for the impossible, my feet stuck firm in the molasses of the present, unable to shrug off decisions I had made and their unforeseen or disregarded consequences."
J.J Walsh and Tony 'El Greco' Papadakis are inseparable. Smoking Kents out on an abandoned cannery dock, and watching gulls sway on rusting buoys in the sea, they dream of adventure...a time when they can act as adults. The day they'll see the mighty Pacific Ocean.
Set in small-town New Jersey in the 1960s, against the backdrop of the Vietnam war, Dust follows the boys through the dry heat of a formative summer. They face religious piety and its murderous consequences, alcohol, girls, sex, loss, tragedy and ultimately the tiny things that combine to make life what it is for the two friends - a great adventure.
But it's a road trip through the heart of southern America with J.J.'s father that truly reveals a darker side to life - the two halves of a divided nation, where wealth, poverty and racial bigotry collide. This beautifully written debut novel would not be out of place alongside the work of Steinbeck and Philipp Meyer's American Rust.
At turns funny, and at others heart-achingly sad, their story unfolds around the honest and frequently irreverent observations of two young people trying to grow up fast in a world that is at times confusing, and at others seen with a clarity only the young may possess.
The Author:
Raised in Stockton-on-Tees, England, Mark Thompson is the internationally published author of Dust, published by RedDoor in the United Kingdom, translated into German and published in German as El Greco Und Ich by Mare Verlag, as El Greco Und Ich German audiobook by Parlando Verlag, and in Chinese as Dust by Donmei Publishing, Taiwan. The author spent many years living in London before moving to Andalucia in southern Spain. He has travelled extensively throughout the United States and several other countries over many years, harvesting material for writing both literature and songs. He plays guitar in a rock band, and now lives happily in York, England, with his partner Liz, two rabbits and a tortoise.
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Phoenicia Rogerson
Phoenicia Rogerson
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Title: Herc
Genre: Historical Fiction - Erotic
Format: Hardback, First Edition
Signed: Yes, dedication available
Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book:
This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures…everyone’s favourite hero, right?
Well, it’s not.
This is the story of everyone else:
Alcmene: Herc’s mother (She has knives everywhere)
Hylas: Herc’s first friend (They were more than friends)
Megara: Herc’s wife (She’ll tell you about their marriage)
Eurystheus: Oversaw Herc’s labours (He never asked for the job)
His friends, his enemies, his wives, his children, his lovers, his rivals, his gods, his victims.
It’s time to hear their stories.
Told with humour and heart, Herc gives voice to the silenced characters, in this feminist, queer (and sometimes shocking) retelling of classic Hercules myth.
The Author:
Phoenicia Rogerson is altogether mortal with a rather less chequered past than Hercules. After a decade of not being able to find his complete story on bookshelves, she decided to pull her socks up and write it herself. She lives and works in London.
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Genre: Historical Fiction - Erotic
Format: Hardback, First Edition
Signed: Yes, dedication available
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The Book:
This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures…everyone’s favourite hero, right?
Well, it’s not.
This is the story of everyone else:
Alcmene: Herc’s mother (She has knives everywhere)
Hylas: Herc’s first friend (They were more than friends)
Megara: Herc’s wife (She’ll tell you about their marriage)
Eurystheus: Oversaw Herc’s labours (He never asked for the job)
His friends, his enemies, his wives, his children, his lovers, his rivals, his gods, his victims.
It’s time to hear their stories.
Told with humour and heart, Herc gives voice to the silenced characters, in this feminist, queer (and sometimes shocking) retelling of classic Hercules myth.
The Author:
Phoenicia Rogerson is altogether mortal with a rather less chequered past than Hercules. After a decade of not being able to find his complete story on bookshelves, she decided to pull her socks up and write it herself. She lives and works in London.
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Website: https://phoeniciarogerson.com
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Rachel Brimble
Rachel Brimble
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Title: Dressing the Countess
Genre: Historical Romance
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
Seamstress Rose Watson cannot believe her good fortune when she’s plucked from obscurity to work for Lady Christina, the Countess of Bath.
When she arrives at the royal residence of Henlow House, a sense of destiny whispers through her. But once she meets saddler Henry Ward, her dreams are met with challenge of every kind. Rose’s new connection to Henry could cause her to lose her position at Henlow House, which would destroy her.
Will she be forced to choose between love and ambition? Either choice would change her life irrevocably.
Fans of Kristy Cambron and Mimi Matthews will adore this dazzling Victorian romance from historical fiction dynamo, Rachel Brimble. An enchanting escape that will touch your heart and keep you turning pages with impatient hope for Rose.
The Author:
"Since 2007, I have been published by Harlequin Mills & Boon, Kensington Books, Aria Fiction, Harpeth Road, the Wild Rose Press and most recently Boldwood Books.
As the years have gone by, history has become my passion (so much so I am also studying for a History degree!) and I’ve concentrated solely on writing historical fiction and sagas.
The majority of my books are set in Bath which is the famous backdrop of period dramas such as Bridgerton, Poldark, Pride & Prejudice and many more. The overall theme of my books is female empowerment/social injustice often with family, friendship and love conquers all thrown in for good measure!
I am also hugely passionate about helping aspiring writers achieve their writing dreams and opened my Author Services in 2019. Since then, I have helped numerous writers sign their first book contracts and/or win competitions. As well as offering proofreading, I also critique partial and full manuscripts up to 100,000 words. I am currently working on other services so watch this space or my social media for updates!"
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Genre: Historical Romance
Format: Paperback
Signed : Dedication is Available
Bids accepted: Worldwide
The Book:
Seamstress Rose Watson cannot believe her good fortune when she’s plucked from obscurity to work for Lady Christina, the Countess of Bath.
When she arrives at the royal residence of Henlow House, a sense of destiny whispers through her. But once she meets saddler Henry Ward, her dreams are met with challenge of every kind. Rose’s new connection to Henry could cause her to lose her position at Henlow House, which would destroy her.
Will she be forced to choose between love and ambition? Either choice would change her life irrevocably.
Fans of Kristy Cambron and Mimi Matthews will adore this dazzling Victorian romance from historical fiction dynamo, Rachel Brimble. An enchanting escape that will touch your heart and keep you turning pages with impatient hope for Rose.
The Author:
"Since 2007, I have been published by Harlequin Mills & Boon, Kensington Books, Aria Fiction, Harpeth Road, the Wild Rose Press and most recently Boldwood Books.
As the years have gone by, history has become my passion (so much so I am also studying for a History degree!) and I’ve concentrated solely on writing historical fiction and sagas.
The majority of my books are set in Bath which is the famous backdrop of period dramas such as Bridgerton, Poldark, Pride & Prejudice and many more. The overall theme of my books is female empowerment/social injustice often with family, friendship and love conquers all thrown in for good measure!
I am also hugely passionate about helping aspiring writers achieve their writing dreams and opened my Author Services in 2019. Since then, I have helped numerous writers sign their first book contracts and/or win competitions. As well as offering proofreading, I also critique partial and full manuscripts up to 100,000 words. I am currently working on other services so watch this space or my social media for updates!"
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Alex Cotter
Alex Cotter
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Title: The House On The Edge
Genre: Children's Fiction - 8-12 years
Format: Paperback
Signed: Yes, dedication is Available
Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book;
THE HOUSE ON THE EDGE – Where has Faith’s dad gone? Why has he left his family living in an old house perched on a crumbling cliff top? A crack has appeared in the cliff and Faith watches anxiously as it gets bigger and bigger each day… Her brother is obsessed with the sea ghosts he claims live in the basement, and when he disappears as well, Faith starts to believe in the ghosts too. Can she find her brother and bring her father back before everything she cares about falls into the pitiless sea below?
The Author:
Alex Cotter has worked hard all her life at daydreaming, while making a living from words: from bookselling at WHSmith and publicising The Booker Prize to copywriting and teaching creative writing. Raised in the North, Alex now lives near Bath with her family and one very chatty kitten. She has also published The Mermaid Call with Nosy Crow
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Genre: Children's Fiction - 8-12 years
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
THE HOUSE ON THE EDGE – Where has Faith’s dad gone? Why has he left his family living in an old house perched on a crumbling cliff top? A crack has appeared in the cliff and Faith watches anxiously as it gets bigger and bigger each day… Her brother is obsessed with the sea ghosts he claims live in the basement, and when he disappears as well, Faith starts to believe in the ghosts too. Can she find her brother and bring her father back before everything she cares about falls into the pitiless sea below?
The Author:
Alex Cotter has worked hard all her life at daydreaming, while making a living from words: from bookselling at WHSmith and publicising The Booker Prize to copywriting and teaching creative writing. Raised in the North, Alex now lives near Bath with her family and one very chatty kitten. She has also published The Mermaid Call with Nosy Crow
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Melanie Hewitt
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Title: Looking for the Durrells
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Format: Paperback
Signed: Yes, dedication available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book:
After a year that has seen a broken-off engagement and the death of her beloved father, Penny is desperate to get away. Fulfilling a childhood dream, she sets off on a month-long pilgrimage to Corfu - an island idyll she knows only through the pages of Gerald Durrell’s ‘My Family and Other Animals’ On the Island, as she searches for the places the Durrells knew, Penny finds herself drawn into the lives of a tight-knit circle of strangers .. and as strangers start to become friends, lives past and present become intertwined in ways none of them could have predicted.
The Author:
Looking for the Durrells is Melanie’s debut novel. A former journalist she now works for the XP School Trust in Yorkshire. Loves to help people and partnerships - and meet at places with good cake and coffee.
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Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Format: Paperback
Signed: Yes, dedication available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book:
After a year that has seen a broken-off engagement and the death of her beloved father, Penny is desperate to get away. Fulfilling a childhood dream, she sets off on a month-long pilgrimage to Corfu - an island idyll she knows only through the pages of Gerald Durrell’s ‘My Family and Other Animals’ On the Island, as she searches for the places the Durrells knew, Penny finds herself drawn into the lives of a tight-knit circle of strangers .. and as strangers start to become friends, lives past and present become intertwined in ways none of them could have predicted.
The Author:
Looking for the Durrells is Melanie’s debut novel. A former journalist she now works for the XP School Trust in Yorkshire. Loves to help people and partnerships - and meet at places with good cake and coffee.
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Suzy Henderson
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Title: Madame Fiocca: Code Name Hélène
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback, First Edition
Signed: Yes, dedication is available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
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Madame Fiocca: Code Name Hélène. Inspired by The Thrilling True WW2 Story of SOE Agent, Nancy Wake (Heroes of War Book 2).
She risked everything for her country, now she's fighting for her life.
A gripping WWII novel of love, espionage, and courage in Occupied France, inspired by true events.
February 1933: When twenty-year-old Nancy receives an unexpected inheritance, she embarks on a world cruise that changes her life forever. After a whirlwind voyage, her journey ends in London, where she trains as a journalist, eventually finding herself in the glamorous, bustling city of Paris—a haven for journalists, artists, and refugees.
While covering assignments across Europe, Nancy catches the eye of wealthy industrialist Henri Fiocca. Though love is the last thing on her mind, fate intervenes, and their lives become intertwined.
As World War II looms, Nancy is appalled by the Nazi atrocities she witnesses in Vienna. Determined to resist the enemy, she vows to fight back. When Paris falls, a chance encounter with a British officer draws her into the dangerous world of the French Resistance. With courage and determination, Nancy plunges into a high-stakes game of espionage and sabotage.
Dubbed "The White Mouse" by the Gestapo, Nancy becomes a target of a relentless manhunt. As the iron grip of the enemy tightens around her, Nancy and Henri are forced to make a heartbreaking choice—what price will they pay for freedom?
Fans of Kate Quinn's "The Alice Network," Kristin Hannah's "The Nightingale," and Sebastian Faulks' "Charlotte Gray" will be captivated by this riveting tale of bravery, love, and sacrifice.
"What an incredible story that becomes almost more unbelievable when you realize this is based on the true account of Nancy Wake, a reporter for the Hearst Newspaper Group. The author has done a fabulous amount of research to bring this history alive." NetGalley Reviewer
"Based on a true story, the words flowed smoothly off the page and grabbed my interest right from the beginning." NetGalley Reviewer
"Thrilling wartime adventure and true story. The writer has done an amazing job of bringing this amazing woman to life for me by giving her a heart and a soul. Recommended for readers of historical non-fiction and fiction. Amazon Review
The Author:
Suzy Henderson lives in Cumbria, where she writes full-time, often immersed in the 1940s. After gaining a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing, she dared to dream and write until, one day, she completed a novel. Since then, she has published two historical fiction novels and a romance. Her latest, Her Darkest Hour, is her first speculative fiction set at the beginning of World War II.
Originally from northern England, Suzy spent ten years in the southwest before settling in Cumbria. Her home, nestled between Hadrian’s Wall and the Lake District fells, provides a stunning backdrop that often influences her writing. In her spare time, she enjoys walking the fells, dreaming by the lakes, and running.
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Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback, First Edition
Signed: Yes, dedication is available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book;
Madame Fiocca: Code Name Hélène. Inspired by The Thrilling True WW2 Story of SOE Agent, Nancy Wake (Heroes of War Book 2).
She risked everything for her country, now she's fighting for her life.
A gripping WWII novel of love, espionage, and courage in Occupied France, inspired by true events.
February 1933: When twenty-year-old Nancy receives an unexpected inheritance, she embarks on a world cruise that changes her life forever. After a whirlwind voyage, her journey ends in London, where she trains as a journalist, eventually finding herself in the glamorous, bustling city of Paris—a haven for journalists, artists, and refugees.
While covering assignments across Europe, Nancy catches the eye of wealthy industrialist Henri Fiocca. Though love is the last thing on her mind, fate intervenes, and their lives become intertwined.
As World War II looms, Nancy is appalled by the Nazi atrocities she witnesses in Vienna. Determined to resist the enemy, she vows to fight back. When Paris falls, a chance encounter with a British officer draws her into the dangerous world of the French Resistance. With courage and determination, Nancy plunges into a high-stakes game of espionage and sabotage.
Dubbed "The White Mouse" by the Gestapo, Nancy becomes a target of a relentless manhunt. As the iron grip of the enemy tightens around her, Nancy and Henri are forced to make a heartbreaking choice—what price will they pay for freedom?
Fans of Kate Quinn's "The Alice Network," Kristin Hannah's "The Nightingale," and Sebastian Faulks' "Charlotte Gray" will be captivated by this riveting tale of bravery, love, and sacrifice.
"What an incredible story that becomes almost more unbelievable when you realize this is based on the true account of Nancy Wake, a reporter for the Hearst Newspaper Group. The author has done a fabulous amount of research to bring this history alive." NetGalley Reviewer
"Based on a true story, the words flowed smoothly off the page and grabbed my interest right from the beginning." NetGalley Reviewer
"Thrilling wartime adventure and true story. The writer has done an amazing job of bringing this amazing woman to life for me by giving her a heart and a soul. Recommended for readers of historical non-fiction and fiction. Amazon Review
The Author:
Suzy Henderson lives in Cumbria, where she writes full-time, often immersed in the 1940s. After gaining a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing, she dared to dream and write until, one day, she completed a novel. Since then, she has published two historical fiction novels and a romance. Her latest, Her Darkest Hour, is her first speculative fiction set at the beginning of World War II.
Originally from northern England, Suzy spent ten years in the southwest before settling in Cumbria. Her home, nestled between Hadrian’s Wall and the Lake District fells, provides a stunning backdrop that often influences her writing. In her spare time, she enjoys walking the fells, dreaming by the lakes, and running.
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T F Lince
T F Lince
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Title 1: Room 119 - The Whitby Trader
Genre: Thriller = Mystery and Suspense
Format: Paperback
Title 2: Funicular
Genre: Crime Thriller - Mystery Suspense
Format: Paperback
Dedications Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only
Website: https://room119.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Room119TFLince
Book 1 Blurb:
High-flying trader Dean Harrison has it all – the London penthouse apartment; the fast car; the beautiful wife. But when the threads of Dean’s life start to unravel, they do so with alarming speed. Following the advice of a frail stranger,
Dean sets off for Welnetham Hall Hotel and is plunged into the mysterious world of Room 119 – a world where nothing makes sense. How does everyone in the hotel know his name? Why does he travel there on a train line that shut down over fifty years ago? And who is the sinister man in black who pursues him wherever he goes?
As he gradually pieces together the puzzle of Welnetham Hall, Dean is forced to re-evaluate his life and realises that nothing is more important to him than his wife and daughter. Desperate to get back to them, he vows he would lay down his life for the people he loves.
It’s a promise he may have to keep.
Book 2 Blurb:
After his life is threatened, DI Bob Dixon leaves London hoping for the quiet life in the northern village of Saltburn-by-the-Sea. But when he takes on the case of young Lizzy Scraggs, missing since a huge tide hit Saltburn six years earlier, he embarks on an investigation that will push him to the very edge of reason.
Out on the beat, Bob learns the legend of the funicular car that left the top of Saltburn’s famous cliff lift many years ago carrying two passengers, and arrived at the bottom empty save for an abandoned ticket. And every big tide since has seen another local child disappear.
Feeling increasingly manipulated by a shadowy nemesis, Bob struggles to make sense of the seemingly impossible clues before him. How can the dead live again? Who is the tortured man haunting the churchyard in nearby Marske? And with the next massive tide just hours away, can Bob solve the puzzle and bring an end to the tragedy of Saltburn’s missing children?
Author Bio:
Trev Lince originates from Marske-by-the-Sea on the North East coast of England, but now lives in Darlington with his wife, Claire.
Their daughter, Annie, is a very good guitarist and is setting up a band, playing every pub in the North East that she can. She’s so rock and roll, living the dream while her father is approaching his mid-life crisis.
A keen golfer and frustrated Middlesbrough FC fan, Trev gets to as many matches as work and leisure time allow. He writes in what little spare time he has, when not working as a freelance IT Consultant.
Room 119 – The Whitby Trader is Trev’s first book and he really enjoyed the experience of writing it.
Funicular followed and he is now writing his third novel which will probably be called Reunion.
Genre: Thriller = Mystery and Suspense
Format: Paperback
Title 2: Funicular
Genre: Crime Thriller - Mystery Suspense
Format: Paperback
Dedications Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only
Website: https://room119.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Room119TFLince
Book 1 Blurb:
High-flying trader Dean Harrison has it all – the London penthouse apartment; the fast car; the beautiful wife. But when the threads of Dean’s life start to unravel, they do so with alarming speed. Following the advice of a frail stranger,
Dean sets off for Welnetham Hall Hotel and is plunged into the mysterious world of Room 119 – a world where nothing makes sense. How does everyone in the hotel know his name? Why does he travel there on a train line that shut down over fifty years ago? And who is the sinister man in black who pursues him wherever he goes?
As he gradually pieces together the puzzle of Welnetham Hall, Dean is forced to re-evaluate his life and realises that nothing is more important to him than his wife and daughter. Desperate to get back to them, he vows he would lay down his life for the people he loves.
It’s a promise he may have to keep.
Book 2 Blurb:
After his life is threatened, DI Bob Dixon leaves London hoping for the quiet life in the northern village of Saltburn-by-the-Sea. But when he takes on the case of young Lizzy Scraggs, missing since a huge tide hit Saltburn six years earlier, he embarks on an investigation that will push him to the very edge of reason.
Out on the beat, Bob learns the legend of the funicular car that left the top of Saltburn’s famous cliff lift many years ago carrying two passengers, and arrived at the bottom empty save for an abandoned ticket. And every big tide since has seen another local child disappear.
Feeling increasingly manipulated by a shadowy nemesis, Bob struggles to make sense of the seemingly impossible clues before him. How can the dead live again? Who is the tortured man haunting the churchyard in nearby Marske? And with the next massive tide just hours away, can Bob solve the puzzle and bring an end to the tragedy of Saltburn’s missing children?
Author Bio:
Trev Lince originates from Marske-by-the-Sea on the North East coast of England, but now lives in Darlington with his wife, Claire.
Their daughter, Annie, is a very good guitarist and is setting up a band, playing every pub in the North East that she can. She’s so rock and roll, living the dream while her father is approaching his mid-life crisis.
A keen golfer and frustrated Middlesbrough FC fan, Trev gets to as many matches as work and leisure time allow. He writes in what little spare time he has, when not working as a freelance IT Consultant.
Room 119 – The Whitby Trader is Trev’s first book and he really enjoyed the experience of writing it.
Funicular followed and he is now writing his third novel which will probably be called Reunion.
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Laura Noakes
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Book Title: Cosima Unfortunate Foils a Fraud
Genre: Middle grade historical
Format: Paperback First Edition
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Bids Accepted: UK only
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Cosima has finally found her happy ending but unfortunately, trouble isn't far behind. . .
Cosima Unfortunate returns for a new adventure! A warm, funny, exciting and empowering tale of friendship, family and mystery, with joyous and authentic disabled representation, from the author of COSIMA UNFORTUNATE STEALS A STAR.
Cosima lives at the Star Diamond Home for Children with her best friends Diya, Mary and Pearl. Since uncovering a dastardly plot and escaping their cruel captors, life has been one of peace and contentment – and particularly so for Cos. For alongside her friendships, Cos finally has a real family, too – and every day spent with her long-lost father is more magical than the last.
But where Cos goes, adventure is sure to follow – and when a world-famous painting is stolen, Cos’s father is arrested for the crime. Cos and her friends know he has been framed – and they are sure that notorious thief, the Spectre, is responsible.
Cos is determined that she won’t lose her father again – and the girls must use spirit, wit, bravery and ingenuity to solve the crime and bring him safely home…
The perfect read for fans of Katherine Rundell, Tamzin Merchant, Robin Stevens and Anna James
The Author:
Laura has alway had an insatiable love of stories, so it was almost fated that one day she would write some of her own. As a disabled author, she strives to tell stories where disabled kids are the heroes. Her debut book, Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star, was published by HarperCollins Children's Books in 2023, with the sequel following in 2024. She lives in beautiful Bedfordshire with her husband, Connor, and two cats, Scout and Sunny.
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Genre: Middle grade historical
Format: Paperback First Edition
Signed: Yes, dedication is available
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book:
Cosima has finally found her happy ending but unfortunately, trouble isn't far behind. . .
Cosima Unfortunate returns for a new adventure! A warm, funny, exciting and empowering tale of friendship, family and mystery, with joyous and authentic disabled representation, from the author of COSIMA UNFORTUNATE STEALS A STAR.
Cosima lives at the Star Diamond Home for Children with her best friends Diya, Mary and Pearl. Since uncovering a dastardly plot and escaping their cruel captors, life has been one of peace and contentment – and particularly so for Cos. For alongside her friendships, Cos finally has a real family, too – and every day spent with her long-lost father is more magical than the last.
But where Cos goes, adventure is sure to follow – and when a world-famous painting is stolen, Cos’s father is arrested for the crime. Cos and her friends know he has been framed – and they are sure that notorious thief, the Spectre, is responsible.
Cos is determined that she won’t lose her father again – and the girls must use spirit, wit, bravery and ingenuity to solve the crime and bring him safely home…
The perfect read for fans of Katherine Rundell, Tamzin Merchant, Robin Stevens and Anna James
The Author:
Laura has alway had an insatiable love of stories, so it was almost fated that one day she would write some of her own. As a disabled author, she strives to tell stories where disabled kids are the heroes. Her debut book, Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star, was published by HarperCollins Children's Books in 2023, with the sequel following in 2024. She lives in beautiful Bedfordshire with her husband, Connor, and two cats, Scout and Sunny.
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Judith Eagle
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Four Book Bundle!
Title 1: The Secret Starling
Genre: Middle Grade Mystery
Format: Paperback
Title 2: The Stolen Songbird
Genre: Middle Grade Mystery
Format: Paperback
Title 3: The Pear Affair
Genre: Middle Grade Mystery
Format: Paperback
Title 4: The Accidental Stowaway
Genre: Middle Grade Mystery
Format: Paperback
Dedications Available: YES
Bids Accepted: UK Only
Book 1 Blurb: The Secret Starling
Abandoned children running wild on the moors, evil child catchers, cunning cats and mysterious ballet shoes abound in this incredible first novel.
Clara has lived a life of solitude, home schooled under her mean uncle's strict regime . . . until now!
The day that Uncle abandons Clara, leaving her with nothing but a wedge of 'guilt money' and a half empty, crumbling manor house, she is determined to do things her way for a change. And when streetwise Peter turns up, with his rescue cat and a surprising array of knowledge, she is sure that between them they have everything they need to survive.
But the house is to be sold . . . and Uncle has lied to Clara . . . and nothing, NOTHING is as it seems.
Book 2 Blurb: The Stolen Songbird
It's 1950s London and Caro Monday and her friends have become embroiled in a dangerous art heist! When Caro Monday's mother disappears on one of her jaunts, she has no choice but to go and stay with a miserable woman that she's never met. Not only that but she's told that her beloved rabbit, His Nibs, is not allowed to go with her. Luckily, Caro's not one for following rules. With her rabbit in hiding, and her wild behaviour getting her into trouble as soon as she walks through the door, Caro is only going to find herself in deeper water. In the lining of her suitcase is a small but extraordinary painting of a thrush . . . a painting that some dangerous art thieves are hunting down! Can Caro and her friends solve the mystery of the stolen songbird and find its owners before it's too late? Here ensues an exciting dash across London, with twists and turns as plentiful as the cobbled streets which Caro and her friends must navigate!
Book 3 Blurb: The Pear Affair
When Penelope Magnificent's awful parents tell her they're taking a trip to Paris, she surprises them by begging to go along.
Nell is usually content to avoid her money-obsessed father and her fashion-focussed mother, but Paris holds something very dear to her . . . her old au pair Perrine - Pear - lives there. Pear used to write to Nell every week promising to come to her rescue but recently the letters have stopped . . .
Arriving at her parent's posh hotel, Nell is determined to find Pear . . . but no one has seen her at her last known address, and no one seems to want to tell her anything about Pear's whereabouts.
Luckily she befriends the hotel bellboy who introduces her to the world of tunnels underneath the city, and together they set out to find Pear, whilst uncovering an extraordinary mystery of their own . . .
Gorgeous black and white illustrations by Kim Geyer bring this story to life.
Book 4 Blurb: The Accidental Stowaway
Liverpool, 1910
When Patch runs up the gangway of steamship, RMS Glorious, she isn't planning to hang around. But if she leaves her hiding place the constable might catch her: sitting tight is worth the risk. Too late, she realises the ship is setting sail! Patch has become an accidental stowaway.
Luckily, Patch's unconventional past has made her pretty fearless when it comes to fending for herself, and besides there are friends in high and low places to be made onboard.
But hiding away becomes less and less easy: her new friends urgently need her help and there's a mystery that needs solving, all before they reach New York . . .
With gorgeous chapter head illustrations by Kim Geyer.
Author Bio:
Judith Eagle lives in South London with her husband and cat Stockwell. She spends her mornings writing and her afternoons working in a school library. In her spare time she is learning (slowly) to tap dance.
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Title 1: The Secret Starling
Genre: Middle Grade Mystery
Format: Paperback
Title 2: The Stolen Songbird
Genre: Middle Grade Mystery
Format: Paperback
Title 3: The Pear Affair
Genre: Middle Grade Mystery
Format: Paperback
Title 4: The Accidental Stowaway
Genre: Middle Grade Mystery
Format: Paperback
Dedications Available: YES
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Book 1 Blurb: The Secret Starling
Abandoned children running wild on the moors, evil child catchers, cunning cats and mysterious ballet shoes abound in this incredible first novel.
Clara has lived a life of solitude, home schooled under her mean uncle's strict regime . . . until now!
The day that Uncle abandons Clara, leaving her with nothing but a wedge of 'guilt money' and a half empty, crumbling manor house, she is determined to do things her way for a change. And when streetwise Peter turns up, with his rescue cat and a surprising array of knowledge, she is sure that between them they have everything they need to survive.
But the house is to be sold . . . and Uncle has lied to Clara . . . and nothing, NOTHING is as it seems.
Book 2 Blurb: The Stolen Songbird
It's 1950s London and Caro Monday and her friends have become embroiled in a dangerous art heist! When Caro Monday's mother disappears on one of her jaunts, she has no choice but to go and stay with a miserable woman that she's never met. Not only that but she's told that her beloved rabbit, His Nibs, is not allowed to go with her. Luckily, Caro's not one for following rules. With her rabbit in hiding, and her wild behaviour getting her into trouble as soon as she walks through the door, Caro is only going to find herself in deeper water. In the lining of her suitcase is a small but extraordinary painting of a thrush . . . a painting that some dangerous art thieves are hunting down! Can Caro and her friends solve the mystery of the stolen songbird and find its owners before it's too late? Here ensues an exciting dash across London, with twists and turns as plentiful as the cobbled streets which Caro and her friends must navigate!
Book 3 Blurb: The Pear Affair
When Penelope Magnificent's awful parents tell her they're taking a trip to Paris, she surprises them by begging to go along.
Nell is usually content to avoid her money-obsessed father and her fashion-focussed mother, but Paris holds something very dear to her . . . her old au pair Perrine - Pear - lives there. Pear used to write to Nell every week promising to come to her rescue but recently the letters have stopped . . .
Arriving at her parent's posh hotel, Nell is determined to find Pear . . . but no one has seen her at her last known address, and no one seems to want to tell her anything about Pear's whereabouts.
Luckily she befriends the hotel bellboy who introduces her to the world of tunnels underneath the city, and together they set out to find Pear, whilst uncovering an extraordinary mystery of their own . . .
Gorgeous black and white illustrations by Kim Geyer bring this story to life.
Book 4 Blurb: The Accidental Stowaway
Liverpool, 1910
When Patch runs up the gangway of steamship, RMS Glorious, she isn't planning to hang around. But if she leaves her hiding place the constable might catch her: sitting tight is worth the risk. Too late, she realises the ship is setting sail! Patch has become an accidental stowaway.
Luckily, Patch's unconventional past has made her pretty fearless when it comes to fending for herself, and besides there are friends in high and low places to be made onboard.
But hiding away becomes less and less easy: her new friends urgently need her help and there's a mystery that needs solving, all before they reach New York . . .
With gorgeous chapter head illustrations by Kim Geyer.
Author Bio:
Judith Eagle lives in South London with her husband and cat Stockwell. She spends her mornings writing and her afternoons working in a school library. In her spare time she is learning (slowly) to tap dance.
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Title: My Daughter's Revenge
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Format: Paperback
Signed: Yes
Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book;
His death is reported on the morning news. The man my daughter’s crazy about. Dead. Gone…
I blink slowly – once, twice, three times. The hair on the back of my neck rises as I grip my coffee harder. I didn’t even know this man existed until recently. I used to be Leah’s whole world. Now she doesn’t tell me anything. But I found the letters she hid, and I discovered how he shattered her heart into a million pieces.
They don’t think his death was suspicious. But Leah refuses to talk about it, and I know my daughter too well to believe that…
I’m the only one that can see her dark streak – her appetite for revenge. And I know exactly where she got it from…
My first mistake was raising my daughter to be just like me.
But my second mistake might be what I have to do to protect her.
The Author:
Natali Simmonds began her career in glossy magazines, then went on to manage marketing campaigns for big brands. She's now a creative brand consultant, freelance writer, and fiction author, writing gritty and unflinching stories full of complex women and page-turning suspense (and sometimes a little magic).
Simmonds’ dark, feminist thriller debut, Good Girls Die Last, has been optioned for a television series by STV. As N J Simmonds, Natali penned the fantasy trilogy The Path Keeper and Son of Secrets, and in 2022 was shortlisted for the RNA Fantasy Award for the last book in the series, Children of Shadows. She’s one half of paranormal romance author duo, Caedis Knight, and has also written for manga.
When she’s not writing or consulting, she's a columnist for Kings College London’s 'Inspire The Mind' magazine, and lectures for Raindance Film School. Originally from London, Natali now divides her time between Spain, the UK, and the Netherlands where she can be found drawing, reading in her hammock, or complaining about cycling in the rain.
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Genre: Psychological Thriller
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
His death is reported on the morning news. The man my daughter’s crazy about. Dead. Gone…
I blink slowly – once, twice, three times. The hair on the back of my neck rises as I grip my coffee harder. I didn’t even know this man existed until recently. I used to be Leah’s whole world. Now she doesn’t tell me anything. But I found the letters she hid, and I discovered how he shattered her heart into a million pieces.
They don’t think his death was suspicious. But Leah refuses to talk about it, and I know my daughter too well to believe that…
I’m the only one that can see her dark streak – her appetite for revenge. And I know exactly where she got it from…
My first mistake was raising my daughter to be just like me.
But my second mistake might be what I have to do to protect her.
The Author:
Natali Simmonds began her career in glossy magazines, then went on to manage marketing campaigns for big brands. She's now a creative brand consultant, freelance writer, and fiction author, writing gritty and unflinching stories full of complex women and page-turning suspense (and sometimes a little magic).
Simmonds’ dark, feminist thriller debut, Good Girls Die Last, has been optioned for a television series by STV. As N J Simmonds, Natali penned the fantasy trilogy The Path Keeper and Son of Secrets, and in 2022 was shortlisted for the RNA Fantasy Award for the last book in the series, Children of Shadows. She’s one half of paranormal romance author duo, Caedis Knight, and has also written for manga.
When she’s not writing or consulting, she's a columnist for Kings College London’s 'Inspire The Mind' magazine, and lectures for Raindance Film School. Originally from London, Natali now divides her time between Spain, the UK, and the Netherlands where she can be found drawing, reading in her hammock, or complaining about cycling in the rain.
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4 Book Bundle - The Complete Blood Web Series
Title 1: Vampires Of Moscow
Title 2: Witches Of Barcelona
Title 3: Sirens Of Los Angeles
Title 4: Goblins Of Lapland
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Format: Paperback
Signed - Yes
Bids Accepted: UK Only
Book 1; Vampires Of Moscow
Actually, I'm not sure what I was expecting from a church converted into a strip club by two Vampires- but nothing could have prepared me for the unholy glittering space that unfolds before me.
That's the thing about the paranormal world - the outside never reflects the wickedness within...
Saskia de la Cruz is a Verity Witch - her only magic being that she can tell the truth from a lie.
As an investigative reporter for The Blood Web Chronicle, the biggest news outlet on the paranormal dark Blood Web, Saskia spends her days cracking twisted para cases hoping that someday, some case, will bring her closer to finding her missing sister. In snowy Moscow drained corpses of illegal workers have begun to turn up, with hundreds more reported missing. When Saskia is sent on assignment to investigate an oligarch Vampire crime ring that might be behind the deaths, she plans to get in out of the city’s frozen grasp quickly...preferably with her neck intact.
But beautiful ballet dancer Konstantin Volkov and his wildcard brother Lukka complicate things. The vampire brothers have their own reasons for solving the string of murders, reasons that conflict with Saskia’s mission. Soon, Saskia finds herself enmeshed in the city’s glittering web of crime, passion, and violence, where truths and lies are one and the same.
Book 2; Witches Of Barcelona
Saskia de la Cruz is a Verity Witch and investigative reporter for The Blood Web Chronicle, the biggest news outlet on the paranormal Blood Web. After escaping murderous Vampires in snowy Moscow, Saskia can't imagine a more difficult or more dangerous mission. That is until her editor sends her to Barcelona to investigate a high profile disappearance at the Mage Association, which just happens to be run by her evil mother Solina.
Saskia's plan is to spend as little time in Barcelona as possible, until she meets three junior members of the MA who know more than they let on - including information on Saskia’s missing sister, Mikayla. Among her new leads is Catalan bruixa Luisa, who has a hold over Saskia stronger than any magic. It doesn't take long until Saskia finds herself under the glittering spell of MA high society, where morals are few and magic is law. Can Saskia escape the clutches of a world that's always been dangerous for her, before it turns deadly?
Book 3; Sirens Of Los Angeles
Find out how Saskia de la Cruz became a reporter for paranormal newspaper The Blood Web Chronicle in this delicious prequel novella. Saskia is a Verity Witch - her only magic being that she can tell the truth from a lie. When she sets off for the glitzy shores of Malibu to spend spring break with her sister Mikayla, her one goal is to forget her university worries and issues with outdated witch hierarchies, and drown them in surfer six-packs and tequila cocktails. But when local influencers and male models start washing up ashore, drained of their youth, Saskia knows something wicked dwells in the deep. Which is perfectly fine because she plans on staying the hell away from the water! That is until her powerful, siren-obsessed sister disappears, and the search leads Saskia deeper than she ever thought possible. Accompanied by beautiful but suspicious surfers Eden and Zee, Saskia will have to travel for her answers to the home of Hollywood’s vainest residents - the ocean floor.
Book 4; Goblins Of Lapland
Saskia de la Cruz, Verity Witch and undercover reporter for the Paranormal Blood Web, has been sent on her first international mission...to Lapland!
Convinced she's set for a magical Christmas adventure in the snow, she's dismayed to find the Christmas village she's investigating is a complete disaster. She also takes an instant dislike to the rugged Finnish inn owner, Elias, who's so miserable he makes the Grinch look like Santa. How can she trust a man whose only friend is a reindeer?
But Elias has bigger things to worry about than a nosy journalist. Locked in a bitter feud with a Texan tycoon, Elias has already lost too much to hand over his family business to his rival. As more mysterious disasters befall the village, Saskia soon discovers that one local Christmas myth is still very much alive. Will Saskia manage to save the village in time for Christmas? Or will they all end up Feliz Navidead?
The Author:
Caedis Knight is the pen name of two established fantasy authors, Jacqueline Silvester and N J Simmonds. Silvester began her career in screenwriting and lived all over the world before going on to pen her highly successful YA series Wunderkids. Spanish Londoner Simmonds' background was originally in marketing before writing her fantasy series The Indigo Chronicles, along with various Manga stories and writing collaborations. Together they created Blood Web Chronicles - their first paranormal romance series set in Europe. Great friends and avid travelers, you can find them whizzing between one another's homes in Germany and the Netherlands, or having Zoom calls to excitedly plot Saskia's next humorous sexy adventure.
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Website: https://caedisknight.com/
Title 1: Vampires Of Moscow
Title 2: Witches Of Barcelona
Title 3: Sirens Of Los Angeles
Title 4: Goblins Of Lapland
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Format: Paperback
Signed - Yes
Bids Accepted: UK Only
Book 1; Vampires Of Moscow
Actually, I'm not sure what I was expecting from a church converted into a strip club by two Vampires- but nothing could have prepared me for the unholy glittering space that unfolds before me.
That's the thing about the paranormal world - the outside never reflects the wickedness within...
Saskia de la Cruz is a Verity Witch - her only magic being that she can tell the truth from a lie.
As an investigative reporter for The Blood Web Chronicle, the biggest news outlet on the paranormal dark Blood Web, Saskia spends her days cracking twisted para cases hoping that someday, some case, will bring her closer to finding her missing sister. In snowy Moscow drained corpses of illegal workers have begun to turn up, with hundreds more reported missing. When Saskia is sent on assignment to investigate an oligarch Vampire crime ring that might be behind the deaths, she plans to get in out of the city’s frozen grasp quickly...preferably with her neck intact.
But beautiful ballet dancer Konstantin Volkov and his wildcard brother Lukka complicate things. The vampire brothers have their own reasons for solving the string of murders, reasons that conflict with Saskia’s mission. Soon, Saskia finds herself enmeshed in the city’s glittering web of crime, passion, and violence, where truths and lies are one and the same.
Book 2; Witches Of Barcelona
Saskia de la Cruz is a Verity Witch and investigative reporter for The Blood Web Chronicle, the biggest news outlet on the paranormal Blood Web. After escaping murderous Vampires in snowy Moscow, Saskia can't imagine a more difficult or more dangerous mission. That is until her editor sends her to Barcelona to investigate a high profile disappearance at the Mage Association, which just happens to be run by her evil mother Solina.
Saskia's plan is to spend as little time in Barcelona as possible, until she meets three junior members of the MA who know more than they let on - including information on Saskia’s missing sister, Mikayla. Among her new leads is Catalan bruixa Luisa, who has a hold over Saskia stronger than any magic. It doesn't take long until Saskia finds herself under the glittering spell of MA high society, where morals are few and magic is law. Can Saskia escape the clutches of a world that's always been dangerous for her, before it turns deadly?
Book 3; Sirens Of Los Angeles
Find out how Saskia de la Cruz became a reporter for paranormal newspaper The Blood Web Chronicle in this delicious prequel novella. Saskia is a Verity Witch - her only magic being that she can tell the truth from a lie. When she sets off for the glitzy shores of Malibu to spend spring break with her sister Mikayla, her one goal is to forget her university worries and issues with outdated witch hierarchies, and drown them in surfer six-packs and tequila cocktails. But when local influencers and male models start washing up ashore, drained of their youth, Saskia knows something wicked dwells in the deep. Which is perfectly fine because she plans on staying the hell away from the water! That is until her powerful, siren-obsessed sister disappears, and the search leads Saskia deeper than she ever thought possible. Accompanied by beautiful but suspicious surfers Eden and Zee, Saskia will have to travel for her answers to the home of Hollywood’s vainest residents - the ocean floor.
Book 4; Goblins Of Lapland
Saskia de la Cruz, Verity Witch and undercover reporter for the Paranormal Blood Web, has been sent on her first international mission...to Lapland!
Convinced she's set for a magical Christmas adventure in the snow, she's dismayed to find the Christmas village she's investigating is a complete disaster. She also takes an instant dislike to the rugged Finnish inn owner, Elias, who's so miserable he makes the Grinch look like Santa. How can she trust a man whose only friend is a reindeer?
But Elias has bigger things to worry about than a nosy journalist. Locked in a bitter feud with a Texan tycoon, Elias has already lost too much to hand over his family business to his rival. As more mysterious disasters befall the village, Saskia soon discovers that one local Christmas myth is still very much alive. Will Saskia manage to save the village in time for Christmas? Or will they all end up Feliz Navidead?
The Author:
Caedis Knight is the pen name of two established fantasy authors, Jacqueline Silvester and N J Simmonds. Silvester began her career in screenwriting and lived all over the world before going on to pen her highly successful YA series Wunderkids. Spanish Londoner Simmonds' background was originally in marketing before writing her fantasy series The Indigo Chronicles, along with various Manga stories and writing collaborations. Together they created Blood Web Chronicles - their first paranormal romance series set in Europe. Great friends and avid travelers, you can find them whizzing between one another's homes in Germany and the Netherlands, or having Zoom calls to excitedly plot Saskia's next humorous sexy adventure.
Follow:
X: https://x.com/CaedisKnight
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorCaedisKnight?locale=en_GB
Website: https://caedisknight.com/
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Lucy Ann Unwin
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*A set of How To Be A Revolutionary pin badges are also included!*
Book Title 1: How To Be A Revolutionary
Book Title 2: The Octopus, Dadu and Me
Genre: Contemporary Children's Fiction for age 9+
Format: Paperback
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The Book 1: How To Be A Revolutionary
‘What do you all come here for?’
‘Why, to change the world, of course! Don’t we all want to change the world . . . if we can?’
A General Election is coming and the Revolutionaries are gathering at Natalie’s house. She’s determined to be a part of it all, but is it really just about red coats, muddy boots and piles of glossy leaflets? Surely changing the world should be more exciting than that?
It’s time to start her OWN revolution – and it all begins with her pet rat . . .
The Book 2 - The Octopus, Dadu and Me
FACT: Octopuses have three hearts.
FACT: Octopuses have BEAKS, like BIRDS.
FACT: The octopus at the aquarium is psychic!
Sashi feels like she has three hearts and they're all breaking. She's losing her beloved Dadu to dementia, and her parents don't even want her to visit him any more.
She hides from her grief in the aquarium, and that's where she meets Ian.
Like her Dadu, Ian is trapped. Like her Dadu, Ian should be at home with his family. And then Ian tells her he's in danger and only she can help him escape.
The Author:
Lucy’s professional background is in journalism. She was a music journalist at BBC 6 Music for 10 years, where she was privileged enough to interview the likes of Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and Adele, report live from the side of the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury, and absorb hundreds of hours of wonderful live music. Brought up in Birmingham, Lucy has lived all around the UK, from Newcastle to Brixton, Worcester to Chesterfield. She also lived for a year in the Chilean city of Valparaiso and for three years in San Francisco, but has now settled on the Sussex clifftops with her husband, two daughters and tortoise.
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Book Title 1: How To Be A Revolutionary
Book Title 2: The Octopus, Dadu and Me
Genre: Contemporary Children's Fiction for age 9+
Format: Paperback
Signed - Dedication Available
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book 1: How To Be A Revolutionary
‘What do you all come here for?’
‘Why, to change the world, of course! Don’t we all want to change the world . . . if we can?’
A General Election is coming and the Revolutionaries are gathering at Natalie’s house. She’s determined to be a part of it all, but is it really just about red coats, muddy boots and piles of glossy leaflets? Surely changing the world should be more exciting than that?
It’s time to start her OWN revolution – and it all begins with her pet rat . . .
The Book 2 - The Octopus, Dadu and Me
FACT: Octopuses have three hearts.
FACT: Octopuses have BEAKS, like BIRDS.
FACT: The octopus at the aquarium is psychic!
Sashi feels like she has three hearts and they're all breaking. She's losing her beloved Dadu to dementia, and her parents don't even want her to visit him any more.
She hides from her grief in the aquarium, and that's where she meets Ian.
Like her Dadu, Ian is trapped. Like her Dadu, Ian should be at home with his family. And then Ian tells her he's in danger and only she can help him escape.
The Author:
Lucy’s professional background is in journalism. She was a music journalist at BBC 6 Music for 10 years, where she was privileged enough to interview the likes of Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and Adele, report live from the side of the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury, and absorb hundreds of hours of wonderful live music. Brought up in Birmingham, Lucy has lived all around the UK, from Newcastle to Brixton, Worcester to Chesterfield. She also lived for a year in the Chilean city of Valparaiso and for three years in San Francisco, but has now settled on the Sussex clifftops with her husband, two daughters and tortoise.
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R. Tregoning & G. Stobbs
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Book Title: What the Crow Saw Below
Genre: Children
Format: Paperback First Edition
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Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book:
From the Indie Picture Book Award Winner 2024 Robert Tregoning, comes What the Crow Saw Below, a beautifully wirtten fable-like tale of hope, stunningly illustrated by Greg Stobbs. On the tangled, twisted branches, in a tangled, twisted wood, stood a young crow, looking downward, like her elders said she should. But the curious little crow soon starts to question why the older crows always look for danger below. If she can find the courage to look up and explore the world above the treetops, perhaps she might find the freedom she longs for?
The creators: Robert studied at the Glasgow School of Art before leaping in to a career on the West End stage. He has appeared in shows including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Matilda the Musical.
Robert’s published works include Out of the Blue and The Dress in the Window. As an author, he hopes to help children and adults alike to accept and celebrate all that makes us uniquely ourselves. The stories Robert writes are often stories he wishes he could have read as a child. He hopes they provide a voice of recognition, validation and kindness to those who need it.
Greg Stobbs is an illustrator, street artist and associate lecturer from the South East of the UK. He’s worked internationally on a range of projects, from installations to interactive art pieces. In 2020, Greg created the illustrated digital backdrops for the BBC’s Cbeebies Christmas Pantomime. His debut picture book, Don’t Ask the Dragon by poet Lemn Sissay, was published in 2022. Greg likes to develop work that crosses the boundaries between fine art, street art, and children’s book illustration.
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Genre: Children
Format: Paperback First Edition
Signed - Dedication is Available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book:
From the Indie Picture Book Award Winner 2024 Robert Tregoning, comes What the Crow Saw Below, a beautifully wirtten fable-like tale of hope, stunningly illustrated by Greg Stobbs. On the tangled, twisted branches, in a tangled, twisted wood, stood a young crow, looking downward, like her elders said she should. But the curious little crow soon starts to question why the older crows always look for danger below. If she can find the courage to look up and explore the world above the treetops, perhaps she might find the freedom she longs for?
The creators: Robert studied at the Glasgow School of Art before leaping in to a career on the West End stage. He has appeared in shows including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Matilda the Musical.
Robert’s published works include Out of the Blue and The Dress in the Window. As an author, he hopes to help children and adults alike to accept and celebrate all that makes us uniquely ourselves. The stories Robert writes are often stories he wishes he could have read as a child. He hopes they provide a voice of recognition, validation and kindness to those who need it.
Greg Stobbs is an illustrator, street artist and associate lecturer from the South East of the UK. He’s worked internationally on a range of projects, from installations to interactive art pieces. In 2020, Greg created the illustrated digital backdrops for the BBC’s Cbeebies Christmas Pantomime. His debut picture book, Don’t Ask the Dragon by poet Lemn Sissay, was published in 2022. Greg likes to develop work that crosses the boundaries between fine art, street art, and children’s book illustration.
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Dani Atkins
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Title: The Memory of Us
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
A twist of fate. An unexpected love story...
If she had been found moments later, Amelia's heart would have stopped and never recovered. Instead she was taken from the desolate beach to the nearest hospital just in time to save her life. When her sister Lexi arrives from New York, Amelia's heart is beating, but the accident has implanted a series of false memories. These memories revolve around a man named Sam, and a perfect love story that never existed.
Determined to help her sister, Lexi enlists the help of Nick, a local vet who bears a striking resemblance to Sam. Together, Lexi and Nick recreate and photograph Amelia's dream dates in the hopes of triggering her true memories.
But as love starts to stir between Lexi and Nick, they must navigate a complex web of emotions. How can Lexi fall for Amelia's dream man without hurting her sister?
The Author:
Dani was born and brought up in Cockfosters- a small London suburb at the end of the Piccadilly Tube Line.
This served her well for commuting into the city, where from the age of 18 she worked in a succession of secretarial positions in companies as diverse as a BMW car dealership to the BBC. Dani spent her two hour commute avidly reading and dreamed that one day she would become an author herself.
When her two children grew up and left home, Dani set about turning this dream into reality and devoted her time to writing. She now lives in a rural Hertfordshire cottage with her husband, a soppy border collie dog and a haughty Siamese cat.
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Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
A twist of fate. An unexpected love story...
If she had been found moments later, Amelia's heart would have stopped and never recovered. Instead she was taken from the desolate beach to the nearest hospital just in time to save her life. When her sister Lexi arrives from New York, Amelia's heart is beating, but the accident has implanted a series of false memories. These memories revolve around a man named Sam, and a perfect love story that never existed.
Determined to help her sister, Lexi enlists the help of Nick, a local vet who bears a striking resemblance to Sam. Together, Lexi and Nick recreate and photograph Amelia's dream dates in the hopes of triggering her true memories.
But as love starts to stir between Lexi and Nick, they must navigate a complex web of emotions. How can Lexi fall for Amelia's dream man without hurting her sister?
The Author:
Dani was born and brought up in Cockfosters- a small London suburb at the end of the Piccadilly Tube Line.
This served her well for commuting into the city, where from the age of 18 she worked in a succession of secretarial positions in companies as diverse as a BMW car dealership to the BBC. Dani spent her two hour commute avidly reading and dreamed that one day she would become an author herself.
When her two children grew up and left home, Dani set about turning this dream into reality and devoted her time to writing. She now lives in a rural Hertfordshire cottage with her husband, a soppy border collie dog and a haughty Siamese cat.
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Keri Beevis
Keri Beevis
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Title: Nowhere To Hide
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: Yes
Postage & Packing: Free
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The Book;
Duncan Stone is one of the country’s most eligible and handsome bachelors, and he wants to take me, Callie Parker, on a date.
At first I am surprised and flattered, the envy of my friends. Then when our whirlwind romance escalates and he asks me to move in with him, it’s like a dream come true.
But as I get to really know my new boyfriend, my fairytale turns into a nightmare. Duncan is no Prince Charming. He is the Devil.
Isolated from my friends and family, watched day and night, a prisoner in my own life, I know if I am going to survive, I need to escape.
When a chance encounter with an old friend throws me a lifeline, I realise this is my live or die moment, and I find a hiding place deep in the Norfolk countryside.
I’m supposed to feel safe here, so why do I hear footsteps outside my hideaway late at night, and sense that someone is watching me?
Is it paranoia, or has Duncan managed to find me? Or perhaps the danger is closer to home than I realise.
The Author:
Keri Beevis is the bestselling author of Dying To Tell, Deep Dark Secrets, The Sleepover and The Summer House. Her other titles include Trust No One, Every Little Breath, The People Next Door, The House in the Woods (previously published as The Boat House), and the recently released Nowhere To Hide.
She lives in Norfolk, England, with her two naughty kitties, Ellie and Lola, and a plentiful supply of red wine (her writing fuel).
In 2022, Keri signed with Boldwood Books. Her first release with them, The Sleepover, was a top 10 bestseller in the UK. The Summer House was a global smash hit.
Keri's brand new psychological thriller, The Cottage by the Sea, will be released in October 2024, and is available to preorder now.
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Genre: Psychological Thriller
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: Yes
Postage & Packing: Free
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The Book;
Duncan Stone is one of the country’s most eligible and handsome bachelors, and he wants to take me, Callie Parker, on a date.
At first I am surprised and flattered, the envy of my friends. Then when our whirlwind romance escalates and he asks me to move in with him, it’s like a dream come true.
But as I get to really know my new boyfriend, my fairytale turns into a nightmare. Duncan is no Prince Charming. He is the Devil.
Isolated from my friends and family, watched day and night, a prisoner in my own life, I know if I am going to survive, I need to escape.
When a chance encounter with an old friend throws me a lifeline, I realise this is my live or die moment, and I find a hiding place deep in the Norfolk countryside.
I’m supposed to feel safe here, so why do I hear footsteps outside my hideaway late at night, and sense that someone is watching me?
Is it paranoia, or has Duncan managed to find me? Or perhaps the danger is closer to home than I realise.
The Author:
Keri Beevis is the bestselling author of Dying To Tell, Deep Dark Secrets, The Sleepover and The Summer House. Her other titles include Trust No One, Every Little Breath, The People Next Door, The House in the Woods (previously published as The Boat House), and the recently released Nowhere To Hide.
She lives in Norfolk, England, with her two naughty kitties, Ellie and Lola, and a plentiful supply of red wine (her writing fuel).
In 2022, Keri signed with Boldwood Books. Her first release with them, The Sleepover, was a top 10 bestseller in the UK. The Summer House was a global smash hit.
Keri's brand new psychological thriller, The Cottage by the Sea, will be released in October 2024, and is available to preorder now.
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Lucinda Jacob
Lucinda Jacob
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Title: Hopscotch in the Sky
Genre: Poetry for Children
Format: Hardback
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Bids accepted: Worldwide
Book details:
From ice-creams to Christmas trees, flying grannies to reading mermaids, haiku to rhyming verse, Hopscotch in the Sky takes children on a magical poetic journey through the seasons of the year. Funny and touching, sweet and sharp, these poems are full of life and verve. With a rainbow of illustrations by an award-winning artist.
The author:
Lucinda Jacob is an award-winning Irish writer and creative writing facilitator who writes poetry and stories for children as well as scripts for children's TV and Radio. Her books include Hopscotch in the Sky, Climate SOS! and Guzzler’s Party. I Am the Wind: Irish Poems for Children Everywhere, edited with Sarah Webb and illustrated by Ashwin Chacko, won the An Post Children’s Book of the Year (Senior) 2024.
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Genre: Poetry for Children
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From ice-creams to Christmas trees, flying grannies to reading mermaids, haiku to rhyming verse, Hopscotch in the Sky takes children on a magical poetic journey through the seasons of the year. Funny and touching, sweet and sharp, these poems are full of life and verve. With a rainbow of illustrations by an award-winning artist.
The author:
Lucinda Jacob is an award-winning Irish writer and creative writing facilitator who writes poetry and stories for children as well as scripts for children's TV and Radio. Her books include Hopscotch in the Sky, Climate SOS! and Guzzler’s Party. I Am the Wind: Irish Poems for Children Everywhere, edited with Sarah Webb and illustrated by Ashwin Chacko, won the An Post Children’s Book of the Year (Senior) 2024.
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Sheelagh Aston
Sheelagh Aston
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Title: Natural Talent
Genre: YA/Crossover
Format: Paperback (First Edition)
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The Book
Back in the studio and learning to handle the trappings of fame, raising actor Aaron Summers soon learns the real action is happening off camera. Ignored by critics favorite Jasmine, out classed by gifted unknown Noah, pestered by wannabe Tola and humiliated by fading heartthrob Fraser, Aaron wonders if talent is going to be enough to survive the shoot?
Worst, someone is trying to sabotage the film he fought over with his parents to do. Determined to stay in the picture, Aaron discovers a new talent when he turns detective. Can he unmask the saboteur before studio axes the film and answer the question on everyone’s lips; who on earth wants to trash the very film that could make them all stars?
Author Bio
Sheelagh is a UK based writer who seeks to bring stories that will enthral, entertain, and inspire readers. She is a member of Resolute Books Collective and Association of Christian Writers. Here work has been published online, in anthologies and radio.
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Genre: YA/Crossover
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The Book
Back in the studio and learning to handle the trappings of fame, raising actor Aaron Summers soon learns the real action is happening off camera. Ignored by critics favorite Jasmine, out classed by gifted unknown Noah, pestered by wannabe Tola and humiliated by fading heartthrob Fraser, Aaron wonders if talent is going to be enough to survive the shoot?
Worst, someone is trying to sabotage the film he fought over with his parents to do. Determined to stay in the picture, Aaron discovers a new talent when he turns detective. Can he unmask the saboteur before studio axes the film and answer the question on everyone’s lips; who on earth wants to trash the very film that could make them all stars?
Author Bio
Sheelagh is a UK based writer who seeks to bring stories that will enthral, entertain, and inspire readers. She is a member of Resolute Books Collective and Association of Christian Writers. Here work has been published online, in anthologies and radio.
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Diana Anyakwo
Diana Anyakwo
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Title : My Life As A Chameleon
Genre: Young Adult
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only
Book Blurb:
Lily is a sixteen-year-old living in Manchester. It is nearly five years since her father's death, and she is soon to return to her birthplace in Nigeria to reunite with her mother and siblings for the anniversary. As cold rain thunders on the streets of Moss Side she looks back over her young life and wonders . . . how did she get here?
As a young girl in Lagos, Lily is the baby of her large family. The daughter of a Nigerian father and Irish mother, she lives in a dual reality: one where moments of bright colour and tenderness exist alongside a sense of danger just beneath the surface of her apparently idyllic life. This is a tension that nobody dares speak out loud and it teaches Lily an early lesson: always blend in, always play the right part.
But the truth cannot stay hidden forever. Things in Lagos itself, and within her family, soon reach breaking point. As her city and her family implode into chaos around her, and at school her skin colour marks her out from the crowd, Lily struggles to know how to blend in. And when her mother sends her away to school in England, Lily's sense of identity is challenged in even more painful ways.
My Life as a Chameleon is a powerful story of resilience and belonging, about family secrets and how they can destroy even the deepest bonds. It is a story about finding your place in the world and realising you deserve to be there.
Author Bio:
DIANA ANYAKWO grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. She is of mixed Irish and Nigerian heritage. She moved to the UK when she was a teenager and later graduated from the University of Manchester with a degree in Molecular Biology and a Masters in Bioreactor Systems. She spent three years in Athens, Greece where she taught English and worked as an editor at an educational publisher.She currently lives and works in Manchester as a freelance writer and editor of English Language teaching materials. She loves reading, writing and binge-watching TV series. She also loves going for long walks to help get inspiration for her writing.
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Genre: Young Adult
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only
Book Blurb:
Lily is a sixteen-year-old living in Manchester. It is nearly five years since her father's death, and she is soon to return to her birthplace in Nigeria to reunite with her mother and siblings for the anniversary. As cold rain thunders on the streets of Moss Side she looks back over her young life and wonders . . . how did she get here?
As a young girl in Lagos, Lily is the baby of her large family. The daughter of a Nigerian father and Irish mother, she lives in a dual reality: one where moments of bright colour and tenderness exist alongside a sense of danger just beneath the surface of her apparently idyllic life. This is a tension that nobody dares speak out loud and it teaches Lily an early lesson: always blend in, always play the right part.
But the truth cannot stay hidden forever. Things in Lagos itself, and within her family, soon reach breaking point. As her city and her family implode into chaos around her, and at school her skin colour marks her out from the crowd, Lily struggles to know how to blend in. And when her mother sends her away to school in England, Lily's sense of identity is challenged in even more painful ways.
My Life as a Chameleon is a powerful story of resilience and belonging, about family secrets and how they can destroy even the deepest bonds. It is a story about finding your place in the world and realising you deserve to be there.
Author Bio:
DIANA ANYAKWO grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. She is of mixed Irish and Nigerian heritage. She moved to the UK when she was a teenager and later graduated from the University of Manchester with a degree in Molecular Biology and a Masters in Bioreactor Systems. She spent three years in Athens, Greece where she taught English and worked as an editor at an educational publisher.She currently lives and works in Manchester as a freelance writer and editor of English Language teaching materials. She loves reading, writing and binge-watching TV series. She also loves going for long walks to help get inspiration for her writing.
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Helen Matthews
Helen Matthews
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Book Title: Girl Out of Sight
Genre: Suspense thriller
Format: Paperback
Signed: Yes, dedication is available
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book:
This prize-winning suspense thriller asks how well you can know the people around you.
Odeta’s life is dull, running her father’s grocery store in a remote Albanian village. So when an enigmatic stranger appears, promising her an exciting career in London, she jumps at the opportunity.
Odeta’s life is about to change, but not in the way she expected…
Kate, a journalist who lives in London, has a seemingly perfect life. But beneath the surface nothing is perfect.
On a visit to her home village, Kate is forced to confront a secret from her past. But it soon becomes clear that nothing is as it seems, and danger is much closer to home than she could have ever imagined.
What connects Kate and Odeta? And can you ever really know your neighbours?
The Author:
Helen Matthews writes page-turning psychological suspense and is fascinated by the darker side of human nature and how a life can change in an instant. Her latest novels are 'Girl Out of Sight' and 'The Girl in the Van', winner of the suspense and crime genre category in the Pageturner Book Award 2022 and will soon be republished by Bloodhound Books. Other novels include 'Lies Behind the Ruin' - contemporary suspense and domestic noir, set in France and 'The Sisters' (domestic noir) rereleasing soon. A fifth book is in progress. Her short stories have been shortlisted by Flash 500, 1000K Story and published in Artificium; in the Reflex Press anthology 'The Real Jazz Baby'; in EllipsisZine and in Love Sunday magazine. She has published an eBook collection of stories and travel writing 'Brief Encounters' and this is available on Amazon. Helen regularly gives talks and appears at events and literary festivals. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes University.
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Genre: Suspense thriller
Format: Paperback
Signed: Yes, dedication is available
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book:
This prize-winning suspense thriller asks how well you can know the people around you.
Odeta’s life is dull, running her father’s grocery store in a remote Albanian village. So when an enigmatic stranger appears, promising her an exciting career in London, she jumps at the opportunity.
Odeta’s life is about to change, but not in the way she expected…
Kate, a journalist who lives in London, has a seemingly perfect life. But beneath the surface nothing is perfect.
On a visit to her home village, Kate is forced to confront a secret from her past. But it soon becomes clear that nothing is as it seems, and danger is much closer to home than she could have ever imagined.
What connects Kate and Odeta? And can you ever really know your neighbours?
The Author:
Helen Matthews writes page-turning psychological suspense and is fascinated by the darker side of human nature and how a life can change in an instant. Her latest novels are 'Girl Out of Sight' and 'The Girl in the Van', winner of the suspense and crime genre category in the Pageturner Book Award 2022 and will soon be republished by Bloodhound Books. Other novels include 'Lies Behind the Ruin' - contemporary suspense and domestic noir, set in France and 'The Sisters' (domestic noir) rereleasing soon. A fifth book is in progress. Her short stories have been shortlisted by Flash 500, 1000K Story and published in Artificium; in the Reflex Press anthology 'The Real Jazz Baby'; in EllipsisZine and in Love Sunday magazine. She has published an eBook collection of stories and travel writing 'Brief Encounters' and this is available on Amazon. Helen regularly gives talks and appears at events and literary festivals. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes University.
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Jill Steeples
Jill Steeples
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Title: Starry Skies Over Primrose Hall
Genre: Romance
Format: Paperback
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Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book;
Homes don’t come much more idyllic than Primrose Hall. Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Primrose Woods, Pia Temple still has to pinch herself that she gets to wake up there every day.
Waking up next to Jackson Moody is pretty great too. Ever since the couple rekindled their teenage romance, they’ve become an unstoppable team running Primrose Hall’s packed calendar of events, surrounded by the friends and family who make up the crew at the hall.
But not everything is perfect at Primrose Hall. Pia is beset with doubts about the future, especially when a new arrival shakes everything Jackson thought he knew about his past. And as the events come thick and fast – a literary festival, craft fayres, bonfire night and the much-anticipated Christmas Carols evening – everything Pia is juggling threatens to tumble down around her.
Will the year at Primrose Hall be a time of endings or new beginnings…
The Author:
Jill Steeples lives in a market town in Bedfordshire with her family, and faithful hound, Amber, an English Pointer.
From an early age she fell in love with the fabulously funny romances of Jilly Cooper, and vowed, one day, she would have a go at writing one of her own.
Her short stories have appeared in popular women’s magazines around the world and in a number of charity anthologies too. Now, Jill writes feel-good fiction set in the English countryside for Boldwood Books and her series include the Dog and Duck books, and the Primrose Wood stories.
When she’s not writing, she loves exploring the beautiful countryside that she writes about, and spending time with family and friends.
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Title: Starry Skies Over Primrose Hall
Genre: Romance
Format: Paperback
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Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book;
Homes don’t come much more idyllic than Primrose Hall. Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Primrose Woods, Pia Temple still has to pinch herself that she gets to wake up there every day.
Waking up next to Jackson Moody is pretty great too. Ever since the couple rekindled their teenage romance, they’ve become an unstoppable team running Primrose Hall’s packed calendar of events, surrounded by the friends and family who make up the crew at the hall.
But not everything is perfect at Primrose Hall. Pia is beset with doubts about the future, especially when a new arrival shakes everything Jackson thought he knew about his past. And as the events come thick and fast – a literary festival, craft fayres, bonfire night and the much-anticipated Christmas Carols evening – everything Pia is juggling threatens to tumble down around her.
Will the year at Primrose Hall be a time of endings or new beginnings…
The Author:
Jill Steeples lives in a market town in Bedfordshire with her family, and faithful hound, Amber, an English Pointer.
From an early age she fell in love with the fabulously funny romances of Jilly Cooper, and vowed, one day, she would have a go at writing one of her own.
Her short stories have appeared in popular women’s magazines around the world and in a number of charity anthologies too. Now, Jill writes feel-good fiction set in the English countryside for Boldwood Books and her series include the Dog and Duck books, and the Primrose Wood stories.
When she’s not writing, she loves exploring the beautiful countryside that she writes about, and spending time with family and friends.
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Roisin Meaney
Roisin Meaney
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2 Book Bundle
Book Title 1: A Winter to Remember
Book Title 2: The Book Club
Genre: Contemporary Irish Fiction
Format: Paperbacks, First Editions
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Book 1 - A Winter to Remember
With the approach of winter, Emily and Bill are happily raising his grandson, and Emily is planning a big Christmas dinner in her restaurant for family and friends when Bill’s troubled daughter shows up unexpectedly. As Emily battles to hold on to her cosy, settled life, others around her are struggling with their own secrets. Can happiness be restored by Christmas Day? Only time will tell.
Book 2 - The Book Club
In the small seaside town of Fairweather, members of the local book club are still reeling in the aftermath of a tragedy that rocked the town. When a stranger arrives with his own awful secret, circumstances throw him into the path of the book club, and little by little, as they become better acquainted, the possibility of happiness returns
The Author:
Roisin Meaney lives on the west coast of Ireland and writes stories of ordinary people weathering the challenges and surprises of life. A Winter to Remember is her 21stnovel.
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Book Title 1: A Winter to Remember
Book Title 2: The Book Club
Genre: Contemporary Irish Fiction
Format: Paperbacks, First Editions
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Book 1 - A Winter to Remember
With the approach of winter, Emily and Bill are happily raising his grandson, and Emily is planning a big Christmas dinner in her restaurant for family and friends when Bill’s troubled daughter shows up unexpectedly. As Emily battles to hold on to her cosy, settled life, others around her are struggling with their own secrets. Can happiness be restored by Christmas Day? Only time will tell.
Book 2 - The Book Club
In the small seaside town of Fairweather, members of the local book club are still reeling in the aftermath of a tragedy that rocked the town. When a stranger arrives with his own awful secret, circumstances throw him into the path of the book club, and little by little, as they become better acquainted, the possibility of happiness returns
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Roisin Meaney lives on the west coast of Ireland and writes stories of ordinary people weathering the challenges and surprises of life. A Winter to Remember is her 21stnovel.
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Emma Burstall
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Book: Beneath The Lemon Trees
Genre: Contemporary women’s fiction
Format: Paperback first edition
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The Book:
The breathtaking, new escapist novel from Emma Burstall,
A magical villa. A life-changing summer...
Heartbroken after the loss of a friend and the collapse of her marriage, Stella hopes that this trip to the idyllic Greek island of Crete will give her and her family a chance to heal. And when she first steps into the breath-taking Villa Ariadne, with its views over the azure waters and intoxicating scent of lemons, Stella’s troubles seem to melt away.
Until the arrival of an old acquaintance, and an unwelcome revelation, threaten to undermine the peace at the villa, and Stella is forced to make a difficult decision.
But with the help of Crete’s beautiful scenery and the kindness of its locals, Stella is about to discover that Villa Ariadne can still offer an escape… and so much more. Can she open herself up to the possibility of love and find the strength to start again?
The Author:
Emma Burstall is the bestselling author of women’s fiction, including the Cornish Tremarnock series. Previously published by Aria, Beneath The Lemon Trees is the first in her new series for Boldwood Books set in Crete,
Emma studied English at Cambridge University before becoming a journalist for local and national newspapers and women’s magazines. She lives in London and has three children.
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Genre: Contemporary women’s fiction
Format: Paperback first edition
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The Book:
The breathtaking, new escapist novel from Emma Burstall,
A magical villa. A life-changing summer...
Heartbroken after the loss of a friend and the collapse of her marriage, Stella hopes that this trip to the idyllic Greek island of Crete will give her and her family a chance to heal. And when she first steps into the breath-taking Villa Ariadne, with its views over the azure waters and intoxicating scent of lemons, Stella’s troubles seem to melt away.
Until the arrival of an old acquaintance, and an unwelcome revelation, threaten to undermine the peace at the villa, and Stella is forced to make a difficult decision.
But with the help of Crete’s beautiful scenery and the kindness of its locals, Stella is about to discover that Villa Ariadne can still offer an escape… and so much more. Can she open herself up to the possibility of love and find the strength to start again?
The Author:
Emma Burstall is the bestselling author of women’s fiction, including the Cornish Tremarnock series. Previously published by Aria, Beneath The Lemon Trees is the first in her new series for Boldwood Books set in Crete,
Emma studied English at Cambridge University before becoming a journalist for local and national newspapers and women’s magazines. She lives in London and has three children.
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Donna Morfett
Donna Morfett
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Book Title: The Disappearance of Peter Markham
Genre: Crime
Format: Paperback First Edition
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The Book:
Do you believe in Karma? Peter Markham should have. The past has come tapping him on his shoulder with an appointment for a reckoning. There will be no tomorrow. The killer did everything to cover their tracks, but is that possible? Who is this mystery person to bear such a grudge, but more importantly, why? Is it possible to forgive the past?
DI Cora Snitton is new to the station and wants to make an impression. The pressure is on her to find Peter Markham and put the world back together again, at least for his wife. If Peter has a history, so have others. Secrets breed secrets while tragedy is only around the corner. It’s up to Cora and the officers on her team like rookie DC’s Darcey and Luke to solve the crime and deliver justice.
The Author:
Donna is a dedicated reviewer, interviewer and supporter of the writing community. As a crime writer herself, she can be often found at writing festivals chatting to readers and authors alike.
Like many others during lockdown she wanted to find a way to try and wile away the many hours while the country came to a standstill. She’s always been an avid and voracious reader, so decided to see if there were more book groups on Facebook. Three months later she was up to her eyes in advanced copies of books and quickly learned all there was to know about blogs and blog tours.
Donna has been blogging ever since. She’s heavily involved in the crime fiction community, interviewing authors, attending as many festivals as she can, and is currently trying to find a home for her debut novel.
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Genre: Crime
Format: Paperback First Edition
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The Book:
Do you believe in Karma? Peter Markham should have. The past has come tapping him on his shoulder with an appointment for a reckoning. There will be no tomorrow. The killer did everything to cover their tracks, but is that possible? Who is this mystery person to bear such a grudge, but more importantly, why? Is it possible to forgive the past?
DI Cora Snitton is new to the station and wants to make an impression. The pressure is on her to find Peter Markham and put the world back together again, at least for his wife. If Peter has a history, so have others. Secrets breed secrets while tragedy is only around the corner. It’s up to Cora and the officers on her team like rookie DC’s Darcey and Luke to solve the crime and deliver justice.
The Author:
Donna is a dedicated reviewer, interviewer and supporter of the writing community. As a crime writer herself, she can be often found at writing festivals chatting to readers and authors alike.
Like many others during lockdown she wanted to find a way to try and wile away the many hours while the country came to a standstill. She’s always been an avid and voracious reader, so decided to see if there were more book groups on Facebook. Three months later she was up to her eyes in advanced copies of books and quickly learned all there was to know about blogs and blog tours.
Donna has been blogging ever since. She’s heavily involved in the crime fiction community, interviewing authors, attending as many festivals as she can, and is currently trying to find a home for her debut novel.
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Laura Pearson
Laura Pearson
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Title: The Last List of Mabel Beaumont
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperback
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The list he left had just one item on it. Or, at least, it did at first…
Mabel Beaumont’s husband Arthur loved lists. He’d leave them for her everywhere. ‘Remember: eggs, butter, sugar’. ‘I love you: today, tomorrow, always’.
But now Arthur is gone. He died: softly, gently, not making a fuss. But he’s still left her a list. This one has just one item on it though: ‘Find D’.
Mabel feels sure she knows what it means. She must track down her best friend Dot, who she hasn’t seen since the fateful day she left more than sixty years ago.
It seems impossible. She doesn’t even know if Dot’s still alive. Also, every person Mabel talks to seems to need help first, with missing husbands, daughters, parents. Mabel finds her list is just getting longer, and she’s still no closer to finding Dot.
What she doesn’t know is that her list isn’t just about finding her old friend. And that if she can admit the secrets of the past, maybe she could even find happiness again…
The Author:
Laura Pearson is the author of five novels. The Last List of Mabel Beaumont was a Kindle number one bestseller in the UK and a top ten bestseller in the US. Laura lives in Leicestershire, England, with her husband, their two children, and a cat who likes to lie on her keyboard while she tries to write.
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Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
The list he left had just one item on it. Or, at least, it did at first…
Mabel Beaumont’s husband Arthur loved lists. He’d leave them for her everywhere. ‘Remember: eggs, butter, sugar’. ‘I love you: today, tomorrow, always’.
But now Arthur is gone. He died: softly, gently, not making a fuss. But he’s still left her a list. This one has just one item on it though: ‘Find D’.
Mabel feels sure she knows what it means. She must track down her best friend Dot, who she hasn’t seen since the fateful day she left more than sixty years ago.
It seems impossible. She doesn’t even know if Dot’s still alive. Also, every person Mabel talks to seems to need help first, with missing husbands, daughters, parents. Mabel finds her list is just getting longer, and she’s still no closer to finding Dot.
What she doesn’t know is that her list isn’t just about finding her old friend. And that if she can admit the secrets of the past, maybe she could even find happiness again…
The Author:
Laura Pearson is the author of five novels. The Last List of Mabel Beaumont was a Kindle number one bestseller in the UK and a top ten bestseller in the US. Laura lives in Leicestershire, England, with her husband, their two children, and a cat who likes to lie on her keyboard while she tries to write.
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Michelle Kidd
Michelle Kidd
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Book title: Seven Days to Die
Genre: Crime fiction
Format: Paperback
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It’s 2012 and the London Olympics begin in seven days. DI Jack MacIntosh and his team at the Metropolitan Police must track down a serial killer before the Opening Ceremony, but time is ticking …will they be too late?
The Author:
Michelle Kidd is a crime fiction author from Suffolk. She writes the DI Jack MacIntosh and DI Nicki Hardcastle crime series. She has a background in criminal law and works for the NHS.
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Genre: Crime fiction
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The Book:
It’s 2012 and the London Olympics begin in seven days. DI Jack MacIntosh and his team at the Metropolitan Police must track down a serial killer before the Opening Ceremony, but time is ticking …will they be too late?
The Author:
Michelle Kidd is a crime fiction author from Suffolk. She writes the DI Jack MacIntosh and DI Nicki Hardcastle crime series. She has a background in criminal law and works for the NHS.
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Dan Smith
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Book Title: The Wall Between Us
Genre: Children’s, Historical
Format: Paperback
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Berlin, 1961. Anja and Monika are best friends – they even share a cat called Otto. When a huge barbed wire fence is built between their apartment blocks, everything changes; their city and family are divided by the Berlin Wall. In the West, Anja is sure it will be taken down, but Monika is afraid. Her world is neighbours keep disappearing, others become spies and shadowy threats lurk around every corner. Then, Anja discovers that Otto has found a way across. And if he can reach Monika, so can she ... PRAISE FOR DAN 'Action, adventure, wolves, snow ... this story has EVERYTHING. I devoured it so quickly I need to read it again.' EMMA CARROLL on She Wolf 'This book grabbed me from page one – highly recommended' HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY on My Friend the Enemy
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Among other novels, Dan Smith is the author of The Child Thief, Red Winter and The Darkest Heart, which are also available from Pegasus Crime. He lives in Newcastle with his family.
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Genre: Children’s, Historical
Format: Paperback
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Berlin, 1961. Anja and Monika are best friends – they even share a cat called Otto. When a huge barbed wire fence is built between their apartment blocks, everything changes; their city and family are divided by the Berlin Wall. In the West, Anja is sure it will be taken down, but Monika is afraid. Her world is neighbours keep disappearing, others become spies and shadowy threats lurk around every corner. Then, Anja discovers that Otto has found a way across. And if he can reach Monika, so can she ... PRAISE FOR DAN 'Action, adventure, wolves, snow ... this story has EVERYTHING. I devoured it so quickly I need to read it again.' EMMA CARROLL on She Wolf 'This book grabbed me from page one – highly recommended' HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY on My Friend the Enemy
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Among other novels, Dan Smith is the author of The Child Thief, Red Winter and The Darkest Heart, which are also available from Pegasus Crime. He lives in Newcastle with his family.
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Kate Thompson
Kate Thompson
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Book Title: All I Hope For You
Genre: Children’s, Picture Book
Format: Paperback (First Edition)
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I wonder, my little one, who will you be
when you're out in this world, big and wide?
A bundle so precious and tiny and loved,
you will carry my heart by your side . . .
A beautiful and inspiring letter of hope and love to a child taking their first steps into the big, wide world. This heartwarming book expresses every parent or carer's hope that their child will be kind to others, caring to the world and, above all else, true to themselves.
With stunning, dreamy illustrations throughout, and a lyrical rhyming text, this is the perfect book to share together to help children find their way in the world and to give parents the confidence to guide them as they grow.
The Author:
Kate Thompson spent much of her childhood with her nose in books, immersed in literary adventures. After a brief stint as a solicitor, Kate rediscovered her love of children’s books, and now spends her days living on the south coast gleefully immersed in literary adventures of her own making. She is regarded as an exciting new voice in picture books.
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I wonder, my little one, who will you be
when you're out in this world, big and wide?
A bundle so precious and tiny and loved,
you will carry my heart by your side . . .
A beautiful and inspiring letter of hope and love to a child taking their first steps into the big, wide world. This heartwarming book expresses every parent or carer's hope that their child will be kind to others, caring to the world and, above all else, true to themselves.
With stunning, dreamy illustrations throughout, and a lyrical rhyming text, this is the perfect book to share together to help children find their way in the world and to give parents the confidence to guide them as they grow.
The Author:
Kate Thompson spent much of her childhood with her nose in books, immersed in literary adventures. After a brief stint as a solicitor, Kate rediscovered her love of children’s books, and now spends her days living on the south coast gleefully immersed in literary adventures of her own making. She is regarded as an exciting new voice in picture books.
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Annette Hannah
Annette Hannah
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Book Title: Lottie’s School of Dance
Genre: Romcom
Format: Paperback
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Lottie Daniels is dancing up the aisle in Canada when she realises her whirlwind wedding is a big mistake. Chad isn't the right person for her at all! And, in that moment, Lottie goes from dancing bride to runaway bride.
Much to her brother's relief, Lottie decides to return to Bramblewood in the UK. But life has more surprises in store for her. After rescuing both a donkey and a little old lady called Doris - all with the help of a handsome stranger! - Lottie suddenly becomes a big part of Doris's life.
From broken dreams to second chances, Lottie finally has a chance to rebuild her life. When her friends suggest she takes part in a dance audition she refuses point blank but it soon becomes clear that destiny has other plans.
You are guaranteed to fall head over heels with this sweet and charming romance.
The Author:
" I'm originally from Liverpool but now live in leafy Hertfordshire with my husband, two of our three grown up children and our crazy black cocker spaniel Toby.
My books are set in the fictional market town of Bramblewood and they're inspired by the beautiful countryside that I'm surrounded by. There is always a nod to my home town of Liverpool too.
As well as being an author I am also a qualified Marketeer and Press Officer for the Romantic Novelists' Association, a fabulous organisation of which I am also a member."
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Genre: Romcom
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Lottie Daniels is dancing up the aisle in Canada when she realises her whirlwind wedding is a big mistake. Chad isn't the right person for her at all! And, in that moment, Lottie goes from dancing bride to runaway bride.
Much to her brother's relief, Lottie decides to return to Bramblewood in the UK. But life has more surprises in store for her. After rescuing both a donkey and a little old lady called Doris - all with the help of a handsome stranger! - Lottie suddenly becomes a big part of Doris's life.
From broken dreams to second chances, Lottie finally has a chance to rebuild her life. When her friends suggest she takes part in a dance audition she refuses point blank but it soon becomes clear that destiny has other plans.
You are guaranteed to fall head over heels with this sweet and charming romance.
The Author:
" I'm originally from Liverpool but now live in leafy Hertfordshire with my husband, two of our three grown up children and our crazy black cocker spaniel Toby.
My books are set in the fictional market town of Bramblewood and they're inspired by the beautiful countryside that I'm surrounded by. There is always a nod to my home town of Liverpool too.
As well as being an author I am also a qualified Marketeer and Press Officer for the Romantic Novelists' Association, a fabulous organisation of which I am also a member."
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Martin Howard
Martin Howard
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Book Title: Mallory Vayle and the Curse of Maggoty Skull
Genre: Middle Grade Children’s, spooky comedy
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The Book:
Super funny, super spooky MG for budding horror fans about a talkative skull and a necromancer-in-training - perfect reading for fans of Lemony Snicket and Skulduggery Pleasant.
The Author:
Martin Howard writes absurdly funny books for children. His last was a Sunday Times Book of the Week and he has been compared to Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams and the Monty Pythons. Mallory Vayle and the Curse of Maggoty Skull is his favourite so far.
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The Book:
Super funny, super spooky MG for budding horror fans about a talkative skull and a necromancer-in-training - perfect reading for fans of Lemony Snicket and Skulduggery Pleasant.
The Author:
Martin Howard writes absurdly funny books for children. His last was a Sunday Times Book of the Week and he has been compared to Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams and the Monty Pythons. Mallory Vayle and the Curse of Maggoty Skull is his favourite so far.
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Louise Doughty
Louise Doughty
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Title: A Bird in Winter
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Format: Hardback
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The Book:
'Doughty is a brilliant storyteller who knows how to build suspense to breaking point.' The Times
The latest from the writer of BBC smash hit drama Crossfire, and Number One Sunday Times Bestseller Louise Doughty
Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she's in a meeting in her office in Birmingham - the next, she's walking out on her job, her home, her life. It's a day she thought might come, and one she's prepared for - but nothing could prepare her for what will happen next. As she flees north using multiple disguises, Bird has to work out who exactly is on her trail, and who - if anyone - she can trust. Like many people, she has fantasised about escape for a long time, but now it's actually happening. Is her greatest fear that she will be hunted down, or that she will never be found?
The Author:
Louise Doughty is the author of ten novels including Platform Seven, recently filmed for ITV; Black Water, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; the bestseller Apple Tree Yard, adapted for BBC One; and Whatever You Love, nominated for the Costa Novel Award and the Women’s Prize for fiction. She has been nominated for many other prizes including the Sunday Times Short Story Prize and the CWA Silver Dagger, along with creating and writing the hit BBC drama Crossfire. Her work has been translated into thirty languages. Her latest novel, A Bird in Winter, was published by Faber & Faber in August 2023.
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Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Format: Hardback
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The Book:
'Doughty is a brilliant storyteller who knows how to build suspense to breaking point.' The Times
The latest from the writer of BBC smash hit drama Crossfire, and Number One Sunday Times Bestseller Louise Doughty
Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she's in a meeting in her office in Birmingham - the next, she's walking out on her job, her home, her life. It's a day she thought might come, and one she's prepared for - but nothing could prepare her for what will happen next. As she flees north using multiple disguises, Bird has to work out who exactly is on her trail, and who - if anyone - she can trust. Like many people, she has fantasised about escape for a long time, but now it's actually happening. Is her greatest fear that she will be hunted down, or that she will never be found?
The Author:
Louise Doughty is the author of ten novels including Platform Seven, recently filmed for ITV; Black Water, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; the bestseller Apple Tree Yard, adapted for BBC One; and Whatever You Love, nominated for the Costa Novel Award and the Women’s Prize for fiction. She has been nominated for many other prizes including the Sunday Times Short Story Prize and the CWA Silver Dagger, along with creating and writing the hit BBC drama Crossfire. Her work has been translated into thirty languages. Her latest novel, A Bird in Winter, was published by Faber & Faber in August 2023.
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Serena Patel
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Title 1: Test Trouble
Title 2: Anisha Accidental Detective
Genre: Children - Education
Format: Paperback
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Title 1: Test Trouble
Try as he might, Arun simply cannot wriggle his way out of taking the maths test at school. Instead, he must learn to face his fears in this encouraging and relatable school story from Serena Patel.
Maths test? Nightmare! Arun is determined to get out of a Maths test at school. But how? A schoolwide protest against all tests? Pretending to be sick? He’s ready to try anything, but maybe he’s not the only one who feels this way, and maybe in the end it’s better to face your fears?
Title 2: Anisha Accidental Detective
Winner of the Sainsbury's Children's Book Prize and of the Crimefest Best Crime Novel for Children
HELP! My super-dramatic Aunty Bindi is getting married tomorrow and she's having a mega meltdown.
But sssh! I've just found a ransom note, pushed through the letter box, saying Uncle Tony, Bindi's husband-to-be, has been kidnapped, and will only be freed if the wedding is cancelled!
I have to keep this a secret otherwise it'll be panic-central...
The Author:
Serena Patel is the author of the Anisha, Accidental Detective series which won the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award for Fiction. She lives in the West Midlands with her family and believes all children deserve to feel seen in the stories they read and that books are an important tool for empathy. When she's not writing Serena enjoys watching movies, reading and eating cake. Chocolate cake preferred.
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Title 1: Test Trouble
Try as he might, Arun simply cannot wriggle his way out of taking the maths test at school. Instead, he must learn to face his fears in this encouraging and relatable school story from Serena Patel.
Maths test? Nightmare! Arun is determined to get out of a Maths test at school. But how? A schoolwide protest against all tests? Pretending to be sick? He’s ready to try anything, but maybe he’s not the only one who feels this way, and maybe in the end it’s better to face your fears?
Title 2: Anisha Accidental Detective
Winner of the Sainsbury's Children's Book Prize and of the Crimefest Best Crime Novel for Children
HELP! My super-dramatic Aunty Bindi is getting married tomorrow and she's having a mega meltdown.
But sssh! I've just found a ransom note, pushed through the letter box, saying Uncle Tony, Bindi's husband-to-be, has been kidnapped, and will only be freed if the wedding is cancelled!
I have to keep this a secret otherwise it'll be panic-central...
The Author:
Serena Patel is the author of the Anisha, Accidental Detective series which won the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award for Fiction. She lives in the West Midlands with her family and believes all children deserve to feel seen in the stories they read and that books are an important tool for empathy. When she's not writing Serena enjoys watching movies, reading and eating cake. Chocolate cake preferred.
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Susan Bower
Susan Bower
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Title: SHOO! By Susie Bower, Illustrated by Francesca Gambatesa.
Genre: Picture Book.
Format: Paperback.
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Mrs Golightly doesn't like animals. Then a Zoo moves in next door. There's a giraffe in her bath, a kangaroo on her loo - and even ants in her pants!
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Among many, many jobs, Susie's been the worst TV Floor Manager in the world (her midriff appearing behind Sue Lawley during the news). Writing is much more her thing!
Genre: Picture Book.
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Mrs Golightly doesn't like animals. Then a Zoo moves in next door. There's a giraffe in her bath, a kangaroo on her loo - and even ants in her pants!
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Among many, many jobs, Susie's been the worst TV Floor Manager in the world (her midriff appearing behind Sue Lawley during the news). Writing is much more her thing!
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Amanda Lees
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* In addition to a signed copy of her book, Amanda will also name a character in her new psychological thriller after the winning bidder!*
Title: If I Can Save One Child
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
France, 1942: Robert curls sleepily into me, his tiny hand grasping mine like a lifeline. He’s been so brave, this little boy who has been through the unimaginable. As his eyes close, I wonder how much longer we can go on. But I promised to save him. And I can’t give up now…
Young linguist Elisabeth has been working for the British secret service since the war began, rescuing downed pilots and Jewish refugees. Now the Gestapo are on her trail: her next mission must be her last. Or she may never see the white cliffs of Dover again.
But she can’t even think about abandoning her post when so many remain in danger. So when daredevil fellow agent Guy arrives with a frantic plea, there was never any doubt that Elisabeth would help. Somewhere in occupied France is a little boy, the last survivor of a Jewish orphanage, desperately trying to make his way to safety. They have to save him.
Elisabeth knows the mission may be suicide. But she also knows she could never live with herself if she didn’t try to save this child. And so she and Guy set off on one last journey together, into the mountains. For freedom – for this child – they’ll risk it all…
Based on the heartbreaking, compelling true stories of the women and men who risked everything to save thousands of innocent lives, this completely addictive novel is perfect for readers of My Name is Eva, Marion Kummerow and Mandy Robotham.
What readers are saying about If I Can Save One Child:
‘A heartbreaking and inspiring story based on true events… Had me flying through the pages. I thoroughly enjoyed this fast-paced book… Broke my heart… Leaving tears running down my cheeks… Pulls the reader into story and doesn’t let them go until the very end. I loved this book and I highly recommend it.’ PageTurners, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘LOVE, LOVE, LOOOOOOVVVEEE, LOVED IT!!!… Absolutely stunning!!!… I was completely swept away!!’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘What a novel!!! My blood pressure kept on going up and up to the very end of the story! Full of tension, action with a touch of romance… Thrilling… keeps the reader on edge.’ Goodreads reviewer
‘Action-packed… Had me turning page after page. The nail-biting moments had me enjoying the story more and more.’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Author:
Amanda was born in Hong Kong and survived both a convent boarding school and a Jesuit boys’ school before being summarily ejected from the latter. She gets her thirst for adventure from her parents who met in the jungle in Borneo where her mother had set up a hospital and her father, a former Gurkha Intelligence officer and Oxford-educated spy, was probably up to no good.
The Silence Before Dawn, the first in her bestselling WW2 thriller series was published in September 2022 and the second, Paris At First Light, in November 2022, both also to excellent reviews. The third book in the series, The Midwife’s Child, was published in May 2023 and the latest, The Paris Spy’s Girl, in February 2024. All of these can be read as standalones. The fifth book in the series, If I Can Save One Child, will be published in July 2024.
Amanda is also the author of the bestselling satirical novels Selling Out and Secret Admirer (published by Pan) which have both received critical acclaim and have been translated into several languages. Her major YA thriller trilogy, Kumari, Goddess of Gotham, was written as a tribute to her mum, who died a couple of months before
In creating Kumari, Amanda wanted to write books for young people that would reflect her own exotic childhood. Kumari was nominated for the Guardian Children’s Book Prize and the Doncaster Book Award. It featured as Redhouse Book Of The Month and Lovereading4kids Book Of The Month.
Amanda has a degree in drama and her first telly job was as a member of the Communist Resistance in ’Allo ‘Allo. This involved running around with a dachshund tucked under one arm and deploying her best cod French accent. It has all been dramatically downhill since.
A broadcaster as well as an actress and novelist, Amanda appears regularly on BBC radio and LBC and was a contracted writer to the hit series Weekending on Radio 4. She researched and edited the leading directory for banks, The Banker’s Almanac, for Euromoney publications while also covering stories of shady dealings in the City for them.
She has written for, or contributed to, The Evening Standard, The Times, New Woman, US Cosmopolitan, Bulgaria’s Vagabond and Company Magazine as well as numerous online publications and has two non-fiction books published under a pen name.
Her non-fiction book under her own name, From Aconite to the Zodiac Killer: The Dictionary of Crime, was published by Robinson/Little Brown in July 2020 to excellent reviews. It was published in the US by Ulysses Press in May 2021.
As well as Eastern European Mafiosi and the ex-head of the KGB, Amanda numbers serving and retired Police Officers, FBI agents, members of the Special Forces and distinguished forensic scientists among her dubious but well-qualified contacts.
Amanda has conducted a love coaching phone-in from the sofa of Richard & Judy and wooed the viewers on Channel 5 Live. She won an award at the Hungarian Gyor Film Festival for a short film she produced, a psychological thriller called Pros and Cons.
She is currently working on a number of book, TV and film projects.
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Title: If I Can Save One Child
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
Signed: Yes, dedication is available
Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book;
France, 1942: Robert curls sleepily into me, his tiny hand grasping mine like a lifeline. He’s been so brave, this little boy who has been through the unimaginable. As his eyes close, I wonder how much longer we can go on. But I promised to save him. And I can’t give up now…
Young linguist Elisabeth has been working for the British secret service since the war began, rescuing downed pilots and Jewish refugees. Now the Gestapo are on her trail: her next mission must be her last. Or she may never see the white cliffs of Dover again.
But she can’t even think about abandoning her post when so many remain in danger. So when daredevil fellow agent Guy arrives with a frantic plea, there was never any doubt that Elisabeth would help. Somewhere in occupied France is a little boy, the last survivor of a Jewish orphanage, desperately trying to make his way to safety. They have to save him.
Elisabeth knows the mission may be suicide. But she also knows she could never live with herself if she didn’t try to save this child. And so she and Guy set off on one last journey together, into the mountains. For freedom – for this child – they’ll risk it all…
Based on the heartbreaking, compelling true stories of the women and men who risked everything to save thousands of innocent lives, this completely addictive novel is perfect for readers of My Name is Eva, Marion Kummerow and Mandy Robotham.
What readers are saying about If I Can Save One Child:
‘A heartbreaking and inspiring story based on true events… Had me flying through the pages. I thoroughly enjoyed this fast-paced book… Broke my heart… Leaving tears running down my cheeks… Pulls the reader into story and doesn’t let them go until the very end. I loved this book and I highly recommend it.’ PageTurners, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘LOVE, LOVE, LOOOOOOVVVEEE, LOVED IT!!!… Absolutely stunning!!!… I was completely swept away!!’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘What a novel!!! My blood pressure kept on going up and up to the very end of the story! Full of tension, action with a touch of romance… Thrilling… keeps the reader on edge.’ Goodreads reviewer
‘Action-packed… Had me turning page after page. The nail-biting moments had me enjoying the story more and more.’ Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Author:
Amanda was born in Hong Kong and survived both a convent boarding school and a Jesuit boys’ school before being summarily ejected from the latter. She gets her thirst for adventure from her parents who met in the jungle in Borneo where her mother had set up a hospital and her father, a former Gurkha Intelligence officer and Oxford-educated spy, was probably up to no good.
The Silence Before Dawn, the first in her bestselling WW2 thriller series was published in September 2022 and the second, Paris At First Light, in November 2022, both also to excellent reviews. The third book in the series, The Midwife’s Child, was published in May 2023 and the latest, The Paris Spy’s Girl, in February 2024. All of these can be read as standalones. The fifth book in the series, If I Can Save One Child, will be published in July 2024.
Amanda is also the author of the bestselling satirical novels Selling Out and Secret Admirer (published by Pan) which have both received critical acclaim and have been translated into several languages. Her major YA thriller trilogy, Kumari, Goddess of Gotham, was written as a tribute to her mum, who died a couple of months before
In creating Kumari, Amanda wanted to write books for young people that would reflect her own exotic childhood. Kumari was nominated for the Guardian Children’s Book Prize and the Doncaster Book Award. It featured as Redhouse Book Of The Month and Lovereading4kids Book Of The Month.
Amanda has a degree in drama and her first telly job was as a member of the Communist Resistance in ’Allo ‘Allo. This involved running around with a dachshund tucked under one arm and deploying her best cod French accent. It has all been dramatically downhill since.
A broadcaster as well as an actress and novelist, Amanda appears regularly on BBC radio and LBC and was a contracted writer to the hit series Weekending on Radio 4. She researched and edited the leading directory for banks, The Banker’s Almanac, for Euromoney publications while also covering stories of shady dealings in the City for them.
She has written for, or contributed to, The Evening Standard, The Times, New Woman, US Cosmopolitan, Bulgaria’s Vagabond and Company Magazine as well as numerous online publications and has two non-fiction books published under a pen name.
Her non-fiction book under her own name, From Aconite to the Zodiac Killer: The Dictionary of Crime, was published by Robinson/Little Brown in July 2020 to excellent reviews. It was published in the US by Ulysses Press in May 2021.
As well as Eastern European Mafiosi and the ex-head of the KGB, Amanda numbers serving and retired Police Officers, FBI agents, members of the Special Forces and distinguished forensic scientists among her dubious but well-qualified contacts.
Amanda has conducted a love coaching phone-in from the sofa of Richard & Judy and wooed the viewers on Channel 5 Live. She won an award at the Hungarian Gyor Film Festival for a short film she produced, a psychological thriller called Pros and Cons.
She is currently working on a number of book, TV and film projects.
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Website: https://www.amandalees.com/
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JJ Arcanjo
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Title: Crookhaven: The School for Thieves
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Format: Paperback
Signed: Yes, dedication available
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book:
13-year-old Gabriel is a brilliant pickpocket, a skill which he uses to keep his often empty belly not quite so empty. And then one day, he's caught.
But instead of being arrested, he is invited by the mysterious Caspian Crook to attend Crookhaven - a school for thieves. At Crookhaven, students are trained in lock-picking, forgery and 'crim-nastics', all with the intention of doing good out in the world, by conning the bad and giving back to the innocent.
But ... can you ever really trust a thief?
The Author:
JJ Arcanjo is a half-Portuguese, half-English writer who grew up between the Algarve and Devon. He has a degree in Criminology and Psychology from Aberystwyth University and a Masters in Creative Writing and Publishing from City University, London. He’s published two crime novels for adults.
His debut middle-grade book, CROOKHAVEN: THE SCHOOL FOR THIEVES, was published by Hachette in March 2023. The sequel, THE FORBIDDEN MAZE, was published in August 2023.
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Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
13-year-old Gabriel is a brilliant pickpocket, a skill which he uses to keep his often empty belly not quite so empty. And then one day, he's caught.
But instead of being arrested, he is invited by the mysterious Caspian Crook to attend Crookhaven - a school for thieves. At Crookhaven, students are trained in lock-picking, forgery and 'crim-nastics', all with the intention of doing good out in the world, by conning the bad and giving back to the innocent.
But ... can you ever really trust a thief?
The Author:
JJ Arcanjo is a half-Portuguese, half-English writer who grew up between the Algarve and Devon. He has a degree in Criminology and Psychology from Aberystwyth University and a Masters in Creative Writing and Publishing from City University, London. He’s published two crime novels for adults.
His debut middle-grade book, CROOKHAVEN: THE SCHOOL FOR THIEVES, was published by Hachette in March 2023. The sequel, THE FORBIDDEN MAZE, was published in August 2023.
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Paul Finch
Paul Finch
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Book Title: Rogue
Genre: Crime thriller
Format: Paperback, 1st edition
Signed : Yes, dedication available
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They shot everyone. His friends, his colleagues, the woman he loved. But they made one critical mistake. They didn’t shoot him.
Detective Sergeant Mark ‘Heck’ Heckenburg has a reputation for bending the rules, but when a ruthless gun attack on a North London pub leaves 26 of his closest workmates dead, he throws the rulebook away.
Devastated beyond recovery, he goes rogue.
But Heck himself is a suspect. Suspended from duty and watched day and night, it isn’t just a matter of eluding the surveillance net in London. When he makes his move, he becomes a fugitive, an outlaw now infamous across the whole of the UK.
And yet that’s the least of his problems. Because as Heck tracks the killers north through the wintry badlands of industrial England, and from there into the mountainous wilds of Scotland, they too have made plans, and some deadly and deranged individuals are lying in wait …
The Author:
Paul Finch is a former cop and journalist turned full-time writer. He cut his literary teeth penning episodes of the British crime drama, The Bill, and has written extensively in the field of film, audio drama and children's animation. He is also well known for his work in the thriller, horror and historical fiction fields.
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Genre: Crime thriller
Format: Paperback, 1st edition
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The Book:
They shot everyone. His friends, his colleagues, the woman he loved. But they made one critical mistake. They didn’t shoot him.
Detective Sergeant Mark ‘Heck’ Heckenburg has a reputation for bending the rules, but when a ruthless gun attack on a North London pub leaves 26 of his closest workmates dead, he throws the rulebook away.
Devastated beyond recovery, he goes rogue.
But Heck himself is a suspect. Suspended from duty and watched day and night, it isn’t just a matter of eluding the surveillance net in London. When he makes his move, he becomes a fugitive, an outlaw now infamous across the whole of the UK.
And yet that’s the least of his problems. Because as Heck tracks the killers north through the wintry badlands of industrial England, and from there into the mountainous wilds of Scotland, they too have made plans, and some deadly and deranged individuals are lying in wait …
The Author:
Paul Finch is a former cop and journalist turned full-time writer. He cut his literary teeth penning episodes of the British crime drama, The Bill, and has written extensively in the field of film, audio drama and children's animation. He is also well known for his work in the thriller, horror and historical fiction fields.
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Zeena Gosrani
Zeena Gosrani
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Book title: This Dark Heart
Genre: Fantasy
Format: Paperback
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In a world where the shadow-like ‘daayan’ stalk the night, the mages of Agraal are the only ones able to defend the realm. So when Princess Thiya discovers she has the extraordinary powers of a healing mage, she captures the attention of earth mage Isaac. To lure Thiya to the frontline, Isaac does the unthinkable, he takes Thiya’s true love Amara hostage. Together with fire mage Kaayan and her brother Lochan, Thiya must make a perilous journey to rescue Amara. But not everything is as it seems and the powers at work behind Amara’s abduction might come from the darkest heart of them all.
The author:
Zeena is a dyslexic writer who loves oxymorons so much, she thought she'd become one. She has always been a dreamer but never thought she could write until she challenged herself one day when she was between jobs, and she's never looked back. She lives in London with her imaginary cat because she can't have a real one (they had a meeting).
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Genre: Fantasy
Format: Paperback
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The book:
In a world where the shadow-like ‘daayan’ stalk the night, the mages of Agraal are the only ones able to defend the realm. So when Princess Thiya discovers she has the extraordinary powers of a healing mage, she captures the attention of earth mage Isaac. To lure Thiya to the frontline, Isaac does the unthinkable, he takes Thiya’s true love Amara hostage. Together with fire mage Kaayan and her brother Lochan, Thiya must make a perilous journey to rescue Amara. But not everything is as it seems and the powers at work behind Amara’s abduction might come from the darkest heart of them all.
The author:
Zeena is a dyslexic writer who loves oxymorons so much, she thought she'd become one. She has always been a dreamer but never thought she could write until she challenged herself one day when she was between jobs, and she's never looked back. She lives in London with her imaginary cat because she can't have a real one (they had a meeting).
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Title 1: 'Bronte Tempestra and the Lightning Steeds'
Title 2: 'Bronte Tempestra and the Ice Warriors'
Genre: Young Middle Grade Fantasy
Format: Paperback
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Book 1:
Bronte Tempestra of the Storm Kingdom is taking charge of her own destiny - she will be the first ever princess to become a knight!
But knight school isn't the fun-filled adventure Bronte is expecting - the knights don't seem interested in saving . . . anything. And when she discovers that the Lightning Steeds have gone missing, leaving the Thunder Trolls to wreak havoc across the lands, she knows it's her moment to prove just how brave a princess can be.
Bronte must face down pompous griffin lords and bare-bottomed cloud-stealing gnomes, monstrous horrorflies and spooky zombits. The future of the entire kingdom is at stake!
It's time for the princess to rescue the knights!
Book 2:
When a snowstorm engulfs Sir Sebastian's at the end of the winter term, it looks like all the knights will be stuck at school for the holidays!
But Bronte suspects there's more to the weird weather than meets the eye . . . and when ice sculptures come to life it looks like she has another quest on her hands! As Bronte ventures through deep tunnels and into the heart of a blizzard to confront her frosty foes, can she show she's truly the knight she dreams of being?
Author Bio:
Raised on a healthy diet of fantasy and fairy tales, Bex Hogan has spent much of her life lost in daydreams. Writing her stories down was a natural progression and now she enjoys sharing her time between living in the real world and escaping to her imagination. A Cornish girl at heart, Bex now lives in Cambridgeshire with her beautiful family. She is the author of BLACK HEAT, a standalone YA fantasy, and the ISLES OF STORM AND SORROW trilogy which are YA fantasy adventures set on the high seas (all out now with Hachette Children's Group). The first two books in her new fantasy middle grade series, BRONTE TEMPESTRA AND THE LIGHTNING STEEDS and BRONTE TEMPESTRA AND THE ICE WARRIORS are out now with Piccadilly Press, with the third book coming in March 2025. Her next YA fantasy, NETTLE, is out in October 2024 with Zephyr.
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Title 2: 'Bronte Tempestra and the Ice Warriors'
Genre: Young Middle Grade Fantasy
Format: Paperback
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Book 1:
Bronte Tempestra of the Storm Kingdom is taking charge of her own destiny - she will be the first ever princess to become a knight!
But knight school isn't the fun-filled adventure Bronte is expecting - the knights don't seem interested in saving . . . anything. And when she discovers that the Lightning Steeds have gone missing, leaving the Thunder Trolls to wreak havoc across the lands, she knows it's her moment to prove just how brave a princess can be.
Bronte must face down pompous griffin lords and bare-bottomed cloud-stealing gnomes, monstrous horrorflies and spooky zombits. The future of the entire kingdom is at stake!
It's time for the princess to rescue the knights!
Book 2:
When a snowstorm engulfs Sir Sebastian's at the end of the winter term, it looks like all the knights will be stuck at school for the holidays!
But Bronte suspects there's more to the weird weather than meets the eye . . . and when ice sculptures come to life it looks like she has another quest on her hands! As Bronte ventures through deep tunnels and into the heart of a blizzard to confront her frosty foes, can she show she's truly the knight she dreams of being?
Author Bio:
Raised on a healthy diet of fantasy and fairy tales, Bex Hogan has spent much of her life lost in daydreams. Writing her stories down was a natural progression and now she enjoys sharing her time between living in the real world and escaping to her imagination. A Cornish girl at heart, Bex now lives in Cambridgeshire with her beautiful family. She is the author of BLACK HEAT, a standalone YA fantasy, and the ISLES OF STORM AND SORROW trilogy which are YA fantasy adventures set on the high seas (all out now with Hachette Children's Group). The first two books in her new fantasy middle grade series, BRONTE TEMPESTRA AND THE LIGHTNING STEEDS and BRONTE TEMPESTRA AND THE ICE WARRIORS are out now with Piccadilly Press, with the third book coming in March 2025. Her next YA fantasy, NETTLE, is out in October 2024 with Zephyr.
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Bex Hogan
Bex Hogan
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Book Title: NETTLE
Genre: YA fantasy
Format: Hardback
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Book Blurb:
Inspired by faery myth and folklore, the haunting, heart wrenching tale of a girl called Nettle in a dark, foreboding faery kingdom.
A wild misfit in the human world, Nettle is enthralled by the glamour of the faery realm, with its two moons and scarlet stars. She grows close to Conor, a human stolen centuries before, and she also falls under the spell of mysterious Ellion, a Shadow Faery. To try to help her beloved grandmother who is fading in her world, Nettle makes a pact with the faery king. He'll heal her grandmother in exchange for Nettle completing three tasks. She agrees, not realising that deception lurks in this enchanted place, and that she has been tricked.
In this dangerous fantasy kingdom Nettle discovers, too late, her part in an age-old love story and the price she will pay.
Author Bio:
Raised on a healthy diet of fantasy and fairy tales, Bex Hogan has spent much of her life lost in daydreams. Writing her stories down was a natural progression and now she enjoys sharing her time between living in the real world and escaping to her imagination. A Cornish girl at heart, Bex now lives in Cambridgeshire with her beautiful family. She is the author of BLACK HEAT, a standalone YA fantasy, and the ISLES OF STORM AND SORROW trilogy which are YA fantasy adventures set on the high seas (all out now with Hachette Children's Group). The first two books in her new fantasy middle grade series, BRONTE TEMPESTRA AND THE LIGHTNING STEEDS and BRONTE TEMPESTRA AND THE ICE WARRIORS are out now with Piccadilly Press, with the third book coming in March 2025. Her next YA fantasy, NETTLE, is out in October 2024 with Zephyr.
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Genre: YA fantasy
Format: Hardback
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Book Blurb:
Inspired by faery myth and folklore, the haunting, heart wrenching tale of a girl called Nettle in a dark, foreboding faery kingdom.
A wild misfit in the human world, Nettle is enthralled by the glamour of the faery realm, with its two moons and scarlet stars. She grows close to Conor, a human stolen centuries before, and she also falls under the spell of mysterious Ellion, a Shadow Faery. To try to help her beloved grandmother who is fading in her world, Nettle makes a pact with the faery king. He'll heal her grandmother in exchange for Nettle completing three tasks. She agrees, not realising that deception lurks in this enchanted place, and that she has been tricked.
In this dangerous fantasy kingdom Nettle discovers, too late, her part in an age-old love story and the price she will pay.
Author Bio:
Raised on a healthy diet of fantasy and fairy tales, Bex Hogan has spent much of her life lost in daydreams. Writing her stories down was a natural progression and now she enjoys sharing her time between living in the real world and escaping to her imagination. A Cornish girl at heart, Bex now lives in Cambridgeshire with her beautiful family. She is the author of BLACK HEAT, a standalone YA fantasy, and the ISLES OF STORM AND SORROW trilogy which are YA fantasy adventures set on the high seas (all out now with Hachette Children's Group). The first two books in her new fantasy middle grade series, BRONTE TEMPESTRA AND THE LIGHTNING STEEDS and BRONTE TEMPESTRA AND THE ICE WARRIORS are out now with Piccadilly Press, with the third book coming in March 2025. Her next YA fantasy, NETTLE, is out in October 2024 with Zephyr.
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Ben Gazur
Ben Gazur
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Title: A Feast of Folklore: The Bizarre Stories Behind British Food
Genre: Food & Drink - History
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
Folklorist Ben Gazur guides you through the dark alleys of British history to uncover how our food habits have been passed down through generations of folklore.
Who was the first person to throw salt over their shoulder? Why do we think carrots can help us see in the dark? When did we start holding village fairs to honour gigantic apple pies? Or start hurling ourselves down hills in pursuit of a wheel of cheese? Gazur investigates the origins of famous food superstitions as well as much more bizarre and lesser-known tales too, from what day the devil urinates on blackberries to how to stop witches using eggshells as escape boats.
Hilarious and fascinating, A Feast of Folklore will introduce you to the gloriously eccentric folk who aren’t often noticed by historians. Here lies a smorgasbord of their dark remedies and deadly delicacies, waiting to be discovered.
The Author:
Since completing my PhD at the University of Edinburgh in the workings of Nitric Oxide Synthase in 2011 I have been working full time as a freelance writer. My interests have always been fairly expansive and I love the freedom and challenge in the range of topics I get to research and write about.
I'm experienced in both pitching my own articles and writing on whatever subject a publication wants. I've done interviews, reviews, and essays but enjoy working on everything from screenplays to podcast scripts.
Always looking for a new task.
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Genre: Food & Drink - History
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
Folklorist Ben Gazur guides you through the dark alleys of British history to uncover how our food habits have been passed down through generations of folklore.
Who was the first person to throw salt over their shoulder? Why do we think carrots can help us see in the dark? When did we start holding village fairs to honour gigantic apple pies? Or start hurling ourselves down hills in pursuit of a wheel of cheese? Gazur investigates the origins of famous food superstitions as well as much more bizarre and lesser-known tales too, from what day the devil urinates on blackberries to how to stop witches using eggshells as escape boats.
Hilarious and fascinating, A Feast of Folklore will introduce you to the gloriously eccentric folk who aren’t often noticed by historians. Here lies a smorgasbord of their dark remedies and deadly delicacies, waiting to be discovered.
The Author:
Since completing my PhD at the University of Edinburgh in the workings of Nitric Oxide Synthase in 2011 I have been working full time as a freelance writer. My interests have always been fairly expansive and I love the freedom and challenge in the range of topics I get to research and write about.
I'm experienced in both pitching my own articles and writing on whatever subject a publication wants. I've done interviews, reviews, and essays but enjoy working on everything from screenplays to podcast scripts.
Always looking for a new task.
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370 Bill Wood
370 Bill Wood
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Title: Let’s Split Up
Genre: YA horror/thriller
Format: Paperback *First edition, sprayed edge*
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The Book;
Set in a small town where rumour spreads as fast as the fire on the day of the killings, the theory is the old ghoul who haunts the house after his own murder hundreds of years ago has finally taken revenge. As Cam, Jonesy, Amber and new-girl Buffy investigate, the rumour feels closer to the truth than they ever dared think possible, and as they enter the mansion themselves, the idea of splitting up to find evidence will prove to be either the best ... or worst decision of all.
A nail-biting and perfectly formed Thriller for the YA BookTok generation. This is Scooby Doo meets Win Lose Kill Die. When hot "it-couple" Brad and Shelley are brutally murdered in a Victorian mansion, a group of teen friends investigate.
The Author:
Bill writes mysteries for young adult and adult audiences. He graduated from Birmingham City University, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts with first-class honours in Film & Screenwriting. He was born in Birmingham, England, and currently lives there.
Let’s Split Up is his debut YA horror-thriller.
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Genre: YA horror/thriller
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The Book;
Set in a small town where rumour spreads as fast as the fire on the day of the killings, the theory is the old ghoul who haunts the house after his own murder hundreds of years ago has finally taken revenge. As Cam, Jonesy, Amber and new-girl Buffy investigate, the rumour feels closer to the truth than they ever dared think possible, and as they enter the mansion themselves, the idea of splitting up to find evidence will prove to be either the best ... or worst decision of all.
A nail-biting and perfectly formed Thriller for the YA BookTok generation. This is Scooby Doo meets Win Lose Kill Die. When hot "it-couple" Brad and Shelley are brutally murdered in a Victorian mansion, a group of teen friends investigate.
The Author:
Bill writes mysteries for young adult and adult audiences. He graduated from Birmingham City University, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts with first-class honours in Film & Screenwriting. He was born in Birmingham, England, and currently lives there.
Let’s Split Up is his debut YA horror-thriller.
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David Fennell
David Fennell
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Title: A Violent Heart
Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Hardback *Limited sprayed first edition*
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The Book;
Elena Zoric is murdered, her body concealed beside a stream in North London. Her phone lies nearby, the last number dialled was to the woman who had rescued her from sex trafficking: Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector Grace Archer.
Archer desperately wants to lead the murder investigation but her new boss, Chief Inspector Les Fletcher, makes it very clear its out of her jurisdiction.
Then the thirty-year-old remains of a woman are found in the attic of an abandoned house, the victim dying in similar circumstances to Elena Zoric.
But Archer's North London colleagues have bigger priorities than the murder of 'a drugged-up prostitute.'
Archer needs answers. Who killed Elena? Why did she call Archer moments from her death? And what rules must she break to stop a killer in his tracks?
The Author:
"I was born in Belfast during the Troubles and grew up in Springfield Park, the last working class religiously mixed area of west Belfast. One of three children, my dad was a bus driver, my mum a shop assistant in Royal Avenue’s C&A department store.
I left Belfast for London with £50 in one pocket and a dog-eared copy of Stephen King's The Stand in the other (I had big pockets). I jobbed in bars and restaurants and later worked as a writer in the software industry.
In 2017 my first thriller, SLEEPER was published by the Dome Press under the partial pseudonym, JD Fennell, and was shortlisted for the Amazing Book Awards. The follow up, SLEEPER: THE RED STORM, was published in 2018, and was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.
In 2023, a revised edition of both books were published by Canelo as a one volume beautiful hardback collector's edition with red and black spredges (sprayed edges)"
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Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Hardback *Limited sprayed first edition*
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The Book;
Elena Zoric is murdered, her body concealed beside a stream in North London. Her phone lies nearby, the last number dialled was to the woman who had rescued her from sex trafficking: Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector Grace Archer.
Archer desperately wants to lead the murder investigation but her new boss, Chief Inspector Les Fletcher, makes it very clear its out of her jurisdiction.
Then the thirty-year-old remains of a woman are found in the attic of an abandoned house, the victim dying in similar circumstances to Elena Zoric.
But Archer's North London colleagues have bigger priorities than the murder of 'a drugged-up prostitute.'
Archer needs answers. Who killed Elena? Why did she call Archer moments from her death? And what rules must she break to stop a killer in his tracks?
The Author:
"I was born in Belfast during the Troubles and grew up in Springfield Park, the last working class religiously mixed area of west Belfast. One of three children, my dad was a bus driver, my mum a shop assistant in Royal Avenue’s C&A department store.
I left Belfast for London with £50 in one pocket and a dog-eared copy of Stephen King's The Stand in the other (I had big pockets). I jobbed in bars and restaurants and later worked as a writer in the software industry.
In 2017 my first thriller, SLEEPER was published by the Dome Press under the partial pseudonym, JD Fennell, and was shortlisted for the Amazing Book Awards. The follow up, SLEEPER: THE RED STORM, was published in 2018, and was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.
In 2023, a revised edition of both books were published by Canelo as a one volume beautiful hardback collector's edition with red and black spredges (sprayed edges)"
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Website: https://www.davidfennell.co.uk/
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£ 12
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Gemma Lawrence
Gemma Lawrence
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Title: This Whiteness of Swans: The Surface and the Deep: Story of Anna of Cleves
Genre: Biography - History
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
Swan Castle, Cleves, 1521
Nestled deep in a land rich in myth and fairy-tale, within the changing politics and religion of the Holy Roman Empire, a young girl grows to adulthood, watching war and faith tear the world she knows asunder.
Sheltered within the court of women in which she and her sisters live, Anna of Cleves may be protected, but she is not in ignorance of the world outside her castle walls, and when the Tudor King of England begins to cast his eye upon Cleves, seeking a fourth wife, she is only too aware of the peril that may be placed upon her life, as the ring is slipped upon her finger.
This Whiteness of Swans is Book One of The Surface and the Deep: Story of Anna of Cleves, by G. Lawrence.
The author's thanks are due to Julia Gibbs, proof reader of this work of fiction, and Giusy D'Anna, the cover artist.
The Author:
I am an independently published author, and proud to be so. Living in a little cottage in Wales in the UK, I love where I live as much as I love to write.
The age of the Tudors has been an obsession for me since I was a child, and many of my upcoming books will centre on that time, but I also pen the odd dystopian fiction or historical fiction from other time periods. I will be releasing all my titles on amazon, for kindle, paper and hard back, and soon to come, audio books!
I studied Literature (with a capital L) at University and usually have twenty or more books I'm currently reading. Reading and writing are about mood for me, and I haven't found a genre I didn't enjoy something about so far...
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Genre: Biography - History
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
Swan Castle, Cleves, 1521
Nestled deep in a land rich in myth and fairy-tale, within the changing politics and religion of the Holy Roman Empire, a young girl grows to adulthood, watching war and faith tear the world she knows asunder.
Sheltered within the court of women in which she and her sisters live, Anna of Cleves may be protected, but she is not in ignorance of the world outside her castle walls, and when the Tudor King of England begins to cast his eye upon Cleves, seeking a fourth wife, she is only too aware of the peril that may be placed upon her life, as the ring is slipped upon her finger.
This Whiteness of Swans is Book One of The Surface and the Deep: Story of Anna of Cleves, by G. Lawrence.
The author's thanks are due to Julia Gibbs, proof reader of this work of fiction, and Giusy D'Anna, the cover artist.
The Author:
I am an independently published author, and proud to be so. Living in a little cottage in Wales in the UK, I love where I live as much as I love to write.
The age of the Tudors has been an obsession for me since I was a child, and many of my upcoming books will centre on that time, but I also pen the odd dystopian fiction or historical fiction from other time periods. I will be releasing all my titles on amazon, for kindle, paper and hard back, and soon to come, audio books!
I studied Literature (with a capital L) at University and usually have twenty or more books I'm currently reading. Reading and writing are about mood for me, and I haven't found a genre I didn't enjoy something about so far...
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M.G. Leonard
M.G. Leonard
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Title 1: The Ice Children
Genre: Children’s Fiction
Format: Illustrated Hardback (First edition)
Title 2: Hunt for the Golden Scarab
Genre: Children's Fiction
Format: Rare Paperback proof - Book is not published until 2025
Both books are signed. Dedications are available.
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Title 1: The Ice Children
At the stroke of midnight on the dawn of December, five-year-old Finn Albedo is found frozen in the city park on a pedestal of ice. The doctor says his heart is beating, but no one can wake him. Finn’s big sister, Bianca, suspects the beautiful sparkling book Finn got from the library has something to do with it all but the mysterious book has vanished. Does the tall mysterious stranger who first discovered Finn know more than they will admit?
Each day, more children are found frozen and Bianca realizes she’s running out of time. Her quest to discover the truth and rescue her little brother hurls her into a fantastical winter wonderland, full of beauty and danger, where all is not as it seems.
Can Bianca save her brother and the other Ice Children before they are lost forever?
Title 2: Hunt for the Golden Scarab
Sim and his mum never live anywhere long. When dangerous strangers appear one night, Sim discovers why.
His mum has been keeping secrets: she has the power to open doors in time. Running for their lives, Sim and his friends are determined to outwit the sinister Council of Keys and be the first to find Nefertiti’s lost tomb and a powerful door to Ancient Egypt.
They must piece together long-hidden clues if they are to solve the mystery of her golden heart scarab.
Can they find it before the Council finds them?
The Author:
M. G. Leonard has made up stories ever since she was little. Back then, adults called them lies or tall tales, so she didn’t write them down. Now, she makes up stories about wonderous beetles, beautiful birds, adventures on trains or anything that sparks her imagination. She is the bestselling writer of children’s books such as Beetle Boy, the Adventures on Trains series and The Twitchers books. Her work had been translated into over forty languages and Beetle Boy is currently in development as a live-action series for TV. Her books have won many awards, including the Best Crime Fiction Novel for Children 2022 CrimeFest award, Sainsbury’s Children’s Book of the Year 2021, British Book Awards Book of the year 2021 - Children’s fiction, China’s Children's Choice Book: Gold Medal 2018, the Branford Boase Award 2017, as well as being nominated three times for the Carnegie Medal, twice shortlisted for an Edgar by the Mystery Writers of America and twice longlisted for the Wainwright Prize.
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Genre: Children’s Fiction
Format: Illustrated Hardback (First edition)
Title 2: Hunt for the Golden Scarab
Genre: Children's Fiction
Format: Rare Paperback proof - Book is not published until 2025
Both books are signed. Dedications are available.
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Title 1: The Ice Children
At the stroke of midnight on the dawn of December, five-year-old Finn Albedo is found frozen in the city park on a pedestal of ice. The doctor says his heart is beating, but no one can wake him. Finn’s big sister, Bianca, suspects the beautiful sparkling book Finn got from the library has something to do with it all but the mysterious book has vanished. Does the tall mysterious stranger who first discovered Finn know more than they will admit?
Each day, more children are found frozen and Bianca realizes she’s running out of time. Her quest to discover the truth and rescue her little brother hurls her into a fantastical winter wonderland, full of beauty and danger, where all is not as it seems.
Can Bianca save her brother and the other Ice Children before they are lost forever?
Title 2: Hunt for the Golden Scarab
Sim and his mum never live anywhere long. When dangerous strangers appear one night, Sim discovers why.
His mum has been keeping secrets: she has the power to open doors in time. Running for their lives, Sim and his friends are determined to outwit the sinister Council of Keys and be the first to find Nefertiti’s lost tomb and a powerful door to Ancient Egypt.
They must piece together long-hidden clues if they are to solve the mystery of her golden heart scarab.
Can they find it before the Council finds them?
The Author:
M. G. Leonard has made up stories ever since she was little. Back then, adults called them lies or tall tales, so she didn’t write them down. Now, she makes up stories about wonderous beetles, beautiful birds, adventures on trains or anything that sparks her imagination. She is the bestselling writer of children’s books such as Beetle Boy, the Adventures on Trains series and The Twitchers books. Her work had been translated into over forty languages and Beetle Boy is currently in development as a live-action series for TV. Her books have won many awards, including the Best Crime Fiction Novel for Children 2022 CrimeFest award, Sainsbury’s Children’s Book of the Year 2021, British Book Awards Book of the year 2021 - Children’s fiction, China’s Children's Choice Book: Gold Medal 2018, the Branford Boase Award 2017, as well as being nominated three times for the Carnegie Medal, twice shortlisted for an Edgar by the Mystery Writers of America and twice longlisted for the Wainwright Prize.
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Georgina Day
Georgina Day
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Book Title: Honey & Sugar Get Adopted
Genre: Children's Book
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book:
Polly’s house has felt empty for months but today is the day that all changes. Her mum is taking her to a rescue centre to adopt two rabbits for them to take home. Polly isn’t sure what ‘adopt’ means until she sees how many rabbits there are that have been lost or given away. They need our help!
Honey & Sugar Get Adopted is a lovely children's story that emphasises our need to rescue animals instead of buying them from a pet store. Thousands of animals a day are currently being brought into rescue centres needing a home. Follow Polly's story and learn as she learns the true meaning of family and how to respect our animal's differences!
The Author:
Although Georgina Day works full time in business, she spends every spare moment contributing what she can to animal welfare and sharing this with the younger generation through her writing. When she's not being an 'animal mum' to rescue animals and a pony, she also volunteers as a Veterinary Auxiliary for animal charities and is now training as a veterinary physio. She lives in Surrey, England with her (very understanding) partner and their menagerie!
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Genre: Children's Book
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The Book:
Polly’s house has felt empty for months but today is the day that all changes. Her mum is taking her to a rescue centre to adopt two rabbits for them to take home. Polly isn’t sure what ‘adopt’ means until she sees how many rabbits there are that have been lost or given away. They need our help!
Honey & Sugar Get Adopted is a lovely children's story that emphasises our need to rescue animals instead of buying them from a pet store. Thousands of animals a day are currently being brought into rescue centres needing a home. Follow Polly's story and learn as she learns the true meaning of family and how to respect our animal's differences!
The Author:
Although Georgina Day works full time in business, she spends every spare moment contributing what she can to animal welfare and sharing this with the younger generation through her writing. When she's not being an 'animal mum' to rescue animals and a pony, she also volunteers as a Veterinary Auxiliary for animal charities and is now training as a veterinary physio. She lives in Surrey, England with her (very understanding) partner and their menagerie!
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Duncan Beedie
Duncan Beedie
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Title: Heavy Metal Badger
Genre: Children's Fiction
Format: Paperback, First Edition
Signed - Dedication is Available
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*Bonus - included in this Lot is an animal band line up poster! *
The Book;
An empowering rock anthem, from the fantastically-funny Duncan Beedie, celebrating identity and self-expression.
Badger is ready to ROCK!
The music inside him is ready to burst out. He just needs to find a band. But recorder class isn’t right. Neither's the choir. Nor the marching band!
Will Badger ever find his musical tribe? Perhaps it’s been there all along.
Children will love the laugh-out-loud chaos that Badger causes on his quest for a musical home. Packed with tons of rock-themed references, puns and visual jokes, this is THE picture book for budding rock music lovers.
The Author:
I am a children’s author and illustrator from Bristol, UK. I’ve been obsessed with drawing ever since I could hold a felt tip in my clammy little fist, and I have fond memories of sprawling out on my parents’ living room carpet for hours on end, filling sketchbooks with my doodles.
My debut picture book ‘The Bear Who Stared’ (Templar) was nominated for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017 and my follow up ‘The Lumberjack’s Beard’ was shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards in 2018. Since then I have gone on to write and illustrate titles for Little Tiger, Quarto, Walker Books, and was recently commissioned to design the illustrated autumn trail at Westonbirt Arboretum in Gloucestershire.
When not busy drawing kung-fu kicking llamas, heavy metal badgers, or starey bears, I can be found walking my dog Ivor around a muddy park.
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Genre: Children's Fiction
Format: Paperback, First Edition
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*Bonus - included in this Lot is an animal band line up poster! *
The Book;
An empowering rock anthem, from the fantastically-funny Duncan Beedie, celebrating identity and self-expression.
Badger is ready to ROCK!
The music inside him is ready to burst out. He just needs to find a band. But recorder class isn’t right. Neither's the choir. Nor the marching band!
Will Badger ever find his musical tribe? Perhaps it’s been there all along.
Children will love the laugh-out-loud chaos that Badger causes on his quest for a musical home. Packed with tons of rock-themed references, puns and visual jokes, this is THE picture book for budding rock music lovers.
The Author:
I am a children’s author and illustrator from Bristol, UK. I’ve been obsessed with drawing ever since I could hold a felt tip in my clammy little fist, and I have fond memories of sprawling out on my parents’ living room carpet for hours on end, filling sketchbooks with my doodles.
My debut picture book ‘The Bear Who Stared’ (Templar) was nominated for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017 and my follow up ‘The Lumberjack’s Beard’ was shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards in 2018. Since then I have gone on to write and illustrate titles for Little Tiger, Quarto, Walker Books, and was recently commissioned to design the illustrated autumn trail at Westonbirt Arboretum in Gloucestershire.
When not busy drawing kung-fu kicking llamas, heavy metal badgers, or starey bears, I can be found walking my dog Ivor around a muddy park.
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Kate S Martin
Kate S Martin
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2 Book Bundle
Book Title 1: Are you Okay, Elliot Hart?
Book Title 2: What about You, Josh McBride?
Genre: Young Adult
Format: Paperbacks
Signed: Dedication available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
Book One:
Fifteen-year-old Elliot ‘Matchstick’ Hart spends his days caring for his mum and hiding from the school bully.
Fifteen-year-old Josh McBride spends his days tormenting Elliot and avoiding his abusive stepdad.
Inspired by a picture in an old newspaper, Elliot embarks on an adventure to the city. Little does he know that Josh has decided to join him. On their journey, strangers and surprises force them to look at each other in a different light. As secrets are uncovered, can the boys bury their differences or will it tear them further apart?
This debut novel delves into the complicated worlds of two teenage boys, Elliot Hart and Josh McBride. Elliot spends his days caring for his mum and Josh spends his days avoiding his stepdad. An impromptu trip to the city uncovers many secrets for the two boys. Exploring themes of bullying and mental illness, the book shows how important it is to be kind to each other.
Book Two:
Josh McBride was the angry, emotionally avoidant one, while Elliot was the invisible, anxious, carer. When they ended up in Cruxby together and discovered their family's history, that all had to change. Except, old habits were hard to break.
If life had dealt them a different hand, they could have reached their potential. Elliot should have been a confident performer and Josh should have been able to perform in his courses to go on to joinery school.
But this isn't some fairy tale, and Josh can't stay in class, let alone an exam. He believes he's stupid and that's all there is to it. Elliot has a chance in the talent show if his audition goes well, but the anxiousness from his past creeps in from every angle.
Will these two be able to rise above their pasts and create their own destinies, or will their demons win in the end?
The Author:
Kate S. Martin is a high school English teacher and Young Adult author from the UK. She likes to write books that develop empathy and hope for her readers.
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Book Title 1: Are you Okay, Elliot Hart?
Book Title 2: What about You, Josh McBride?
Genre: Young Adult
Format: Paperbacks
Signed: Dedication available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
Book One:
Fifteen-year-old Elliot ‘Matchstick’ Hart spends his days caring for his mum and hiding from the school bully.
Fifteen-year-old Josh McBride spends his days tormenting Elliot and avoiding his abusive stepdad.
Inspired by a picture in an old newspaper, Elliot embarks on an adventure to the city. Little does he know that Josh has decided to join him. On their journey, strangers and surprises force them to look at each other in a different light. As secrets are uncovered, can the boys bury their differences or will it tear them further apart?
This debut novel delves into the complicated worlds of two teenage boys, Elliot Hart and Josh McBride. Elliot spends his days caring for his mum and Josh spends his days avoiding his stepdad. An impromptu trip to the city uncovers many secrets for the two boys. Exploring themes of bullying and mental illness, the book shows how important it is to be kind to each other.
Book Two:
Josh McBride was the angry, emotionally avoidant one, while Elliot was the invisible, anxious, carer. When they ended up in Cruxby together and discovered their family's history, that all had to change. Except, old habits were hard to break.
If life had dealt them a different hand, they could have reached their potential. Elliot should have been a confident performer and Josh should have been able to perform in his courses to go on to joinery school.
But this isn't some fairy tale, and Josh can't stay in class, let alone an exam. He believes he's stupid and that's all there is to it. Elliot has a chance in the talent show if his audition goes well, but the anxiousness from his past creeps in from every angle.
Will these two be able to rise above their pasts and create their own destinies, or will their demons win in the end?
The Author:
Kate S. Martin is a high school English teacher and Young Adult author from the UK. She likes to write books that develop empathy and hope for her readers.
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Elizabeth Drummond
Elizabeth Drummond
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Book Title: The House Sitter
Genre: Rom Com
Format: Paperback
Signed: Dedication available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book:
Pippa Munro had the perfect life plan. What she did not plan, was for her boyfriend to break up with her. Or sell her beloved home. So instead of being blissfully engaged, Pippa finds herself jobless, homeless and single.
Wolfie Squires needs someone to look after his family’s ancient house. He’s too busy with his hot shot city job to deal with a country manor several hundred miles away.
Enter Pippa Munro, Wolfie’s exact opposite.
As tempers fray, ideas clash, and secrets are spilled, Pippa and Wolfie might realise they have the same ambitions for the house, if only they could stop arguing long enough to find out…
The Author:
Elizabeth Drummond grew up and studied in Yorkshire, attaining a degree in English Literature from Sheffield University before moving to New York for a year post-graduation. It was in New York she learned she was nothing like Carrie Bradshaw so upon her return to England she moved to London where she forged a successful career as a film distribution executive. Although her experiences on film sets and corporate boardrooms could fill multiple books with scandal alone, Elizabeth’s novels are mostly filled with light-hearted humour and romance. Elizabeth lives in Essex with her husband and two daughters.
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Genre: Rom Com
Format: Paperback
Signed: Dedication available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book:
Pippa Munro had the perfect life plan. What she did not plan, was for her boyfriend to break up with her. Or sell her beloved home. So instead of being blissfully engaged, Pippa finds herself jobless, homeless and single.
Wolfie Squires needs someone to look after his family’s ancient house. He’s too busy with his hot shot city job to deal with a country manor several hundred miles away.
Enter Pippa Munro, Wolfie’s exact opposite.
As tempers fray, ideas clash, and secrets are spilled, Pippa and Wolfie might realise they have the same ambitions for the house, if only they could stop arguing long enough to find out…
The Author:
Elizabeth Drummond grew up and studied in Yorkshire, attaining a degree in English Literature from Sheffield University before moving to New York for a year post-graduation. It was in New York she learned she was nothing like Carrie Bradshaw so upon her return to England she moved to London where she forged a successful career as a film distribution executive. Although her experiences on film sets and corporate boardrooms could fill multiple books with scandal alone, Elizabeth’s novels are mostly filled with light-hearted humour and romance. Elizabeth lives in Essex with her husband and two daughters.
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Lis McDermott
Lis McDermott
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Two Book Bundle!
Book 1: Echoes of Drowning
Book 2: The Identity Enigma
Genre: Women's Fiction
Format: Paperbacks
Signed: Dedication available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
Book 1: Echoes of Drowning
A story of eternal and enduring love
It is 2018, and Jess is delving into the mysterious and tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Aliciana in 1915. Her only link is Amy, who, although now deceased, survived only to mourn the loss of her husband, Will.
Following her mother's death, Jess and her father, Danny, move to Llaneirw on the Welsh coast. Both grieving, Danny begins renovating their new house in a desperate attempt to make it home. But the onset of recurring nightmares leads Jess to realise they have a spirit in their house and a mystery to solve.
A short break to Anglesey with Lukas sees the mystery deepen when Jess is unnerved by his grandfather and distressed when she catches sight of a photograph of his great-grandfather. Jess soon discovers that uncovering the reasons for her reaction to the image will help in solving the mystery. But first, Jess must find a way of convincing those around her that her dreams are, in fact, the truth.
Book 2: The Identity Enigma
Couples, Kyra and Nils and Jess and Lukas who are all in Stockholm, arrange to meet up. However, when Lukas receives an urgent phone call, their night out has to be postponed.
While on a trip to Ethiopia for work, Cole, Lukas’ best friend has been involved in an accident and is flown home, seriously hurt. Lukas and Jess fly back to Manchester to support Cole’s wife, Sofia.
As Cole begins to recover, Lukas becomes increasingly unsettled as he doesn’t recognise his friend, convinced there is something different about him, but has no idea what it is. The more time that passes, the more uncomfortable Lukas becomes with the uncharacteristic decisions his friend makes. Eventually he asks his journalist friends Kyra and Nils to try to investigate to uncover the mystery.
The three couples’ lives are thrown into a journey of lies and deception as the story unfolds.
The Author:
Lis McDermott was born and raised in Leicester, UK. She now lives in Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire with her husband. She trained as a musician and had a successful career working in music education for 34 years. During this time, she co-authored (as Lis Fletcher) along with Mary Edwards, Nelson Music which is a music scheme in three volumes for primary schools.
In 2008 she changed career, and set up her own photography business, which she ran until March 2020. During that time, she loved to photograph weddings, babies, families and business headshots and portfolios. Her main aim was to capture the essence of the event and personality of any person she was working with.
After becoming an author in her own right in 2014 when she wrote and published 'Headshot Diva', she has since had work published in other anthologies. She is particularly proud of her first attempt at fiction, when a short story she had written was successfully included, alongside other competition winners, in a short story anthology. In 2017 Lis published her own book of short stories, "Changing Lives: 8 short stories". Her latest books are, "Mixed Feelings", an autobiography, and her poetry: books: "A Tilted View", "Lis' Little Book of Limericks", "Blossom Falls" and "A Multitude of Stars." She has recently (27th May 2022), published her debut novel 'He is Not Worthy'. Her second novel "Echoes of Drowning" is available to pre-order on Kindle and will be out May 2024.
Alongside her writing, she mentors others' to write their books.
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Book 1: Echoes of Drowning
Book 2: The Identity Enigma
Genre: Women's Fiction
Format: Paperbacks
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Bids Accepted: Worldwide
Book 1: Echoes of Drowning
A story of eternal and enduring love
It is 2018, and Jess is delving into the mysterious and tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Aliciana in 1915. Her only link is Amy, who, although now deceased, survived only to mourn the loss of her husband, Will.
Following her mother's death, Jess and her father, Danny, move to Llaneirw on the Welsh coast. Both grieving, Danny begins renovating their new house in a desperate attempt to make it home. But the onset of recurring nightmares leads Jess to realise they have a spirit in their house and a mystery to solve.
A short break to Anglesey with Lukas sees the mystery deepen when Jess is unnerved by his grandfather and distressed when she catches sight of a photograph of his great-grandfather. Jess soon discovers that uncovering the reasons for her reaction to the image will help in solving the mystery. But first, Jess must find a way of convincing those around her that her dreams are, in fact, the truth.
Book 2: The Identity Enigma
Couples, Kyra and Nils and Jess and Lukas who are all in Stockholm, arrange to meet up. However, when Lukas receives an urgent phone call, their night out has to be postponed.
While on a trip to Ethiopia for work, Cole, Lukas’ best friend has been involved in an accident and is flown home, seriously hurt. Lukas and Jess fly back to Manchester to support Cole’s wife, Sofia.
As Cole begins to recover, Lukas becomes increasingly unsettled as he doesn’t recognise his friend, convinced there is something different about him, but has no idea what it is. The more time that passes, the more uncomfortable Lukas becomes with the uncharacteristic decisions his friend makes. Eventually he asks his journalist friends Kyra and Nils to try to investigate to uncover the mystery.
The three couples’ lives are thrown into a journey of lies and deception as the story unfolds.
The Author:
Lis McDermott was born and raised in Leicester, UK. She now lives in Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire with her husband. She trained as a musician and had a successful career working in music education for 34 years. During this time, she co-authored (as Lis Fletcher) along with Mary Edwards, Nelson Music which is a music scheme in three volumes for primary schools.
In 2008 she changed career, and set up her own photography business, which she ran until March 2020. During that time, she loved to photograph weddings, babies, families and business headshots and portfolios. Her main aim was to capture the essence of the event and personality of any person she was working with.
After becoming an author in her own right in 2014 when she wrote and published 'Headshot Diva', she has since had work published in other anthologies. She is particularly proud of her first attempt at fiction, when a short story she had written was successfully included, alongside other competition winners, in a short story anthology. In 2017 Lis published her own book of short stories, "Changing Lives: 8 short stories". Her latest books are, "Mixed Feelings", an autobiography, and her poetry: books: "A Tilted View", "Lis' Little Book of Limericks", "Blossom Falls" and "A Multitude of Stars." She has recently (27th May 2022), published her debut novel 'He is Not Worthy'. Her second novel "Echoes of Drowning" is available to pre-order on Kindle and will be out May 2024.
Alongside her writing, she mentors others' to write their books.
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£ 17
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Kate Kenzie
Kate Kenzie
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Book Title: A Blend of Magic
Genre: paranormal romance
Format: Paperback
Signed: Dedication available
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book:
A witch cannot exist on potions and tea alone.
Hiding in the shadows, staunch singleton Willow Anderson is content running her successful business, The Enchanted Emporium. With Christmas days away, she’s eager to exchange selling bespoke tea blends and spells for extended bubble baths and binge-watching festive movies snuggled next to her Maine Coon, Vincent.
Nate never usually runs away from his problems, but drunk and disorientated, he finds himself in a small fisherman’s cottage in the Yorkshire coastal town of Whitby. After discovering his girlfriend’s affair, he is in no rush to return to the City. His wish for time alone in a Christmas-free zone comes true until an uninvited feline guest arrives.
Neither Nate nor Willow want company, especially from each other, but they have little choice when concussion means they must spend at least twenty-four hours together. Sparks fly and not just the romantic kind.
When darkness from Willow’s past returns and threatens to destroy all she has worked for, pursuing a love affair is the last thing she needs.
With meddling ghosts and a teenage apprentice with her own matchmaking agenda, love and change are in the air.
But can Willow face her fears, and the past, to capture the happiness she deserves?
The Author:
Kate Kenzie may not be Yorkshire born and bred, but it’s where her heart is and why her fictional worlds are set in the Moors and her favourite haunt, Whitby. Creator of the Enchanted Emporium and its residents, she blogs book reviews and author interviews at The Enchanted Emporium Bookshelf.
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Genre: paranormal romance
Format: Paperback
Signed: Dedication available
Bids Accepted: UK only
The Book:
A witch cannot exist on potions and tea alone.
Hiding in the shadows, staunch singleton Willow Anderson is content running her successful business, The Enchanted Emporium. With Christmas days away, she’s eager to exchange selling bespoke tea blends and spells for extended bubble baths and binge-watching festive movies snuggled next to her Maine Coon, Vincent.
Nate never usually runs away from his problems, but drunk and disorientated, he finds himself in a small fisherman’s cottage in the Yorkshire coastal town of Whitby. After discovering his girlfriend’s affair, he is in no rush to return to the City. His wish for time alone in a Christmas-free zone comes true until an uninvited feline guest arrives.
Neither Nate nor Willow want company, especially from each other, but they have little choice when concussion means they must spend at least twenty-four hours together. Sparks fly and not just the romantic kind.
When darkness from Willow’s past returns and threatens to destroy all she has worked for, pursuing a love affair is the last thing she needs.
With meddling ghosts and a teenage apprentice with her own matchmaking agenda, love and change are in the air.
But can Willow face her fears, and the past, to capture the happiness she deserves?
The Author:
Kate Kenzie may not be Yorkshire born and bred, but it’s where her heart is and why her fictional worlds are set in the Moors and her favourite haunt, Whitby. Creator of the Enchanted Emporium and its residents, she blogs book reviews and author interviews at The Enchanted Emporium Bookshelf.
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£ 15
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Katie Daysh
Katie Daysh
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380
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Book One Title: Leeward
Genre: Historical fiction
Format: Paperback
Book Two Title: The Devil to Pay
Genre: Historical fiction
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Book One - Leeward
Captain Hiram Nightingale is a veteran of the wars which have raged throughout Europe and the Americas. But a grand victory at the Battle of the Nile in 1798 comes at a devastating cost. Plagued by wounds both physical and mental, he attempts to recover by accepting command of HMS Scylla. His task is to hunt down a mutinous ship and bring the crew to justice.
However, it soon becomes clear that the mission is just one danger in an immense web. Nightingale finds himself in the middle of a network of secrets that will affect everyone onboard the Scylla. He has to battle against the perils of the war-torn seas, a crew who he fears does not accept him, and meddling, powerful figures from his past.
And in the centre of all this, his new lieutenant, the popular Arthur Courtney, stirs up long repressed feelings. On his journey, Nightingale must confront his own demons. For it seems, during his dangerous adventure, his greatest enemy might just be himself.
Book Two - The Devil to Pay
In 1802, The Treaty of Amiens brings the French Revolutionary Wars to an end. After the drama of the past few years, Lieutenant Arthur Courtney returns home to England where he hopes to spend a blissful summer with his close friend, Hiram Nightingale.
But within weeks, HMS Loyal goes missing en route to Malta. She carries a French and British diplomat, Hugo Baptiste and Sir William Haywood. Their disappearance, in this tentative time of peace, may be enough to prematurely ignite war between France and Britain once more.
Both Courtney and Nightingale, Sir William’s son-in-law, receive a position on HMS Lysander, tasked with tracking down the missing frigate. But as their mission grows ever more dangerous with each passing day, the risk of dissension simmers menacingly on the deck of the Lysander.
And when painful memories finally begin to rise to the surface after so many years, the truth of Courtney and Nightingale’s powerful bond could be the spark that sets everything ablaze…
The Author:
Katie Daysh is a historical fiction author from the Isle of Wight. Her books are often set on the sea and centralise unheard voices of the past, with a particular focus on queer representation. Her debut novel, the Age of Sail adventure, Leeward, was published in 2023, the first in a trilogy following two Georgian Royal Navy officers, Hiram Nightingale and Arthur Courtney. The Devil to Pay, the second book in the series, was published in 2024.
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Genre: Historical fiction
Format: Paperback
Book Two Title: The Devil to Pay
Genre: Historical fiction
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Book One - Leeward
Captain Hiram Nightingale is a veteran of the wars which have raged throughout Europe and the Americas. But a grand victory at the Battle of the Nile in 1798 comes at a devastating cost. Plagued by wounds both physical and mental, he attempts to recover by accepting command of HMS Scylla. His task is to hunt down a mutinous ship and bring the crew to justice.
However, it soon becomes clear that the mission is just one danger in an immense web. Nightingale finds himself in the middle of a network of secrets that will affect everyone onboard the Scylla. He has to battle against the perils of the war-torn seas, a crew who he fears does not accept him, and meddling, powerful figures from his past.
And in the centre of all this, his new lieutenant, the popular Arthur Courtney, stirs up long repressed feelings. On his journey, Nightingale must confront his own demons. For it seems, during his dangerous adventure, his greatest enemy might just be himself.
Book Two - The Devil to Pay
In 1802, The Treaty of Amiens brings the French Revolutionary Wars to an end. After the drama of the past few years, Lieutenant Arthur Courtney returns home to England where he hopes to spend a blissful summer with his close friend, Hiram Nightingale.
But within weeks, HMS Loyal goes missing en route to Malta. She carries a French and British diplomat, Hugo Baptiste and Sir William Haywood. Their disappearance, in this tentative time of peace, may be enough to prematurely ignite war between France and Britain once more.
Both Courtney and Nightingale, Sir William’s son-in-law, receive a position on HMS Lysander, tasked with tracking down the missing frigate. But as their mission grows ever more dangerous with each passing day, the risk of dissension simmers menacingly on the deck of the Lysander.
And when painful memories finally begin to rise to the surface after so many years, the truth of Courtney and Nightingale’s powerful bond could be the spark that sets everything ablaze…
The Author:
Katie Daysh is a historical fiction author from the Isle of Wight. Her books are often set on the sea and centralise unheard voices of the past, with a particular focus on queer representation. Her debut novel, the Age of Sail adventure, Leeward, was published in 2023, the first in a trilogy following two Georgian Royal Navy officers, Hiram Nightingale and Arthur Courtney. The Devil to Pay, the second book in the series, was published in 2024.
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4 Book Bundle
Title 1 - The Borrow a Bookshop holiday
Title 2 - Christmas at the Borrow a Bookshop
Title 3 - Something New at the Borrow a Bookshop
Title 4 - Love Letters at the Borrow a Bookshop.
Genre: Romance
Format: Paperbacks
Signed: Dedication available
Bids Accepted: UK only
Book One - The Borrow a Bookshop holiday
The Borrow-a-Bookshop Bookshop Café invites literature lovers to run their very own bookshop … for a fortnight.
Spend your days talking books with customers in your own charming bookshop and serving up delicious cream teas in the cosy café.
Bookworms, what are you waiting for? Your holiday is going to be LIT(erary).
Apply to: The Borrow-a-Bookshop Bookshop Café, Down-a-long, Clove Lore, Devon.
Jude Crawley should be on top of the world. She’s just graduated as a mature student, so can finally go public about her relationship with Philosophy professor, Mack.
Until she sees Mack kissing another girl, and her dreams crumble. And worse, their dream holiday – running a tiny bookshop in the harbour village of Clove Lore for two weeks – is non-refundable.
Throwing caution to the winds, Jude heads down to Devon, eager to immerse herself in literature and heal her broken heart.
But there’s one problem – six foot tall, brooding (but gorgeous) Elliot, who’s also reserved the bookshop holiday for two weeks…
As Jude and Elliot put their differences aside to run the bookshop, it seems that Jude might be falling in love with more than just words. Until she discovers what Elliot is running from – and why he’s hiding out in Clove Lore.
Can Jude find her own happy ending in a tiny, tumbledown bookshop? Or is she about to find out that her bookish holiday might have an unexpected twist in the tale…
Book Two - Christmas at the Borrow a Bookshop
With just two weeks until Christmas, everything in Clove Lore should be perfect. But the latest holidaymaker to the Borrow a Bookshop is feeling far from festive…
Icelandic ex-bookseller Magnús Sturluson might be surrounded by love stories in the Bookshop, but he’s nursing a sadness that not even fiction can fix.
When Alexandra Robinson finds herself stranded in Clove Lore, she finds a safe place to hide from heartbreak. After all, all that’s waiting for her at home is a cheater boyfriend and the memories of her parents. As Alex finds herself embraced by the quirky village community, she finds her tough exterior thawing – and as she grows closer to Magnús, she finds an equally soft heart under his gruff shell.
It seems that Clove Lore is working its magic once again – until a great flood on Christmas Eve brings devastation in its wake. It’s up to Magnús and Alex to batten down the hatches and help bring the village back together again, while also introducing the locals to the Icelandic tradition of the jólabókaflóð – Yule book flood – where families and friends gather on Christmas Eve to exchange books and read together.
But can Magnús and Alex truly rescue the ruins of the village, and salvage their Christmas spirit? Or is there another complication lurking even closer than they thought?
Book Three - Something New at the Borrow a Bookshop
The Borrow-a-Bookshop is recovering, seven months on from the winter flood that destroyed all its stock, and the latest temporary bookseller, Joy Foley, arrives in Clove Lore with her daughter, five-year-old Radia Pearl. As a tech expert, she’ll be working on dragging the Bookshop into the twenty-first century.
But what no one knows is that Joy is running from Radia Pearl’s father. She can’t settle down here or anywhere … moving on is how she stays safe. So when Radia befriends Monty Bickleigh, ex-fisherman and the new cook at The Siren’s Tail pub, despite herself, Joy finds herself growing closer to him, and the quirky community of Clove Lore.
While Joy settles in to the bookshop, Araminta Clove-Congreve, local lady of the Manor, is finding running her new wedding business harder than anticipated. She needs to hire a chief wedding planner, and fast - and Joy’s family may have the answer.
As Joy finds her heart softening by the magic of Clove Lore, can her new friends – and Monty – be enough to convince Joy to stop running and find a new life?
Bookworms everywhere, escape to the magic of Clove Lore today...
Book Four - Love Letters at the Borrow a Bookshop.
Austen Archer is on her dream solo bookselling holiday, the new ‘borrower’ at the Borrow-A-Bookshop in Devon’s Clove Lore. While she has always loved poetry, her words have dried up since being fired by her last boss, bestselling author, Callista Flyte, a year ago.
Austen distracts herself with the Borrow-A-Bookshop, as well as her flirty online exchanges with an anonymous Parisian bookseller. Hiding from the world, Austen doesn’t notice that wedding planner, Patti, is falling for her – and is too afraid to admit that she feels the chemistry too.
But as Patti and Austen grow closer, culminating in a magical day at the wildflower meadow, can Clove Lore work its customary magic and bring the two together? And will Austen find the confidence to risk her heart and write again?
The Author:
Kiley Dunbar is Scottish and lives in England with her husband, two kids and Amos the Bedlington Terrier. She writes around her work at a university in the North of England where she lectures in English Literature and Creative Writing
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Website: http://www.kileydunbar.co.uk/
Title 1 - The Borrow a Bookshop holiday
Title 2 - Christmas at the Borrow a Bookshop
Title 3 - Something New at the Borrow a Bookshop
Title 4 - Love Letters at the Borrow a Bookshop.
Genre: Romance
Format: Paperbacks
Signed: Dedication available
Bids Accepted: UK only
Book One - The Borrow a Bookshop holiday
The Borrow-a-Bookshop Bookshop Café invites literature lovers to run their very own bookshop … for a fortnight.
Spend your days talking books with customers in your own charming bookshop and serving up delicious cream teas in the cosy café.
Bookworms, what are you waiting for? Your holiday is going to be LIT(erary).
Apply to: The Borrow-a-Bookshop Bookshop Café, Down-a-long, Clove Lore, Devon.
Jude Crawley should be on top of the world. She’s just graduated as a mature student, so can finally go public about her relationship with Philosophy professor, Mack.
Until she sees Mack kissing another girl, and her dreams crumble. And worse, their dream holiday – running a tiny bookshop in the harbour village of Clove Lore for two weeks – is non-refundable.
Throwing caution to the winds, Jude heads down to Devon, eager to immerse herself in literature and heal her broken heart.
But there’s one problem – six foot tall, brooding (but gorgeous) Elliot, who’s also reserved the bookshop holiday for two weeks…
As Jude and Elliot put their differences aside to run the bookshop, it seems that Jude might be falling in love with more than just words. Until she discovers what Elliot is running from – and why he’s hiding out in Clove Lore.
Can Jude find her own happy ending in a tiny, tumbledown bookshop? Or is she about to find out that her bookish holiday might have an unexpected twist in the tale…
Book Two - Christmas at the Borrow a Bookshop
With just two weeks until Christmas, everything in Clove Lore should be perfect. But the latest holidaymaker to the Borrow a Bookshop is feeling far from festive…
Icelandic ex-bookseller Magnús Sturluson might be surrounded by love stories in the Bookshop, but he’s nursing a sadness that not even fiction can fix.
When Alexandra Robinson finds herself stranded in Clove Lore, she finds a safe place to hide from heartbreak. After all, all that’s waiting for her at home is a cheater boyfriend and the memories of her parents. As Alex finds herself embraced by the quirky village community, she finds her tough exterior thawing – and as she grows closer to Magnús, she finds an equally soft heart under his gruff shell.
It seems that Clove Lore is working its magic once again – until a great flood on Christmas Eve brings devastation in its wake. It’s up to Magnús and Alex to batten down the hatches and help bring the village back together again, while also introducing the locals to the Icelandic tradition of the jólabókaflóð – Yule book flood – where families and friends gather on Christmas Eve to exchange books and read together.
But can Magnús and Alex truly rescue the ruins of the village, and salvage their Christmas spirit? Or is there another complication lurking even closer than they thought?
Book Three - Something New at the Borrow a Bookshop
The Borrow-a-Bookshop is recovering, seven months on from the winter flood that destroyed all its stock, and the latest temporary bookseller, Joy Foley, arrives in Clove Lore with her daughter, five-year-old Radia Pearl. As a tech expert, she’ll be working on dragging the Bookshop into the twenty-first century.
But what no one knows is that Joy is running from Radia Pearl’s father. She can’t settle down here or anywhere … moving on is how she stays safe. So when Radia befriends Monty Bickleigh, ex-fisherman and the new cook at The Siren’s Tail pub, despite herself, Joy finds herself growing closer to him, and the quirky community of Clove Lore.
While Joy settles in to the bookshop, Araminta Clove-Congreve, local lady of the Manor, is finding running her new wedding business harder than anticipated. She needs to hire a chief wedding planner, and fast - and Joy’s family may have the answer.
As Joy finds her heart softening by the magic of Clove Lore, can her new friends – and Monty – be enough to convince Joy to stop running and find a new life?
Bookworms everywhere, escape to the magic of Clove Lore today...
Book Four - Love Letters at the Borrow a Bookshop.
Austen Archer is on her dream solo bookselling holiday, the new ‘borrower’ at the Borrow-A-Bookshop in Devon’s Clove Lore. While she has always loved poetry, her words have dried up since being fired by her last boss, bestselling author, Callista Flyte, a year ago.
Austen distracts herself with the Borrow-A-Bookshop, as well as her flirty online exchanges with an anonymous Parisian bookseller. Hiding from the world, Austen doesn’t notice that wedding planner, Patti, is falling for her – and is too afraid to admit that she feels the chemistry too.
But as Patti and Austen grow closer, culminating in a magical day at the wildflower meadow, can Clove Lore work its customary magic and bring the two together? And will Austen find the confidence to risk her heart and write again?
The Author:
Kiley Dunbar is Scottish and lives in England with her husband, two kids and Amos the Bedlington Terrier. She writes around her work at a university in the North of England where she lectures in English Literature and Creative Writing
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Website: http://www.kileydunbar.co.uk/
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D. Wells
D. Wells
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Book Title: The Things We Regret
Genre: Women’s Fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
After suppressing childhood memories of her grandmother Edie, Jules prides herself on her resolve and independence. But when her personal life turns sour she is left with unanswered questions, a broken family unit, and a vacant house in a small seaside community in Cornwall.
In post-war Britain, a young Edie must learn to adapt to the changes of a desolate country. Stepping up to the responsibilities of the family business, amid a blossoming courtship with local fisherman Henry, she soon discovers that life can still be harsh and struggles to cope with the tragedy that befalls them.
As Jules rediscovers her identity in Port Athel, she and mother Samantha are left wondering what made Edie the way she was.
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D. Wells is an author of uplifting fiction, touching on emotional themes, with a emphasis on setting and relatable characters.
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Genre: Women’s Fiction
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The Book:
After suppressing childhood memories of her grandmother Edie, Jules prides herself on her resolve and independence. But when her personal life turns sour she is left with unanswered questions, a broken family unit, and a vacant house in a small seaside community in Cornwall.
In post-war Britain, a young Edie must learn to adapt to the changes of a desolate country. Stepping up to the responsibilities of the family business, amid a blossoming courtship with local fisherman Henry, she soon discovers that life can still be harsh and struggles to cope with the tragedy that befalls them.
As Jules rediscovers her identity in Port Athel, she and mother Samantha are left wondering what made Edie the way she was.
The Author:
D. Wells is an author of uplifting fiction, touching on emotional themes, with a emphasis on setting and relatable characters.
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Helen Hawkins
Helen Hawkins
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Book Title: A Concert for Christmas
Genre: Christmas Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Unwrap a story of festive song, good cheer and - just maybe – a sprinkling of love ...
Schoolteacher Sophie Lawson has fled to the Cotswold countryside after a tragic break-up and is throwing herself into dating and organising Cranswell’s annual Christmas concert.
The festive fun is marred by the arrival of a handsome but surly musical director, tricky pupils and concert preparations falling into disarray. Disaster strikes, but the show must go on. Will the concert bring Christmas harmony to Cranswell and will Sophie end the year on a high note?
The Author:
Helen is a writer, editor and English teacher. Her first attempt at novel writing was shortlisted for the Penguin Michael Joseph Christmas Love Story Competition and highly commended in the I am in Print Romance Competition. She is now the author of two published novels with Allison & Busby: A Concert for Christmas and A Match to Remember.
When she's not writing, Helen can be found editing, singing and dancing with her local operatic society, or running around with her daughter and partner at their home in Oxfordshire.
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Genre: Christmas Contemporary Romance
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The Book;
Unwrap a story of festive song, good cheer and - just maybe – a sprinkling of love ...
Schoolteacher Sophie Lawson has fled to the Cotswold countryside after a tragic break-up and is throwing herself into dating and organising Cranswell’s annual Christmas concert.
The festive fun is marred by the arrival of a handsome but surly musical director, tricky pupils and concert preparations falling into disarray. Disaster strikes, but the show must go on. Will the concert bring Christmas harmony to Cranswell and will Sophie end the year on a high note?
The Author:
Helen is a writer, editor and English teacher. Her first attempt at novel writing was shortlisted for the Penguin Michael Joseph Christmas Love Story Competition and highly commended in the I am in Print Romance Competition. She is now the author of two published novels with Allison & Busby: A Concert for Christmas and A Match to Remember.
When she's not writing, Helen can be found editing, singing and dancing with her local operatic society, or running around with her daughter and partner at their home in Oxfordshire.
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Rachel Burton
Rachel Burton
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2 Book Bundle
Book Title 1: The Mystery of Haverford House
Format: Paperback
Book Title 2: The Butterfly Garden
Format: Hardback
Genre: Historical Fiction
Signed: Dedication available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
Book 1:
1933. Annie Bishop is sixteen years old when she first climbs the steps of Haverford House ready to take service as a maid. She knows her place until, during a summer of high society, she crosses paths with wealthy America heir, Thomas Everard. In his arms, Annie dares to dream of a different life.
Until she vanishes without a trace.
2003. Viola Hendricks knows what it's like to dream big. So when she reads about Annie's disappearance shortly before she sees an advert for a job at Haverford House, it seems fate is at work. Five years later, when the house faces closure, Viola is determined to do everything she can to keep it open. What's not in her plans is enigmatic American Chase Matthews, with an agenda of his own…
If they want to save Haverford House, they must look for answers together - but are they prepared for the truth about what really happened to Annie Bishop?
Book 2:
1963: When Clara Samuels buys Butterfly Cottage, she knows the scandal she’ll cause. A single woman buying property is not the ‘done thing’, especially not in a village like Carybrook. But Clara has been in love with Butterfly Cottage, and its garden, since she used to play there before the War. And when she reconnects with her childhood friend James, her decision feels serendipitous. But the true scandal is yet to come, because within six months, Clara will leave England under mysterious circumstances, and Butterfly Cottage will stand empty for more than 50 years.
2018: No one is more surprised than Meredith when she’s bequeathed a cottage by a great aunt she’d never heard of. She hopes, briefly, that the inheritance could be the answer to her financial problems. But when she arrives in Suffolk, she is shocked to discover a man is already living there. A young gardener, who claims he was also bequeathed half of Butterfly Cottage.
As the pair try to unravel their complicated situation, they unearth a decades old mystery involving Clara, the garden, and a stack of letters left unread for over 50 years…
The Author:
Rachel was born in Cambridge and grew up in a house full of books and records. She has read obsessively since she first realised those black squiggles on the pages that lined her parents’ bookshelves were actually words and it has gone down in family history that any time something interesting happened, she missed it because she had her nose in a book.
After reading for a degree in Classics and another in English Literature she accidentally fell into a career in law but her love of books prevailed as she realised that she wanted to slip into imaginary worlds of her own making. She eventually managed to write her first novel on her lunch breaks.
She is obsessed with old houses and the secrets they keep, with abandoned gardens and locked gates, with family histories and surprising revelations, and with the outcomes of those surprises many generations later.
She lives in Yorkshire with her husband, a variety of cats and far too many books. By writing novels she now has an excuse for her head being forever in the clouds.
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Book Title 1: The Mystery of Haverford House
Format: Paperback
Book Title 2: The Butterfly Garden
Format: Hardback
Genre: Historical Fiction
Signed: Dedication available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
Book 1:
1933. Annie Bishop is sixteen years old when she first climbs the steps of Haverford House ready to take service as a maid. She knows her place until, during a summer of high society, she crosses paths with wealthy America heir, Thomas Everard. In his arms, Annie dares to dream of a different life.
Until she vanishes without a trace.
2003. Viola Hendricks knows what it's like to dream big. So when she reads about Annie's disappearance shortly before she sees an advert for a job at Haverford House, it seems fate is at work. Five years later, when the house faces closure, Viola is determined to do everything she can to keep it open. What's not in her plans is enigmatic American Chase Matthews, with an agenda of his own…
If they want to save Haverford House, they must look for answers together - but are they prepared for the truth about what really happened to Annie Bishop?
Book 2:
1963: When Clara Samuels buys Butterfly Cottage, she knows the scandal she’ll cause. A single woman buying property is not the ‘done thing’, especially not in a village like Carybrook. But Clara has been in love with Butterfly Cottage, and its garden, since she used to play there before the War. And when she reconnects with her childhood friend James, her decision feels serendipitous. But the true scandal is yet to come, because within six months, Clara will leave England under mysterious circumstances, and Butterfly Cottage will stand empty for more than 50 years.
2018: No one is more surprised than Meredith when she’s bequeathed a cottage by a great aunt she’d never heard of. She hopes, briefly, that the inheritance could be the answer to her financial problems. But when she arrives in Suffolk, she is shocked to discover a man is already living there. A young gardener, who claims he was also bequeathed half of Butterfly Cottage.
As the pair try to unravel their complicated situation, they unearth a decades old mystery involving Clara, the garden, and a stack of letters left unread for over 50 years…
The Author:
Rachel was born in Cambridge and grew up in a house full of books and records. She has read obsessively since she first realised those black squiggles on the pages that lined her parents’ bookshelves were actually words and it has gone down in family history that any time something interesting happened, she missed it because she had her nose in a book.
After reading for a degree in Classics and another in English Literature she accidentally fell into a career in law but her love of books prevailed as she realised that she wanted to slip into imaginary worlds of her own making. She eventually managed to write her first novel on her lunch breaks.
She is obsessed with old houses and the secrets they keep, with abandoned gardens and locked gates, with family histories and surprising revelations, and with the outcomes of those surprises many generations later.
She lives in Yorkshire with her husband, a variety of cats and far too many books. By writing novels she now has an excuse for her head being forever in the clouds.
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Louise Fein
Louise Fein
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Book Title: The London Bookshop Affair
Genre: Historical fiction
Format: Paperback (1st edition)
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London, 1962: The world is teetering on the brink of nuclear war but life must go on. Celia Duchesne longs for a career, but with no means or qualifications, passes her time working at a dusty bookshop. The day a handsome American enters the shop, she thinks she might have found her way out of the monotony. Just as the excitement of a budding relationship engulfs her, a devastating secret draws her into the murky world of espionage.
France, 1942: Nineteen-year-old Anya Moreau was dropped behind enemy lines to aid the resistance, sending messages back home to London via wireless transmitter. When she was cruelly betrayed, evidence of her legacy and the truth of her actions were buried by wartime injustices.
As Celia learns more about Anya—and her unexpected connection to the undercover agent—she becomes increasingly aware of furious efforts, both past and present, to protect state secrets. With her newly formed romance taking a surprising turn and the world on the verge of nuclear annihilation, Celia must risk everything she holds dear, in the name of justice.
The Author:
Louise writes historical fiction, focusing on unheard voices or from unusual perspectives. Louise, previously worked in law and finance and holds an MA in Creative Writing from St Mary’s University. She now writes full time. Equally passionate about historical research and writing, she loves to look for themes which have resonance with today’s world. Louise lives in the Surrey countryside, UK, with her family, and is a slave to the daily demands of her pets.
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Genre: Historical fiction
Format: Paperback (1st edition)
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The Book:
London, 1962: The world is teetering on the brink of nuclear war but life must go on. Celia Duchesne longs for a career, but with no means or qualifications, passes her time working at a dusty bookshop. The day a handsome American enters the shop, she thinks she might have found her way out of the monotony. Just as the excitement of a budding relationship engulfs her, a devastating secret draws her into the murky world of espionage.
France, 1942: Nineteen-year-old Anya Moreau was dropped behind enemy lines to aid the resistance, sending messages back home to London via wireless transmitter. When she was cruelly betrayed, evidence of her legacy and the truth of her actions were buried by wartime injustices.
As Celia learns more about Anya—and her unexpected connection to the undercover agent—she becomes increasingly aware of furious efforts, both past and present, to protect state secrets. With her newly formed romance taking a surprising turn and the world on the verge of nuclear annihilation, Celia must risk everything she holds dear, in the name of justice.
The Author:
Louise writes historical fiction, focusing on unheard voices or from unusual perspectives. Louise, previously worked in law and finance and holds an MA in Creative Writing from St Mary’s University. She now writes full time. Equally passionate about historical research and writing, she loves to look for themes which have resonance with today’s world. Louise lives in the Surrey countryside, UK, with her family, and is a slave to the daily demands of her pets.
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Ian Moore
Ian Moore
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Book Title: Death in Le Jardin
Genre: Cosy crime
Format: Hardback, First Edition
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The Book :
On the surface, Richard Ainsworth has life where he wants it. Middle-aged navel gazing and Olympic levels of procrastination are exactly what rural life in France should be about.
Then crisis hits his posh B&B when redoubtable housekeeper, Madame Tablier, is accused of murder. Even more surprisingly, it's the murder of a former fiancé, turned brother-in-law. None of which the stubborn old woman denies.
Valérie d'Orçay is having none of it and their investigation leads them to a strange tourist garden village, where backbiting, recriminations and even former colleagues provide a deadly scenario more tangled than knotweed.
The Author:
Best-Selling author Ian Moore is also a stand-up comedian and conference host in the UK, and husband, father of three boys, farmhand, chutney-maker and Basil Fawlty impersonator in France. Since doing less stand-up, he's stopped taking himself so seriously.
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Genre: Cosy crime
Format: Hardback, First Edition
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The Book :
On the surface, Richard Ainsworth has life where he wants it. Middle-aged navel gazing and Olympic levels of procrastination are exactly what rural life in France should be about.
Then crisis hits his posh B&B when redoubtable housekeeper, Madame Tablier, is accused of murder. Even more surprisingly, it's the murder of a former fiancé, turned brother-in-law. None of which the stubborn old woman denies.
Valérie d'Orçay is having none of it and their investigation leads them to a strange tourist garden village, where backbiting, recriminations and even former colleagues provide a deadly scenario more tangled than knotweed.
The Author:
Best-Selling author Ian Moore is also a stand-up comedian and conference host in the UK, and husband, father of three boys, farmhand, chutney-maker and Basil Fawlty impersonator in France. Since doing less stand-up, he's stopped taking himself so seriously.
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Nicola Kent
Nicola Kent
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Book Title: Measuring Me!
Genre: Non-fiction picture book
Format: Hardback, first edition
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The Book:
From finding out how tall you are in food tins to how much electricity your body can generate, Measuring Me includes plenty of relatable and exciting ways to explore the concepts of measuring.
Measuring Me! has been long listed for the UKLA book awards 2025 and it comes with a pull out height chart!
The Author:
Nicola Kent graduated from the prestigious Cambridge School of Art MA with a distinction and was Highly Commended in the Macmillan Prize for Illustration in 2016. Nicola lives in London with her partner and two children.
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Genre: Non-fiction picture book
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The Book:
From finding out how tall you are in food tins to how much electricity your body can generate, Measuring Me includes plenty of relatable and exciting ways to explore the concepts of measuring.
Measuring Me! has been long listed for the UKLA book awards 2025 and it comes with a pull out height chart!
The Author:
Nicola Kent graduated from the prestigious Cambridge School of Art MA with a distinction and was Highly Commended in the Macmillan Prize for Illustration in 2016. Nicola lives in London with her partner and two children.
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Robert Rutherford
Robert Rutherford
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Book Title: Seven Days
Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Hardback First Edition
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The Book;
Your father is on death row. You have seven days to save him. But do you want to?
Alice knows her father is guilty of many things.
He's guilty of abandoning her.
He's guilty of being unfaithful to her mother.
But is he guilty of murder?
Now on Death Row, he has seven days to live.
Some people want him released.
Others will kill to keep him just where he is.
Alice has only one chance to save him. But should she?
The Author:
Robert Rutherford is author of Sunday Times bestseller, SEVEN DAYS (2024, Hodder). He had a random mix of jobs before turning to crime writing; he's been a bookseller, pizza deliverer, karate instructor, football coach, and HR Manager. He lives on the North East Coast with his wife, children & overly-needy dog, and is a founding member of the Northern Crime Syndicate crime-writers group.
Robert’s work has also seen him win the Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction in 2021, as well as being shortlisted for a CWA Dagger in 2021 and 2022, and long listed in 2024.
He also writes as Robert Scragg, with "What Falls Between The Cracks", the first in his Porter & Styles series, written under Robert Scragg, being chosen as a New Writing North pick as one of the 2019 Read Regional books of the year.
Outside of crime fiction, Robert is also a scriptwriter for a number of popular podcasts such as Deathbed Confessions, Short History Of, and more recently, History Daily - all available wherever you get your podcasts from.
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Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Hardback First Edition
Signature: Dedication is Available
Bids accepted: UK only
The Book;
Your father is on death row. You have seven days to save him. But do you want to?
Alice knows her father is guilty of many things.
He's guilty of abandoning her.
He's guilty of being unfaithful to her mother.
But is he guilty of murder?
Now on Death Row, he has seven days to live.
Some people want him released.
Others will kill to keep him just where he is.
Alice has only one chance to save him. But should she?
The Author:
Robert Rutherford is author of Sunday Times bestseller, SEVEN DAYS (2024, Hodder). He had a random mix of jobs before turning to crime writing; he's been a bookseller, pizza deliverer, karate instructor, football coach, and HR Manager. He lives on the North East Coast with his wife, children & overly-needy dog, and is a founding member of the Northern Crime Syndicate crime-writers group.
Robert’s work has also seen him win the Lindisfarne Prize for Crime Fiction in 2021, as well as being shortlisted for a CWA Dagger in 2021 and 2022, and long listed in 2024.
He also writes as Robert Scragg, with "What Falls Between The Cracks", the first in his Porter & Styles series, written under Robert Scragg, being chosen as a New Writing North pick as one of the 2019 Read Regional books of the year.
Outside of crime fiction, Robert is also a scriptwriter for a number of popular podcasts such as Deathbed Confessions, Short History Of, and more recently, History Daily - all available wherever you get your podcasts from.
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Emma-Claire Wilson
Emma-Claire Wilson
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Win A SIGNED copy of BOTH novels - This Child of Mine and When You Were Mine by Emma-Claire Wilson as well as a few special book-related gifts.
Title 1: This Child of Mine
Title 2; When You Were Mine
Genre: Contemporary Women's Fiction / Emotional Tear-Jerker
Format: Paperback
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Book One :
This Child of Mine
When Stephanie is told she’s pregnant and that she is sick on the same day, she faces an impossible choice…
After trying for a baby for so long, finding out I was pregnant was supposed to be the happiest day of my life. But in the same breath as the news I had been waiting years to hear, the doctor told me I was seriously ill.
If I carry my baby to term, I will almost certainly die.
If I proceed with treatment, my baby will not live.
My husband – the father of this child – is telling me to save myself. But with all the secrets I know he is keeping from me, I can’t trust him anymore.
What would you do?
An emotional yet uplifting tear-jerker that will have you reaching for the tissues – perfect for fans of EMMA ROBINSON and JODI PICOULT.
Book Two:
When You Were Mine
One mistake could change their lives forever…
My life is a mess. My marriage is falling apart, and I’d hoped the arrival of our baby girl would bring us closer together. Yet, as she grows, I see less of a resemblance to my husband, stirring unsettling questions.
I was hoping a visit from my friend, Victoria would bring some stability. With her seemingly perfect life in Spain, she embodies hope for a brighter future.
But our reunion has taken an unexpected turn. And when a shock diagnosis shakes our family further, Victoria doesn’t know it yet, but she might just hold the key to saving our family.
But if I want her to help, a big secret has to come out. Revealing the truth risks everything – my marriage, our friendship, our families. Can we weather this storm, or will it shatter us beyond repair?
An emotional and powerful novel of motherhood, friendship and what family means to us all. Perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult and Susan Lewis.
The Author:
Emma-Claire Wilson is an author of emotional commercial and book club fiction. She writes ‘to make sense of the world’, and loves nothing more than tackling tough subjects and issues that affect her readers on a daily basis.
When she is not writing fiction, she enjoys exercising her brain muscles with freelance copywriting, coaching other writers or writing articles for The Glass House Online Magazine.
Her debut, This Child of Mine, although not autobiographical, was based on personal experiences and resulted in a highly emotional piece of fiction that secured her representation with Kate Nash Literary Agency.
Born in Scotland, Emma-Claire travelled the world as the child of military parents and has spent most of her adult life living in her spiritual home, Spain. She lives with her husband, two daughters, and rescue dog, Pip. Emma-Claire worked as a journalist for English language magazines and newspapers in Spain and in 2015 launched The Glass House Online Magazine. When not writing emotional fiction, you can find her dreaming up new book ideas or wrapped in a blanket with a book in her hand.
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Title 1: This Child of Mine
Title 2; When You Were Mine
Genre: Contemporary Women's Fiction / Emotional Tear-Jerker
Format: Paperback
Signed: Both signed and dedication available on request
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
Book One :
This Child of Mine
When Stephanie is told she’s pregnant and that she is sick on the same day, she faces an impossible choice…
After trying for a baby for so long, finding out I was pregnant was supposed to be the happiest day of my life. But in the same breath as the news I had been waiting years to hear, the doctor told me I was seriously ill.
If I carry my baby to term, I will almost certainly die.
If I proceed with treatment, my baby will not live.
My husband – the father of this child – is telling me to save myself. But with all the secrets I know he is keeping from me, I can’t trust him anymore.
What would you do?
An emotional yet uplifting tear-jerker that will have you reaching for the tissues – perfect for fans of EMMA ROBINSON and JODI PICOULT.
Book Two:
When You Were Mine
One mistake could change their lives forever…
My life is a mess. My marriage is falling apart, and I’d hoped the arrival of our baby girl would bring us closer together. Yet, as she grows, I see less of a resemblance to my husband, stirring unsettling questions.
I was hoping a visit from my friend, Victoria would bring some stability. With her seemingly perfect life in Spain, she embodies hope for a brighter future.
But our reunion has taken an unexpected turn. And when a shock diagnosis shakes our family further, Victoria doesn’t know it yet, but she might just hold the key to saving our family.
But if I want her to help, a big secret has to come out. Revealing the truth risks everything – my marriage, our friendship, our families. Can we weather this storm, or will it shatter us beyond repair?
An emotional and powerful novel of motherhood, friendship and what family means to us all. Perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult and Susan Lewis.
The Author:
Emma-Claire Wilson is an author of emotional commercial and book club fiction. She writes ‘to make sense of the world’, and loves nothing more than tackling tough subjects and issues that affect her readers on a daily basis.
When she is not writing fiction, she enjoys exercising her brain muscles with freelance copywriting, coaching other writers or writing articles for The Glass House Online Magazine.
Her debut, This Child of Mine, although not autobiographical, was based on personal experiences and resulted in a highly emotional piece of fiction that secured her representation with Kate Nash Literary Agency.
Born in Scotland, Emma-Claire travelled the world as the child of military parents and has spent most of her adult life living in her spiritual home, Spain. She lives with her husband, two daughters, and rescue dog, Pip. Emma-Claire worked as a journalist for English language magazines and newspapers in Spain and in 2015 launched The Glass House Online Magazine. When not writing emotional fiction, you can find her dreaming up new book ideas or wrapped in a blanket with a book in her hand.
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Jenny Linford
Jenny Linford
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Title: The Missing Ingredient: the Curious Role of Time in Food and Flavour
Genre: Food & Drink
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
The Missing Ingredient is about what makes good food, and the first book to consider the intrinsic yet often forgotten role of time in creating the flavours and textures we love.
Written through a series of encounters with ingredients, producers, cooks, shopkeepers and chefs, exploring everything from the brief period in which sugar caramelises, or the days required in the crucial process of fermentation, to the months of slow ripening and close attention that make a great cheddar, or the years needed for certain wines to reach their peak, Jenny Linford shows how, time and again, time itself is the invisible ingredient. From the patience and dedication of many food producers in fields and storehouses around the world to the rapid reactions required of any home cook at the hob, this book allows us to better understand our culinary lives.
The Author:
Jenny Linford is a professional food writer based in London and a member of the Guild of Food Writers. She is the author of several books including The Tomato Basket (9781849755986), The Creamery Kitchen (9781849754941), Great British Cheeses, and Food Lovers’ London, and General Editor of '1001 Restaurants You Have to Experience Before You Die'. Her food journalism has appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines, including the 'Financial Times', 'Guardian', 'Time Out', and 'The Times'. She is always very happy in the presence of good food.
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Genre: Food & Drink
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The Book;
The Missing Ingredient is about what makes good food, and the first book to consider the intrinsic yet often forgotten role of time in creating the flavours and textures we love.
Written through a series of encounters with ingredients, producers, cooks, shopkeepers and chefs, exploring everything from the brief period in which sugar caramelises, or the days required in the crucial process of fermentation, to the months of slow ripening and close attention that make a great cheddar, or the years needed for certain wines to reach their peak, Jenny Linford shows how, time and again, time itself is the invisible ingredient. From the patience and dedication of many food producers in fields and storehouses around the world to the rapid reactions required of any home cook at the hob, this book allows us to better understand our culinary lives.
The Author:
Jenny Linford is a professional food writer based in London and a member of the Guild of Food Writers. She is the author of several books including The Tomato Basket (9781849755986), The Creamery Kitchen (9781849754941), Great British Cheeses, and Food Lovers’ London, and General Editor of '1001 Restaurants You Have to Experience Before You Die'. Her food journalism has appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines, including the 'Financial Times', 'Guardian', 'Time Out', and 'The Times'. She is always very happy in the presence of good food.
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Imran Mahmood
Imran Mahmood
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Book Title: FINDING SOPHIE
Genre: CRIME FICTION
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The Book : Her parents Harry and Zara are distraught. For 17 years they’ve done everything for their only daughter and now she’s gone. The police have no leads and Harry and Zara are going frantic. They become increasingly obsessed with their suspicious neighbour who won’t answer door. If they want answers they are going to have to take matters into their own hands.
The Author:
Imran Mahmood is a practising criminal barrister in England and Wales. His debut novel You Don’t Know Me was chosen by Simon Mayo as a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice for 2017 and longlisted for the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year, the CWA Gold Dagger Award, and the Glass Bell Award and was made into a hugely successful BBC1 adaptation in association with Netflix, reaching no.3 in the World and in the UK received a BAFTA nomination for best actor. His second novel I Know What I Saw was chosen as a Sunday Times crime novel of the month and reached no. 2 on the Audible charts. It was also long-listed for both the CWA Gold Dagger Award and Theakstons Crime Novel of the year. His third novel ALL I SAID WAS TRUE was also long-listed for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023
His fourth novel Finding Sophie was released in the UK and in the USA in March 2024.
Imran was born and raised in Liverpool but now lives in London with his wife and 2 daughters.
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The Book : Her parents Harry and Zara are distraught. For 17 years they’ve done everything for their only daughter and now she’s gone. The police have no leads and Harry and Zara are going frantic. They become increasingly obsessed with their suspicious neighbour who won’t answer door. If they want answers they are going to have to take matters into their own hands.
The Author:
Imran Mahmood is a practising criminal barrister in England and Wales. His debut novel You Don’t Know Me was chosen by Simon Mayo as a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice for 2017 and longlisted for the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year, the CWA Gold Dagger Award, and the Glass Bell Award and was made into a hugely successful BBC1 adaptation in association with Netflix, reaching no.3 in the World and in the UK received a BAFTA nomination for best actor. His second novel I Know What I Saw was chosen as a Sunday Times crime novel of the month and reached no. 2 on the Audible charts. It was also long-listed for both the CWA Gold Dagger Award and Theakstons Crime Novel of the year. His third novel ALL I SAID WAS TRUE was also long-listed for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023
His fourth novel Finding Sophie was released in the UK and in the USA in March 2024.
Imran was born and raised in Liverpool but now lives in London with his wife and 2 daughters.
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Irina Georgescu
Irina Georgescu
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Title: Tava, Eastern European Baking
Genre: Food & drink
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WINNER OF THE 2023 JAMES BEARD AWARD FOR BEST BAKING AND DESSERTS BOOK
“A joy and an education. Irina Georgescu has disentangled the strands woven into Romanian cooking and identity and she has done so deliciously, through glorious cakes, pies, strudels and doughnuts. Cook, eat, learn.“ – Diana Henry
“I am such a huge admirer of Irina Georgescu in general, and of this extraordinarily impressive and important book in particular. A must-have, not just for enquiring bakers but, crucially, for all those interested in the context and evolution of culinary culture.” – Nigella Lawson
Tava is a meticulously researched baking book celebrating centuries of diversity and overlapping cultures that form today’s cuisine in Romania. The author’s aim is to also share the story of those dishes that have come to represent the identity of different cultural communities across the country.
Tava means tray in Romanian, a metaphor for how a whole culinary landscape is presented to the reader.
You will find Armenian pakhlava, Saxon plum pies, Swabian poppyseed crescents, Jewish fritters, and Hungarian langoși alongside plăcinte pies, alivenci corn cake, strudels and fruit dumplings. Rice or pearl barley puddings, doughnuts and gingerbread biscuits come with their own story, while chocolate mousses, meringues in custard sauce and coffee ice cream introduce you to the glamour of famous Romanian and Eastern European pastry shops.
The book is written with integrity and respect towards this rich heritage connecting the past with a present which can be encountered by the reader when travelling in Romania. The recipes are easy to follow, beautifully photographed, and tempt the reader to embrace the unfamiliar as much as the familiar, while enjoying their comforting and homely feel.
The Author:
Irina Georgescu is a UK food writer and author from Romania whose work draws on her Eastern European heritage. Her writing and recipes are a love letter to Romania, a country explored very little from the culinary point of view. She writes with integrity and respect towards this rich heritage, raising the profile of Romanian culinary identity through her books and culinary tours.
Her first book, ‘Carpathia, food from the Heart of Romania’ was shortlisted by the UK Guild of Food Writers for the Best International Cookbook Award. At the same time, the German Culinary Academy awarded its German translation a Silver Feather. The book was also translated into Hungarian and Dutch.
Her latest book, ‘Tava, Eastern European Baking and Desserts from Romania and Beyond’ is a meticulously researched baking book celebrating centuries of diversity and overlapping cultures that form today’s cuisine in Romania. Irina also aims to share the story of those dishes that have come to represent the identity of different cultural communities across the country.
Irina was born in Bucharest, Romania, where she lived for 30 years before she moved to Wales, UK. Keep in touch with her through her website and social media.
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Genre: Food & drink
Format: Hardback
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WINNER OF THE 2023 JAMES BEARD AWARD FOR BEST BAKING AND DESSERTS BOOK
“A joy and an education. Irina Georgescu has disentangled the strands woven into Romanian cooking and identity and she has done so deliciously, through glorious cakes, pies, strudels and doughnuts. Cook, eat, learn.“ – Diana Henry
“I am such a huge admirer of Irina Georgescu in general, and of this extraordinarily impressive and important book in particular. A must-have, not just for enquiring bakers but, crucially, for all those interested in the context and evolution of culinary culture.” – Nigella Lawson
Tava is a meticulously researched baking book celebrating centuries of diversity and overlapping cultures that form today’s cuisine in Romania. The author’s aim is to also share the story of those dishes that have come to represent the identity of different cultural communities across the country.
Tava means tray in Romanian, a metaphor for how a whole culinary landscape is presented to the reader.
You will find Armenian pakhlava, Saxon plum pies, Swabian poppyseed crescents, Jewish fritters, and Hungarian langoși alongside plăcinte pies, alivenci corn cake, strudels and fruit dumplings. Rice or pearl barley puddings, doughnuts and gingerbread biscuits come with their own story, while chocolate mousses, meringues in custard sauce and coffee ice cream introduce you to the glamour of famous Romanian and Eastern European pastry shops.
The book is written with integrity and respect towards this rich heritage connecting the past with a present which can be encountered by the reader when travelling in Romania. The recipes are easy to follow, beautifully photographed, and tempt the reader to embrace the unfamiliar as much as the familiar, while enjoying their comforting and homely feel.
The Author:
Irina Georgescu is a UK food writer and author from Romania whose work draws on her Eastern European heritage. Her writing and recipes are a love letter to Romania, a country explored very little from the culinary point of view. She writes with integrity and respect towards this rich heritage, raising the profile of Romanian culinary identity through her books and culinary tours.
Her first book, ‘Carpathia, food from the Heart of Romania’ was shortlisted by the UK Guild of Food Writers for the Best International Cookbook Award. At the same time, the German Culinary Academy awarded its German translation a Silver Feather. The book was also translated into Hungarian and Dutch.
Her latest book, ‘Tava, Eastern European Baking and Desserts from Romania and Beyond’ is a meticulously researched baking book celebrating centuries of diversity and overlapping cultures that form today’s cuisine in Romania. Irina also aims to share the story of those dishes that have come to represent the identity of different cultural communities across the country.
Irina was born in Bucharest, Romania, where she lived for 30 years before she moved to Wales, UK. Keep in touch with her through her website and social media.
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Title: Fright Bite
Genre: Children (Middle Grade) Sci - Fi
Format: Paperback
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The brand new must-read middle-grade novel from the author of super-spooky Crater Lake. Perfect for 9+ fans of R.L.Stine’s Goosebumps and Stranger Things.
It’s Colette’s birthday and the friends are spending an evening at Neon Perch – an epic entertainment spot where they can eat pizza, play mini golf and – best of all – take part in Project Z – an epic new escape room experience. It’s going to be the best night ever!
Or is it . . . ?
Somehow, the escape room somehow seems to know each player’s greatest fears. And worst of all, there are creatures locked up with them. Creatures from their darkest nightmares . . . giant, poisonous RATS!
“Deliciously scary and hilarious comedy-horror, perfectly pitched for eight-plus.”
The Guardian on Dread Wood
Jennifer Killick's book 'Creepy Creations' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2024-02-19.
The Author:
I have always loved stories. Growing up, I kept so many books hidden in my bed for reading after lights out that there was barely room for me! I also loved writing stories – my first being a tale about a baby bird called Snowy, who hurt her leg and had to hop her way to safety.
I started thinking seriously about being a writer when I was in secondary school, but didn’t do anything about it because I didn’t really believe it was possible. The thought of seeing a book in the shops with my name on it seemed too amazing to ever be a reality. I was afraid that I’d fail, so I didn’t risk trying– and that is definitely the worst reason in the world!
Having my first son was the kick in the bottom I needed. Suddenly I had someone depending on and looking up to me, and it made me want to do better. Once he started school I applied for a Creative Writing MA at Brunel University, intending to write grown up novels full of tragedy and despair. But then I got the idea for ‘The Really Big Stink’ and from then on, writing for children was all I wanted to do.
I live in London, in a house full of children, animals and fairy lights. When I’m not busy mothering or writing (which isn’t often) I love to watch anime and sew plush toys. My favourite things are books, bears, trees, and fluffy slippers, and my favourite place in the world is my home, where I can snuggle up with my dogs, and tea and cake, coming up with story ideas.
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Genre: Children (Middle Grade) Sci - Fi
Format: Paperback
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The Book :
The brand new must-read middle-grade novel from the author of super-spooky Crater Lake. Perfect for 9+ fans of R.L.Stine’s Goosebumps and Stranger Things.
It’s Colette’s birthday and the friends are spending an evening at Neon Perch – an epic entertainment spot where they can eat pizza, play mini golf and – best of all – take part in Project Z – an epic new escape room experience. It’s going to be the best night ever!
Or is it . . . ?
Somehow, the escape room somehow seems to know each player’s greatest fears. And worst of all, there are creatures locked up with them. Creatures from their darkest nightmares . . . giant, poisonous RATS!
“Deliciously scary and hilarious comedy-horror, perfectly pitched for eight-plus.”
The Guardian on Dread Wood
Jennifer Killick's book 'Creepy Creations' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2024-02-19.
The Author:
I have always loved stories. Growing up, I kept so many books hidden in my bed for reading after lights out that there was barely room for me! I also loved writing stories – my first being a tale about a baby bird called Snowy, who hurt her leg and had to hop her way to safety.
I started thinking seriously about being a writer when I was in secondary school, but didn’t do anything about it because I didn’t really believe it was possible. The thought of seeing a book in the shops with my name on it seemed too amazing to ever be a reality. I was afraid that I’d fail, so I didn’t risk trying– and that is definitely the worst reason in the world!
Having my first son was the kick in the bottom I needed. Suddenly I had someone depending on and looking up to me, and it made me want to do better. Once he started school I applied for a Creative Writing MA at Brunel University, intending to write grown up novels full of tragedy and despair. But then I got the idea for ‘The Really Big Stink’ and from then on, writing for children was all I wanted to do.
I live in London, in a house full of children, animals and fairy lights. When I’m not busy mothering or writing (which isn’t often) I love to watch anime and sew plush toys. My favourite things are books, bears, trees, and fluffy slippers, and my favourite place in the world is my home, where I can snuggle up with my dogs, and tea and cake, coming up with story ideas.
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*Three great books in one lot!
Title1: Santa's Marvellous Mechanical Workshop
Genre: Children
Format: Picture Book
Title 2: North and the Only One
Genre: Children - Science Fiction
Format: Paperback
Title 3: The Clockwork Key
Genre: Children - Science Fiction
Format: Paperback
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Title1: Santa's Marvellous Mechanical Workshop
A gorgeously illustrated celebration of creativity, upcycling and Christmas magic!
It's Christmas Eve at Lily's new house, but Lily misses the old one.
Then, in a moment of magic, she is whisked away to the North Pole! Santa's elfbots need her help to invent new toys from used, discarded ones.
Lily comes to learn that with a dash of imagination, she can make anything - even, perhaps, a new home...
The perfect give for young budding engineers who love to invent things!
Perfect for fans of The Polar Express and Rosie Revere, Engineer.
This is the picture-book debut of Vashti Hardy, the Blue-Peter-Book-Award-winning author of children's novels known for their distinctive fusion of imagination and invention.
Illustrator and rising star Katie Cottle was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize.
Title 2: North and the Only One
From the award-winning author of The Brightstorm Chronicles, Vashti Hardy, comes a powerful new story set in a surprising world filled with action, adventure and big questions about family and what it means to be human. Perfect for readers aged 9+ and for fans of Ross Welford and Piers Torday.
Twelve-year-old Rose can't remember anything before last week, when she woke up not knowing her own name, her own house, or or even her own mother. The only thing Rose recognized was her puppy, North.
But Mother patiently explained everything - well, not everything. Not the real-feeling dreams Rose has about a mysterious forest she half-recognizes. Or why she is not allowed to stray beyond the garden, out into Luminelle, the vast city surrounding them.
Mother is kind and helpful, but Rose can't shake the feeling that something's not right. Or maybe it's everything that's not right?
But then, when Rose flees to the outside world with North, it quickly becomes clear to Rose that she is different. And for reasons she doesn't understand, she's dangerous.
On an unforgettable journey of discovery, Rose uncovers life-altering truths about the city she's in, the people around her ... and ultimately herself.
An action-packed adventure filled with warmth and humour, this story will expand your mind - and your heart
Tackling big questions such as: What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be family?
Title 3: The Clockwork Key
Embark on an action-packed quest to find the lost town of clockwork in the first of a new fantasy adventure series from Vashti Hardy, packed with her trademark STEM inventions.
Mabel and Will Greystone are looking forward to an exciting holiday with their aunt Lucy, a famous relic hunter in the land of Marvolia.
Using an ancient map, they are searching for the legendary lost town of Umber, famous for the invention of clockwork, which was mysteriously abandoned hundreds of years ago. The only other clue they have is a strange old key left behind by the last inhabitant of the town, but they have no idea what the key is for.
Also on the hunt for Umber is devious Byron Cogsworth, desperate for the glory such an important discovery will bring. Can Mabel, Will and Aunt Lucy find Umber before him? And what secrets will the clockwork key unlock …?
Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 8.
The Author:
Vashti Hardy's breathtaking middle grade fantasies are published across the world in several languages. Wildspark won the Blue Peter Book Award ‘Best Story’ in 2020 and the FCBG Children’s Book Awards and Brightstorm was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, Books are My Bag Awards and Leeds Book Award. Brightstorm was also selected for Independent Booksellers Book of the Season and Primary School Book Club Reads.
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Title1: Santa's Marvellous Mechanical Workshop
Genre: Children
Format: Picture Book
Title 2: North and the Only One
Genre: Children - Science Fiction
Format: Paperback
Title 3: The Clockwork Key
Genre: Children - Science Fiction
Format: Paperback
All Three Books Are Signed: Dedications are Available
Bids Accepted: UK Only
Title1: Santa's Marvellous Mechanical Workshop
A gorgeously illustrated celebration of creativity, upcycling and Christmas magic!
It's Christmas Eve at Lily's new house, but Lily misses the old one.
Then, in a moment of magic, she is whisked away to the North Pole! Santa's elfbots need her help to invent new toys from used, discarded ones.
Lily comes to learn that with a dash of imagination, she can make anything - even, perhaps, a new home...
The perfect give for young budding engineers who love to invent things!
Perfect for fans of The Polar Express and Rosie Revere, Engineer.
This is the picture-book debut of Vashti Hardy, the Blue-Peter-Book-Award-winning author of children's novels known for their distinctive fusion of imagination and invention.
Illustrator and rising star Katie Cottle was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize.
Title 2: North and the Only One
From the award-winning author of The Brightstorm Chronicles, Vashti Hardy, comes a powerful new story set in a surprising world filled with action, adventure and big questions about family and what it means to be human. Perfect for readers aged 9+ and for fans of Ross Welford and Piers Torday.
Twelve-year-old Rose can't remember anything before last week, when she woke up not knowing her own name, her own house, or or even her own mother. The only thing Rose recognized was her puppy, North.
But Mother patiently explained everything - well, not everything. Not the real-feeling dreams Rose has about a mysterious forest she half-recognizes. Or why she is not allowed to stray beyond the garden, out into Luminelle, the vast city surrounding them.
Mother is kind and helpful, but Rose can't shake the feeling that something's not right. Or maybe it's everything that's not right?
But then, when Rose flees to the outside world with North, it quickly becomes clear to Rose that she is different. And for reasons she doesn't understand, she's dangerous.
On an unforgettable journey of discovery, Rose uncovers life-altering truths about the city she's in, the people around her ... and ultimately herself.
An action-packed adventure filled with warmth and humour, this story will expand your mind - and your heart
Tackling big questions such as: What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be family?
Title 3: The Clockwork Key
Embark on an action-packed quest to find the lost town of clockwork in the first of a new fantasy adventure series from Vashti Hardy, packed with her trademark STEM inventions.
Mabel and Will Greystone are looking forward to an exciting holiday with their aunt Lucy, a famous relic hunter in the land of Marvolia.
Using an ancient map, they are searching for the legendary lost town of Umber, famous for the invention of clockwork, which was mysteriously abandoned hundreds of years ago. The only other clue they have is a strange old key left behind by the last inhabitant of the town, but they have no idea what the key is for.
Also on the hunt for Umber is devious Byron Cogsworth, desperate for the glory such an important discovery will bring. Can Mabel, Will and Aunt Lucy find Umber before him? And what secrets will the clockwork key unlock …?
Particularly suitable for readers aged 9+ with a reading age of 8.
The Author:
Vashti Hardy's breathtaking middle grade fantasies are published across the world in several languages. Wildspark won the Blue Peter Book Award ‘Best Story’ in 2020 and the FCBG Children’s Book Awards and Brightstorm was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, Books are My Bag Awards and Leeds Book Award. Brightstorm was also selected for Independent Booksellers Book of the Season and Primary School Book Club Reads.
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The Heart Trilogy
Title 1: The Hollow Heart
Title 2: A Change Of Heart
Title 3: Secrets Of The Heart
Genre: Romantic Mystery Thriller
Format: Paperbacks
Dedications Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only
The The Book 1 : The Hollow Heart
This heartrending mystery thriller is the story of Marianne Coltrane a feisty, award-winning journalist who uncovers a devastating travesty of justice involving the sale of babies by the church in Ireland. Fighting her corner in the male-dominated world of newspapers she witnesses a terrorist attack that changes how she thinks about her future and what she really wants. Taking herself off to the wilds of the west of Ireland to re-evaluate her life, she encounters the soon to be world-famous actor Ryan O'Gorman, to her mind the most conceited, infuriating man in the world. He in turn loathes journalists, especially female ones. One thing they do have in common is they both think their chance of true love has passed them by. As they both begin to fall in love with Innishmahon, their spiritual home, they discover the very fabric of the island is threatened and as the islanders find themselves in grave danger, Marianne and Ryan join forces to save that which they hold most dear. But the road is rocky for this fiery, opinionated pair ... and when Ryan discovers his ex-fiance is carrying his child, things take a turn for the worst. Can he talk his way out of this one? And will Marianne even care, when she unwittingly reveals the most devastating secret of all, the truth behind her past and her own parentage.
Sexy, moving and funny, this heart-warming duo and cast of colourful characters will stay with you, long after the last page leaves you smiling.
The Book 2: A Change Of Heart
This captivating mystery thriller is an unputdownable rollercoaster of a read, filled with action, adventure and romance. When campaigning journalist Marianne Coltrane falls in love with a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, she had not bargained for a tumultuous affair with Hollywood movie star Ryan O'Gorman.
When Ryan's career recalls him, Marianne remains on the island to support the close-knit community who are becoming like a family to the world-weary journalist and her beloved Highland terrier. It's not long before Ryan realises he cannot live without her and returns to woo her back.Tricky enough without his problematic ex-wife or the contract he cannot break, but when a mysterious death lands his agent in a heap of trouble and Marianne's mother find herself literally up to no good in New York, the couple, struggling to establish their own relationship are very nearly driven apart. Then when a dangerous but essentially good deed puts all they treasure in jeopardy, it's time to take stock and fight for what matters most ...or is time running out for this charismatic couple and everything they hold most dear?
"Following the acclaimed debut The Hollow Heart, A Change of Heart is another exciting read. Laced with glamour, mystery and intrigue, this beguiling tale is filled with characters you'll love and laugh with all over again.
The Book 3: Secrets Of The Heart
Fabulous, award-winning romantic suspense, just had to see how the story ended! Finally free to be together on the remote Irish isle of Innishmahon, campaigning journalist Marianne Coltrane and her movie star partner, Ryan O'Gorman are looking forward to life away from the bright lights of Hollywood and the constant pursuit of the paparazzi.
However, when nature conspires to keep them apart and Ryan puts both his own and his son's life at risk, Marianne finally realises how determined he is they should be a family. She now needs to put aside her own, deep rooted fear of commitment and come to terms with the sinister secrets buried within her family history.
Yet when Ryan's own devastating secret is revealed, and their world is turned upside down, Marianne has to call upon more than determination to see them through. She has to believe in love with every fibre of her being, because if she cannot, it could mean not only the end of their relationship, but even life itself.
The Author :
Adrienne is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and a founder member of the indie publishing group The New Romantics4. She lives in Leicestershire with her husband, two cocker spaniels and a retired dressage horse called Marco.
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Title 1: The Hollow Heart
Title 2: A Change Of Heart
Title 3: Secrets Of The Heart
Genre: Romantic Mystery Thriller
Format: Paperbacks
Dedications Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only
The The Book 1 : The Hollow Heart
This heartrending mystery thriller is the story of Marianne Coltrane a feisty, award-winning journalist who uncovers a devastating travesty of justice involving the sale of babies by the church in Ireland. Fighting her corner in the male-dominated world of newspapers she witnesses a terrorist attack that changes how she thinks about her future and what she really wants. Taking herself off to the wilds of the west of Ireland to re-evaluate her life, she encounters the soon to be world-famous actor Ryan O'Gorman, to her mind the most conceited, infuriating man in the world. He in turn loathes journalists, especially female ones. One thing they do have in common is they both think their chance of true love has passed them by. As they both begin to fall in love with Innishmahon, their spiritual home, they discover the very fabric of the island is threatened and as the islanders find themselves in grave danger, Marianne and Ryan join forces to save that which they hold most dear. But the road is rocky for this fiery, opinionated pair ... and when Ryan discovers his ex-fiance is carrying his child, things take a turn for the worst. Can he talk his way out of this one? And will Marianne even care, when she unwittingly reveals the most devastating secret of all, the truth behind her past and her own parentage.
Sexy, moving and funny, this heart-warming duo and cast of colourful characters will stay with you, long after the last page leaves you smiling.
The Book 2: A Change Of Heart
This captivating mystery thriller is an unputdownable rollercoaster of a read, filled with action, adventure and romance. When campaigning journalist Marianne Coltrane falls in love with a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, she had not bargained for a tumultuous affair with Hollywood movie star Ryan O'Gorman.
When Ryan's career recalls him, Marianne remains on the island to support the close-knit community who are becoming like a family to the world-weary journalist and her beloved Highland terrier. It's not long before Ryan realises he cannot live without her and returns to woo her back.Tricky enough without his problematic ex-wife or the contract he cannot break, but when a mysterious death lands his agent in a heap of trouble and Marianne's mother find herself literally up to no good in New York, the couple, struggling to establish their own relationship are very nearly driven apart. Then when a dangerous but essentially good deed puts all they treasure in jeopardy, it's time to take stock and fight for what matters most ...or is time running out for this charismatic couple and everything they hold most dear?
"Following the acclaimed debut The Hollow Heart, A Change of Heart is another exciting read. Laced with glamour, mystery and intrigue, this beguiling tale is filled with characters you'll love and laugh with all over again.
The Book 3: Secrets Of The Heart
Fabulous, award-winning romantic suspense, just had to see how the story ended! Finally free to be together on the remote Irish isle of Innishmahon, campaigning journalist Marianne Coltrane and her movie star partner, Ryan O'Gorman are looking forward to life away from the bright lights of Hollywood and the constant pursuit of the paparazzi.
However, when nature conspires to keep them apart and Ryan puts both his own and his son's life at risk, Marianne finally realises how determined he is they should be a family. She now needs to put aside her own, deep rooted fear of commitment and come to terms with the sinister secrets buried within her family history.
Yet when Ryan's own devastating secret is revealed, and their world is turned upside down, Marianne has to call upon more than determination to see them through. She has to believe in love with every fibre of her being, because if she cannot, it could mean not only the end of their relationship, but even life itself.
The Author :
Adrienne is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and a founder member of the indie publishing group The New Romantics4. She lives in Leicestershire with her husband, two cocker spaniels and a retired dressage horse called Marco.
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* Adrienne will be adding a collection of short stories & poetry for her successful bidder
Title 1: Summer of Secrets
Title 2: Secrets of the Shell Sisters
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Format: Paperbacks
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The Book 1:
Mia Flanagan has never been told who her father is and, aged ten, stopped asking. Now she keeps her own secrets.
But when the movie she’s working on ends in disaster, she flies home to discover her fiancé has a secret too; leaving her
dreams crushed.
Broken-hearted, a lonely summer in London looms. Until family friend, Archie Fitzgerald, invites her to stay at his fading mansion on Ireland’s ancient east coast.For Archie also has a secret, and the longer Mia stays, the more she wonders if Archie really is her father after all...
Summer of Secrets is a tale of how the ghost of love can blight many lives. And how Mia, realising the past cannot
hurt her, must make way for new love and the promise of happiness waiting in the wings.
The Book 2;
"That's like believing in Father Christmas," he said. "Or mermaids," she replied gravely.
Meet the Morgans. Three very different sisters, who each blame themselves for their mother's mysterious disappearance. Now, over forty years on, they are in crisis.
Cassandra - the eldest - runs the family's quirky, cliffside hotel. But the business is in trouble, and it seems a secret from the past is determined to resurface and destroy all she's worked for. Greer - the youngest - walked away from a glittering career to live in London. The mistress of a powerful man, she's left stranded on the day they were to start a new life together. Now she has no choice but to return to the family home - but what kind of welcome can she expect?
And Orla - the middle sister, whose obsessive shell collecting and messages from the 'sea- people' dominate her life. But Orla knows things. She knows Greer is coming home to a new future, that Cassandra's dark secret will change their lives and that their mother never really left at all.
And there's another secret, something they all share... but of course nobody's telling.
The Author:
The Author :
Adrienne is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and a founder member of the indie publishing group The New Romantics4. She lives in Leicestershire with her husband, two cocker spaniels and a retired dressage horse called Marco.
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Title 1: Summer of Secrets
Title 2: Secrets of the Shell Sisters
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Format: Paperbacks
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The Book 1:
Mia Flanagan has never been told who her father is and, aged ten, stopped asking. Now she keeps her own secrets.
But when the movie she’s working on ends in disaster, she flies home to discover her fiancé has a secret too; leaving her
dreams crushed.
Broken-hearted, a lonely summer in London looms. Until family friend, Archie Fitzgerald, invites her to stay at his fading mansion on Ireland’s ancient east coast.For Archie also has a secret, and the longer Mia stays, the more she wonders if Archie really is her father after all...
Summer of Secrets is a tale of how the ghost of love can blight many lives. And how Mia, realising the past cannot
hurt her, must make way for new love and the promise of happiness waiting in the wings.
The Book 2;
"That's like believing in Father Christmas," he said. "Or mermaids," she replied gravely.
Meet the Morgans. Three very different sisters, who each blame themselves for their mother's mysterious disappearance. Now, over forty years on, they are in crisis.
Cassandra - the eldest - runs the family's quirky, cliffside hotel. But the business is in trouble, and it seems a secret from the past is determined to resurface and destroy all she's worked for. Greer - the youngest - walked away from a glittering career to live in London. The mistress of a powerful man, she's left stranded on the day they were to start a new life together. Now she has no choice but to return to the family home - but what kind of welcome can she expect?
And Orla - the middle sister, whose obsessive shell collecting and messages from the 'sea- people' dominate her life. But Orla knows things. She knows Greer is coming home to a new future, that Cassandra's dark secret will change their lives and that their mother never really left at all.
And there's another secret, something they all share... but of course nobody's telling.
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The Author :
Adrienne is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and a founder member of the indie publishing group The New Romantics4. She lives in Leicestershire with her husband, two cocker spaniels and a retired dressage horse called Marco.
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Lynda La Plante
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Title: Getting Away With Murder
Genre: Autobiography - Memoir
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
DETECTIVE JANE TENNISON'S POLICE CAREER HANGS IN THE BALANCE: A
SINGLE STEP FROM GLORY - OR RUIN.
While she has elbowed her way into an elite team investigating non-domestic
murders, there is nothing elite about her first assignments: a missing teenager cold
case and an apparent suicide Tennison suspects is, in fact, murder.
But as she uncovers explosive evidence, Tennison's new colleagues watch like
vultures circling prey. And, one by one, the cases no one else wanted are taken
from her - and the glory along with them.
Now Tennison has had enough: of the rampant sexism, snide remarks and
undermining. It's time to take what is rightfully hers from those who have held her
back.
She just has to do what she does best: find her prime suspect . .
The Author:
Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool. She is the author of over forty novels, all of
which have been bestsellers. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with
the National theatre and RSC before becoming a television actress. She then turned
to writing - and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series
Widows. Lynda's original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards
from BAFTA, Emmys, British Broadcasting and Royal Television Society as well as the
1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award. Lynda is an honorary fellow of the British Film Institute
and was awarded the BAFTA Dennis Potter Best Writer's Award in 2000. In 2008,
she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to
Literature, Drama and Charity.
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Genre: Autobiography - Memoir
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The Book;
DETECTIVE JANE TENNISON'S POLICE CAREER HANGS IN THE BALANCE: A
SINGLE STEP FROM GLORY - OR RUIN.
While she has elbowed her way into an elite team investigating non-domestic
murders, there is nothing elite about her first assignments: a missing teenager cold
case and an apparent suicide Tennison suspects is, in fact, murder.
But as she uncovers explosive evidence, Tennison's new colleagues watch like
vultures circling prey. And, one by one, the cases no one else wanted are taken
from her - and the glory along with them.
Now Tennison has had enough: of the rampant sexism, snide remarks and
undermining. It's time to take what is rightfully hers from those who have held her
back.
She just has to do what she does best: find her prime suspect . .
The Author:
Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool. She is the author of over forty novels, all of
which have been bestsellers. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with
the National theatre and RSC before becoming a television actress. She then turned
to writing - and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series
Widows. Lynda's original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards
from BAFTA, Emmys, British Broadcasting and Royal Television Society as well as the
1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award. Lynda is an honorary fellow of the British Film Institute
and was awarded the BAFTA Dennis Potter Best Writer's Award in 2000. In 2008,
she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to
Literature, Drama and Charity.
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Title: Whole Life Sentence
Genre: Crime Thriller - Police Procedural
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
DETECTIVE JANE TENNISON'S POLICE CAREER HANGS IN THE BALANCE: A
SINGLE STEP FROM GLORY - OR RUIN.
While she has elbowed her way into an elite team investigating non-domestic
murders, there is nothing elite about her first assignments: a missing teenager cold
case and an apparent suicide Tennison suspects is, in fact, murder.
But as she uncovers explosive evidence, Tennison's new colleagues watch like
vultures circling prey. And, one by one, the cases no one else wanted are taken
from her - and the glory along with them.
Now Tennison has had enough: of the rampant sexism, snide remarks and
undermining. It's time to take what is rightfully hers from those who have held her
back.
She just has to do what she does best: find her prime suspect . .
The Author:
Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool. She is the author of over forty novels, all of
which have been bestsellers. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with
the National theatre and RSC before becoming a television actress. She then turned
to writing - and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series
Widows. Lynda's original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards
from BAFTA, Emmys, British Broadcasting and Royal Television Society as well as the
1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award. Lynda is an honorary fellow of the British Film Institute
and was awarded the BAFTA Dennis Potter Best Writer's Award in 2000. In 2008,
she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to
Literature, Drama and Charity.
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Genre: Crime Thriller - Police Procedural
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
DETECTIVE JANE TENNISON'S POLICE CAREER HANGS IN THE BALANCE: A
SINGLE STEP FROM GLORY - OR RUIN.
While she has elbowed her way into an elite team investigating non-domestic
murders, there is nothing elite about her first assignments: a missing teenager cold
case and an apparent suicide Tennison suspects is, in fact, murder.
But as she uncovers explosive evidence, Tennison's new colleagues watch like
vultures circling prey. And, one by one, the cases no one else wanted are taken
from her - and the glory along with them.
Now Tennison has had enough: of the rampant sexism, snide remarks and
undermining. It's time to take what is rightfully hers from those who have held her
back.
She just has to do what she does best: find her prime suspect . .
The Author:
Lynda La Plante was born in Liverpool. She is the author of over forty novels, all of
which have been bestsellers. She trained for the stage at RADA and worked with
the National theatre and RSC before becoming a television actress. She then turned
to writing - and made her breakthrough with the phenomenally successful TV series
Widows. Lynda's original script for the much-acclaimed Prime Suspect won awards
from BAFTA, Emmys, British Broadcasting and Royal Television Society as well as the
1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award. Lynda is an honorary fellow of the British Film Institute
and was awarded the BAFTA Dennis Potter Best Writer's Award in 2000. In 2008,
she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to
Literature, Drama and Charity.
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£ 180
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Bob Mortimer
Bob Mortimer
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The Author:
Robert Renwick Mortimer, born on May 23, 1959, in Middlesbrough, England, emerged as a multifaceted entertainer renowned for his wit and creativity across various mediums. From his early days in Middlesbrough, where he navigated childhood alongside three brothers, to his iconic collaborations and solo ventures, Mortimer's journey unfolds like a tapestry woven with humor, resilience, and a touch of eccentricity.
Growing up in the bustling Linthorpe area of Middlesbrough, Mortimer's upbringing bore both trials and triumphs. At the tender age of seven, tragedy struck with the loss of his father in a car accident, leaving a profound impact on the young Mortimer. Around the same time, a mishap with a stray firework inadvertently set ablaze the family home, marking a tumultuous chapter in his youth.
Despite the adversities, Mortimer's spirit remained indomitable. He attended King's Manor School, where he nurtured his passion for football, dreaming of a future on the pitch for Middlesbrough F.C. However, fate had other plans as early-onset arthritis dashed his athletic aspirations. Undeterred, Mortimer turned his focus to academics, earning three A-Levels before pursuing law at the University of Sussex and later the University of Leicester.
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Robert Renwick Mortimer, born on May 23, 1959, in Middlesbrough, England, emerged as a multifaceted entertainer renowned for his wit and creativity across various mediums. From his early days in Middlesbrough, where he navigated childhood alongside three brothers, to his iconic collaborations and solo ventures, Mortimer's journey unfolds like a tapestry woven with humor, resilience, and a touch of eccentricity.
Growing up in the bustling Linthorpe area of Middlesbrough, Mortimer's upbringing bore both trials and triumphs. At the tender age of seven, tragedy struck with the loss of his father in a car accident, leaving a profound impact on the young Mortimer. Around the same time, a mishap with a stray firework inadvertently set ablaze the family home, marking a tumultuous chapter in his youth.
Despite the adversities, Mortimer's spirit remained indomitable. He attended King's Manor School, where he nurtured his passion for football, dreaming of a future on the pitch for Middlesbrough F.C. However, fate had other plans as early-onset arthritis dashed his athletic aspirations. Undeterred, Mortimer turned his focus to academics, earning three A-Levels before pursuing law at the University of Sussex and later the University of Leicester.
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Penny Dale
Penny Dale
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*Penn has added an original development study for the 6th spread to her lot The work is a reduced size collage - often done to work out details of a composition. Materials: Pencil, pen, crayon and opaque white paint on layout paper. Spot the difference with the final printed illustration!
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Title: Dinosaur Dig!
Genre: Children
Format: Picture Book - First Editon
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The Book;
Dinosaur-and-vehicle fun from bestselling Penny Dale – over 1 million Dinosaur books sold!
One dinosaur, who is digging a very big hole is joined by more and more dinosaur friends as they work on a huge construction project. But what are they building? It’s a huge, splashy swimming pool… and they made it themselves!
The perfect picture book for young dinosaur and vehicle fans, with plenty of vehicle noises to join in with.
The Author:
Penny Dale is an internationally known, best-selling children’s book artist and author and has sold more than 4 million books, with editions in over 20 languages. Her much-loved picture book Ten in the Bed sold over a million copies worldwide. Her other titles have also met with great success: Bet You Can’t and Once There Were Giants were included in the UK SATS booklist for many years, and Once There Were Giants was chosen as one of the Guardian’s Best Children’s Books Ever last year. Rosie’s Babies (also written by Martin Waddell) won the Best Book for Babies award and was also shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1990. Penny is married, has one grown-up daughter and a grandson and lives in South Wales.
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Title: Dinosaur Dig!
Genre: Children
Format: Picture Book - First Editon
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Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book;
Dinosaur-and-vehicle fun from bestselling Penny Dale – over 1 million Dinosaur books sold!
One dinosaur, who is digging a very big hole is joined by more and more dinosaur friends as they work on a huge construction project. But what are they building? It’s a huge, splashy swimming pool… and they made it themselves!
The perfect picture book for young dinosaur and vehicle fans, with plenty of vehicle noises to join in with.
The Author:
Penny Dale is an internationally known, best-selling children’s book artist and author and has sold more than 4 million books, with editions in over 20 languages. Her much-loved picture book Ten in the Bed sold over a million copies worldwide. Her other titles have also met with great success: Bet You Can’t and Once There Were Giants were included in the UK SATS booklist for many years, and Once There Were Giants was chosen as one of the Guardian’s Best Children’s Books Ever last year. Rosie’s Babies (also written by Martin Waddell) won the Best Book for Babies award and was also shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1990. Penny is married, has one grown-up daughter and a grandson and lives in South Wales.
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Lot 401
£ 12
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Alexandra Dawe
Alexandra Dawe
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401
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Title: The Stitchwort Curse
Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
Etta Starling has never set foot outside Stitchwort. Shrouded by a dark curse for over a century the estate is lost and forgotten.
These last few last surviving members of the Starling clan can never leave; to pass the boundary wall means certain death.
But just because they can’t leave doesn’t stop someone else getting in….
Cover illustration by Olia Muza
The Author:
Alexandra Dawe is a writer and artist. Her debut novel is the Stitchwort Curse, a middle- grade fantasy adventure about an eccentric family of witches living under a curse in their ruined, haunted mansion.
Born in Liverpool, Alexandra now lives in the south-west with her husband, children, the best dog, two cats and a few elderly chickens. She loves reading, drawing or watching anything spooky.
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Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy
Format: Paperback
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Etta Starling has never set foot outside Stitchwort. Shrouded by a dark curse for over a century the estate is lost and forgotten.
These last few last surviving members of the Starling clan can never leave; to pass the boundary wall means certain death.
But just because they can’t leave doesn’t stop someone else getting in….
Cover illustration by Olia Muza
The Author:
Alexandra Dawe is a writer and artist. Her debut novel is the Stitchwort Curse, a middle- grade fantasy adventure about an eccentric family of witches living under a curse in their ruined, haunted mansion.
Born in Liverpool, Alexandra now lives in the south-west with her husband, children, the best dog, two cats and a few elderly chickens. She loves reading, drawing or watching anything spooky.
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£ 117
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T.E. Kinsey
T.E. Kinsey
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Tim's Lot One:
A named character in a Lady Hardcastle story. Book 13 in the popular Lady Hardcastle series will be published in 2026 and the winning bidder will be able to name one of a selection of minor characters after themselves.
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The Author:
Author Bio: T E Kinsey (Tim) was born in the 1960s. He grew up in London in the 1970s and went to university in Bristol in the 1980s. He worked in magazines in the 1990s, and for IMDb in the 2000s. He still lives near Bristol. He’s responsible for the popular historical cosy series The Lady Hardcastle Mysteries and The Dizzy Heights Mysteries (Thomas & Mercer) but he does occasionally play the drums.
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A named character in a Lady Hardcastle story. Book 13 in the popular Lady Hardcastle series will be published in 2026 and the winning bidder will be able to name one of a selection of minor characters after themselves.
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The Author:
Author Bio: T E Kinsey (Tim) was born in the 1960s. He grew up in London in the 1970s and went to university in Bristol in the 1980s. He worked in magazines in the 1990s, and for IMDb in the 2000s. He still lives near Bristol. He’s responsible for the popular historical cosy series The Lady Hardcastle Mysteries and The Dizzy Heights Mysteries (Thomas & Mercer) but he does occasionally play the drums.
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£ 105
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Tim's Lot Two:
A named character in the first Fanshaw & Foster book. The Fanshaw & Foster series, set in the 1970s, will launch at the end of 2025 and is a spin-off from the popular Lady Hardcastle Mysteries. The winning bidder will be able to name one of a selection of minor characters after themselves.
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The Author:
Author Bio: T E Kinsey (Tim) was born in the 1960s. He grew up in London in the 1970s and went to university in Bristol in the 1980s. He worked in magazines in the 1990s, and for IMDb in the 2000s. He still lives near Bristol. He’s responsible for the popular historical cosy series The Lady Hardcastle Mysteries and The Dizzy Heights Mysteries (Thomas & Mercer) but he does occasionally play the drums.
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A named character in the first Fanshaw & Foster book. The Fanshaw & Foster series, set in the 1970s, will launch at the end of 2025 and is a spin-off from the popular Lady Hardcastle Mysteries. The winning bidder will be able to name one of a selection of minor characters after themselves.
Bids Accepted: UK Only / Worldwide
The Author:
Author Bio: T E Kinsey (Tim) was born in the 1960s. He grew up in London in the 1970s and went to university in Bristol in the 1980s. He worked in magazines in the 1990s, and for IMDb in the 2000s. He still lives near Bristol. He’s responsible for the popular historical cosy series The Lady Hardcastle Mysteries and The Dizzy Heights Mysteries (Thomas & Mercer) but he does occasionally play the drums.
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Lot 404
£ 22
3
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Celia Anderson
Celia Anderson
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404
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Book title: Life Begins at 50!
Genre: Contemporary fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
New friends, new flame, new fun . . . Can it be true that life begins at 50?
Kate dreamed of a happy marriage, a house full of children and a fulfilling teaching career. But after twenty-five years of married life and about to hit the big 5-0, it’s clear that her dreams haven’t quite come true. Then her husband leaves her for his golf partner, forcing Kate to take stock of what has become of her life.
Luckily, new friendship comes her way in the form of three feisty older women who take Kate under their wings, plus a new flame (could it be more . . .?) sparks with local divorced dad, Milo. As her big birthday approaches, Kate’s zest for life begins to return.
But opening herself up means making herself vulnerable to being hurt all over again . . .
As she turns 50, will Kate be brave enough to find happiness, and grab hold of it with both hands?
The Author:
Celia Anderson was delighted to be given the opportunity to join the author team at Boldwood in early 2024, and is now ready to start a whole new chapter of her own. She enjoys writing contemporary fiction featuring older protagonists, although a wide age range of characters can always be found in her books. Previously a teacher and assistant head, Celia writes full time these days but loves to chat to other authors and readers, and often spends far too much time browsing social media. She is an enthusiastic member of the Romantic Novelists Association, having proudly graduated from their New Writers' Scheme in 2013. The RNA is an amazing source of good advice and a place to meet like-minded, supportive people who will happily talk about books for hours on end. What could be better?
Born and bred in the Midlands, Celia has long been tempted by the idea of living near the sea, and her dream at last became a reality in 2023 when she moved to the south coast. This has meant that a whole new range of story-making boosts are available, and she’s currently working flat out to explore them all. A fresh writing space and grandchildren on hand to cuddle, plus a busy promenade and beach just down the road – there’s no shortage of places to people-watch. Alternatively, give her a long train journey and her notebook and pen will also work overtime as she shamelessly eavesdrops and watches the world go by.
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Genre: Contemporary fiction
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New friends, new flame, new fun . . . Can it be true that life begins at 50?
Kate dreamed of a happy marriage, a house full of children and a fulfilling teaching career. But after twenty-five years of married life and about to hit the big 5-0, it’s clear that her dreams haven’t quite come true. Then her husband leaves her for his golf partner, forcing Kate to take stock of what has become of her life.
Luckily, new friendship comes her way in the form of three feisty older women who take Kate under their wings, plus a new flame (could it be more . . .?) sparks with local divorced dad, Milo. As her big birthday approaches, Kate’s zest for life begins to return.
But opening herself up means making herself vulnerable to being hurt all over again . . .
As she turns 50, will Kate be brave enough to find happiness, and grab hold of it with both hands?
The Author:
Celia Anderson was delighted to be given the opportunity to join the author team at Boldwood in early 2024, and is now ready to start a whole new chapter of her own. She enjoys writing contemporary fiction featuring older protagonists, although a wide age range of characters can always be found in her books. Previously a teacher and assistant head, Celia writes full time these days but loves to chat to other authors and readers, and often spends far too much time browsing social media. She is an enthusiastic member of the Romantic Novelists Association, having proudly graduated from their New Writers' Scheme in 2013. The RNA is an amazing source of good advice and a place to meet like-minded, supportive people who will happily talk about books for hours on end. What could be better?
Born and bred in the Midlands, Celia has long been tempted by the idea of living near the sea, and her dream at last became a reality in 2023 when she moved to the south coast. This has meant that a whole new range of story-making boosts are available, and she’s currently working flat out to explore them all. A fresh writing space and grandchildren on hand to cuddle, plus a busy promenade and beach just down the road – there’s no shortage of places to people-watch. Alternatively, give her a long train journey and her notebook and pen will also work overtime as she shamelessly eavesdrops and watches the world go by.
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Title: Hear Him Calling
Genre: Ghost - Horror
Format: Hardback - First Edition
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DISCOVER THE GHOST STORY THAT WON'T LET YOU GO . . .
Kyle can barely remember his grandfather. So when they inherit his old house - a damp, secluded tower on the edge of a Welsh mountain village - Kyle and his wife, Lydia, feel they are moving into the home of a stranger.
From the start, Lydia hates the house: the disturbing paintings in the attic, the hostility of the locals, the peculiar light that pours through the kitchen window. Kyle thinks Lydia needs a break from London, from the nightmares and the panic attacks. But over the coming weeks, Lydia's sense of dread only becomes more insistent, whilst Kyle is drawn to the house in ways he cannot explain.
Yet as winter approaches, cutting them off, the house must become their refuge. For outside, on the mountain, something is calling to them.
Something that has waited decades, and wants to be let in.
The Author:
Carly Reagon completed a six month course at Curtis Brown Creative and was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize in 2019. Her writing is inspired by her love of the Welsh countryside where she lives with her husband and three children. She works as a senior lecturer at Cardiff University, is a keen runner and singer, and has an interest in anything historic.
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Genre: Ghost - Horror
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DISCOVER THE GHOST STORY THAT WON'T LET YOU GO . . .
Kyle can barely remember his grandfather. So when they inherit his old house - a damp, secluded tower on the edge of a Welsh mountain village - Kyle and his wife, Lydia, feel they are moving into the home of a stranger.
From the start, Lydia hates the house: the disturbing paintings in the attic, the hostility of the locals, the peculiar light that pours through the kitchen window. Kyle thinks Lydia needs a break from London, from the nightmares and the panic attacks. But over the coming weeks, Lydia's sense of dread only becomes more insistent, whilst Kyle is drawn to the house in ways he cannot explain.
Yet as winter approaches, cutting them off, the house must become their refuge. For outside, on the mountain, something is calling to them.
Something that has waited decades, and wants to be let in.
The Author:
Carly Reagon completed a six month course at Curtis Brown Creative and was shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize in 2019. Her writing is inspired by her love of the Welsh countryside where she lives with her husband and three children. She works as a senior lecturer at Cardiff University, is a keen runner and singer, and has an interest in anything historic.
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Four Fab Books from the Maisie Cooper series
Title 1: Murder at Church Lodge
Title 2: Murder at Bunting Manor
Title 3: Murder at the Theatre
Title 4: Murder at the Fair
Genre: Cosy Crime
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Title 1: Murder at Church Lodge
Maisie Cooper is no detective, thank you very much. But she might just solve a murder...
Maisie left the picture-perfect village of Framlington years ago. But when her brother Stephen asks for her help out of the blue she soon finds herself back among the windy lanes and open green fields.
But it's not the family reunion she hoped for - upon arrival she learns that she's too late. Stephen is dead. And not just dead - murdered.
Frustrated by the slow police investigation headed up by handsome Sergeant Wingard, Maisie determines to start asking questions herself.
But the longer Maisie stays, and the deeper she digs, the more she begins to sense something sinister at the heart of the village. What secrets are the residents so desperate to keep hidden? And what exactly was her brother going to tell her before his mysterious demise?
And when another death rocks the community, Maisie fears that she needs to catch the killer before they catch her...
Title 2: Murder at Bunting Manor
Maisie Cooper is done catching murderers, thank you very much. Having recently brought her brother's killers to justice, she's ready to go back to her glamorous life in Paris. But little does she know that the idyllic Sussex countryside is home to more than one criminal...
When Maisie receives a letter asking for her help in the little village of Bunting from the lady of the manor, she is curious enough to accept. She is then shocked to discover that the very woman requesting her assistance is her estranged Aunt Phyllis, who believes that someone is out to kill her. Maisie must follow the clues to find the culprit before they strike again.
As Maisie investigates alongside handsome Sergeant Wingard, she starts to wonder.:
Why would someone want Aunt Phyllis dead?
What could her eccentric aunt have possibly done to be the target for a killer?
And does Maisie quite like all this detective business after all?
Title 3: Murder at the Theatre
A body in the theatre. A cast full of suspects. Can Maisie Cooper crack this case?
Maisie Cooper is looking for peace and quiet. But the arrival of a troupe of actors for a new production at the local theatre turn her best laid plans upside down.
Among them is the young French actress, Adélaïde Amour, who appeals to Maisie for help as she struggles to prepare for her new role.
As opening night approaches, a terrible crime is committed, and a body is found concealed behind the scenes in the theatre.
Can Maisie unravel a real-life plot worthy of a great play? Or will the killer strike again?
Title 4: Murder at the Fair
It is a lovely day at the fair... but someone thinks it is a lovely day for murder...
Summer is in full swing in the picturesque Sussex countryside, and Maisie Cooper is bound for the annual Bitling Fair.
Maisie expects to enjoy homemade cakes, a glass of cider and a spot of Morris dancing.
But what she doesn't bargain for is the tensions running high between the villagers of East Bitling and the disagreements being stirred up by the high and mighty Lady Catherine, from the big house on the hill.
Is this nothing more than village politics? Or by the time the sun has set on the fair, will Maisie Cooper have another murder on her hands?
The Author:
Greg Mosse is a 'writer and encourager of writers', husband of international bestselling author, Kate Mosse. He has lived and worked in Paris, New York, Los Angeles and Madrid as an interpreter and translator, but grew up in rural south-west Sussex. In 2014, he founded the Criterion New Writing playwriting programme in the heart of the West End and, since then, has produced more than 25 of his own plays and musicals. His creative writing workshops are highly sought after at festivals at home and abroad. His superbly reviewed novel, The Coming Darkness, was published by Moonflower in 2022. Hodder & Stoughton will release his gripping Maisie Cooper mystery series in July 2023.
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Title 1: Murder at Church Lodge
Title 2: Murder at Bunting Manor
Title 3: Murder at the Theatre
Title 4: Murder at the Fair
Genre: Cosy Crime
Format: Paperbacks
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Title 1: Murder at Church Lodge
Maisie Cooper is no detective, thank you very much. But she might just solve a murder...
Maisie left the picture-perfect village of Framlington years ago. But when her brother Stephen asks for her help out of the blue she soon finds herself back among the windy lanes and open green fields.
But it's not the family reunion she hoped for - upon arrival she learns that she's too late. Stephen is dead. And not just dead - murdered.
Frustrated by the slow police investigation headed up by handsome Sergeant Wingard, Maisie determines to start asking questions herself.
But the longer Maisie stays, and the deeper she digs, the more she begins to sense something sinister at the heart of the village. What secrets are the residents so desperate to keep hidden? And what exactly was her brother going to tell her before his mysterious demise?
And when another death rocks the community, Maisie fears that she needs to catch the killer before they catch her...
Title 2: Murder at Bunting Manor
Maisie Cooper is done catching murderers, thank you very much. Having recently brought her brother's killers to justice, she's ready to go back to her glamorous life in Paris. But little does she know that the idyllic Sussex countryside is home to more than one criminal...
When Maisie receives a letter asking for her help in the little village of Bunting from the lady of the manor, she is curious enough to accept. She is then shocked to discover that the very woman requesting her assistance is her estranged Aunt Phyllis, who believes that someone is out to kill her. Maisie must follow the clues to find the culprit before they strike again.
As Maisie investigates alongside handsome Sergeant Wingard, she starts to wonder.:
Why would someone want Aunt Phyllis dead?
What could her eccentric aunt have possibly done to be the target for a killer?
And does Maisie quite like all this detective business after all?
Title 3: Murder at the Theatre
A body in the theatre. A cast full of suspects. Can Maisie Cooper crack this case?
Maisie Cooper is looking for peace and quiet. But the arrival of a troupe of actors for a new production at the local theatre turn her best laid plans upside down.
Among them is the young French actress, Adélaïde Amour, who appeals to Maisie for help as she struggles to prepare for her new role.
As opening night approaches, a terrible crime is committed, and a body is found concealed behind the scenes in the theatre.
Can Maisie unravel a real-life plot worthy of a great play? Or will the killer strike again?
Title 4: Murder at the Fair
It is a lovely day at the fair... but someone thinks it is a lovely day for murder...
Summer is in full swing in the picturesque Sussex countryside, and Maisie Cooper is bound for the annual Bitling Fair.
Maisie expects to enjoy homemade cakes, a glass of cider and a spot of Morris dancing.
But what she doesn't bargain for is the tensions running high between the villagers of East Bitling and the disagreements being stirred up by the high and mighty Lady Catherine, from the big house on the hill.
Is this nothing more than village politics? Or by the time the sun has set on the fair, will Maisie Cooper have another murder on her hands?
The Author:
Greg Mosse is a 'writer and encourager of writers', husband of international bestselling author, Kate Mosse. He has lived and worked in Paris, New York, Los Angeles and Madrid as an interpreter and translator, but grew up in rural south-west Sussex. In 2014, he founded the Criterion New Writing playwriting programme in the heart of the West End and, since then, has produced more than 25 of his own plays and musicals. His creative writing workshops are highly sought after at festivals at home and abroad. His superbly reviewed novel, The Coming Darkness, was published by Moonflower in 2022. Hodder & Stoughton will release his gripping Maisie Cooper mystery series in July 2023.
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Title 1: Pax and the Missing Head (London Falling Book 1)
Title 2: PAX and the Forgotten Pincher (London Falling Book 2)
Genre: Children - Sci-Fi
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Title 1: Pax and the Missing Head (London Falling Book 1)
Pax has made it through the trials of his first year at Scholastic Parliament, but any hopes of a quieter second year are quickly dashed when he makes a shocking discovery in the school’s basement. A new student joins the school, acting suspiciously and muscling in on Pax’s friendship with Samuel. At least being reigning champions in the Parliamentary Polls allows Pax and his friends to explore the city at weekends. But drone raids and cyber-attacks disrupt life in New London while a paranoid mayor cracks down hard on terrorism.
Unwittingly, Pax helps an innocent man get captured. Driven by guilt, he seeks out the Underground resistance movement and is given a mission to steal some codes from the mayor. In the process, Pax uncovers the shocking truth about a new factory that threatens the lives of millions of people. He is torn between stopping this latest sinister plot and focusing on schoolwork to keep alive his dream of becoming an engineer. To achieve both, he’ll need help. But who can he trust in a city full of falsehoods? What sacrifices will he need to make? Find out in the latest instalment in the London Falling series.
Title 2: Title 2: PAX and the Forgotten Pincher (London Falling Book 2)
In a country beset by civil war, New London defends itself behind a giant wall. Inside the city, children are forced to work from an early age, except for the lucky few who train to be leaders in the re-purposed Palace of Westminster. 12-year-old orphaned Pax is brilliant at recycling old tech. He enjoys working on the verti-farms and just wants a bit of peace and quiet. But when that is taken away from him, his only hope is to pass a near-impossible exam and join the other students in Scholastic Parliament. There he’ll make new friends and new enemies. He’ll get tested like never before. And he’ll discover that not everything is quite what it seems under the mayor’s harsh leadership.
The Author:
Author of the London Falling trilogy (published by Tiny Tree, book one releases in Oct 2023) and the Gold trilogy (Bloodhound Books). A boardgame-loving economist. Can sometimes be found on a surfboard, a tennis court or a golf course but not often on the same day. One third of Radio Berkshire's monthly book club show. Member of the Society of Authors and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
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Title 1: Pax and the Missing Head (London Falling Book 1)
Title 2: PAX and the Forgotten Pincher (London Falling Book 2)
Genre: Children - Sci-Fi
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Title 1: Pax and the Missing Head (London Falling Book 1)
Pax has made it through the trials of his first year at Scholastic Parliament, but any hopes of a quieter second year are quickly dashed when he makes a shocking discovery in the school’s basement. A new student joins the school, acting suspiciously and muscling in on Pax’s friendship with Samuel. At least being reigning champions in the Parliamentary Polls allows Pax and his friends to explore the city at weekends. But drone raids and cyber-attacks disrupt life in New London while a paranoid mayor cracks down hard on terrorism.
Unwittingly, Pax helps an innocent man get captured. Driven by guilt, he seeks out the Underground resistance movement and is given a mission to steal some codes from the mayor. In the process, Pax uncovers the shocking truth about a new factory that threatens the lives of millions of people. He is torn between stopping this latest sinister plot and focusing on schoolwork to keep alive his dream of becoming an engineer. To achieve both, he’ll need help. But who can he trust in a city full of falsehoods? What sacrifices will he need to make? Find out in the latest instalment in the London Falling series.
Title 2: Title 2: PAX and the Forgotten Pincher (London Falling Book 2)
In a country beset by civil war, New London defends itself behind a giant wall. Inside the city, children are forced to work from an early age, except for the lucky few who train to be leaders in the re-purposed Palace of Westminster. 12-year-old orphaned Pax is brilliant at recycling old tech. He enjoys working on the verti-farms and just wants a bit of peace and quiet. But when that is taken away from him, his only hope is to pass a near-impossible exam and join the other students in Scholastic Parliament. There he’ll make new friends and new enemies. He’ll get tested like never before. And he’ll discover that not everything is quite what it seems under the mayor’s harsh leadership.
The Author:
Author of the London Falling trilogy (published by Tiny Tree, book one releases in Oct 2023) and the Gold trilogy (Bloodhound Books). A boardgame-loving economist. Can sometimes be found on a surfboard, a tennis court or a golf course but not often on the same day. One third of Radio Berkshire's monthly book club show. Member of the Society of Authors and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
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Title: The Drift
Genre: Psychological Thriller - Horror
Format: Hardback
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THE HEART-POUNDING NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BURNING GIRLS WHICH HAS NOW BEEN ADAPTED INTO A HIT PARAMOUNT+ SHOW!
'The wildest thriller of the year is three thrillers in one. Buckle up' LINWOOD BARCLAY
‘If you like my stuff, you'll like this’ STEPHEN KING
‘Now this is a real horror story’ 5 STAR READER REVIEW
‘One of the best thriller’s I’ve ever read!’ 5 STAR READER REVIEW
Survival is murder . . .
An overturned coach full of students. All of them are trapped.
An isolated chalet full of friends. Soon they'll be enemies.
A stranded cable car full of strangers. One of them is dead.
Outside, a snowstorm rages.
Inside each group, a killer lurks.
But that's not their only problem.
Why is no rescue coming? What are they trying to escape from? And who are the terrifying Whistlers?
The Author:
C. J. Tudor lives with her partner and young daughter. Her love of writing, especially the dark and macabre, started young. When her peers were reading Judy Blume, she was devouring Stephen King and James Herbert.
Over the years she has had a variety of jobs, including trainee reporter, radio scriptwriter, dog walker, voiceover artist, television presenter, copywriter and, now, author.
Her first novel, The Chalk Man, was a Sunday Times bestseller and sold in thirty-nine territories.
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Title: The Drift
Genre: Psychological Thriller - Horror
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
THE HEART-POUNDING NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BURNING GIRLS WHICH HAS NOW BEEN ADAPTED INTO A HIT PARAMOUNT+ SHOW!
'The wildest thriller of the year is three thrillers in one. Buckle up' LINWOOD BARCLAY
‘If you like my stuff, you'll like this’ STEPHEN KING
‘Now this is a real horror story’ 5 STAR READER REVIEW
‘One of the best thriller’s I’ve ever read!’ 5 STAR READER REVIEW
Survival is murder . . .
An overturned coach full of students. All of them are trapped.
An isolated chalet full of friends. Soon they'll be enemies.
A stranded cable car full of strangers. One of them is dead.
Outside, a snowstorm rages.
Inside each group, a killer lurks.
But that's not their only problem.
Why is no rescue coming? What are they trying to escape from? And who are the terrifying Whistlers?
The Author:
C. J. Tudor lives with her partner and young daughter. Her love of writing, especially the dark and macabre, started young. When her peers were reading Judy Blume, she was devouring Stephen King and James Herbert.
Over the years she has had a variety of jobs, including trainee reporter, radio scriptwriter, dog walker, voiceover artist, television presenter, copywriter and, now, author.
Her first novel, The Chalk Man, was a Sunday Times bestseller and sold in thirty-nine territories.
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Title: A Summer of Second Chances
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Format: Paperback
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When a first love deserves a second chance . . .
Ava Flynn runs All Critters Great and Small, her late mum’s charity shop, in the charming village of Dapplebury. It’s a place that’s close to her heart, but all the shops in the village are struggling to make ends meet.
And when the new Lord Henry Bramlington returns with ideas on how to save the village, life is about to change . . . not just for Dapplebury, but for Ava, too.
Because Henry, or ‘Lord Hotlington’, as he’s known by a few ladies in the village, was Ava’s first love. And now he’s back for good. She can’t avoid him forever.
But Ava hasn’t seen him for over a decade. He was sent away to boarding school after the couple were caught together by his mother.
Ava is shocked to learn that some feelings don’t go away with time, but does Henry feel the same?
She’s about to find out as the two team up to save the village.
Perhaps some things should be left in the past . . . but doesn’t everyone deserve a second chance?
The Author:
n the summer of 2017, Carol Thomas was delighted to gain a publishing contract with award-winning publishers Choc Lit (Joffe Books). Her best-selling contemporary romance and romantic comedy novels have relatable heroines whose stories are layered with emotion, sprinkled with laughter, and topped with irresistible male leads.
Carol Thomas lives on the south coast of England with her husband, four children and adorable Labrador. She has been a primary school teacher for over twenty years. Carol has a passion for reading, writing, and people-watching and can often be found loitering in local cafes, working on her next book.
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Genre: Romantic Comedy
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
When a first love deserves a second chance . . .
Ava Flynn runs All Critters Great and Small, her late mum’s charity shop, in the charming village of Dapplebury. It’s a place that’s close to her heart, but all the shops in the village are struggling to make ends meet.
And when the new Lord Henry Bramlington returns with ideas on how to save the village, life is about to change . . . not just for Dapplebury, but for Ava, too.
Because Henry, or ‘Lord Hotlington’, as he’s known by a few ladies in the village, was Ava’s first love. And now he’s back for good. She can’t avoid him forever.
But Ava hasn’t seen him for over a decade. He was sent away to boarding school after the couple were caught together by his mother.
Ava is shocked to learn that some feelings don’t go away with time, but does Henry feel the same?
She’s about to find out as the two team up to save the village.
Perhaps some things should be left in the past . . . but doesn’t everyone deserve a second chance?
The Author:
n the summer of 2017, Carol Thomas was delighted to gain a publishing contract with award-winning publishers Choc Lit (Joffe Books). Her best-selling contemporary romance and romantic comedy novels have relatable heroines whose stories are layered with emotion, sprinkled with laughter, and topped with irresistible male leads.
Carol Thomas lives on the south coast of England with her husband, four children and adorable Labrador. She has been a primary school teacher for over twenty years. Carol has a passion for reading, writing, and people-watching and can often be found loitering in local cafes, working on her next book.
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Claire Daverley
Claire Daverley
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Title: Talking at Night
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
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'A beautiful love story. I devoured it' JOJO MOYES
Gave me One Day vibes' LIBBY PAGE
'Basically impossible to put down' BOBBY PALMER
'Deeply romantic' LAURA BARNETT
'Beautiful and very clever’ FEARNE COTTON
'Stunning, tender and true' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING SUMMER READING
'Everyone should read this book' SHEERLUXE
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Will and Rosie meet as teenagers.
They're opposites in every way. She overthinks everything; he is her twin brother's wild and unpredictable friend. But over secret walks home and late-night phone calls, they become closer – destined to be one another's great love story.
Until, one day, tragedy strikes, and their future together is shattered.
But as the years roll on, Will and Rosie can't help but find their way back to each other. Time and again, they come close to rekindling what might have been.
What do you do when the one person you should forget is the one you just can't let go?
The Author:
Claire Daverley was born in 1991 and has been writing stories ever since she was six years old.
After graduating with a degree in Fine Art from The University of Oxford, she began a career in publishing, writing about books by day, but penning her own by night, on trains and in the light of the early mornings.
She has spent most of her life in Hertfordshire, but now lives in Scotland by the sea with her husband and spaniel.
Her debut novel, Talking at Night, has sold in twenty-three territories to date, was selected for Fearne Cotton's Happy Place Book Club, shortlisted for the Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards 2023,
long listed for the Waterstones Debut of the Year 2023, and shortlisted for the Nota Bene Prize 2024.
She is currently writing her second novel
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Genre: Contemporary Fiction
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'A beautiful love story. I devoured it' JOJO MOYES
Gave me One Day vibes' LIBBY PAGE
'Basically impossible to put down' BOBBY PALMER
'Deeply romantic' LAURA BARNETT
'Beautiful and very clever’ FEARNE COTTON
'Stunning, tender and true' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING SUMMER READING
'Everyone should read this book' SHEERLUXE
INCLUDED IN THE INDEPENDENT'S 'BEST ROMANTIC SUMMER READS'
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Will and Rosie meet as teenagers.
They're opposites in every way. She overthinks everything; he is her twin brother's wild and unpredictable friend. But over secret walks home and late-night phone calls, they become closer – destined to be one another's great love story.
Until, one day, tragedy strikes, and their future together is shattered.
But as the years roll on, Will and Rosie can't help but find their way back to each other. Time and again, they come close to rekindling what might have been.
What do you do when the one person you should forget is the one you just can't let go?
The Author:
Claire Daverley was born in 1991 and has been writing stories ever since she was six years old.
After graduating with a degree in Fine Art from The University of Oxford, she began a career in publishing, writing about books by day, but penning her own by night, on trains and in the light of the early mornings.
She has spent most of her life in Hertfordshire, but now lives in Scotland by the sea with her husband and spaniel.
Her debut novel, Talking at Night, has sold in twenty-three territories to date, was selected for Fearne Cotton's Happy Place Book Club, shortlisted for the Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards 2023,
long listed for the Waterstones Debut of the Year 2023, and shortlisted for the Nota Bene Prize 2024.
She is currently writing her second novel
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Gatlin Perrin
Gatlin Perrin
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Title: His Royal Hopeless, with letters from the characters
Genre: Comedy Adventure
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The Book: Robbie is heir to the evilest dynasty in the world – the Sinistevils. He can't wait to pledge his heart to the menacing power of the family Sceptre and embark on his bloodthirsty future.
The thing is, Robbie is ... well ... nice. And when he discovers his heart has been swapped for clockwork, he's incapable of believing Mother had dark intentions.
Instead, he embarks on a quest to retrieve his heart, claim his wicked destiny and secure Mother's pride at last. But Mother has other ideas...
The Author:
Gatlin ‘Chloe’ Perrin is a North Walian author living in London. They love Halloween, feeding crows and making things up.
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The Book: Robbie is heir to the evilest dynasty in the world – the Sinistevils. He can't wait to pledge his heart to the menacing power of the family Sceptre and embark on his bloodthirsty future.
The thing is, Robbie is ... well ... nice. And when he discovers his heart has been swapped for clockwork, he's incapable of believing Mother had dark intentions.
Instead, he embarks on a quest to retrieve his heart, claim his wicked destiny and secure Mother's pride at last. But Mother has other ideas...
The Author:
Gatlin ‘Chloe’ Perrin is a North Walian author living in London. They love Halloween, feeding crows and making things up.
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Mahi Cheshire
Mahi Cheshire
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Title: The Deadly Cure
Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Paperback - First Edition
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The Book;
'This is a thrilling story with a compelling hook' Adele Parks, author of One Last Secret
'Grabs the reader by the heart from the first pages and ramps up the tension to the last. A stellar, shivers-down-the-spine debut' Erin Kelly, author of The Skeleton Key
THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH: FIRST, DO NO HARM...
Dr Rea Dharmasena is devastated when she loses out on her dream research job to her med-school rival and best friend, Dr Julia Stone.
To add insult to injury, Julia used Rea's own cutting-edge research to get it.
But just as Rea finds it in her to forgive the betrayal, Julia, after a life-changing medical discovery, is found murdered.
Now Rea has the dream job she's always wanted.
But at what cost?
Perfect for fans of The Silent Patient and The Holiday, this is a heart-stopping thriller of betrayal, secrets and ruthless ambition that will leave you breathless.
The Author:
Mahi Cheshire was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in London. She works as a GP and has a degree in Psychology. She loves travelling, kundalini yoga and boxing, all of which provide inspiration for her writing. She lives in London with her husband and daughter.
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Genre: Crime Thriller
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The Book;
'This is a thrilling story with a compelling hook' Adele Parks, author of One Last Secret
'Grabs the reader by the heart from the first pages and ramps up the tension to the last. A stellar, shivers-down-the-spine debut' Erin Kelly, author of The Skeleton Key
THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH: FIRST, DO NO HARM...
Dr Rea Dharmasena is devastated when she loses out on her dream research job to her med-school rival and best friend, Dr Julia Stone.
To add insult to injury, Julia used Rea's own cutting-edge research to get it.
But just as Rea finds it in her to forgive the betrayal, Julia, after a life-changing medical discovery, is found murdered.
Now Rea has the dream job she's always wanted.
But at what cost?
Perfect for fans of The Silent Patient and The Holiday, this is a heart-stopping thriller of betrayal, secrets and ruthless ambition that will leave you breathless.
The Author:
Mahi Cheshire was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in London. She works as a GP and has a degree in Psychology. She loves travelling, kundalini yoga and boxing, all of which provide inspiration for her writing. She lives in London with her husband and daughter.
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Charlotte Rixon
Charlotte Rixon
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Book Title: After The Fire
Genre: Romance
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The Book : After The Fire
This is the story of girl meets boy.
And then everything goes wrong . . .
Ever since they first met at university, Beth and Nick have circled in and out of one another's lives: supporting each other through grief, marriage, divorce, career crises and family dramas.
Fourteen years ago, when they were on the cusp of adulthood, they both survived a devastating fire that sent their lives in different directions. And they've been running ever since: from the pain, from the memories, and most devastatingly of all, from the guilt.
But no matter how hard they try, there's something else they can't run from. The inescapable, terrifying truth: they're in love with each other.
But how can they move forward, when neither of them can stop looking back?
The Author: Charlotte Rixon
Charlotte Rixon is the pen name of Charlotte Duckworth, USA Today-bestselling author of suspense fiction published by Quercus.
Charlotte studied Classics at Leeds University and went on to gain a PGDip in Screenwriting. She worked for many years as a magazine journalist, and is a graduate of the Faber Academy 'Writing A Novel' course.
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The Book : After The Fire
This is the story of girl meets boy.
And then everything goes wrong . . .
Ever since they first met at university, Beth and Nick have circled in and out of one another's lives: supporting each other through grief, marriage, divorce, career crises and family dramas.
Fourteen years ago, when they were on the cusp of adulthood, they both survived a devastating fire that sent their lives in different directions. And they've been running ever since: from the pain, from the memories, and most devastatingly of all, from the guilt.
But no matter how hard they try, there's something else they can't run from. The inescapable, terrifying truth: they're in love with each other.
But how can they move forward, when neither of them can stop looking back?
The Author: Charlotte Rixon
Charlotte Rixon is the pen name of Charlotte Duckworth, USA Today-bestselling author of suspense fiction published by Quercus.
Charlotte studied Classics at Leeds University and went on to gain a PGDip in Screenwriting. She worked for many years as a magazine journalist, and is a graduate of the Faber Academy 'Writing A Novel' course.
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Kit Butler
Kit Butler
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Book Title: Magster and the Light of the Ladybird
Genre: Children's middle grade adventure
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The Book :
Magster the Cockapoo and her human daddy, Paul, go for a walk in the woods. A mysterious stranger recruits her as a special agent for the Mystic Council of Mages. Her first mission is to protect the "Light of the Ladybird" and so their adventures begin. After a nail-biting duel, Magster's reputation as a force to be reckoned with is sealed; her work for the Mystic Council of Mages has only just begun.
The Author:
Kit created the Magster stories after a continuous number of dreams about his Cockapoo, Maggie, whom he was forced to be parted from, due to a break up in a relationship. Although the Magster character in his books is a composite, made up of 3 personalities from old dogs in Kit’s life, Kit stayed true to his dreams and in tribute to his beloved Maggie, he created a Cockapoo protagonist and named her with his old personal nickname…”Magster”
He is currently writing the next titles in the “Magster series”.
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Book Title: Magster and the Light of the Ladybird
Genre: Children's middle grade adventure
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The Book :
Magster the Cockapoo and her human daddy, Paul, go for a walk in the woods. A mysterious stranger recruits her as a special agent for the Mystic Council of Mages. Her first mission is to protect the "Light of the Ladybird" and so their adventures begin. After a nail-biting duel, Magster's reputation as a force to be reckoned with is sealed; her work for the Mystic Council of Mages has only just begun.
The Author:
Kit created the Magster stories after a continuous number of dreams about his Cockapoo, Maggie, whom he was forced to be parted from, due to a break up in a relationship. Although the Magster character in his books is a composite, made up of 3 personalities from old dogs in Kit’s life, Kit stayed true to his dreams and in tribute to his beloved Maggie, he created a Cockapoo protagonist and named her with his old personal nickname…”Magster”
He is currently writing the next titles in the “Magster series”.
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Sam Holland
Sam Holland
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Title: The Puppet Master
Genre: Crime Thriller
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He watches your every move
We’ve all experienced it. That creeping sensation of eyes on your back, the faint echo of footsteps following yours.
He controls you
Across the country, a madman is carefully choosing his victims. Once he has you in his sights, he won’t let go.
He will make you pay
You think you’re in control of your own life? Think again. Because The Puppet Master is coming for you, and he won’t stop until you’re dead…
The Author:
Sam Holland is the award-winning author of the Major Crimes series, following detectives as they investigate murders committed by brutal serial killers in the south of England. Her debut, The Echo Man, shocked and enthralled readers and reviewers alike with its sinister depiction of a serial killer copying notorious real-life murderers of the past.
Her books have been published in 11 countries worldwide, including the US, Germany and the Netherlands, where she became the first author to win the Bronze Bat for her debut and the Silver Bat for best thriller in consecutive years at the Nederlands Thrillerfestival.
The Puppet Master is her third novel.
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Genre: Crime Thriller
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The Book;
He watches your every move
We’ve all experienced it. That creeping sensation of eyes on your back, the faint echo of footsteps following yours.
He controls you
Across the country, a madman is carefully choosing his victims. Once he has you in his sights, he won’t let go.
He will make you pay
You think you’re in control of your own life? Think again. Because The Puppet Master is coming for you, and he won’t stop until you’re dead…
The Author:
Sam Holland is the award-winning author of the Major Crimes series, following detectives as they investigate murders committed by brutal serial killers in the south of England. Her debut, The Echo Man, shocked and enthralled readers and reviewers alike with its sinister depiction of a serial killer copying notorious real-life murderers of the past.
Her books have been published in 11 countries worldwide, including the US, Germany and the Netherlands, where she became the first author to win the Bronze Bat for her debut and the Silver Bat for best thriller in consecutive years at the Nederlands Thrillerfestival.
The Puppet Master is her third novel.
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Nicola Knight
Nicola Knight
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Title: The Night Before Christmas
Genre: Romantic Comedy
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The Book :
Felicity Brooks is a bit of a Scrooge—but when she meets a man dressed as a giant penguin on Christmas Eve, could it spell a change of heart?
The ridiculous music. The excessive presents. The stupid Christmas sweaters. Felicity wants nothing more than to escape it all, and she pounces on the chance to work shifts over the holiday season at an animal rescue center. After all, it’s the only place that brings her true happiness.
But one day, her evening is disturbed by a stranger named James—dressed as a penguin and cradling a weak kitten. As Felicity and James work together to nurse the sick feline back to health, it gives them the perfect excuse to bond over their mutual dislike of all things festive. And soon, sparks fly.
However, their attraction is interrupted when Felicity’s ex-boyfriend Adam returns to declare his undying love. And when she’s let down by both men, Felicity decides to return to her childhood home for some peace. While there, she uncovers an array of family secrets, and even more about herself—which may just help her to make a choice between the penguin and the ex . . .
The Author:
Nicola is a former journalist and now a chartered public relations professional, one of only 600 with that status in the UK. In her day job she heads up the communications and campaigns department at Redwings, the largest horse welfare charity in the country.
While writing about ponies is a dream come true in its own right, being a novelist has long been the ultimate goal. Since reviving this in earnest in 2021 in snatches of spare time, she has been placed runner up in the Daily Mail First Novel competition, longlisted in the Mslexia Novel Prize, and signed with agent Katie Fulford at Bell Lomax Moreton.
In 2023 she also published a chapter which formed part of a collection of stories around mental health called ‘Will You Read This Please?’, edited by Dr Joanna Cannon and co-authored with renowned author Jenn Ashworth.
Nicola’s debut novel, The Night Before Christmas, a romantic comedy featuring giant penguins, rescued cats, and an unforgettable heroine, will be released in September 2024.
She lives in Norfolk with her husband, young daughter and three chaotic cats.
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Genre: Romantic Comedy
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The Book :
Felicity Brooks is a bit of a Scrooge—but when she meets a man dressed as a giant penguin on Christmas Eve, could it spell a change of heart?
The ridiculous music. The excessive presents. The stupid Christmas sweaters. Felicity wants nothing more than to escape it all, and she pounces on the chance to work shifts over the holiday season at an animal rescue center. After all, it’s the only place that brings her true happiness.
But one day, her evening is disturbed by a stranger named James—dressed as a penguin and cradling a weak kitten. As Felicity and James work together to nurse the sick feline back to health, it gives them the perfect excuse to bond over their mutual dislike of all things festive. And soon, sparks fly.
However, their attraction is interrupted when Felicity’s ex-boyfriend Adam returns to declare his undying love. And when she’s let down by both men, Felicity decides to return to her childhood home for some peace. While there, she uncovers an array of family secrets, and even more about herself—which may just help her to make a choice between the penguin and the ex . . .
The Author:
Nicola is a former journalist and now a chartered public relations professional, one of only 600 with that status in the UK. In her day job she heads up the communications and campaigns department at Redwings, the largest horse welfare charity in the country.
While writing about ponies is a dream come true in its own right, being a novelist has long been the ultimate goal. Since reviving this in earnest in 2021 in snatches of spare time, she has been placed runner up in the Daily Mail First Novel competition, longlisted in the Mslexia Novel Prize, and signed with agent Katie Fulford at Bell Lomax Moreton.
In 2023 she also published a chapter which formed part of a collection of stories around mental health called ‘Will You Read This Please?’, edited by Dr Joanna Cannon and co-authored with renowned author Jenn Ashworth.
Nicola’s debut novel, The Night Before Christmas, a romantic comedy featuring giant penguins, rescued cats, and an unforgettable heroine, will be released in September 2024.
She lives in Norfolk with her husband, young daughter and three chaotic cats.
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Susan Fletcher
Susan Fletcher
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Book Title: The Night In Question
Genre: Crossover (Commercial/Literary)
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Florence Butterfield has lived an extraordinary life full of travel, passion and adventure. But, at eighty-seven, she suspects there are no more surprises to come her way.
Then, one midsummer's night, something terrible happens - so strange and unexpected that Florence – or Florrie, as her friends call her – is suspicious.
Was this really an accident, or is she living alongside a would-be murderer?
The only clue is a magenta envelope, discarded earlier that day.
And Florrie - cheerfully independent but often overlooked - is the only person determined to uncover the truth.
As she does, Florrie finds herself looking back on her own life . . .
…and a long-buried secret becomes ever harder to ignore.
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'[Fletcher's] prose is extraordinarily lyrical . . . and her themes are profound.' Sunday Times
'A gifted storyteller' Independent
'Fletcher unpeels with delicacy and insight the complex layers of the human heart.' Guardian
The Author:
Susan's first novel, Eve Green, was published in 2004 by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins. It features an eight-year-old girl who is sent to a new life in rural Wales. It won the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Authors' Club Award and the Betty Trask Award; it was also shortlisted for he Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was picked for Channel 4's Richard and Judy Summer Reading List.
Subsequent novels have been shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Award, the Writers' Guild fiction Award and the Romantic Novel of the Year Award. Her novel Witch Light won the Saint Maur en Poche Award 2013 in France.
In 2022, Susan signed a two-book contract with Transworld, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Her eighth novel, The Night in Question, was published by Transworld in April 2024.
She has also worked as a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund at the University of Worcester (2016–18 and 2020-23).
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The Book:
Florence Butterfield has lived an extraordinary life full of travel, passion and adventure. But, at eighty-seven, she suspects there are no more surprises to come her way.
Then, one midsummer's night, something terrible happens - so strange and unexpected that Florence – or Florrie, as her friends call her – is suspicious.
Was this really an accident, or is she living alongside a would-be murderer?
The only clue is a magenta envelope, discarded earlier that day.
And Florrie - cheerfully independent but often overlooked - is the only person determined to uncover the truth.
As she does, Florrie finds herself looking back on her own life . . .
…and a long-buried secret becomes ever harder to ignore.
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'[Fletcher's] prose is extraordinarily lyrical . . . and her themes are profound.' Sunday Times
'A gifted storyteller' Independent
'Fletcher unpeels with delicacy and insight the complex layers of the human heart.' Guardian
The Author:
Susan's first novel, Eve Green, was published in 2004 by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins. It features an eight-year-old girl who is sent to a new life in rural Wales. It won the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Authors' Club Award and the Betty Trask Award; it was also shortlisted for he Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was picked for Channel 4's Richard and Judy Summer Reading List.
Subsequent novels have been shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Award, the Writers' Guild fiction Award and the Romantic Novel of the Year Award. Her novel Witch Light won the Saint Maur en Poche Award 2013 in France.
In 2022, Susan signed a two-book contract with Transworld, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Her eighth novel, The Night in Question, was published by Transworld in April 2024.
She has also worked as a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund at the University of Worcester (2016–18 and 2020-23).
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Book Title: Heartbreak in the Valleys
Genre: Romantic Saga / Historical
Format: Paperback
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE RNA HISTORICAL ROMANTIC NOVEL AWARD 2021
THE WORLD WAS CRUMBLING, BUT HER LOVE STAYED STRONG
November 1915. For young housemaid, Anwen Rhys, life is hard in the Welsh mining village of Dorcalon, deep in the Rhymney Valley. She cares for her ill mother and beloved younger sister Sara, all while shielding them from her father’s drunken, violent temper. Anwen comforts herself with her love for childhood sweetheart, Idris Hughes, away fighting in the Great War.
Yet when Idris returns, he is a changed man; no longer the innocent boy she loved, he is harder, more distant, quickly breaking off their engagement. And when tragedy once again strikes her family, Anwen’s heart is completely broken.
But when an explosion at the pit brings unimaginable heartache to Dorcalon, Anwen and Idris put their feelings aside to unite their mining community.
In the midst of despair, can Anwen find hope again? And will she ever find the happiness she deserves?
The Author:
Francesca has enjoyed writing since she was a child, largely influenced by a Welsh mother who was good at improvised story telling.
She is the author of emotional and well researched historical sagas, along with a variety of short stories and novellas which have sold worldwide. She is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association and the Society of Women Writers and Journalists.
Francesca was born and brought up on the Sussex coast, but currently lives in Kent with her family and a cat called Lando Calrission.
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE RNA HISTORICAL ROMANTIC NOVEL AWARD 2021
THE WORLD WAS CRUMBLING, BUT HER LOVE STAYED STRONG
November 1915. For young housemaid, Anwen Rhys, life is hard in the Welsh mining village of Dorcalon, deep in the Rhymney Valley. She cares for her ill mother and beloved younger sister Sara, all while shielding them from her father’s drunken, violent temper. Anwen comforts herself with her love for childhood sweetheart, Idris Hughes, away fighting in the Great War.
Yet when Idris returns, he is a changed man; no longer the innocent boy she loved, he is harder, more distant, quickly breaking off their engagement. And when tragedy once again strikes her family, Anwen’s heart is completely broken.
But when an explosion at the pit brings unimaginable heartache to Dorcalon, Anwen and Idris put their feelings aside to unite their mining community.
In the midst of despair, can Anwen find hope again? And will she ever find the happiness she deserves?
The Author:
Francesca has enjoyed writing since she was a child, largely influenced by a Welsh mother who was good at improvised story telling.
She is the author of emotional and well researched historical sagas, along with a variety of short stories and novellas which have sold worldwide. She is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association and the Society of Women Writers and Journalists.
Francesca was born and brought up on the Sussex coast, but currently lives in Kent with her family and a cat called Lando Calrission.
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Book Title: A New Start at the Beach Hotel
Genre: Romantic Saga / Historical
Format: Paperback
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WINNER OF THE ROMANTIC SAGA AWARD AT THE RNA ROMANTIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2024
CAN EDIE FIND THE COURAGE TO CHOOSE HER OWN FUTURE?
June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland, living in comfort at the grand Downland House in Sussex. But, wanting more from life, she flees in secret to Littlehampton, the place where she spent many idyllic childhood holidays.
Desperate for work, Edie begins working as a chambermaid at the prestigious Beach Hotel, even if the menial tasks are a far cry from her previous job.
While the days are long and gruelling, Edie works hard and soon is in favour with Helen Bygrove, the manager’s wife, who sees that Edie is destined for bigger things – which leads to tension with some of the other chambermaids.
But as she navigates her new life and finds friendship with fellow maid Lili Probert, she also grows closer to charming, cheerful porter, Charlie Cobbett, and finally finds the happiness she has been searching for.
However, what none of her new friends know is that Edie is hiding a secret from her past, one that would change the way they view her, forever. When the truth comes out, will Edie be able to keep her new life and remain in the place she loves so much?
The Author:
Francesca has enjoyed writing since she was a child, largely influenced by a Welsh mother who was good at improvised story telling.
She is the author of emotional and well researched historical sagas, along with a variety of short stories and novellas which have sold worldwide. She is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association and the Society of Women Writers and Journalists.
Francesca was born and brought up on the Sussex coast, but currently lives in Kent with her family and a cat called Lando Calrission.
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WINNER OF THE ROMANTIC SAGA AWARD AT THE RNA ROMANTIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2024
CAN EDIE FIND THE COURAGE TO CHOOSE HER OWN FUTURE?
June 1914. Edie Moore is a Governess for Lord and Lady Moreland, living in comfort at the grand Downland House in Sussex. But, wanting more from life, she flees in secret to Littlehampton, the place where she spent many idyllic childhood holidays.
Desperate for work, Edie begins working as a chambermaid at the prestigious Beach Hotel, even if the menial tasks are a far cry from her previous job.
While the days are long and gruelling, Edie works hard and soon is in favour with Helen Bygrove, the manager’s wife, who sees that Edie is destined for bigger things – which leads to tension with some of the other chambermaids.
But as she navigates her new life and finds friendship with fellow maid Lili Probert, she also grows closer to charming, cheerful porter, Charlie Cobbett, and finally finds the happiness she has been searching for.
However, what none of her new friends know is that Edie is hiding a secret from her past, one that would change the way they view her, forever. When the truth comes out, will Edie be able to keep her new life and remain in the place she loves so much?
The Author:
Francesca has enjoyed writing since she was a child, largely influenced by a Welsh mother who was good at improvised story telling.
She is the author of emotional and well researched historical sagas, along with a variety of short stories and novellas which have sold worldwide. She is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association and the Society of Women Writers and Journalists.
Francesca was born and brought up on the Sussex coast, but currently lives in Kent with her family and a cat called Lando Calrission.
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E V Radwinter
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Title 1 : Until We Meet
Genre: Romance / Women's fiction
Format: Paperback - first edition
Title 2: Loves Lost and Found
Genre: Romance / Women's fiction
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Title 1 : Until We Meet
One train, a chance encounter, three lives changed forever.
The past, we are told, can help us navigate the present and provide guidance for the future. But what if you don’t know where you came from? Would it affect how you live and love? Love is, after all, a fickle thing. The harder we search for it, the more it eludes us. Then again, when we are not looking for it, then sometimes, just sometimes, it finds us.
A serendipitous encounter on a crowded train brings two strangers together.
Ellie is struggling to escape a semi-toxic relationship, whilst caring for her ailing father.
Rich has a secret he cannot share. Not yet at least.
As they traverse the emotional rollercoasters of loss and searching for her birth family, the friends follow a path of discovery, the end of which neither of them could foresee and which results in three lives being changed forever.
Title 2: Loves Lost and Found
This is a heartfelt book of, and about, love.
Fate has often conspired against Chloe. So, when an old flame, Ed, reappears out of the blue, Chloe must decide whether she will succumb to the euphoric, addictive and giddy happiness of a rekindled romance, or close her heart to love in order to protect herself from the emptiness left by previous broken hearts.
Chloe has worked hard to get to where she is professionally, to be successful. Although she has been in love and been loved, she has not yet found the ‘happily ever after’ that she longed for... until, possibly, now. Maybe, just maybe, this time fate will push her in the right direction.
But when past hurt haunts the present will Chloe embrace the thrill of the rollercoaster ride, or let her fear of falling stop her from getting on it?
The Author:
E V Radwinter was born in London and grew up in Essex, although she has lived in some of the liveliest and most beautiful places across the country she is now back to north Essex where she lives with her partner.
E V Radwinter has worked in Marketing and Communications for most of her career and has a passion for writing.
E V Radwinter has started work on her third novel.
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Genre: Romance / Women's fiction
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Title 2: Loves Lost and Found
Genre: Romance / Women's fiction
Format: Paperback - first edition
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Title 1 : Until We Meet
One train, a chance encounter, three lives changed forever.
The past, we are told, can help us navigate the present and provide guidance for the future. But what if you don’t know where you came from? Would it affect how you live and love? Love is, after all, a fickle thing. The harder we search for it, the more it eludes us. Then again, when we are not looking for it, then sometimes, just sometimes, it finds us.
A serendipitous encounter on a crowded train brings two strangers together.
Ellie is struggling to escape a semi-toxic relationship, whilst caring for her ailing father.
Rich has a secret he cannot share. Not yet at least.
As they traverse the emotional rollercoasters of loss and searching for her birth family, the friends follow a path of discovery, the end of which neither of them could foresee and which results in three lives being changed forever.
Title 2: Loves Lost and Found
This is a heartfelt book of, and about, love.
Fate has often conspired against Chloe. So, when an old flame, Ed, reappears out of the blue, Chloe must decide whether she will succumb to the euphoric, addictive and giddy happiness of a rekindled romance, or close her heart to love in order to protect herself from the emptiness left by previous broken hearts.
Chloe has worked hard to get to where she is professionally, to be successful. Although she has been in love and been loved, she has not yet found the ‘happily ever after’ that she longed for... until, possibly, now. Maybe, just maybe, this time fate will push her in the right direction.
But when past hurt haunts the present will Chloe embrace the thrill of the rollercoaster ride, or let her fear of falling stop her from getting on it?
The Author:
E V Radwinter was born in London and grew up in Essex, although she has lived in some of the liveliest and most beautiful places across the country she is now back to north Essex where she lives with her partner.
E V Radwinter has worked in Marketing and Communications for most of her career and has a passion for writing.
E V Radwinter has started work on her third novel.
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Title: The Silent Resistance
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
One mother’s impossible choice. One daughter’s epic search.
Occupied Norway, 1944. As the war rages on, Anni is surviving as best she can, contributing to the resistance whenever possible and standing firm without her sailor husband Lars, who she hasn't heard from in three years. Her daughter Ingrid is the bright spot in her life and Anni is determined to keep her safe and happy. When a German official is billeted at their house the situation for them both becomes far more dangerous, and Anni faces an impossible choice.
In the years since the war and since she moved to London to live with her father, young Ingrid has been trying to make sense of the disappearance of her mother just as peace in Norway was declared. Ingrid desperately holds onto the fact that Anni promised she would always come back for her. Undaunted, Ingrid sets out to discover what happened to her mother all those years ago...
The Author:
Anna Normann is the pseudonym of authors Anan Singh and Natalie Normann, and it all happened because of a bet. Sometime in the nineteen eighties, while watching a movie with a so-so plot, they started arguing about improving the plot and how they could write a better story than that mess. And then Anan’s wife said ‘I bet you can’t’ …
Since then, they have published seven books together in Norwegian, exploring different genres. Their first novel, set in WW2, won a competition in 1995 for ‘Norway’s best entertainment novel’.
The Silent Resistance is their first book in English together.
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The Book;
One mother’s impossible choice. One daughter’s epic search.
Occupied Norway, 1944. As the war rages on, Anni is surviving as best she can, contributing to the resistance whenever possible and standing firm without her sailor husband Lars, who she hasn't heard from in three years. Her daughter Ingrid is the bright spot in her life and Anni is determined to keep her safe and happy. When a German official is billeted at their house the situation for them both becomes far more dangerous, and Anni faces an impossible choice.
In the years since the war and since she moved to London to live with her father, young Ingrid has been trying to make sense of the disappearance of her mother just as peace in Norway was declared. Ingrid desperately holds onto the fact that Anni promised she would always come back for her. Undaunted, Ingrid sets out to discover what happened to her mother all those years ago...
The Author:
Anna Normann is the pseudonym of authors Anan Singh and Natalie Normann, and it all happened because of a bet. Sometime in the nineteen eighties, while watching a movie with a so-so plot, they started arguing about improving the plot and how they could write a better story than that mess. And then Anan’s wife said ‘I bet you can’t’ …
Since then, they have published seven books together in Norwegian, exploring different genres. Their first novel, set in WW2, won a competition in 1995 for ‘Norway’s best entertainment novel’.
The Silent Resistance is their first book in English together.
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Title: WHY I BECAME AN X TROOP COMMANDO
Genre: Biography
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The Book;
A fascinating and moving biography of Colin Anson, the German refugee who became an elite British commando
Born in Germany in 1922, Colin Anson’s (Claus Ascher) childhood was marked by the trials of Nazism. His father was arrested by the Gestapo in 1937 and transported to Dachau, where he died shortly after. Colin, aged just 17, escaped to Britain in the Kindertransport. As soon as he was old enough, Colin volunteered in the Pioneer Corps. Then, in 1942, he was recruited for the elite commando unit X-Troop.
Colin took part in the invasions of Sicily and Italy in 1943, where he sustained a near-fatal injury. But just months later, he returned to duty. He fought in the Yugoslav islands, became the first Allied soldier to liberate Corfu, and was stationed in post-war Frankfurt.
In this unique biography, Helen Fry traces the remarkable story of Colin’s life. Drawing on extensive interviews, Fry recounts his actions in X-Troop and beyond in his own words—and sheds new light on the experience of refugees in the British forces.
The Author:
Helen has authored and edited over 25 books covering the social history of the Second World War, including British Intelligence and the secret war, espionage and spies, and MI9 escape and evasion.
She is the foremost authority on the 'secret listeners' who worked at special eavesdropping sites operated by British Intelligence during WWII. Her groundbreaking research and extensive media coverage have shed light on one of the greatest intelligence deceptions of the war: the bugging of Hitler’s generals at Trent Park in North London, and thousands of prisoners of war at Latimer House and Wilton Park in Buckinghamshire.
Helen is the official biographer of MI6 spymaster, Colonel Thomas Joseph Kendrick. She has also extensively written about the 10,000 Germans who fought for Britain during WWII.
Thanks to her expertise, Helen has appeared in a number of documentaries, including David Jason’s Secret Service (Channel 5), Spying on Hitler's Army (Channel 4), and Secrets of the Spies (Britbox). She has provided advisory services for TV and drama, something that she particularly enjoys. Helen has covered the major D-Day commemorations in live BBC broadcasts from Normandy, and she regularly appears in media interviews and podcasts.
Helen is an ambassador for the National Centre for Military Intelligence (NCMI) and serves as a trustee of both the Friends of the Intelligence Corps Museum and the Medmenham Collection. She works in London.
Helen is a recent recipient of the Lifetime Contribution Award for Jewish Military History and Education, awarded by The Jewish Military Association (AJEX).
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The Book;
A fascinating and moving biography of Colin Anson, the German refugee who became an elite British commando
Born in Germany in 1922, Colin Anson’s (Claus Ascher) childhood was marked by the trials of Nazism. His father was arrested by the Gestapo in 1937 and transported to Dachau, where he died shortly after. Colin, aged just 17, escaped to Britain in the Kindertransport. As soon as he was old enough, Colin volunteered in the Pioneer Corps. Then, in 1942, he was recruited for the elite commando unit X-Troop.
Colin took part in the invasions of Sicily and Italy in 1943, where he sustained a near-fatal injury. But just months later, he returned to duty. He fought in the Yugoslav islands, became the first Allied soldier to liberate Corfu, and was stationed in post-war Frankfurt.
In this unique biography, Helen Fry traces the remarkable story of Colin’s life. Drawing on extensive interviews, Fry recounts his actions in X-Troop and beyond in his own words—and sheds new light on the experience of refugees in the British forces.
The Author:
Helen has authored and edited over 25 books covering the social history of the Second World War, including British Intelligence and the secret war, espionage and spies, and MI9 escape and evasion.
She is the foremost authority on the 'secret listeners' who worked at special eavesdropping sites operated by British Intelligence during WWII. Her groundbreaking research and extensive media coverage have shed light on one of the greatest intelligence deceptions of the war: the bugging of Hitler’s generals at Trent Park in North London, and thousands of prisoners of war at Latimer House and Wilton Park in Buckinghamshire.
Helen is the official biographer of MI6 spymaster, Colonel Thomas Joseph Kendrick. She has also extensively written about the 10,000 Germans who fought for Britain during WWII.
Thanks to her expertise, Helen has appeared in a number of documentaries, including David Jason’s Secret Service (Channel 5), Spying on Hitler's Army (Channel 4), and Secrets of the Spies (Britbox). She has provided advisory services for TV and drama, something that she particularly enjoys. Helen has covered the major D-Day commemorations in live BBC broadcasts from Normandy, and she regularly appears in media interviews and podcasts.
Helen is an ambassador for the National Centre for Military Intelligence (NCMI) and serves as a trustee of both the Friends of the Intelligence Corps Museum and the Medmenham Collection. She works in London.
Helen is a recent recipient of the Lifetime Contribution Award for Jewish Military History and Education, awarded by The Jewish Military Association (AJEX).
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All three books of the Love In the Lakes trilogy
* Suzanne will be kindly adding a Christmas Gift for her successful bidder.
Title 1: Snowfall over Halesmere House
Title 2: Wedding Days at Halesmere House
Title 3: Starting Over at Halesmere House
Genre: Contemporary - Humour
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Title 1: Snowfall over Halesmere House
Welcome to Halesmere House, where romance might be just around the corner…
After years of living in the past, Ella is ready to start building a future. The perfect opportunity presents itself when she is offered a short-term role at Halesmere House in the Lake District, and tasked with kick-starting its artists’ residence. She can’t wait to start and explore a new career in an inspiring location.
But when Ella arrives at Halesmere, she wonders if she’s made a huge mistake when she clashes with Max, the new owner. Max has his own reasons to be unsettled by her presence, but despite his misgivings it seems everyone else loves having Ella around. As a single dad, it’s his children’s attachment to her that bothers him most. Who will pick up the pieces when Ella leaves?
What Max doesn’t know is that Ella is falling for more than just the Lake District and the community around her. Can her temporary job lead to a permanent happy ending?
Title 2: Wedding Days at Halesmere House
The last thing on Lizzie’s mind is catching the bouquet…
Events planner and maid of honour Lizzie Martin knows her best friend Gemma is making the right decision for her wedding. After the original venue catches fire, and a space opens up at Halesmere House, it makes complete sense to move the wedding to the Lake District artists’ residence. But Lizzie has painful memories of Halesmere…
When she bumps into Cal, her first love, she is forced to confront the past. Now a sought-after blacksmith, Cal has his own studio at Halesmere and the two must find a way to get along if this wedding isn’t going to be a complete disaster.
It soon becomes apparent that their attraction hasn’t waned, but can Lizzie put their shared past behind her and learn to trust the man who left her once before?
Title 3: Starting Over at Halesmere House
Can two broken hearts mend each other?
Taking over the Flower Shed studio at Halesmere, Alice is looking to mend her heart through horticulture after the end of her ten-year marriage. She isn’t looking for romance, especially not with brash young tree surgeon, Zac.
Zac has his own past he’s trying to move on from, and he’s only staying at Halesmere until the new year. But when their circumstances change in a way that shocks them both, they have to decide if they can share a future that already binds them.
Will the magic of Halesmere work once more to bring love to two lost souls?
The Author:
Suzanne writes contemporary and uplifting fiction with a vibrant sense of setting and community connecting the lives of her characters. A horticulturist who lives with her family in Lancashire, her books are inspired by a love of landscape, romance and rural life. Her debut novel, The Cottage of New Beginnings, was a contender for the RNA’s Joan Hessayon Award and she is currently writing the Hartfell Village series for Canelo. Suzanne is a member of the Romantic Novelists Association and the Society of Authors.
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Title 1: Snowfall over Halesmere House
Title 2: Wedding Days at Halesmere House
Title 3: Starting Over at Halesmere House
Genre: Contemporary - Humour
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Title 1: Snowfall over Halesmere House
Welcome to Halesmere House, where romance might be just around the corner…
After years of living in the past, Ella is ready to start building a future. The perfect opportunity presents itself when she is offered a short-term role at Halesmere House in the Lake District, and tasked with kick-starting its artists’ residence. She can’t wait to start and explore a new career in an inspiring location.
But when Ella arrives at Halesmere, she wonders if she’s made a huge mistake when she clashes with Max, the new owner. Max has his own reasons to be unsettled by her presence, but despite his misgivings it seems everyone else loves having Ella around. As a single dad, it’s his children’s attachment to her that bothers him most. Who will pick up the pieces when Ella leaves?
What Max doesn’t know is that Ella is falling for more than just the Lake District and the community around her. Can her temporary job lead to a permanent happy ending?
Title 2: Wedding Days at Halesmere House
The last thing on Lizzie’s mind is catching the bouquet…
Events planner and maid of honour Lizzie Martin knows her best friend Gemma is making the right decision for her wedding. After the original venue catches fire, and a space opens up at Halesmere House, it makes complete sense to move the wedding to the Lake District artists’ residence. But Lizzie has painful memories of Halesmere…
When she bumps into Cal, her first love, she is forced to confront the past. Now a sought-after blacksmith, Cal has his own studio at Halesmere and the two must find a way to get along if this wedding isn’t going to be a complete disaster.
It soon becomes apparent that their attraction hasn’t waned, but can Lizzie put their shared past behind her and learn to trust the man who left her once before?
Title 3: Starting Over at Halesmere House
Can two broken hearts mend each other?
Taking over the Flower Shed studio at Halesmere, Alice is looking to mend her heart through horticulture after the end of her ten-year marriage. She isn’t looking for romance, especially not with brash young tree surgeon, Zac.
Zac has his own past he’s trying to move on from, and he’s only staying at Halesmere until the new year. But when their circumstances change in a way that shocks them both, they have to decide if they can share a future that already binds them.
Will the magic of Halesmere work once more to bring love to two lost souls?
The Author:
Suzanne writes contemporary and uplifting fiction with a vibrant sense of setting and community connecting the lives of her characters. A horticulturist who lives with her family in Lancashire, her books are inspired by a love of landscape, romance and rural life. Her debut novel, The Cottage of New Beginnings, was a contender for the RNA’s Joan Hessayon Award and she is currently writing the Hartfell Village series for Canelo. Suzanne is a member of the Romantic Novelists Association and the Society of Authors.
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All four books of the Welcome to Thorndale series
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Title 1: The Cottage of New Beginnings
Title 2: The Garden of Little Rose
Title 3: A Summer of Second Chances
Title 4: A Country Village Christmas
Genre: Contemporary - Humour
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Title 1: The Cottage of New Beginnings
One crumbling cottage. One broken heart. A chance to start over?
When Annie returns to Thorndale, the village where she spent much of her childhood, she’s looking for a new start. All she wants to do is fix up the cottage her godmother left her, and mend her bruised heart.
But when she clashes with local hero, Jon, Annie wonders if she’s made a mistake returning to Thorndale. The last thing she needs is more drama, yet the village seems to be conspiring to throw her and the distractingly handsome Jon together…
Annie is looking for a new beginning with zero romance – but what if the only way to learn to trust again is to take a risk on love?
The perfect feel-good romance to curl up with.
Title 2: The Garden of Little Rose
For love to grow, Flora first needs to dig up the past.
At a hen party on the remote Scottish island of Alana, Flora is dared to ask a handsome stranger – Mac – to be her plus-one for the wedding. She never expected him to turn up at the church…
Now Mac wants to hire her skills as a horticulturist to restore the gardens at Róisín House, his home back on Alana. Flora knows she should refuse – Mac has ‘heartbreaker’ written all over him – but she can’t resist uncovering the tragic truth behind the garden at Róisín.
A gorgeous and heartwarming romance.
Title 3: A Summer of Second Chances
When Ben comes to stay in Daisy’s holiday cottage, sparks fly. But so do tempers…
Daisy likes routine. She goes to work, makes dinner for her son, then loses herself for an hour or two in her sewing. She’s not looking for change, until Ben crashes – literally – into her life.
Ben is training for a triathlon, working himself to the limit in an attempt to forget a recent trauma. Daisy wants to help, but even as they draw closer with every week that passes, he pushes her away whenever things threaten to get serious.
Can Ben open himself up to love again? With Daisy’s life in the Yorkshire Dales and Ben’s in New York, can they have a future together even if he does?
An uplifting and feel-good romance to fall in love with.
Title 4: A Country Village Christmas
Can the magic of Christmas and Thorndale bring two lost souls together in love?
Olivia doesn’t have time for Christmas or romance – she’s got a demanding career and has been burned before when it comes to love. This year, she’s spending the festive season in her dad’s old house, packing it up now that he’s moved out. Her dad failed to mention she wouldn’t be spending her time there alone …
The last thing Olivia expects is for her surprise guest to be the very man who literally ran from her after an evening of mutual flirtation. But Tom has nowhere else to go and Olivia is determined to forget the disappointment she felt when he took off. Instead she’ll help him find his way again.
As heavy snow keeps them inside the cottage, will their enforced confinement spark romance once again – or will it push them further apart?
A festive and feel-good romance to keep you warm in winter.
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Title 1: The Cottage of New Beginnings
Title 2: The Garden of Little Rose
Title 3: A Summer of Second Chances
Title 4: A Country Village Christmas
Genre: Contemporary - Humour
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Title 1: The Cottage of New Beginnings
One crumbling cottage. One broken heart. A chance to start over?
When Annie returns to Thorndale, the village where she spent much of her childhood, she’s looking for a new start. All she wants to do is fix up the cottage her godmother left her, and mend her bruised heart.
But when she clashes with local hero, Jon, Annie wonders if she’s made a mistake returning to Thorndale. The last thing she needs is more drama, yet the village seems to be conspiring to throw her and the distractingly handsome Jon together…
Annie is looking for a new beginning with zero romance – but what if the only way to learn to trust again is to take a risk on love?
The perfect feel-good romance to curl up with.
Title 2: The Garden of Little Rose
For love to grow, Flora first needs to dig up the past.
At a hen party on the remote Scottish island of Alana, Flora is dared to ask a handsome stranger – Mac – to be her plus-one for the wedding. She never expected him to turn up at the church…
Now Mac wants to hire her skills as a horticulturist to restore the gardens at Róisín House, his home back on Alana. Flora knows she should refuse – Mac has ‘heartbreaker’ written all over him – but she can’t resist uncovering the tragic truth behind the garden at Róisín.
A gorgeous and heartwarming romance.
Title 3: A Summer of Second Chances
When Ben comes to stay in Daisy’s holiday cottage, sparks fly. But so do tempers…
Daisy likes routine. She goes to work, makes dinner for her son, then loses herself for an hour or two in her sewing. She’s not looking for change, until Ben crashes – literally – into her life.
Ben is training for a triathlon, working himself to the limit in an attempt to forget a recent trauma. Daisy wants to help, but even as they draw closer with every week that passes, he pushes her away whenever things threaten to get serious.
Can Ben open himself up to love again? With Daisy’s life in the Yorkshire Dales and Ben’s in New York, can they have a future together even if he does?
An uplifting and feel-good romance to fall in love with.
Title 4: A Country Village Christmas
Can the magic of Christmas and Thorndale bring two lost souls together in love?
Olivia doesn’t have time for Christmas or romance – she’s got a demanding career and has been burned before when it comes to love. This year, she’s spending the festive season in her dad’s old house, packing it up now that he’s moved out. Her dad failed to mention she wouldn’t be spending her time there alone …
The last thing Olivia expects is for her surprise guest to be the very man who literally ran from her after an evening of mutual flirtation. But Tom has nowhere else to go and Olivia is determined to forget the disappointment she felt when he took off. Instead she’ll help him find his way again.
As heavy snow keeps them inside the cottage, will their enforced confinement spark romance once again – or will it push them further apart?
A festive and feel-good romance to keep you warm in winter.
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Title: The Last Murder at the End of the World
Genre: Science Fiction
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The Book;
From the bestselling author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Water comes an inventive, high-concept murder mystery: an ingenious puzzle, an extraordinary backdrop, and an audacious solution.
Solve the murder to save what's left of the world.
Outside the island there is nothing: the world was destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched.
On the island: it is idyllic. One hundred and twenty-two villagers and three scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they're told by the scientists.
Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of their beloved scientists is found brutally stabbed to death. And then they learn that the murder has triggered a lowering of the security system around the island, the only thing that was keeping the fog at bay. If the murder isn't solved within 107 hours, the fog will smother the island—and everyone on it.
But the security system has also wiped everyone's memories of exactly what happened the night before, which means that someone on the island is a murderer—and they don't even know it.
And the clock is ticking.
The Author:
Stuart lives in London with his amazing wife and two daughters. He drinks lots of tea.
What else?
When he left university he went travelling for three months and stayed away for five years. Every time his parents asked when he’d be back he told them next week, and meant it.
Stuart is not to be trusted. In the nicest possible way.
He’s got a degree in English and Philosophy, which makes him excellent at arguing and terrible at choosing degrees.
Having trained for no particular career, he has dabbled in most of them. He stocked shelves in a Darwin bookshop, taught English in Shanghai, worked for a technology magazine in London, wrote travel articles in Dubai, and now he’s a freelance journalist. None of this was planned, he just kept getting lost on his way to other places.
He likes a chat. He likes books. He likes people who write books and people who read books. He doesn’t know how to write a biography, so should probably stop before he tells you about his dreams or something. It was lovely to meet you, though.
Stuart's debut novel is called The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle in the UK and The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle in the US. They're the same book. Don't fret.
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Title: The Last Murder at the End of the World
Genre: Science Fiction
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The Book;
From the bestselling author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Water comes an inventive, high-concept murder mystery: an ingenious puzzle, an extraordinary backdrop, and an audacious solution.
Solve the murder to save what's left of the world.
Outside the island there is nothing: the world was destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched.
On the island: it is idyllic. One hundred and twenty-two villagers and three scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they're told by the scientists.
Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of their beloved scientists is found brutally stabbed to death. And then they learn that the murder has triggered a lowering of the security system around the island, the only thing that was keeping the fog at bay. If the murder isn't solved within 107 hours, the fog will smother the island—and everyone on it.
But the security system has also wiped everyone's memories of exactly what happened the night before, which means that someone on the island is a murderer—and they don't even know it.
And the clock is ticking.
The Author:
Stuart lives in London with his amazing wife and two daughters. He drinks lots of tea.
What else?
When he left university he went travelling for three months and stayed away for five years. Every time his parents asked when he’d be back he told them next week, and meant it.
Stuart is not to be trusted. In the nicest possible way.
He’s got a degree in English and Philosophy, which makes him excellent at arguing and terrible at choosing degrees.
Having trained for no particular career, he has dabbled in most of them. He stocked shelves in a Darwin bookshop, taught English in Shanghai, worked for a technology magazine in London, wrote travel articles in Dubai, and now he’s a freelance journalist. None of this was planned, he just kept getting lost on his way to other places.
He likes a chat. He likes books. He likes people who write books and people who read books. He doesn’t know how to write a biography, so should probably stop before he tells you about his dreams or something. It was lovely to meet you, though.
Stuart's debut novel is called The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle in the UK and The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle in the US. They're the same book. Don't fret.
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Sarah Crossan
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Title: Where The Heart Should Be
Genre: Historical Fiction - Romance
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The outstanding novel from the Carnegie Medal-winning, former Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan; thought-provoking and incredibly moving, it explores love and family during The Great Hunger.
Ireland, 1846 Nell is working as a scullery maid in the kitchen of the Big House. Once she loved school and books and dreaming. But there's not much choice of work when the land grows food that rots in the earth. Now she is scrubbing, peeling, washing, sweeping for Sir Philip Wicken, the man who owns her home, her family's land, their crops, everything.
His dogs are always well fed, even as famine sets in. Upstairs in the Big House, where Nell is forbidden to enter, is Johnny Browning, newly arrived from England: the young nephew who will one day inherit it all. And as hunger and disease run rampant all around them, a spark of life and hope catches light when Nell and Johnny find each other.
This is a love story, and the story of a people being torn apart. This is a powerful and unforgettable novel from the phenomenally talented Sarah Crossan.
The Author:
Sarah Crossan is Irish. She graduated with a degree in philosophy and literature before training as an English and drama teacher at Cambridge University and worked to promote creative writing in schools before leaving teaching to write full time.
She completed her Masters in creative writing at the University of Warwick. In 2010 received an Edward Albee Fellowship for writing.
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Title: Where The Heart Should Be
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The outstanding novel from the Carnegie Medal-winning, former Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan; thought-provoking and incredibly moving, it explores love and family during The Great Hunger.
Ireland, 1846 Nell is working as a scullery maid in the kitchen of the Big House. Once she loved school and books and dreaming. But there's not much choice of work when the land grows food that rots in the earth. Now she is scrubbing, peeling, washing, sweeping for Sir Philip Wicken, the man who owns her home, her family's land, their crops, everything.
His dogs are always well fed, even as famine sets in. Upstairs in the Big House, where Nell is forbidden to enter, is Johnny Browning, newly arrived from England: the young nephew who will one day inherit it all. And as hunger and disease run rampant all around them, a spark of life and hope catches light when Nell and Johnny find each other.
This is a love story, and the story of a people being torn apart. This is a powerful and unforgettable novel from the phenomenally talented Sarah Crossan.
The Author:
Sarah Crossan is Irish. She graduated with a degree in philosophy and literature before training as an English and drama teacher at Cambridge University and worked to promote creative writing in schools before leaving teaching to write full time.
She completed her Masters in creative writing at the University of Warwick. In 2010 received an Edward Albee Fellowship for writing.
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Chloe Dalton
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Title: Raising Hare
Genre: Animal Rights
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'A beautiful book' - ANGELINA JOLIE
'A glorious book - for its warmth, its precision, its joy' - KATHERINE RUNDELL
'I will be recommending this to everyone' - MATT HAIG
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Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, over two years later, it still ran in from the fields when you called it and snoozed in your house for hours on end. This happened to me.
When lockdown led busy professional Chloe to leave the city and return to the countryside of her childhood, she never expected to find herself custodian of a newly born hare. Yet when she finds the creature, endangered, alone and no bigger than her palm, she is compelled to give it a chance at survival.
Raising Hare chronicles their journey together and the challenges of caring for the leveret and preparing for its return to the wild. We witness an extraordinary relationship between human and animal, rekindling our sense of awe towards nature and wildlife. This improbable bond of trust serves to remind us that the most remarkable experiences, inspiring the most hope, often arise when we least expect them.
The Author:
Chloe Dalton is a writer, political adviser and foreign policy expert. She spent over a decade working in the UK Parliament and Foreign and Commonwealth Office and has advised, and written for and with, numerous prominent figures. She divides her time between London and her home in the English countryside. Raising Hare is her first book.
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Genre: Animal Rights
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'A beautiful book' - ANGELINA JOLIE
'A glorious book - for its warmth, its precision, its joy' - KATHERINE RUNDELL
'I will be recommending this to everyone' - MATT HAIG
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Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, over two years later, it still ran in from the fields when you called it and snoozed in your house for hours on end. This happened to me.
When lockdown led busy professional Chloe to leave the city and return to the countryside of her childhood, she never expected to find herself custodian of a newly born hare. Yet when she finds the creature, endangered, alone and no bigger than her palm, she is compelled to give it a chance at survival.
Raising Hare chronicles their journey together and the challenges of caring for the leveret and preparing for its return to the wild. We witness an extraordinary relationship between human and animal, rekindling our sense of awe towards nature and wildlife. This improbable bond of trust serves to remind us that the most remarkable experiences, inspiring the most hope, often arise when we least expect them.
The Author:
Chloe Dalton is a writer, political adviser and foreign policy expert. She spent over a decade working in the UK Parliament and Foreign and Commonwealth Office and has advised, and written for and with, numerous prominent figures. She divides her time between London and her home in the English countryside. Raising Hare is her first book.
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K D Sherrinford
K D Sherrinford
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Title: Song for Someone
Genre: Romance
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Finalist at The Chanticleer International Book Awards for Romantic Fiction- The Chatelaine— Proud Recipient of The Editors Gold Seal.
Love is the aria of the soul.
Charlotte Sapori has led a wonderful life, safely tucked in the bosom of her family. Her mother, Irene Adler, is a renowned opera singer, while her father, Lucca Sapori, does important government work that frequently takes him away from them. Charlotte is close to her older brother, Nicco, and they are both doted on by their parents. All is well until her mother receives an unexpected diagnosis which shakes the family to its core.
Knowing herself to be dying, Adler confesses to Charlotte things that have long been kept from her, telling her to find and read her diary. A distressed Lucca Sapori tells his daughter to read his as well. And by the way, Lucca Sapori is not his real name. In fact, she may have heard of him—he is actually the world-famous detective, Sherlock Holmes.
Charlotte finds both diaries and plunges into the hidden world of Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes as she discovers what brought them together, and how they managed to stay together for thirty years despite having to battle the odds.
The Author:
KD Sherrinford is a multi-award-winning International author. She was born and raised in Preston, Lancashire, and now lives on the Fylde Coast with her husband, John and their two children—an avid reader from an early age. KD loved the mystery writers Conan Doyle, and Agatha Christie was her favourite. She read the entire Conan Doyle canon by age 13.
KD had a varied career, working with thoroughbred horses and racing greyhounds. To mix things up, she joined Countrywide and became a Fellow of The National Association of Estate Agents. Retirement finally allowed KD the time to write her multi-award-winning debut novel, " Song for Someone." KD got the idea for the story after a visit to The Sherlock Holmes Museum on Baker Street in 2019; KD has always wanted to write about the iconic character Irene Adler. A talented pianist from age six, the music from some of KD's favourite composers, Beethoven, Wagner, and Stephen Foster, all feature strongly in her writing. ." Song for Someone "was awarded The Editors Choice Gold Seal Medal in 2022 and received critical acclaim from Book Viral, Readers Favorite, Literary Titan and The Historical Fiction Company, which described" Song for Someone" as an evocative masterpiece and a book that stands out in contemporary literature. The novel was a recent Finalist at The Chanticleers International Book Awards- The Chatelaine. " Christmas at The Saporis" was published last December. The third book, " Meet Me In Milan", went live on the 29th of September 2023. This thrilling Trilogy was Shortlisted for The CIBA's Series Book Awards in Genre Fiction.KD Sherrinford is a member of The CWA, the RNA and the LWA. Her short, cosy mystery " A Bit of a Do" was published in Marla Breeden's Limited Edition Anthology, entitled " Malice Matrimony and Murder "On the 13th of November 2023. Twenty-five original short, cosy mysteries from international authors, including Deringer and Agatha Finalists, CWA members, and recipients of The Editors Gold Seal, KD is very proud to be a part of this fabulous collection. Book four of the Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler Mysters, the much anticipated " The Whistle of Revenge" will be released in 2025.
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Genre: Romance
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Finalist at The Chanticleer International Book Awards for Romantic Fiction- The Chatelaine— Proud Recipient of The Editors Gold Seal.
Love is the aria of the soul.
Charlotte Sapori has led a wonderful life, safely tucked in the bosom of her family. Her mother, Irene Adler, is a renowned opera singer, while her father, Lucca Sapori, does important government work that frequently takes him away from them. Charlotte is close to her older brother, Nicco, and they are both doted on by their parents. All is well until her mother receives an unexpected diagnosis which shakes the family to its core.
Knowing herself to be dying, Adler confesses to Charlotte things that have long been kept from her, telling her to find and read her diary. A distressed Lucca Sapori tells his daughter to read his as well. And by the way, Lucca Sapori is not his real name. In fact, she may have heard of him—he is actually the world-famous detective, Sherlock Holmes.
Charlotte finds both diaries and plunges into the hidden world of Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes as she discovers what brought them together, and how they managed to stay together for thirty years despite having to battle the odds.
The Author:
KD Sherrinford is a multi-award-winning International author. She was born and raised in Preston, Lancashire, and now lives on the Fylde Coast with her husband, John and their two children—an avid reader from an early age. KD loved the mystery writers Conan Doyle, and Agatha Christie was her favourite. She read the entire Conan Doyle canon by age 13.
KD had a varied career, working with thoroughbred horses and racing greyhounds. To mix things up, she joined Countrywide and became a Fellow of The National Association of Estate Agents. Retirement finally allowed KD the time to write her multi-award-winning debut novel, " Song for Someone." KD got the idea for the story after a visit to The Sherlock Holmes Museum on Baker Street in 2019; KD has always wanted to write about the iconic character Irene Adler. A talented pianist from age six, the music from some of KD's favourite composers, Beethoven, Wagner, and Stephen Foster, all feature strongly in her writing. ." Song for Someone "was awarded The Editors Choice Gold Seal Medal in 2022 and received critical acclaim from Book Viral, Readers Favorite, Literary Titan and The Historical Fiction Company, which described" Song for Someone" as an evocative masterpiece and a book that stands out in contemporary literature. The novel was a recent Finalist at The Chanticleers International Book Awards- The Chatelaine. " Christmas at The Saporis" was published last December. The third book, " Meet Me In Milan", went live on the 29th of September 2023. This thrilling Trilogy was Shortlisted for The CIBA's Series Book Awards in Genre Fiction.KD Sherrinford is a member of The CWA, the RNA and the LWA. Her short, cosy mystery " A Bit of a Do" was published in Marla Breeden's Limited Edition Anthology, entitled " Malice Matrimony and Murder "On the 13th of November 2023. Twenty-five original short, cosy mysteries from international authors, including Deringer and Agatha Finalists, CWA members, and recipients of The Editors Gold Seal, KD is very proud to be a part of this fabulous collection. Book four of the Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler Mysters, the much anticipated " The Whistle of Revenge" will be released in 2025.
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Jessie Childs
Jessie Childs
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Title: The Siege of Loyalty House
Genre: History
Format: Hardback
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It was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war.
A greater proportion of the British population died in the civil wars of the seventeenth century than in the world wars of the twentieth. Jessie Childs recovers the shock of this conflict by plunging us into one of its most extraordinary episodes: the siege of Basing House. To the parliamentarians, the royalist stronghold was the devil’s seat. Its defenders called it Loyalty House.
We follow artists, apothecaries, merchants and their families from the revolutionary streets of London to the Marquess of Winchester’s mist-shrouded mansion. Over two years, they are battered, bombarded, starved and gassed. From within they face smallpox, spies and mutiny. Their resistance becomes legendary, but in October 1645, Oliver Cromwell rolls in the heavy guns and they prepare for a last stand.
Drawing on unpublished manuscripts and the voices of dozens of men, women and children caught in the crossfire, Childs weaves a thrilling tale of war and peace, terror and faith, savagery and civilisation.
The Siege of Loyalty House is an immersive and electrifying account of a defining episode in a war that would turn Britain – and the world – upside down.
The Author:
Jessie Childs is an award-winning author, historian and broadcaster. Her first book Henry VIII’s Last Victim won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, and her second, God’s Traitors, won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History in 2015. It was also longlisted for the Samuel Johnson (now Baillie Gifford) Prize for Non-Fiction and selected as a Book of the Year in the Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Observer and BBC History Magazine.
Jessie’s latest book The Siege of Loyalty House (Bodley Head, 2022) tells the story of the totemic resistance of a royalist mansion in the English Civil War. It was a Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Economist, Spectator, Prospect, Critic, New European, Daily Express and Mail on Sunday Book of the Year.
Described by Hilary Mantel as ‘a brilliant speaker as well as writer’, Jessie has performed at the major national and international literary festivals and frequently appears on television and radio. TV credits include the RTS Award-winning and BAFTA-nominated Elizabeth I’s Secret Agents (BBC 2 & PBS), and BBC Four’s two recent series on Charles I: Downfall of a King and Killing a King.
She has written and reviewed for many publications, including The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Financial Times, Literary Review, TLS and LRB. She was one of the judges of the 2016 PEN Hessell-Tiltman History Prize and the 2021 HWA Non-Fiction Crown.
Jessie is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and lives with her husband and two daughters in Hammersmith
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Genre: History
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The Book:
It was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war.
A greater proportion of the British population died in the civil wars of the seventeenth century than in the world wars of the twentieth. Jessie Childs recovers the shock of this conflict by plunging us into one of its most extraordinary episodes: the siege of Basing House. To the parliamentarians, the royalist stronghold was the devil’s seat. Its defenders called it Loyalty House.
We follow artists, apothecaries, merchants and their families from the revolutionary streets of London to the Marquess of Winchester’s mist-shrouded mansion. Over two years, they are battered, bombarded, starved and gassed. From within they face smallpox, spies and mutiny. Their resistance becomes legendary, but in October 1645, Oliver Cromwell rolls in the heavy guns and they prepare for a last stand.
Drawing on unpublished manuscripts and the voices of dozens of men, women and children caught in the crossfire, Childs weaves a thrilling tale of war and peace, terror and faith, savagery and civilisation.
The Siege of Loyalty House is an immersive and electrifying account of a defining episode in a war that would turn Britain – and the world – upside down.
The Author:
Jessie Childs is an award-winning author, historian and broadcaster. Her first book Henry VIII’s Last Victim won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, and her second, God’s Traitors, won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History in 2015. It was also longlisted for the Samuel Johnson (now Baillie Gifford) Prize for Non-Fiction and selected as a Book of the Year in the Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Observer and BBC History Magazine.
Jessie’s latest book The Siege of Loyalty House (Bodley Head, 2022) tells the story of the totemic resistance of a royalist mansion in the English Civil War. It was a Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Economist, Spectator, Prospect, Critic, New European, Daily Express and Mail on Sunday Book of the Year.
Described by Hilary Mantel as ‘a brilliant speaker as well as writer’, Jessie has performed at the major national and international literary festivals and frequently appears on television and radio. TV credits include the RTS Award-winning and BAFTA-nominated Elizabeth I’s Secret Agents (BBC 2 & PBS), and BBC Four’s two recent series on Charles I: Downfall of a King and Killing a King.
She has written and reviewed for many publications, including The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Financial Times, Literary Review, TLS and LRB. She was one of the judges of the 2016 PEN Hessell-Tiltman History Prize and the 2021 HWA Non-Fiction Crown.
Jessie is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and lives with her husband and two daughters in Hammersmith
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Leonie Mack
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Book Title: A Wedding in the Sun
Genre: Romantic comedy
Format: Paperback
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Four exes and a wedding. And a road trip no one expected…
Jo Watters would rather do anything than go to her ex-husband Ben’s wedding to perfect Monica, and if it wasn’t for her beloved children she would already be far, far away. But having promised to be civilised for the sake of their soon-to-be-blended family she is headed to Spain with a fixed smile and hoping for a very fixed drink!
But when Jo realises that she’s on the same plane as Monica’s ex-husband, the devastatingly handsome but equally cantankerous Adrián, she thinks her trip can’t get any worse… she’s wrong. When bad weather forces the plane to land the wrong side of the Pyrenees, and the hotel they’re sent to only has one double room available Jo begins to wish she was anywhere – anywhere – but here…
Determined to get to the wedding however they can, Jo and Adrián make an unlikely team, but as their disastrous trip continues, Jo starts to wonder if fate has other ideas for her and Adrián, especially when he seems to be getting more handsome by the day…maybe this trip won’t be so terrible after all?
The Author:
I am an author of romantic comedies with great locations and big feelings.
I love creating characters that take you along for the ride as they overcome their obstacles, learn about themselves and about life, and somehow, accidentally fall in love along the way!
I’m represented by Saskia Leach at the Kate Nash Literary Agency.
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Genre: Romantic comedy
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Four exes and a wedding. And a road trip no one expected…
Jo Watters would rather do anything than go to her ex-husband Ben’s wedding to perfect Monica, and if it wasn’t for her beloved children she would already be far, far away. But having promised to be civilised for the sake of their soon-to-be-blended family she is headed to Spain with a fixed smile and hoping for a very fixed drink!
But when Jo realises that she’s on the same plane as Monica’s ex-husband, the devastatingly handsome but equally cantankerous Adrián, she thinks her trip can’t get any worse… she’s wrong. When bad weather forces the plane to land the wrong side of the Pyrenees, and the hotel they’re sent to only has one double room available Jo begins to wish she was anywhere – anywhere – but here…
Determined to get to the wedding however they can, Jo and Adrián make an unlikely team, but as their disastrous trip continues, Jo starts to wonder if fate has other ideas for her and Adrián, especially when he seems to be getting more handsome by the day…maybe this trip won’t be so terrible after all?
The Author:
I am an author of romantic comedies with great locations and big feelings.
I love creating characters that take you along for the ride as they overcome their obstacles, learn about themselves and about life, and somehow, accidentally fall in love along the way!
I’m represented by Saskia Leach at the Kate Nash Literary Agency.
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Tessa Harris
Tessa Harris
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Book Title: The Tuscan Daughter
Genre: Historical Thriller
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A country at war
An impossible choice
A woman who will risk everything to be free
Tuscany, 1942: having moved from England to the beautiful city of Lucca before the outbreak of war, Lizzie Thornton adores her job as tutor to eight-year-old Cristo – despite the fact that his father, Count Antonio de Falco, is a notable fascist and supporter of Mussolini.
Then war is declared, and Lizzie is suddenly regarded as an enemy in the country she loves so much. When new tutor Vincenzo Baldini arrives, Lizzie is exposed to a new secret world; Vincenzo is actually a member of the Italian resistance, running an anti-fascist propaganda magazine. Lizzie, desperate to be part of the fight, joins Vincenzo’s unit, and soon she is head over heels in love.
But when someone from her past reappears and threatens to overturn her new life, Lizzie must decide if she has the strength to fight for what, and who, she truly wants.
Based on true events, The Tuscan Daughter is a heartbreaking story of one woman’s resilience in the face of fascism, perfect for fans of Mandy Robotham and Kate Quinn.
The Tuscan Daughter is Tessa’s fourth World War 2 novel.
The Author:
Since leaving Oxford University with a History degree, Tessa Harris has been a journalist and editor, contributing to many national newspapers and magazines over the past 40 years.
Her debut novel, The Anatomist’s Apprentice, won the Romantic Times’ Best First Mystery Award 2012, and her tenth, Beneath a Starless Sky won the Historical Fiction category of the 2021 International Book Awards. Her books have been translated into several languages.
She has two grown-up children and a grandson, and lives in the Cotswolds with her husband and dog, Teddy.
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Genre: Historical Thriller
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A country at war
An impossible choice
A woman who will risk everything to be free
Tuscany, 1942: having moved from England to the beautiful city of Lucca before the outbreak of war, Lizzie Thornton adores her job as tutor to eight-year-old Cristo – despite the fact that his father, Count Antonio de Falco, is a notable fascist and supporter of Mussolini.
Then war is declared, and Lizzie is suddenly regarded as an enemy in the country she loves so much. When new tutor Vincenzo Baldini arrives, Lizzie is exposed to a new secret world; Vincenzo is actually a member of the Italian resistance, running an anti-fascist propaganda magazine. Lizzie, desperate to be part of the fight, joins Vincenzo’s unit, and soon she is head over heels in love.
But when someone from her past reappears and threatens to overturn her new life, Lizzie must decide if she has the strength to fight for what, and who, she truly wants.
Based on true events, The Tuscan Daughter is a heartbreaking story of one woman’s resilience in the face of fascism, perfect for fans of Mandy Robotham and Kate Quinn.
The Tuscan Daughter is Tessa’s fourth World War 2 novel.
The Author:
Since leaving Oxford University with a History degree, Tessa Harris has been a journalist and editor, contributing to many national newspapers and magazines over the past 40 years.
Her debut novel, The Anatomist’s Apprentice, won the Romantic Times’ Best First Mystery Award 2012, and her tenth, Beneath a Starless Sky won the Historical Fiction category of the 2021 International Book Awards. Her books have been translated into several languages.
She has two grown-up children and a grandson, and lives in the Cotswolds with her husband and dog, Teddy.
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Alison Stockham
Alison Stockham
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Title: The New Girl
Genre: Psychological Thriller/Family Drama
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The letterbox clatters and sitting on the mat is a piece of paper, in black and white, with everything needed to blow Anna’s perfect life apart.
A baby scan photo.
Anna and Jon have been trying for a baby with no success, so after years of disappointment, this feels like a kick in the teeth.
Who sent it? And why?
Anna’s thoughts fall on Grace – the keen young woman Jon hired at their printing business. Something about Grace isn’t quite right. She asks too many questions and makes Anna nervous but she can’t work out why.
And she can’t deny she sees the way her husband looks at her.
All she knows is this baby scan might tear her marriage apart…
A twisty and addictive domestic drama where you can TRUST NO ONE, perfect for fans of Claire Douglas and Louise Candlish
The Author:
Alison Stockham’s debut novel, The Cuckoo Sister, was a top 10 bestseller and was also longlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. Her novels The Silent Friend and The New Girl followed and a fourth thriller is due out in 2025.
From a background in film and television production, working in film dramas and then TV documentary production for the BBC and Channel 4, she then worked as the events coordinator for Cambridge Literary Festival. Now a full-time writer, she lives in the city with her husband, their children and their cat, who keeps her company while she works on the next book.
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Genre: Psychological Thriller/Family Drama
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The Book:
The letterbox clatters and sitting on the mat is a piece of paper, in black and white, with everything needed to blow Anna’s perfect life apart.
A baby scan photo.
Anna and Jon have been trying for a baby with no success, so after years of disappointment, this feels like a kick in the teeth.
Who sent it? And why?
Anna’s thoughts fall on Grace – the keen young woman Jon hired at their printing business. Something about Grace isn’t quite right. She asks too many questions and makes Anna nervous but she can’t work out why.
And she can’t deny she sees the way her husband looks at her.
All she knows is this baby scan might tear her marriage apart…
A twisty and addictive domestic drama where you can TRUST NO ONE, perfect for fans of Claire Douglas and Louise Candlish
The Author:
Alison Stockham’s debut novel, The Cuckoo Sister, was a top 10 bestseller and was also longlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. Her novels The Silent Friend and The New Girl followed and a fourth thriller is due out in 2025.
From a background in film and television production, working in film dramas and then TV documentary production for the BBC and Channel 4, she then worked as the events coordinator for Cambridge Literary Festival. Now a full-time writer, she lives in the city with her husband, their children and their cat, who keeps her company while she works on the next book.
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Carol McGrath
Carol McGrath
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Title: The Lost Queen
Genre: Historical Biographical Fiction
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The Third Crusade is Underway...
It is 1191 and King Richard the Lionheart is on crusade to pitch battle against Saladin and liberate the city of Jerusalem and her lands. His mother, the formidable Eleanor of Aquitaine and his promised bride, Princess Berengaria of Navarre, make a perilous journey over the Alps in midwinter. They are to rendezvous with Richard in the Sicilian port of Messina.
There are hazards along the way - vicious assassins, marauding pirates, violent storms and a shipwreck. Berengaria is as feisty as her foes and, surviving it all, she and Richard marry in Cyprus and continue to the Holy Land. England needs an heir. But first, Richard and his Queen must return home . . .
The Lost Queen is a thrilling medieval story of high adventure, survival, friendship and the enduring love of a Queen for her King.
The Author:
Following a first degree in English and History, Carol McGrath completed an MA in Creative Writing from The Seamus Heaney Centre, Queens University Belfast, followed by an MPhil in English from University of London
The Handfasted Wife, first in a trilogy about the royal women of 1066 was shortlisted for the RoNAS in 2014. The Swan-Daughter and The Betrothed Sister complete this highly acclaimed trilogy.
Mistress Cromwell, a best-selling historical novel about Elizabeth Cromwell, wife of Henry VIII’s statesman, Thomas Cromwell, is to be republished by Headline in 2020.
The Silken Rose first in a Medieval She-Wolf Queens Trilogy, featuring Ailenor of Provence, will be published 2nd April 2020 and 23rd July 2020 as a pb. by the Headline Group.
Carol is writing Historical nonfiction as well as fiction. She speaks at events and conferences and was the co-ordinator of the Historical Novels’ Society Conference, Oxford in September 2016. She is an avid reader and reviews for the Historical Novel Society. She is a member of both the Romantic Novelists’ Association and Historical Writers Association. Carol lives in Oxfordshire with her husband.
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Genre: Historical Biographical Fiction
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The Third Crusade is Underway...
It is 1191 and King Richard the Lionheart is on crusade to pitch battle against Saladin and liberate the city of Jerusalem and her lands. His mother, the formidable Eleanor of Aquitaine and his promised bride, Princess Berengaria of Navarre, make a perilous journey over the Alps in midwinter. They are to rendezvous with Richard in the Sicilian port of Messina.
There are hazards along the way - vicious assassins, marauding pirates, violent storms and a shipwreck. Berengaria is as feisty as her foes and, surviving it all, she and Richard marry in Cyprus and continue to the Holy Land. England needs an heir. But first, Richard and his Queen must return home . . .
The Lost Queen is a thrilling medieval story of high adventure, survival, friendship and the enduring love of a Queen for her King.
The Author:
Following a first degree in English and History, Carol McGrath completed an MA in Creative Writing from The Seamus Heaney Centre, Queens University Belfast, followed by an MPhil in English from University of London
The Handfasted Wife, first in a trilogy about the royal women of 1066 was shortlisted for the RoNAS in 2014. The Swan-Daughter and The Betrothed Sister complete this highly acclaimed trilogy.
Mistress Cromwell, a best-selling historical novel about Elizabeth Cromwell, wife of Henry VIII’s statesman, Thomas Cromwell, is to be republished by Headline in 2020.
The Silken Rose first in a Medieval She-Wolf Queens Trilogy, featuring Ailenor of Provence, will be published 2nd April 2020 and 23rd July 2020 as a pb. by the Headline Group.
Carol is writing Historical nonfiction as well as fiction. She speaks at events and conferences and was the co-ordinator of the Historical Novels’ Society Conference, Oxford in September 2016. She is an avid reader and reviews for the Historical Novel Society. She is a member of both the Romantic Novelists’ Association and Historical Writers Association. Carol lives in Oxfordshire with her husband.
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M.A. Hunter
M.A. Hunter
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Title: SLEEPWALKER
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
Don't close your eyes...
When Jake Meredith is arrested for the murder of his wife, he's adamant he's not guilty, even though her blood is all over his hands and his prints are on the murder weapon. He has no memory of attacking her.
His solicitor brother claims Jake is a sleepwalker, and he's sent to a revolutionary new sleep clinic for assessment.
Jake is convinced he didn’t kill his wife, and is intent on finding answers. But locked away in a clinic, he’s impeded at every turn. Is his incarceration accidental, or part of a larger web of lies? And worse still, is he losing his mind or the unwitting victim of something far more sinister?
A dark and twisty psychological thriller that'll have you guessing right up until the end
The Author:
M.A. Hunter is the author of psychological and crime thrillers, including The Boat Party, One Wrong Turn, and Every Step You Take. Born in the north-east of England, he now lives in Southampton where many of his stories are set, allowing him to use his insider knowledge to deliver realistic and unsettling suspense on every page.
Away from writing, M.A. loves to read anything that will keep him awake at night. He’s also a passionate advocate for contemporary cinema and binge-watching the latest offerings from streaming services. He is married with a son and a daughter, and two dogs.
M.A. also writes under the name Stephen Edger.
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Genre: Psychological Thriller
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
Don't close your eyes...
When Jake Meredith is arrested for the murder of his wife, he's adamant he's not guilty, even though her blood is all over his hands and his prints are on the murder weapon. He has no memory of attacking her.
His solicitor brother claims Jake is a sleepwalker, and he's sent to a revolutionary new sleep clinic for assessment.
Jake is convinced he didn’t kill his wife, and is intent on finding answers. But locked away in a clinic, he’s impeded at every turn. Is his incarceration accidental, or part of a larger web of lies? And worse still, is he losing his mind or the unwitting victim of something far more sinister?
A dark and twisty psychological thriller that'll have you guessing right up until the end
The Author:
M.A. Hunter is the author of psychological and crime thrillers, including The Boat Party, One Wrong Turn, and Every Step You Take. Born in the north-east of England, he now lives in Southampton where many of his stories are set, allowing him to use his insider knowledge to deliver realistic and unsettling suspense on every page.
Away from writing, M.A. loves to read anything that will keep him awake at night. He’s also a passionate advocate for contemporary cinema and binge-watching the latest offerings from streaming services. He is married with a son and a daughter, and two dogs.
M.A. also writes under the name Stephen Edger.
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Joanna Toye
Joanna Toye
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*Two Book Pair*
Title 1: The Victory Girls
Title 2: Wedding Bells for the Victory Girls
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperbacks
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Title 1: The Victory Girls
Spring 1944 and as the Allies push on to victory, shop girl Lily yearns to do her bit. But where does her duty lie, and where does it leave her fiance Jim? Beryl is run off her feet building her bridal wear business amid the bomb damage while Gladys faces having her first baby alone with her new husband back in the Navy. But complications with the pregnancy leave her friends with a terrible dilemma - and it's not the only health crisis that Lily will have to cope with. They've all come through so much together, but does fate have another twist in store?
Title 2: Wedding Bells for the Victory Girls
VE Day brings celebrations, and relief that Lily's adored brothers have come through the war unscathed. She finally gets her joyful summer wedding to Jim - but will it be the happy ending she's longed for, or the start of a whole new set of problems, spelling the end of the department store job she loves? Gladys's husband Bill is finally home from the Navy, but struggles to settle back into small-town civilian life - till Gladys, until now the quietest of the three friends, hatches a daring, secret plan. Meanwhile Beryl's hard-won success in her bridal hire business is threatened by an old enemy - could help come from the most unlikely source?
Praise for Joanna Toye:
'Family drama, community spirit and love... a warm, compassionate read' (ThePeople's Friend)
'Just the balm our souls need right now' (Woman's Weekly)
The Author:
For many years Jo wrote, researched and produced soap operas ranging from 'The Archers' through 'Doctors' to 'EastEnders'. Deciding it was time she created her own fictional world, she turned to novels and created the fictional Marlows department store. She began to tell the stories of the lives and loves of all who worked there - from the owner to the shop staff, their families and friends. Jo drew on her research background and her own family's wartime experiences to weave a detailed and richly textured portrayal of the hardship and hope that kept the Home Front going. Her warm, community-spirited books have been praised as 'a cross between Mr Selfridge and Call the Midwife'. She lives near Bath.
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Title 1: The Victory Girls
Title 2: Wedding Bells for the Victory Girls
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperbacks
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Title 1: The Victory Girls
Spring 1944 and as the Allies push on to victory, shop girl Lily yearns to do her bit. But where does her duty lie, and where does it leave her fiance Jim? Beryl is run off her feet building her bridal wear business amid the bomb damage while Gladys faces having her first baby alone with her new husband back in the Navy. But complications with the pregnancy leave her friends with a terrible dilemma - and it's not the only health crisis that Lily will have to cope with. They've all come through so much together, but does fate have another twist in store?
Title 2: Wedding Bells for the Victory Girls
VE Day brings celebrations, and relief that Lily's adored brothers have come through the war unscathed. She finally gets her joyful summer wedding to Jim - but will it be the happy ending she's longed for, or the start of a whole new set of problems, spelling the end of the department store job she loves? Gladys's husband Bill is finally home from the Navy, but struggles to settle back into small-town civilian life - till Gladys, until now the quietest of the three friends, hatches a daring, secret plan. Meanwhile Beryl's hard-won success in her bridal hire business is threatened by an old enemy - could help come from the most unlikely source?
Praise for Joanna Toye:
'Family drama, community spirit and love... a warm, compassionate read' (ThePeople's Friend)
'Just the balm our souls need right now' (Woman's Weekly)
The Author:
For many years Jo wrote, researched and produced soap operas ranging from 'The Archers' through 'Doctors' to 'EastEnders'. Deciding it was time she created her own fictional world, she turned to novels and created the fictional Marlows department store. She began to tell the stories of the lives and loves of all who worked there - from the owner to the shop staff, their families and friends. Jo drew on her research background and her own family's wartime experiences to weave a detailed and richly textured portrayal of the hardship and hope that kept the Home Front going. Her warm, community-spirited books have been praised as 'a cross between Mr Selfridge and Call the Midwife'. She lives near Bath.
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£ 33
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Lindsey Kelk
Lindsey Kelk
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Title: The Bell Witches
Genre: Fantasy
Format: Hardback (Special Edition)
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Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book:
YOU’LL WANT TO BE ONE. UNTIL YOU KNOW THEIR SECRETS.
After sixteen-year-old Emily’s father tragically dies, she is forced to live with the only family she has left, an aunt and grandmother in the heart of Savannah, Georgia in a house as beautiful as it is mysterious.
But all is not what it seems with the Bell family; they’re hiding a magical secret.
When Emily meets the alluring Wyn, she forms a connection that feels like it was always meant to be. As the spark between them grows more powerful, her life takes an exhilarating and terrifying turn; but every step closer to him, takes her a step further away from her family.
Emily will find out that blood is always thicker than water…
THERE’S NO BOND GREATER THAN MAGIC
The Author:
Lindsey Kelk is the internationally bestselling author of books including the I Heart series, The Christmas Wish, Love Story and YA romantasy series, The Bell Witches.
As well as writing, Lindsey co-hosts Tights and Fights, a pro-wrestling podcast on the Maximum Fun network. She also hosts and produces the award-winning beauty podcast, Full Coverage.
Born and raised in South Yorkshire, Lindsey lived in Nottingham, London and New York before settling in Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband and two cats.
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Genre: Fantasy
Format: Hardback (Special Edition)
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The Book:
YOU’LL WANT TO BE ONE. UNTIL YOU KNOW THEIR SECRETS.
After sixteen-year-old Emily’s father tragically dies, she is forced to live with the only family she has left, an aunt and grandmother in the heart of Savannah, Georgia in a house as beautiful as it is mysterious.
But all is not what it seems with the Bell family; they’re hiding a magical secret.
When Emily meets the alluring Wyn, she forms a connection that feels like it was always meant to be. As the spark between them grows more powerful, her life takes an exhilarating and terrifying turn; but every step closer to him, takes her a step further away from her family.
Emily will find out that blood is always thicker than water…
THERE’S NO BOND GREATER THAN MAGIC
The Author:
Lindsey Kelk is the internationally bestselling author of books including the I Heart series, The Christmas Wish, Love Story and YA romantasy series, The Bell Witches.
As well as writing, Lindsey co-hosts Tights and Fights, a pro-wrestling podcast on the Maximum Fun network. She also hosts and produces the award-winning beauty podcast, Full Coverage.
Born and raised in South Yorkshire, Lindsey lived in Nottingham, London and New York before settling in Los Angeles, where she lives with her husband and two cats.
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£ 11
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B.C. Harris
B.C. Harris
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Title: Conspiracy of Cats
Genre: Paranormal - Mystery - Contemporary Fiction
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only
The Book:
An apprehensive Jos Ferguson travels from Edinburgh to northern Tanzania to visit the house her Uncle Peter built before he died. But Peter isn't as dead as he should be... he was murdered, and he wants his niece to help him exact revenge upon his killer. With a little Maasai magic and a conspiracy of cats, Jos sets out to do exactly that.
A beautiful house. A horrible death. A brilliant revenge.
Who knew death could be so lively?
The Author:
B C Harris lives on the west coast of Scotland with her husband and their two dogs. Surrounded by hills, forests and beautiful beaches, she has plenty of space for walking and thinking about characters. Her first book, Conspiracy of Cats, was published in 2021 and received wonderful reader reviews. Making Sacrifices is her second book and she hopes readers will enjoy it every bit as much.
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Genre: Paranormal - Mystery - Contemporary Fiction
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: FREE
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The Book:
An apprehensive Jos Ferguson travels from Edinburgh to northern Tanzania to visit the house her Uncle Peter built before he died. But Peter isn't as dead as he should be... he was murdered, and he wants his niece to help him exact revenge upon his killer. With a little Maasai magic and a conspiracy of cats, Jos sets out to do exactly that.
A beautiful house. A horrible death. A brilliant revenge.
Who knew death could be so lively?
The Author:
B C Harris lives on the west coast of Scotland with her husband and their two dogs. Surrounded by hills, forests and beautiful beaches, she has plenty of space for walking and thinking about characters. Her first book, Conspiracy of Cats, was published in 2021 and received wonderful reader reviews. Making Sacrifices is her second book and she hopes readers will enjoy it every bit as much.
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£ 10
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B.C. Harris
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Title: Making Sacrifices
Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: FREE
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The Book:
To the world she is Vida.
To Isaac Saddler she epitomises only fear, willed into existence through art and writing. Transformed from victim to warrior, she became Queen of the Vidian Empire. But Vida doesn’t just exist between the pages of a book.
High on Exmoor archaeologists think they’ve found ancient remains, but the body proves to be evidence of a modern murder. A facial reconstruction goes viral. Now Isaac must find out why the woman of his nightmares ended up in a bog pool close to his childhood home.
A lifetime of secrets that threaten to undermine his entire existence.
The Author:
B C Harris lives on the west coast of Scotland with her husband and their two dogs. Surrounded by hills, forests and beautiful beaches, she has plenty of space for walking and thinking about characters. Her first book, Conspiracy of Cats, was published in 2021 and received wonderful reader reviews. Making Sacrifices is her second book and she hopes readers will enjoy it every bit as much.
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Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: FREE
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The Book:
To the world she is Vida.
To Isaac Saddler she epitomises only fear, willed into existence through art and writing. Transformed from victim to warrior, she became Queen of the Vidian Empire. But Vida doesn’t just exist between the pages of a book.
High on Exmoor archaeologists think they’ve found ancient remains, but the body proves to be evidence of a modern murder. A facial reconstruction goes viral. Now Isaac must find out why the woman of his nightmares ended up in a bog pool close to his childhood home.
A lifetime of secrets that threaten to undermine his entire existence.
The Author:
B C Harris lives on the west coast of Scotland with her husband and their two dogs. Surrounded by hills, forests and beautiful beaches, she has plenty of space for walking and thinking about characters. Her first book, Conspiracy of Cats, was published in 2021 and received wonderful reader reviews. Making Sacrifices is her second book and she hopes readers will enjoy it every bit as much.
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£ 25
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Bath Arts Workshop
Bath Arts Workshop
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*Relive the 70’s atmosphere! As well as the signed book, this lot includes a memory stick featuring a surprise video clip and audio sample for the lucky winner.
** The book is signed by all seven authors
Title: Bath Arts Workshop: Counterculture In The 1970s
Genre: History
Format: Paperback
Dedication: Available
Postage: Free UK only.
Website: https://www.bathartsworkshop.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BAW1970s
The Book:
he Bath Arts Workshop was created just as the swinging 60s gave way to the turbulent 70s. A unique counterculture that sprang up in the city, it was a spectacular flowering of creative activity, community technology and social enterprise.
The authors tell the story, from its birth in a Georgian basement in 1969, to the end of the next decade. The book takes the reader behind the scenes of an organisation that had a significant impact at the time, describing how it worked, the extraordinary range and scale of its activities, and how many of its ideas still resonate today.
Highlights
• An intimate and often hilarious account of how a 1970s counterculture exploded upon an 18th-century city.
• Told by those involved at the time, with contributions from performers, artists, green technology pioneers, and the children and adults who joined in.
• Richly illustrated with full colour photos, drawings and contemporary materials, many published for the first time.
• Essential reading for anyone interested in 1970s counterculture.
The Authors
Brian Popay, Corinne D’Cruz, Jennie Potter-Barrie, Penny Dale, Phil Shepherd, Thornton Kay, Victoria Forbes Adam
The authors worked in the Arts Workshop in the 70s. Since then, Brian has toured the globe with The Natural Theatre and his own company, Fine Artistes. Corinne continued making innovative theatre, touring internationally whilst being based in Germany. Phil specialised in film and media and set up the educational charity Somerset Film. Penny is a well known author and illustrator of children’s books. Thornton is involved in a major EU project to promote the reuse of building materials. Jennie became a specialist teacher of children with different needs, and Victoria has worked mainly in human rights, living at various points in Mexico and Haiti.
** The book is signed by all seven authors
Title: Bath Arts Workshop: Counterculture In The 1970s
Genre: History
Format: Paperback
Dedication: Available
Postage: Free UK only.
Website: https://www.bathartsworkshop.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BAW1970s
The Book:
he Bath Arts Workshop was created just as the swinging 60s gave way to the turbulent 70s. A unique counterculture that sprang up in the city, it was a spectacular flowering of creative activity, community technology and social enterprise.
The authors tell the story, from its birth in a Georgian basement in 1969, to the end of the next decade. The book takes the reader behind the scenes of an organisation that had a significant impact at the time, describing how it worked, the extraordinary range and scale of its activities, and how many of its ideas still resonate today.
Highlights
• An intimate and often hilarious account of how a 1970s counterculture exploded upon an 18th-century city.
• Told by those involved at the time, with contributions from performers, artists, green technology pioneers, and the children and adults who joined in.
• Richly illustrated with full colour photos, drawings and contemporary materials, many published for the first time.
• Essential reading for anyone interested in 1970s counterculture.
The Authors
Brian Popay, Corinne D’Cruz, Jennie Potter-Barrie, Penny Dale, Phil Shepherd, Thornton Kay, Victoria Forbes Adam
The authors worked in the Arts Workshop in the 70s. Since then, Brian has toured the globe with The Natural Theatre and his own company, Fine Artistes. Corinne continued making innovative theatre, touring internationally whilst being based in Germany. Phil specialised in film and media and set up the educational charity Somerset Film. Penny is a well known author and illustrator of children’s books. Thornton is involved in a major EU project to promote the reuse of building materials. Jennie became a specialist teacher of children with different needs, and Victoria has worked mainly in human rights, living at various points in Mexico and Haiti.
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£ 15
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Sarah Swatridge
Sarah Swatridge
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Title: Feel-Good Stories
Genre: Short Stories
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
A book to enhance your wellbeing and tug at your emotions.
An eclectic mix of heart-warming stories, full of memorable and quirky characters. Read about the heroic postie, the eccentric duke, a spoilt parrot, a true friend and a determined would-be husband. Perfect bite-sized reading with your favourite drink.
Enjoy Sarah Swatridge’s uplifting Feel-Good Stories.
The Author:
Sarah Swatridge hopes to take you back in time, not to mansions and palaces but to step inside the shoes of ordinary, but exceptional women. Girls that show courage and aren't afraid to bend the rules!
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Genre: Short Stories
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
A book to enhance your wellbeing and tug at your emotions.
An eclectic mix of heart-warming stories, full of memorable and quirky characters. Read about the heroic postie, the eccentric duke, a spoilt parrot, a true friend and a determined would-be husband. Perfect bite-sized reading with your favourite drink.
Enjoy Sarah Swatridge’s uplifting Feel-Good Stories.
The Author:
Sarah Swatridge hopes to take you back in time, not to mansions and palaces but to step inside the shoes of ordinary, but exceptional women. Girls that show courage and aren't afraid to bend the rules!
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Lot 441
£ 14
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Trevor Millum
Trevor Millum
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441
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Title: A Stegosaurus is for Life and other animal poems
Genre: Poetry, illustrated with line drawings
Format : Hardback
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The Book:
"The word-play and quirky rhymes will amuse adults and children alike"
The Author:
Trevor Millum is a writer of children's poems and stories. His poems appear in many anthologies for children from 5 to 15...
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Genre: Poetry, illustrated with line drawings
Format : Hardback
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The Book:
"The word-play and quirky rhymes will amuse adults and children alike"
The Author:
Trevor Millum is a writer of children's poems and stories. His poems appear in many anthologies for children from 5 to 15...
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£ 10
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James Silvester
James Silvester
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Title: Blood Whir & Blue
Genre: Political Thriller - Espionage
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
In this gripping spy thriller, post-Brexit tensions are high across the UK, and the fate of the nation is in the hands of a desperate agent.
Britain is a hotbed of racial discord and economic uncertainty. Only Sir Geoffrey Hartnell, an ageing but hugely respected Member of Parliament, can ease tensions. But as tenuous talks begin, a ghost from the past threatens to bring the UK to its knees.
Lucie Musilova is a young woman running out of places to hide. Half-British, half-Czech and rejected by both countries in the aftermath of Brexit, she has no choice but to accept an assignment with a secret branch of intelligence services. As the Hartnel case—and her mysterious role in it—spiral out of control, one false move could cost future of the nation . . . not to mention Lucie’s life.
The Author:
I'm an author of Political/Spy Thrillers and SciFi, influenced by my passion for the history and culture of Slovakia and the Czech Republic, and my love of the Cold War stories of John le Carre, Ian Fleming et al.
My first two novels, 'Escape to Perdition' and 'The Prague Ultimatum', make up the 'Prague Thrillers' series, which I followed with the 'Lucie Musilova' Thrillers - 'Blood, White and Blue' and 'Sealed with a Death'. All books are published by those lovely folk at Bloodhound Books.
Away from Thrillers, I'm a short story author and contributing editor of unofficial SciFi fan-fiction collections, written to raise money for a variety of charitable causes, and am an unashamedly woke, Brexit hating Lefty.
I was born, raised and live today in God's own city of Manchester.
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Genre: Political Thriller - Espionage
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In this gripping spy thriller, post-Brexit tensions are high across the UK, and the fate of the nation is in the hands of a desperate agent.
Britain is a hotbed of racial discord and economic uncertainty. Only Sir Geoffrey Hartnell, an ageing but hugely respected Member of Parliament, can ease tensions. But as tenuous talks begin, a ghost from the past threatens to bring the UK to its knees.
Lucie Musilova is a young woman running out of places to hide. Half-British, half-Czech and rejected by both countries in the aftermath of Brexit, she has no choice but to accept an assignment with a secret branch of intelligence services. As the Hartnel case—and her mysterious role in it—spiral out of control, one false move could cost future of the nation . . . not to mention Lucie’s life.
The Author:
I'm an author of Political/Spy Thrillers and SciFi, influenced by my passion for the history and culture of Slovakia and the Czech Republic, and my love of the Cold War stories of John le Carre, Ian Fleming et al.
My first two novels, 'Escape to Perdition' and 'The Prague Ultimatum', make up the 'Prague Thrillers' series, which I followed with the 'Lucie Musilova' Thrillers - 'Blood, White and Blue' and 'Sealed with a Death'. All books are published by those lovely folk at Bloodhound Books.
Away from Thrillers, I'm a short story author and contributing editor of unofficial SciFi fan-fiction collections, written to raise money for a variety of charitable causes, and am an unashamedly woke, Brexit hating Lefty.
I was born, raised and live today in God's own city of Manchester.
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Title: A Sister's Fight
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Hardback
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'Authentic, compelling . . . another winner for a northern author who has her home county written right across her heart’ Lancashire Evening Post
‘Beautifully written and enthralling from the very first word’ Gracie Heart
‘If you enjoy Dilly Court’s stories, you’ll love the latest heart-warming romance from Emma Hornby’ Yours
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Bolton, Lancashire: 1943
Livvy knows that her family’s survival rests on her shoulders. With her parents gone, it falls to her to support her grandfather and her younger sister, Joan. But times are tough in the midst of war and most jobs only afford meagre pay, so Livvy makes the difficult decision to sell herself on the streets in order to make ends meet.
Her choice brings harsh judgement from local gossips, but Livvy can ignore them for her family’s sake. Joan is growing up, and Livvy’s determined that her life will be free of care. It’s harder to keep her unsavoury secret from the good, kind man who’s falling in love with her.
But then things take a darker turn. A US soldier begins harassing her – with dreadful consequences – and Livvy’s life spirals out of control . . .
Will she be able to find the peace, love and happiness she deserves, or will she lose everything she's fought to protect?
The Author:
Mother-of-three Emma Hornby was born and raised in Bolton, England.
History has always been her passion and she grew up with her nose buried in sagas. Before pursuing a career as a novelist, she had a variety of jobs, from care assistant for the elderly to working in a Blackpool rock factory. She later wrote short stories and non-fiction pieces for the internet, print and stage and also worked as a freelance poet.
Emma's books are gritty historicals set in Victorian and WWII Bolton and Manchester, which she began writing after researching her family history. The colourful folk she unearthed gave her plenty of inspiration; like the characters in her novels, many generations of her family eked out life amidst the squalor and poverty of Lancashire's slums. Her first book, A Shilling for a Wife, was the bestselling debut saga novel of 2017. Her subsequent titles regularly appear in the official bestsellers' charts.
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'Authentic, compelling . . . another winner for a northern author who has her home county written right across her heart’ Lancashire Evening Post
‘Beautifully written and enthralling from the very first word’ Gracie Heart
‘If you enjoy Dilly Court’s stories, you’ll love the latest heart-warming romance from Emma Hornby’ Yours
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Bolton, Lancashire: 1943
Livvy knows that her family’s survival rests on her shoulders. With her parents gone, it falls to her to support her grandfather and her younger sister, Joan. But times are tough in the midst of war and most jobs only afford meagre pay, so Livvy makes the difficult decision to sell herself on the streets in order to make ends meet.
Her choice brings harsh judgement from local gossips, but Livvy can ignore them for her family’s sake. Joan is growing up, and Livvy’s determined that her life will be free of care. It’s harder to keep her unsavoury secret from the good, kind man who’s falling in love with her.
But then things take a darker turn. A US soldier begins harassing her – with dreadful consequences – and Livvy’s life spirals out of control . . .
Will she be able to find the peace, love and happiness she deserves, or will she lose everything she's fought to protect?
The Author:
Mother-of-three Emma Hornby was born and raised in Bolton, England.
History has always been her passion and she grew up with her nose buried in sagas. Before pursuing a career as a novelist, she had a variety of jobs, from care assistant for the elderly to working in a Blackpool rock factory. She later wrote short stories and non-fiction pieces for the internet, print and stage and also worked as a freelance poet.
Emma's books are gritty historicals set in Victorian and WWII Bolton and Manchester, which she began writing after researching her family history. The colourful folk she unearthed gave her plenty of inspiration; like the characters in her novels, many generations of her family eked out life amidst the squalor and poverty of Lancashire's slums. Her first book, A Shilling for a Wife, was the bestselling debut saga novel of 2017. Her subsequent titles regularly appear in the official bestsellers' charts.
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Maria-Motunrayo Adebisi
Maria-Motunrayo Adebisi
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Title: Kòkú Àkànbí and the Heart of Midnight
Genre: Children
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Although he spent the first three years of his life in Nigeria, Kòkú can’t remember much about it. He’s lived the last ten years in the UK with Uncle Tunji but has never quite fitted in and has the additional burden of an incurable disease that makes him small for his age and causes pain crises that blight his life.
When a museum trip ends in disaster, Uncle Tunji insists Kòkú spends his summer holidays reconnecting with his roots in Olori, the land of origins. But, on arriving in Nigeria, he is abruptly immersed in a culture he doesn’t understand and a tribal war that threatens his very existence.
It seems he is the only one who can rescue night, and its magical creatures, from the machinations of the ruling Ogun tribe. But how can one small, sick boy overcome such a powerful adversary?
The culture shockKòkú experiences is overwhelming and confusing, leaving his brain tied up in knots. This is reflected in the writing which may be challenging for some readers but those who persevere will be swept into a whirlwind of West African mythology and magic.
An action-packed adventure featuring a reluctant and unlikely hero.
The Author:
Maria Motunrayo Adebisi graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in English Literature. As part of her degree, she focused on post-colonial literature from Nigeria, and on graduating she realised that she would want to write a novel that would speak to children straddling British and African identities and make them proud of both.
Maria's West African mythology makes it accessible and so engaging for children across the world. She empowers even more children through representation in the story with Kòkú’s sickle cell anaemia. With a voice quite different from other middle grade novels, this is a story that will appeal to so many readers age 9+!
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Genre: Children
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The Book;
Although he spent the first three years of his life in Nigeria, Kòkú can’t remember much about it. He’s lived the last ten years in the UK with Uncle Tunji but has never quite fitted in and has the additional burden of an incurable disease that makes him small for his age and causes pain crises that blight his life.
When a museum trip ends in disaster, Uncle Tunji insists Kòkú spends his summer holidays reconnecting with his roots in Olori, the land of origins. But, on arriving in Nigeria, he is abruptly immersed in a culture he doesn’t understand and a tribal war that threatens his very existence.
It seems he is the only one who can rescue night, and its magical creatures, from the machinations of the ruling Ogun tribe. But how can one small, sick boy overcome such a powerful adversary?
The culture shockKòkú experiences is overwhelming and confusing, leaving his brain tied up in knots. This is reflected in the writing which may be challenging for some readers but those who persevere will be swept into a whirlwind of West African mythology and magic.
An action-packed adventure featuring a reluctant and unlikely hero.
The Author:
Maria Motunrayo Adebisi graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in English Literature. As part of her degree, she focused on post-colonial literature from Nigeria, and on graduating she realised that she would want to write a novel that would speak to children straddling British and African identities and make them proud of both.
Maria's West African mythology makes it accessible and so engaging for children across the world. She empowers even more children through representation in the story with Kòkú’s sickle cell anaemia. With a voice quite different from other middle grade novels, this is a story that will appeal to so many readers age 9+!
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Victoria Springfield
Victoria Springfield
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Title Title: Invitation to Italy
Genre: Women's Fiction
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Rebecca Batley
Rebecca Batley
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Title: Anne Neville: Queen and Wife of Richard III
Genre: Biography
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Daughter, Wife, Princess, Widow and Queen: Anne Neville had many faces. Shakespeare presents her to us as a woman consumed with rage, bitterness and grief. He has her cursing the killer of her husband and father, before marrying him and condemning herself to despair. She rages, screams and weeps but ultimately she is shown as nothing more than a passive victim of the men who used and exploited her. This could not be further from the truth. Born into one of the most powerful dynasties in medieval England, Anne knew her worth, and her power. She was a great survivor escaping the tide of blood that consumed England not just alive but emerging with a crown on her head. Tragedy would untimely engulf her, the death of her son ended all her hopes for a lasting legacy and her premature death was subject to rumour and speculation. But there is undoubtedly more to Anne than her marriage and her end. She is fascinating, elusive, a powerbroker and very much her father’s daughter. This is Anne’s story.
The Author:
Rebecca Batley is an archaeologist and historian, with a particular interest in women’s history. Her work can be found in numerous publications including New Scientist, Gay and Lesbian Review and AHM. She regularly writes for Ancient Origins and has worked for, amongst others, MOLA and Wessex Archaeology.
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Genre: Biography
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Daughter, Wife, Princess, Widow and Queen: Anne Neville had many faces. Shakespeare presents her to us as a woman consumed with rage, bitterness and grief. He has her cursing the killer of her husband and father, before marrying him and condemning herself to despair. She rages, screams and weeps but ultimately she is shown as nothing more than a passive victim of the men who used and exploited her. This could not be further from the truth. Born into one of the most powerful dynasties in medieval England, Anne knew her worth, and her power. She was a great survivor escaping the tide of blood that consumed England not just alive but emerging with a crown on her head. Tragedy would untimely engulf her, the death of her son ended all her hopes for a lasting legacy and her premature death was subject to rumour and speculation. But there is undoubtedly more to Anne than her marriage and her end. She is fascinating, elusive, a powerbroker and very much her father’s daughter. This is Anne’s story.
The Author:
Rebecca Batley is an archaeologist and historian, with a particular interest in women’s history. Her work can be found in numerous publications including New Scientist, Gay and Lesbian Review and AHM. She regularly writes for Ancient Origins and has worked for, amongst others, MOLA and Wessex Archaeology.
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Title: Ann Walker: The Life and Death of Gentleman Jack's Wife
Genre: Biography
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Lesbian. Lover. Lunatic. These are just some of the words usually used to describe Ann Walker, the oft overlooked wife of Anne Lister, better known by some as Gentleman Jack. Ann was one half of England’s first same-sex marriage and yet the rainbow plaque that marks their historic union on the wall of the Holy Trinity Church, York, features Ann’s name in a font only half the size of her wife’s. Her story has been long forgotten. Born into wealth and privilege Ann was one of the most eligible heiresses in 19th century Yorkshire and the question on everyone’s lips in 1830’s Halifax was why a respectable young heiress, with property, fortune and connection risked everything, even her freedom, to become entangled with the notorious Gentleman Jack? The answer to this question reveals a woman of immense courage, faith, and determination, but her voice has remained silent...until now. Within the depths of Ann’s diary - discovered by Diane Halford in 2020 - the answers to some of the above questions can be found, as can insight into Ann as an independent woman. The life of Ann is worthy of its own narrative and it is time for Ann to step out of the shadow of Gentleman Jack and tell her own story.
The Author:
Rebecca Batley is an archaeologist and historian, with a particular interest in women’s history. Her work can be found in numerous publications including New Scientist, Gay and Lesbian Review and AHM. She regularly writes for Ancient Origins and has worked for, amongst others, MOLA and Wessex Archaeology.
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Genre: Biography
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Lesbian. Lover. Lunatic. These are just some of the words usually used to describe Ann Walker, the oft overlooked wife of Anne Lister, better known by some as Gentleman Jack. Ann was one half of England’s first same-sex marriage and yet the rainbow plaque that marks their historic union on the wall of the Holy Trinity Church, York, features Ann’s name in a font only half the size of her wife’s. Her story has been long forgotten. Born into wealth and privilege Ann was one of the most eligible heiresses in 19th century Yorkshire and the question on everyone’s lips in 1830’s Halifax was why a respectable young heiress, with property, fortune and connection risked everything, even her freedom, to become entangled with the notorious Gentleman Jack? The answer to this question reveals a woman of immense courage, faith, and determination, but her voice has remained silent...until now. Within the depths of Ann’s diary - discovered by Diane Halford in 2020 - the answers to some of the above questions can be found, as can insight into Ann as an independent woman. The life of Ann is worthy of its own narrative and it is time for Ann to step out of the shadow of Gentleman Jack and tell her own story.
The Author:
Rebecca Batley is an archaeologist and historian, with a particular interest in women’s history. Her work can be found in numerous publications including New Scientist, Gay and Lesbian Review and AHM. She regularly writes for Ancient Origins and has worked for, amongst others, MOLA and Wessex Archaeology.
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Fleur Hitchcock
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Title: Murder at Wintertide
Genre: Children - Action& Adventure
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"The latest in a series of murder mysteries distinguished by their accessibility and realism. This story has neither quaint period detail nor caricature villains, but a body hidden in a plastic binbag, break-ins, chases and a vicious attack with a car. It is much more Junior Line of Duty than Junior Miss Marple." - Nicolette Jones, The Times
“Whodunnit? Fleur Hitchcock, whose crime novels for children have just the right level of intrigue and jeopardy for this age group. Her latest begins with a trunk coated in snow, found by two children ― Ruby and her stepbrother Lucas, the son of her mother’s Italian partner, Paolo. This being a Hitchcock story (appropriately she shares a surname with Alfred), it contains a dead body.” - Alex O’Connell, The Times
A gripping thriller for readers who like danger and mystery and chills and spills from the comfort of their sofas... Unputdownable.
When Lucas and Ruby find an abandoned trunk covered in snow, Lucas says there's bound to be a body inside. Ruby laughs but what if he's right? Nervously she starts to open it, and immediately wishes she hadn't. From that moment on, they're drawn into a thrilling mystery, one that they have to solve before the falling snow smothers all trace of wrongdoing...
The Author:
Fleur has worked as a shop assistant, a dinner lady and a curator. She has pulled up more dandelions than a person should and painted hundreds and hundreds of small wooden boats for her husband, who is a toymaker. She works as a children's bookseller, she has two almost grown up children and she lives in the West Country.
Her books are adventures, or mysteries or thrilling mysteries with added adventure. Dubbed as writing "thrillers for beginners" by the Sunday Times she continues to aim to keep her readers on the edges of their seats
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"The latest in a series of murder mysteries distinguished by their accessibility and realism. This story has neither quaint period detail nor caricature villains, but a body hidden in a plastic binbag, break-ins, chases and a vicious attack with a car. It is much more Junior Line of Duty than Junior Miss Marple." - Nicolette Jones, The Times
“Whodunnit? Fleur Hitchcock, whose crime novels for children have just the right level of intrigue and jeopardy for this age group. Her latest begins with a trunk coated in snow, found by two children ― Ruby and her stepbrother Lucas, the son of her mother’s Italian partner, Paolo. This being a Hitchcock story (appropriately she shares a surname with Alfred), it contains a dead body.” - Alex O’Connell, The Times
A gripping thriller for readers who like danger and mystery and chills and spills from the comfort of their sofas... Unputdownable.
When Lucas and Ruby find an abandoned trunk covered in snow, Lucas says there's bound to be a body inside. Ruby laughs but what if he's right? Nervously she starts to open it, and immediately wishes she hadn't. From that moment on, they're drawn into a thrilling mystery, one that they have to solve before the falling snow smothers all trace of wrongdoing...
The Author:
Fleur has worked as a shop assistant, a dinner lady and a curator. She has pulled up more dandelions than a person should and painted hundreds and hundreds of small wooden boats for her husband, who is a toymaker. She works as a children's bookseller, she has two almost grown up children and she lives in the West Country.
Her books are adventures, or mysteries or thrilling mysteries with added adventure. Dubbed as writing "thrillers for beginners" by the Sunday Times she continues to aim to keep her readers on the edges of their seats
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T.K. Jenkins
T.K. Jenkins
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Title: Lydia Rose & The Annals of Veena
Genre: Children - Middle Grade
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Lydia lived at Roselee House, and her day began just like any other, only this day she would be visiting Gwendonia castle the home of Lady Adela Ronan. Lydia is soon gifted the sacred Lamanya stone and is told by Lady Ronan that it will alert her to danger, and she must keep it safe -always.
By sunset Lydia could never have imagined what fate would have in store for her and soon she begins to question the stones significance.
Several days pass when a letter addressed to her arrives from Rubbelswick Chambers, London, England requesting her attendance. She's accompanied to London by her father and grandfather and it's during this meeting the life she had known would be forever changed.
The Author:
T.K Jenkins is the author of the debut novel, Lydia Rose & the Annals of Veena. The second instalment of the Lydia Rose trilogy is planned for release this coming autumn 2023.
Tracey lives in Wales and growing up her favourite authors were C.S Lewis Charles Dickens and Roald Dahl. Her particular favourite fantasy novel was the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Tracey attended the University of Wales Institute Cardiff and obtained a degree in social work. She was a children's social worker for many years.
Since leaving her social work career she has devoted her time to writing her first children's fantasy book.
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Lydia lived at Roselee House, and her day began just like any other, only this day she would be visiting Gwendonia castle the home of Lady Adela Ronan. Lydia is soon gifted the sacred Lamanya stone and is told by Lady Ronan that it will alert her to danger, and she must keep it safe -always.
By sunset Lydia could never have imagined what fate would have in store for her and soon she begins to question the stones significance.
Several days pass when a letter addressed to her arrives from Rubbelswick Chambers, London, England requesting her attendance. She's accompanied to London by her father and grandfather and it's during this meeting the life she had known would be forever changed.
The Author:
T.K Jenkins is the author of the debut novel, Lydia Rose & the Annals of Veena. The second instalment of the Lydia Rose trilogy is planned for release this coming autumn 2023.
Tracey lives in Wales and growing up her favourite authors were C.S Lewis Charles Dickens and Roald Dahl. Her particular favourite fantasy novel was the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Tracey attended the University of Wales Institute Cardiff and obtained a degree in social work. She was a children's social worker for many years.
Since leaving her social work career she has devoted her time to writing her first children's fantasy book.
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Andy Hussey
Andy Hussey
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Title: There's No Deer Around Here
Genre: Children
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When a mysterious visitor eats all the plants in Granny’s garden one night, Jacob is left wondering what it could be. Together with his best friend, Archie-Dog, Jacob sets out on a mission – collecting clues along the way to prove to Granny that there really ARE deer around here!
A nature-themed children’s book endorsed by The British Deer Society.
The book includes a FREE audio book with prompts and sound effects.
“At a time when we all need to appreciate nature and the outdoors more than ever,
There’s No Deer Around Here
is not only a delightful story but will inspire children everywhere to look harder at the world around them.”
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Andy is the founder of Muddy Little Boots Publishing (https://www.muddylittleboots.com/) and is author of two children's paperback books. A graphic designer by trade, he decided to create Muddy Little Boots publishing during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown (2020) as a means of creating something positive from this distressing time. He has a passion for collaborating with like-minded creative individuals and a desire to promote exploration of open spaces and nature. He’s also a big believer in having fun - if it’s not fun, he’s not interested. In many respects he’s a big kid at heart!
His books have won The Golden Wizard Book Prize, The Trekkers Award (Best Children’s Nature Learning Book), Page Turner Award (Best Book Cover Award and Best Illustrated Book) and he’s been nominated for The Head Outside Awards (People’s Award - promoting the mental health benefits of outdoor activities).
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Genre: Children
Format: Paperback
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When a mysterious visitor eats all the plants in Granny’s garden one night, Jacob is left wondering what it could be. Together with his best friend, Archie-Dog, Jacob sets out on a mission – collecting clues along the way to prove to Granny that there really ARE deer around here!
A nature-themed children’s book endorsed by The British Deer Society.
The book includes a FREE audio book with prompts and sound effects.
“At a time when we all need to appreciate nature and the outdoors more than ever,
There’s No Deer Around Here
is not only a delightful story but will inspire children everywhere to look harder at the world around them.”
The
British Deer Society
Author Bio:
Andy is the founder of Muddy Little Boots Publishing (https://www.muddylittleboots.com/) and is author of two children's paperback books. A graphic designer by trade, he decided to create Muddy Little Boots publishing during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown (2020) as a means of creating something positive from this distressing time. He has a passion for collaborating with like-minded creative individuals and a desire to promote exploration of open spaces and nature. He’s also a big believer in having fun - if it’s not fun, he’s not interested. In many respects he’s a big kid at heart!
His books have won The Golden Wizard Book Prize, The Trekkers Award (Best Children’s Nature Learning Book), Page Turner Award (Best Book Cover Award and Best Illustrated Book) and he’s been nominated for The Head Outside Awards (People’s Award - promoting the mental health benefits of outdoor activities).
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Fiona Cummins
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Title: All Of Us Are Broken
Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Hardback, first edition
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The Book;
An unbearable decision
Held up at gunpoint by two vicious killers, Christina Hardwicke is ordered to make an unthinkable choice – between the life of her daughter or her son.
An unsuspecting family
When the Hardwicke family set off on a holiday to the Scottish Highlands, the last thing they expected was to be confronted by a deadly couple on a killing spree.
A nightmare come to life
Tailed closely by Detective Saul Anguish, the damaged pair have committed a string of ruthless killings across the country, all leading to this moment.
Will the detective be able to reach the Hardwicke family before catastrophe strikes?
The Author:
Fiona Cummins is an award-winning former journalist and a graduate of the Faber Academy, where she now teaches her own Writing Crime course. She is the bestselling author of five crime thriller novels, all of which have received widespread critical acclaim from household names including Val McDermid, Lee Child, David Baldacci, Martina Cole and Ian Rankin. Three of her novels have been optioned for television.
When Fiona is not writing, she can be found on Twitter, eating biscuits or walking her dogs. She lives in Essex with her family.
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Genre: Crime Thriller
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An unbearable decision
Held up at gunpoint by two vicious killers, Christina Hardwicke is ordered to make an unthinkable choice – between the life of her daughter or her son.
An unsuspecting family
When the Hardwicke family set off on a holiday to the Scottish Highlands, the last thing they expected was to be confronted by a deadly couple on a killing spree.
A nightmare come to life
Tailed closely by Detective Saul Anguish, the damaged pair have committed a string of ruthless killings across the country, all leading to this moment.
Will the detective be able to reach the Hardwicke family before catastrophe strikes?
The Author:
Fiona Cummins is an award-winning former journalist and a graduate of the Faber Academy, where she now teaches her own Writing Crime course. She is the bestselling author of five crime thriller novels, all of which have received widespread critical acclaim from household names including Val McDermid, Lee Child, David Baldacci, Martina Cole and Ian Rankin. Three of her novels have been optioned for television.
When Fiona is not writing, she can be found on Twitter, eating biscuits or walking her dogs. She lives in Essex with her family.
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University of Suffolk English
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Book Title: Suffolk Haunts: Original Stories Inspired by the Legends and Landscapes of East Anglia
Genre: Spooky/Horror
Format: Paperback (First Edition)
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Original stories inspired by the legends and landscapes of East Anglia
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Students on the MA Creative and Critical Writing at the University of Suffolk
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Genre: Spooky/Horror
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Original stories inspired by the legends and landscapes of East Anglia
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Karen Dickson
Karen Dickson
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Title: The Strawberry Field Girls at War
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book.
Summer 1916
Despite the misery of war in the air, some things in the small hamlet of Strawbridge remain unchanged. The strawberry harvest is nearly ready and friends, Leah, Alice and Dora still have each other.
The three women have found tentative happiness, but now the war has torn their lives apart. Each woman must learn to live with their new life, dealing with the absence of their loved ones and finding courage in the hardest of times . . .
The Author:
Hi, I'm Karen Dickson. My family emigrated to South Africa when I was nine and I grew up in a beautiful seaside village called Gonubie, which is just outside East London in the Eastern Cape. Whilst there I met my husband, John and had my first child. We returned to England in 1991 and now live in Shaftesbury in Dorset. I am Mum to Warren and Melanie and granny to my precious grandson, Johnny.
As a child I was always writing stories. I was, and still am, a prolific reader. I read all the children's classics, but my favourite authors were Enid Blyton and Laura Ingalls Wilder.
As an adult I enjoy many genres of fiction, horror, crime thrillers, romance, suspense. A few authors I enjoy are John Grisham, Elly Griffiths, Rita Bradshaw, Rosie Goodwin and David Nicholls and I enjoy mooching around book shops in search of new authors.
I have always been interested in social history. My grandparents used to tell me stories about their lives growing up in the early part of the twentieth century and their descriptions were so vivid I could actually picture the scenes in my mind. When I write, although my books are set mainly in Dorset and not up north which is where my grandparents lived, I find I draw on their descriptions and memories extensively.
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Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
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Summer 1916
Despite the misery of war in the air, some things in the small hamlet of Strawbridge remain unchanged. The strawberry harvest is nearly ready and friends, Leah, Alice and Dora still have each other.
The three women have found tentative happiness, but now the war has torn their lives apart. Each woman must learn to live with their new life, dealing with the absence of their loved ones and finding courage in the hardest of times . . .
The Author:
Hi, I'm Karen Dickson. My family emigrated to South Africa when I was nine and I grew up in a beautiful seaside village called Gonubie, which is just outside East London in the Eastern Cape. Whilst there I met my husband, John and had my first child. We returned to England in 1991 and now live in Shaftesbury in Dorset. I am Mum to Warren and Melanie and granny to my precious grandson, Johnny.
As a child I was always writing stories. I was, and still am, a prolific reader. I read all the children's classics, but my favourite authors were Enid Blyton and Laura Ingalls Wilder.
As an adult I enjoy many genres of fiction, horror, crime thrillers, romance, suspense. A few authors I enjoy are John Grisham, Elly Griffiths, Rita Bradshaw, Rosie Goodwin and David Nicholls and I enjoy mooching around book shops in search of new authors.
I have always been interested in social history. My grandparents used to tell me stories about their lives growing up in the early part of the twentieth century and their descriptions were so vivid I could actually picture the scenes in my mind. When I write, although my books are set mainly in Dorset and not up north which is where my grandparents lived, I find I draw on their descriptions and memories extensively.
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Jess Poppiwell
Jess Poppiwell
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Title: The Dark Within Us
Genre: Young Adult - Romance - Paranormal
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
The Dark Within Us brings an inventive, funny and quirky reimagining of a modern version of hell.
Jenny's felt broken for a long time.
Luc has his own issues - you would too if your family ruled Hell.
When they meet at a party, sparks fly. She sees a handsome devil. He sees a lost soul.
Both sense trouble.
But it will take a journey to the very depths of the underworld to bring a girl and a demon together . . .
The stunning debut novel from the Times/Chicken House Children’s Competition 2022 Chairman’s Choice Prize winner, Jess Popplewell.
Draws on the author’s own experience of homelessness, making this a powerful authentic story.
Dante’s Inferno meets Euphoria in this fresh contemporary YA.
The Author:
Jess Popplewell was raised in the historic city of York before bravely crossing the Pennines to study English and Creative Writing in the historic city of Lancaster. She now lives in South London with her partner.
Having experience of insecure housing, Jess is passionate about preventing homelessness for young people. She was a host for the York-based charity SASH for three years, offering her spare bedroom to young people in need of emergency accommodation.
When she’s not writing dark stories to appease her inner Goth, Jess splits her time between reading, weaving and cosy video games.
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Genre: Young Adult - Romance - Paranormal
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
The Dark Within Us brings an inventive, funny and quirky reimagining of a modern version of hell.
Jenny's felt broken for a long time.
Luc has his own issues - you would too if your family ruled Hell.
When they meet at a party, sparks fly. She sees a handsome devil. He sees a lost soul.
Both sense trouble.
But it will take a journey to the very depths of the underworld to bring a girl and a demon together . . .
The stunning debut novel from the Times/Chicken House Children’s Competition 2022 Chairman’s Choice Prize winner, Jess Popplewell.
Draws on the author’s own experience of homelessness, making this a powerful authentic story.
Dante’s Inferno meets Euphoria in this fresh contemporary YA.
The Author:
Jess Popplewell was raised in the historic city of York before bravely crossing the Pennines to study English and Creative Writing in the historic city of Lancaster. She now lives in South London with her partner.
Having experience of insecure housing, Jess is passionate about preventing homelessness for young people. She was a host for the York-based charity SASH for three years, offering her spare bedroom to young people in need of emergency accommodation.
When she’s not writing dark stories to appease her inner Goth, Jess splits her time between reading, weaving and cosy video games.
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Catherine Jacob
Catherine Jacob
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Book Title: Doctor Fairytale
Genre: Picture book
Format: Hardback, First Edition (published Oct ‘24)
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The Book : Doctor Fairytale
“My name is Doctor Fairytale, I'm always super busy. My list of patients is so long, it sometimes makes me dizzy!”
In a magical land full of familiar fairytale faces, Doctor Fairytale and her dog, Nurse Pup, travel far and wide to help the injured and poorly! Rapunzel's head is hurting from her mother climbing her long locks, Goldilocks has splinters in her bottom from the Bears' broken chairs, and Cinderella has blistered toes from walking home without a shoe! But no matter the bump or bruise – and no matter how mischievous the patient! – kind and capable Doctor Fairytale is ready with her doctor's bag to lend a helping hand. But what happens when Doctor Fairytale falls ill herself?
The Author:
When Catherine Jacob isn't writing rolicking rhyming picture books or tales for older children, visiting schools with her creative writing workshops or reporting on TV at Channel 5 News where she's won many awards for her journalism. Catherine has just published her first picture book with Walker Books (illustrated by Hoang Giang) and has a number of exciting new picture book projects in the pipeline with some sought-after illustrators and various different publishers. Her recent rhyming picture book, Betsy Buglove Saves the Bees, which was illustrated by the internationally-renowned Lucy Fleming, became a UK children's environmental bestseller and has so far been translated and sold into eleven territories, with books two and three in the Betsy series hot on its heels. Catherine’s Puppy Club books, her first chapter book series for slightly older readers now numbers four. Her laugh out loud spooky escapade, There's a Troll on my Toilet is a perennial favourite during the spooky season.
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Genre: Picture book
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The Book : Doctor Fairytale
“My name is Doctor Fairytale, I'm always super busy. My list of patients is so long, it sometimes makes me dizzy!”
In a magical land full of familiar fairytale faces, Doctor Fairytale and her dog, Nurse Pup, travel far and wide to help the injured and poorly! Rapunzel's head is hurting from her mother climbing her long locks, Goldilocks has splinters in her bottom from the Bears' broken chairs, and Cinderella has blistered toes from walking home without a shoe! But no matter the bump or bruise – and no matter how mischievous the patient! – kind and capable Doctor Fairytale is ready with her doctor's bag to lend a helping hand. But what happens when Doctor Fairytale falls ill herself?
The Author:
When Catherine Jacob isn't writing rolicking rhyming picture books or tales for older children, visiting schools with her creative writing workshops or reporting on TV at Channel 5 News where she's won many awards for her journalism. Catherine has just published her first picture book with Walker Books (illustrated by Hoang Giang) and has a number of exciting new picture book projects in the pipeline with some sought-after illustrators and various different publishers. Her recent rhyming picture book, Betsy Buglove Saves the Bees, which was illustrated by the internationally-renowned Lucy Fleming, became a UK children's environmental bestseller and has so far been translated and sold into eleven territories, with books two and three in the Betsy series hot on its heels. Catherine’s Puppy Club books, her first chapter book series for slightly older readers now numbers four. Her laugh out loud spooky escapade, There's a Troll on my Toilet is a perennial favourite during the spooky season.
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Sue Moorcroft
Sue Moorcroft
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Title: A Skye Full of Stars
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Ezzie Wynter can’t wait for Christmas on the beautiful Isle of Skye. Her island home sparkles at this time of year thanks to the snow-capped mountains and frosty winter walks, topped off with family gatherings with those she loves the most.
But her peaceful Christmas idyll is upended when she hears that the Larson family – the owners of Rothach Hall – are flying in from Sweden for the festivities. As Manager of their grand Scottish manor house, Ezzie suddenly has decorations to hang, food to source and itineraries to organise.
Life only becomes more difficult when Mats Larson turns up. The owners’ handsome, self-assured son is used to doing things his own way – and he is only another headache to add to her overflowing list.
Yet when unexpected visitors arrive looking for Ezzie, nothing else matters as she is left questioning everything she ever knew about herself. But amidst the Christmas chaos, she might also discover that, when all is lost, it’s sometimes those we least expect who come to our aid…
The Author:
Sue Moorcroft is an award-winning Sunday Times and internationally published author of emotionally compelling, feel-good, page-turning fiction who has reached #1 on Amazon Kindle UK and Top 100 Amazon Kindle US, Canada and Italy. Her novels, short stories, serials, courses and columns have appeared around the world. An army child, Sue was born in Germany and then lived in Cyprus, Malta and the UK.
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Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Ezzie Wynter can’t wait for Christmas on the beautiful Isle of Skye. Her island home sparkles at this time of year thanks to the snow-capped mountains and frosty winter walks, topped off with family gatherings with those she loves the most.
But her peaceful Christmas idyll is upended when she hears that the Larson family – the owners of Rothach Hall – are flying in from Sweden for the festivities. As Manager of their grand Scottish manor house, Ezzie suddenly has decorations to hang, food to source and itineraries to organise.
Life only becomes more difficult when Mats Larson turns up. The owners’ handsome, self-assured son is used to doing things his own way – and he is only another headache to add to her overflowing list.
Yet when unexpected visitors arrive looking for Ezzie, nothing else matters as she is left questioning everything she ever knew about herself. But amidst the Christmas chaos, she might also discover that, when all is lost, it’s sometimes those we least expect who come to our aid…
The Author:
Sue Moorcroft is an award-winning Sunday Times and internationally published author of emotionally compelling, feel-good, page-turning fiction who has reached #1 on Amazon Kindle UK and Top 100 Amazon Kindle US, Canada and Italy. Her novels, short stories, serials, courses and columns have appeared around the world. An army child, Sue was born in Germany and then lived in Cyprus, Malta and the UK.
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Ben Alderson
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Book Title: A Betrayal of Storms
Genre: LGBT Fantasy Romance
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Half-fey Robin Vale has grown up amongst humans, but that doesn’t save him from being captured for coin by fey hunters. When he’s rescued by a fey princess, he’s taken to Wychwood, the fey realm – where everyone is focused on preparing for war against the humans who hate, hunt, and kill them for coin.
Robin doesn’t understand how he fits into the fey’s plans... until he’s revealed to be the lost heir to the Icethorn Court. Aided by the unclaimed, destructive power of the Winter Court, which had been thought destroyed with Robin’s mother’s death, the fey ready their numbers for complete domination of the human realm.
But by claiming the throne with the help of his devastatingly handsome personal guard, Erix, Robin’s very presence opposes the long-planned invasion. Along with his allies – including Althea, a stern princess hellbent on stopping the human hunters from killing her kin – Robin is thrust into a world of betrayal, murder, and lies. He must survive long enough to have the choice: listen to fate and claim his family’s power, or let it wreak havoc on a realm that turned its back on him for becoming who he was truly meant to be.
The Author:
Ben Alderson is a #1 Amazon bestselling author. His stories are set in fantasy worlds filled with magic, adventure and MM romance. Ben lives in Oxfordshire and, when not writing, can be found reading, taking Winston - his Labrador - out for long walks, or obsessing over Marvel’s The Scarlet Witch.
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Genre: LGBT Fantasy Romance
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Half-fey Robin Vale has grown up amongst humans, but that doesn’t save him from being captured for coin by fey hunters. When he’s rescued by a fey princess, he’s taken to Wychwood, the fey realm – where everyone is focused on preparing for war against the humans who hate, hunt, and kill them for coin.
Robin doesn’t understand how he fits into the fey’s plans... until he’s revealed to be the lost heir to the Icethorn Court. Aided by the unclaimed, destructive power of the Winter Court, which had been thought destroyed with Robin’s mother’s death, the fey ready their numbers for complete domination of the human realm.
But by claiming the throne with the help of his devastatingly handsome personal guard, Erix, Robin’s very presence opposes the long-planned invasion. Along with his allies – including Althea, a stern princess hellbent on stopping the human hunters from killing her kin – Robin is thrust into a world of betrayal, murder, and lies. He must survive long enough to have the choice: listen to fate and claim his family’s power, or let it wreak havoc on a realm that turned its back on him for becoming who he was truly meant to be.
The Author:
Ben Alderson is a #1 Amazon bestselling author. His stories are set in fantasy worlds filled with magic, adventure and MM romance. Ben lives in Oxfordshire and, when not writing, can be found reading, taking Winston - his Labrador - out for long walks, or obsessing over Marvel’s The Scarlet Witch.
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SJ Wills
SJ Wills
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Title: Bite Risk
Genre: Teen thriller/horror
Format: Paperback
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'A riotously absorbing horror-comedy for readers of 12 and up.' – The Guardian
When everyone's a vicious beast, it's hard to spot the monsters . . .
The first book in S. J. Wills' blockbuster teen horror series, perfect for fans of Stranger Things, Fear Street and Skulduggery Pleasant.
Sel Archer lives in a normal town with normal residents, except for one night a month . . . When the full moon comes out, almost all of the adults turn into werewolves, and it's up to the young people to protect themselves from danger.
But, as this quiet life begins to unravel, and the Turned start to escape, can Sel and his friends uncover exactly who – or what – is watching their every move, before it's too late?
The author:
SJ Wills writes exciting, scary stories for teens, creating gasp-worthy plot twists and characters to love, hate and suspect. She grew up in Chelmsford, Essex, and now lives in Kent with her writer husband, two sons, and a large, bouncing poodle.
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Genre: Teen thriller/horror
Format: Paperback
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Bids Accepted: UK only
The book:
'A riotously absorbing horror-comedy for readers of 12 and up.' – The Guardian
When everyone's a vicious beast, it's hard to spot the monsters . . .
The first book in S. J. Wills' blockbuster teen horror series, perfect for fans of Stranger Things, Fear Street and Skulduggery Pleasant.
Sel Archer lives in a normal town with normal residents, except for one night a month . . . When the full moon comes out, almost all of the adults turn into werewolves, and it's up to the young people to protect themselves from danger.
But, as this quiet life begins to unravel, and the Turned start to escape, can Sel and his friends uncover exactly who – or what – is watching their every move, before it's too late?
The author:
SJ Wills writes exciting, scary stories for teens, creating gasp-worthy plot twists and characters to love, hate and suspect. She grew up in Chelmsford, Essex, and now lives in Kent with her writer husband, two sons, and a large, bouncing poodle.
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Megan Hopkins
Megan Hopkins
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Book Title: Starminster
Genre: Middle grade contemporary fantasy
Format: Paperback, first edition
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Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book : Take flight on this beautifully-written, epic and soaring new adventure, perfect for fans of Abi Elphinstone, Aisling Fowler, A. F. Steadman and Pari Thompson.
Astrid has lived in the rhubarb shed her whole life. The outside world is dangerous, Mama explains; she will understand when she’s older, but she cannot set foot beyond the door. Astrid longs to see the world; to meet other children; to live in the farmhouse with Mama. But what she longs for most of all is to see the stars.
Then one night, a stranger unlocks the shed: a stranger with wings. She has come to take Astrid to a secret city in the sky called London Overhead, far above the highest peak of the Shard. For Astrid, like her, is a Librae – and will soon grow wings of her own . . .
Astrid is swept into a breathtaking and magical world of new friendships, sweeping adventures and unimaginable discoveries at the ancient, beautiful school for Librae students: Starminster. But quickly she learns that all is not well in the glimmering city. And when rumours abound of missing children in London Underfoot, she begins to realise that Mama may have been right about the dangers waiting for Astrid all along . . .
The Author:
Megan Hopkins is a Northern Irish writer who grew up in Belfast (NI), Stuttgart (Germany), Chesterfield (England), and Nairobi (Kenya). She now lives in Kent with her husband and three sons. She is a secondary school English teacher and a member of the Sevenoaks Bookshop Writers’ Group. Megan has always dreamt of flying. STARMINSTER was her opportunity to live in that dream and share it with everyone who longs for endless skies.
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Genre: Middle grade contemporary fantasy
Format: Paperback, first edition
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Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book : Take flight on this beautifully-written, epic and soaring new adventure, perfect for fans of Abi Elphinstone, Aisling Fowler, A. F. Steadman and Pari Thompson.
Astrid has lived in the rhubarb shed her whole life. The outside world is dangerous, Mama explains; she will understand when she’s older, but she cannot set foot beyond the door. Astrid longs to see the world; to meet other children; to live in the farmhouse with Mama. But what she longs for most of all is to see the stars.
Then one night, a stranger unlocks the shed: a stranger with wings. She has come to take Astrid to a secret city in the sky called London Overhead, far above the highest peak of the Shard. For Astrid, like her, is a Librae – and will soon grow wings of her own . . .
Astrid is swept into a breathtaking and magical world of new friendships, sweeping adventures and unimaginable discoveries at the ancient, beautiful school for Librae students: Starminster. But quickly she learns that all is not well in the glimmering city. And when rumours abound of missing children in London Underfoot, she begins to realise that Mama may have been right about the dangers waiting for Astrid all along . . .
The Author:
Megan Hopkins is a Northern Irish writer who grew up in Belfast (NI), Stuttgart (Germany), Chesterfield (England), and Nairobi (Kenya). She now lives in Kent with her husband and three sons. She is a secondary school English teacher and a member of the Sevenoaks Bookshop Writers’ Group. Megan has always dreamt of flying. STARMINSTER was her opportunity to live in that dream and share it with everyone who longs for endless skies.
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Phillipa Ashley
Phillipa Ashley
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Title 1: A Perfect Cornish Christmas
Title 2: A Surprise Christmas Wedding
Title 3:The Christmas Holiday
Title 4:Christmas at the Cornish Cafe
Title 5:Four Weddings and a Christmas
Title 6:Escape for Christmas
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperbacks
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Title 1: A Perfect Cornish Christmas
Christmas in Cornwall is just around the corner…
But after last Christmas revealed a shocking family secret, Scarlett’s hardly feeling merry and bright. All she wants this Christmas is to know who her real father is.
So Scarlett heads to the little Cornish town of Porthmellow, where she believes the truth of her birth is hidden. She just didn’t bargain on being drawn into the Christmas festival preparations – or meeting Jude Penberth, whose charm threatens to complicate life further.
Everything will come to a head at Porthmellow’s Christmas Festival … But can Scarlett have the perfect Christmas this year, or are there more surprises on the way?
Title 2: A Surprise Christmas Wedding
It’s been a year since Lottie’s fiancé walked out, leaving her heartbroken. But things start to look up when she lands her dream job at a beautiful Lake District estate, with a handsome groundskeeper for a neighbour.
So when Lottie is asked to organise a last minute Christmas wedding at Firholme, she can’t wait to get started. Until she meets the couple, and discovers that Connor, the man who broke her heart, is the groom-to-be.
As snow falls on the hills, can Lottie put aside her past to organise the perfect winter wedding? And will there be any festive magic left to bring Lottie the perfect Christmas she deserves?
Title 3:The Christmas Holiday
She’s planned the perfect Christmas. But fate might have other ideas…
Krystle didn’t have a normal childhood and longed for warm family Christmases with presents under the tree. Now she makes sure everyone else has the perfect Christmas she never had, bringing beautiful decorations to cheer as many people as possible.
With her festive business booming, she decides to celebrate by renting a secluded house in the Lakes, with a plan to make this the ultimate yuletide getaway.
But fate immediately throws a spanner in the works in the form of a broken-down car, a flooded river and Max; a man who despises Christmas.
Krystle becomes determined to show Max the joys of the holiday. She won’t take no for an answer.
Can she melt Max’s Grinch-like heart? And can he show her that life doesn’t need to go to plan to take you somewhere magical…
Title 4: Christmas at the Cornish Cafe
Return to the Cornish Cafe in this gorgeous festive romance – the perfect book to curl up with this Christmas.
Christmas will be slightly less turbulent than summer, won’t it? Demi certainly hopes so.
She and Cal are keeping their fledgling relationship under wraps for now. But then Kit Bannen, a hunky, blond and somewhat mysterious – writer arrives at Kilhallon Resort, and not everyone is charmed. Cal is sure that Kit is hiding something. But is he the only one guarding a secret?
Demi is busy baking festive treats for the newly opened Demelza’s cafe, but when Cal’s ex Isla arrives to shoot scenes for her new drama, Demi can’t help but worry that things aren’t quite over between them. Kit flirts with both women, fuelling Cal’s suspicions that Kit has hidden motives for staying on at Kilhallon. Then Cal has to go to London, leaving Demi and Kit to decorate the cafe for Christmas . . . all by themselves.
A storm is brewing in more ways than one. As surprises unfold and truths are uncovered, can Demi and Cal finally open up to each other about their feelings?
Title 5:Four Weddings and a Christmas
Can the spirit of Christmas reignite an old flame? With her thriving business Cottage Angels, Freya Bolton prepares the Lake District’s holiday homes for Christmas visitors. It’s her job to think of everything, from cinnamon-scented candles to tasteful decorations and hampers of seasonal treats. If only her love life were such a success… After being burned by past relationships, she’s now determined to steer clear of love for good. So when she bumps into gorgeous – and single – ex-boyfriend Travis, a no-strings festive fling seems perfect. But when her feelings for him begin to develop, is she on track for another romantic calamity? Or could this Christmas give her the gift of true love? This gorgeous Christmas romance from Sunday Times bestseller Phillipa Ashley will take you to the Lake District with a story of second chance love as heartwarming as a cup of mulled wine.
The Author:
Phillipa Ashley is a multiple Sunday Times best selling author of uplifting romantic fiction. After studying English at Oxford University, she worked as a copywriter and journalist before writing her debut novel, Decent Exposure.
It won the Romantic Novelists Association New Writers Award and was filmed as a Lifetime TV movie starring Kristin Chenoweth and Josh Hopkins.
Her novels have sold well over a million copies and been translated into many languages. She is also an Audible number 1 best-seller.
Second Chance Summer, is out now in ebook, print and audio and Escape for Christmas will be published in November.
Phillipa lives in an English village with her husband, has a grown-up daughter and loves walking the Lakeland hills and swimming in Cornish coves.
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Title 2: A Surprise Christmas Wedding
Title 3:The Christmas Holiday
Title 4:Christmas at the Cornish Cafe
Title 5:Four Weddings and a Christmas
Title 6:Escape for Christmas
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperbacks
Signed - Dedications are Available
Bids Accepted: UK Only
Title 1: A Perfect Cornish Christmas
Christmas in Cornwall is just around the corner…
But after last Christmas revealed a shocking family secret, Scarlett’s hardly feeling merry and bright. All she wants this Christmas is to know who her real father is.
So Scarlett heads to the little Cornish town of Porthmellow, where she believes the truth of her birth is hidden. She just didn’t bargain on being drawn into the Christmas festival preparations – or meeting Jude Penberth, whose charm threatens to complicate life further.
Everything will come to a head at Porthmellow’s Christmas Festival … But can Scarlett have the perfect Christmas this year, or are there more surprises on the way?
Title 2: A Surprise Christmas Wedding
It’s been a year since Lottie’s fiancé walked out, leaving her heartbroken. But things start to look up when she lands her dream job at a beautiful Lake District estate, with a handsome groundskeeper for a neighbour.
So when Lottie is asked to organise a last minute Christmas wedding at Firholme, she can’t wait to get started. Until she meets the couple, and discovers that Connor, the man who broke her heart, is the groom-to-be.
As snow falls on the hills, can Lottie put aside her past to organise the perfect winter wedding? And will there be any festive magic left to bring Lottie the perfect Christmas she deserves?
Title 3:The Christmas Holiday
She’s planned the perfect Christmas. But fate might have other ideas…
Krystle didn’t have a normal childhood and longed for warm family Christmases with presents under the tree. Now she makes sure everyone else has the perfect Christmas she never had, bringing beautiful decorations to cheer as many people as possible.
With her festive business booming, she decides to celebrate by renting a secluded house in the Lakes, with a plan to make this the ultimate yuletide getaway.
But fate immediately throws a spanner in the works in the form of a broken-down car, a flooded river and Max; a man who despises Christmas.
Krystle becomes determined to show Max the joys of the holiday. She won’t take no for an answer.
Can she melt Max’s Grinch-like heart? And can he show her that life doesn’t need to go to plan to take you somewhere magical…
Title 4: Christmas at the Cornish Cafe
Return to the Cornish Cafe in this gorgeous festive romance – the perfect book to curl up with this Christmas.
Christmas will be slightly less turbulent than summer, won’t it? Demi certainly hopes so.
She and Cal are keeping their fledgling relationship under wraps for now. But then Kit Bannen, a hunky, blond and somewhat mysterious – writer arrives at Kilhallon Resort, and not everyone is charmed. Cal is sure that Kit is hiding something. But is he the only one guarding a secret?
Demi is busy baking festive treats for the newly opened Demelza’s cafe, but when Cal’s ex Isla arrives to shoot scenes for her new drama, Demi can’t help but worry that things aren’t quite over between them. Kit flirts with both women, fuelling Cal’s suspicions that Kit has hidden motives for staying on at Kilhallon. Then Cal has to go to London, leaving Demi and Kit to decorate the cafe for Christmas . . . all by themselves.
A storm is brewing in more ways than one. As surprises unfold and truths are uncovered, can Demi and Cal finally open up to each other about their feelings?
Title 5:Four Weddings and a Christmas
Can the spirit of Christmas reignite an old flame? With her thriving business Cottage Angels, Freya Bolton prepares the Lake District’s holiday homes for Christmas visitors. It’s her job to think of everything, from cinnamon-scented candles to tasteful decorations and hampers of seasonal treats. If only her love life were such a success… After being burned by past relationships, she’s now determined to steer clear of love for good. So when she bumps into gorgeous – and single – ex-boyfriend Travis, a no-strings festive fling seems perfect. But when her feelings for him begin to develop, is she on track for another romantic calamity? Or could this Christmas give her the gift of true love? This gorgeous Christmas romance from Sunday Times bestseller Phillipa Ashley will take you to the Lake District with a story of second chance love as heartwarming as a cup of mulled wine.
The Author:
Phillipa Ashley is a multiple Sunday Times best selling author of uplifting romantic fiction. After studying English at Oxford University, she worked as a copywriter and journalist before writing her debut novel, Decent Exposure.
It won the Romantic Novelists Association New Writers Award and was filmed as a Lifetime TV movie starring Kristin Chenoweth and Josh Hopkins.
Her novels have sold well over a million copies and been translated into many languages. She is also an Audible number 1 best-seller.
Second Chance Summer, is out now in ebook, print and audio and Escape for Christmas will be published in November.
Phillipa lives in an English village with her husband, has a grown-up daughter and loves walking the Lakeland hills and swimming in Cornish coves.
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Lindsay Littleson
Lindsay Littleson
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Book Title: Ice Cream Boy
Genre: Children (MG)
Format: Paperback
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The Book :
Twelve-year-old Luca Verani has his future all mapped out: who needs school when he’s going to take over his family’s ice cream cafe? But then his aunt announces she’s selling the struggling business and Luca realises that his nonna’s memory is disappearing. Plus, he’s starting high school and one of his best friends Sitara is being targeted by racist bullies. As Luca’s worries pile up, will his dreams melt away?
Ice Cream Boy is a heart-warming novel from Lindsay Littleson, author of Carnegie-nominated Guardians of the Wild Unicorns. Full of authentic dialogue, gentle humour and true-to-life characters, this engaging middle-grade novel explores the thoughts and feelings of children affected by dementia.
The Author:
Lindsay Littleson has four grown-up children and lives in the village of Uplawmoor near Glasgow. She was a full-time primary teacher for many years but took early retirement in 2019 to focus on her writing. Before becoming a teacher she spent eight years as possibly the worst PAYE auditor ever to be employed by the Inland Revenue.
In 2014 she began writing for children and won the Kelpies Prize for her first children’s novel The Mixed Up Summer of Lily McLean, which was followed by a sequel, The Awkward Autumn of Lily McLean. Guardians of the Wild Unicorns was nominated for the 2019 Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for both the Stockton Children’s Book Prize and East Sussex Children’s Book Prize. Secrets of the Last Merfolk was published by Floris in 2021.
Lindsay's WW1 novel Shell Hole was shortlisted for the Dundee Great War Children’s Book Prize and she enjoyed engaging in research so much that she was inspired to write another two historical books, A Pattern of Secrets, set in Victorian Paisley and The Titanic Detective Agency. The Rewilders, which was long listed for the 2022 SPARK! School Book Award and Euro Spies have also been published by Cranachan Books.
Ice Cream Boy is her latest novel. It came out with Floris Books in May 2024.
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Genre: Children (MG)
Format: Paperback
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The Book :
Twelve-year-old Luca Verani has his future all mapped out: who needs school when he’s going to take over his family’s ice cream cafe? But then his aunt announces she’s selling the struggling business and Luca realises that his nonna’s memory is disappearing. Plus, he’s starting high school and one of his best friends Sitara is being targeted by racist bullies. As Luca’s worries pile up, will his dreams melt away?
Ice Cream Boy is a heart-warming novel from Lindsay Littleson, author of Carnegie-nominated Guardians of the Wild Unicorns. Full of authentic dialogue, gentle humour and true-to-life characters, this engaging middle-grade novel explores the thoughts and feelings of children affected by dementia.
The Author:
Lindsay Littleson has four grown-up children and lives in the village of Uplawmoor near Glasgow. She was a full-time primary teacher for many years but took early retirement in 2019 to focus on her writing. Before becoming a teacher she spent eight years as possibly the worst PAYE auditor ever to be employed by the Inland Revenue.
In 2014 she began writing for children and won the Kelpies Prize for her first children’s novel The Mixed Up Summer of Lily McLean, which was followed by a sequel, The Awkward Autumn of Lily McLean. Guardians of the Wild Unicorns was nominated for the 2019 Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for both the Stockton Children’s Book Prize and East Sussex Children’s Book Prize. Secrets of the Last Merfolk was published by Floris in 2021.
Lindsay's WW1 novel Shell Hole was shortlisted for the Dundee Great War Children’s Book Prize and she enjoyed engaging in research so much that she was inspired to write another two historical books, A Pattern of Secrets, set in Victorian Paisley and The Titanic Detective Agency. The Rewilders, which was long listed for the 2022 SPARK! School Book Award and Euro Spies have also been published by Cranachan Books.
Ice Cream Boy is her latest novel. It came out with Floris Books in May 2024.
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Website: https://lindsaylittleson.co.uk
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Jerzy Jones
Jerzy Jones
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Title: The FREEZING Cold Snowman
Genre: Children
Format: Picture Book
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The Book;
Two brothers build a snowman in the garden. At night the snowman comes Tap! Tap! Tapping! the window looking for warmth. Find out how the brothers react to the amazing experience.
A warm, exciting adventure for young children with friendship running throughout.
Interactive with children who can search for the hidden snowman in each picture.
The Author:
I’m retired and live in South Wales, UK, born of a Welsh mother and Polish father. I’ve been writing for over thirty years and have written quite a lot of stories and books, some for my children when they were young. I now dedicate my books to my grandson, great nieces and great nephews.
My aim is always to write exciting, adventurous stories for children which will linger in their minds long after they read the books. Perhaps making them want to read them over and over, hopefully firing their own imaginations. If I can get a bit of humour into the stories, that’s great too.
There’s a theme to a lot of my books where the main character solves their own problem or joins forces with other characters to resolve problems.
Overall I want children to read my books to help overcome illiteracy, so on certain literary occasions in the year I may donate books to children, schools or hospitals, etc.
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Genre: Children
Format: Picture Book
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The Book;
Two brothers build a snowman in the garden. At night the snowman comes Tap! Tap! Tapping! the window looking for warmth. Find out how the brothers react to the amazing experience.
A warm, exciting adventure for young children with friendship running throughout.
Interactive with children who can search for the hidden snowman in each picture.
The Author:
I’m retired and live in South Wales, UK, born of a Welsh mother and Polish father. I’ve been writing for over thirty years and have written quite a lot of stories and books, some for my children when they were young. I now dedicate my books to my grandson, great nieces and great nephews.
My aim is always to write exciting, adventurous stories for children which will linger in their minds long after they read the books. Perhaps making them want to read them over and over, hopefully firing their own imaginations. If I can get a bit of humour into the stories, that’s great too.
There’s a theme to a lot of my books where the main character solves their own problem or joins forces with other characters to resolve problems.
Overall I want children to read my books to help overcome illiteracy, so on certain literary occasions in the year I may donate books to children, schools or hospitals, etc.
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Mary Grand
Mary Grand
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Title: A Christmas Murder
Genre: Cosy Crime
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Susan didn’t plan on being an amateur sleuth and, after two successful investigations, she’s looking forward to a quiet Christmas.
So, when local businesswoman Meera is in desperate need of help, Susan agrees rather reluctantly.
The task should be easy enough. The infamous press mogul Duncan Fern is coming back to the Isle of Wight, the scene of his family’s childhood holidays, to celebrate Christmas with his grown-up children and their partners, his new glamorous wife Kirsten who is forever dripping with diamonds, and the spikey editor of his paper the Morning Flame, Antoine. The newly-refurbished luxurious Bishopstone Manor is the perfect setting for a festive break and all Susan has to do is help Meera host.
But when a snowstorm descends over the island, and the following morning a body is found, Christmas at the Manor takes a darker turn. Can Susan get to the bottom of the mystery before the murderer strikes again…
The Author:
I am a Welsh author. I was born in Cardiff and have retained a deep love for my Welsh roots. I have published seven novels, Free to Be Tegan, Hidden Chapters, Behind the Smile, The House Party, The Island, Good Neighbours, and Death At Castle Cove. I have also published two short books of short stories, Catching the Light and Making Changes. All are available around the world as paperbacks and ebooks. My four latest novels and Catching the Light are also available as audio books.
I previously worked as a nursery teacher in London and taught Deaf children in Croydon and Hastings. I now live on the beautiful Isle of Wight with my husband. I have two grown up children.
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Genre: Cosy Crime
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Susan didn’t plan on being an amateur sleuth and, after two successful investigations, she’s looking forward to a quiet Christmas.
So, when local businesswoman Meera is in desperate need of help, Susan agrees rather reluctantly.
The task should be easy enough. The infamous press mogul Duncan Fern is coming back to the Isle of Wight, the scene of his family’s childhood holidays, to celebrate Christmas with his grown-up children and their partners, his new glamorous wife Kirsten who is forever dripping with diamonds, and the spikey editor of his paper the Morning Flame, Antoine. The newly-refurbished luxurious Bishopstone Manor is the perfect setting for a festive break and all Susan has to do is help Meera host.
But when a snowstorm descends over the island, and the following morning a body is found, Christmas at the Manor takes a darker turn. Can Susan get to the bottom of the mystery before the murderer strikes again…
The Author:
I am a Welsh author. I was born in Cardiff and have retained a deep love for my Welsh roots. I have published seven novels, Free to Be Tegan, Hidden Chapters, Behind the Smile, The House Party, The Island, Good Neighbours, and Death At Castle Cove. I have also published two short books of short stories, Catching the Light and Making Changes. All are available around the world as paperbacks and ebooks. My four latest novels and Catching the Light are also available as audio books.
I previously worked as a nursery teacher in London and taught Deaf children in Croydon and Hastings. I now live on the beautiful Isle of Wight with my husband. I have two grown up children.
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Susannah Lloyd
Susannah Lloyd
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Title: Badgers Are Go
Genre: Children 7-9 yrs
Format: Paperback
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Lulu Whifferton-Rear loves to mind her own badgery business, but when she discovers that important humans are actually BOPs (Badger Operated Persons), she is thrust into the world of the Rumpington Academy of Badgering. There, her catastrophic training leads to the most dramatic of first missions . . . SAVE THE WORLD!
A madcap, heart-warming adventure story about badgers, cheese and tomato sandwiches, staying true to yourself and how 'too much welly' might just be the perfect amount.
The Author:
Susannah Lloyd is the author of Badgers Are Go, Who Ate Steve, Here Be Giants, Oh Monty, Here Be Dragons, This Book Can Read Your Mind, and The Terribly Friendly Fox.
Her books feature scoundrels, blunderers, shenanigans, and VERY unreliable narrators. They have been translated into ten languages. She is inspired by old black and white movies, dusty stuffed animals in museums and all things small in the world
She loves reading stories, especially the ones you find in children's books. Libraries and bookshops are her happy place.
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Lulu Whifferton-Rear loves to mind her own badgery business, but when she discovers that important humans are actually BOPs (Badger Operated Persons), she is thrust into the world of the Rumpington Academy of Badgering. There, her catastrophic training leads to the most dramatic of first missions . . . SAVE THE WORLD!
A madcap, heart-warming adventure story about badgers, cheese and tomato sandwiches, staying true to yourself and how 'too much welly' might just be the perfect amount.
The Author:
Susannah Lloyd is the author of Badgers Are Go, Who Ate Steve, Here Be Giants, Oh Monty, Here Be Dragons, This Book Can Read Your Mind, and The Terribly Friendly Fox.
Her books feature scoundrels, blunderers, shenanigans, and VERY unreliable narrators. They have been translated into ten languages. She is inspired by old black and white movies, dusty stuffed animals in museums and all things small in the world
She loves reading stories, especially the ones you find in children's books. Libraries and bookshops are her happy place.
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Susan Cahill
Susan Cahill
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Title: THE WORLD BETWEEN THE RAIN
Genre: Fantasy Middle Grade
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It's the week before Halloween and Marina is about to turn thirteen. Her father died a year ago. Her mother has strangely fallen asleep and no-one can wake her. She is sent to live with her mysterious grandmother who tells her that that you can enter a strange world between the ever falling rain in the west of Ireland. Marina enters a haunting watery world full of strange creatures, demons, gods and dream makers. Meanwhile, in our world a strange sleeping sickness has taken over. Will Marina be back in time? Can she survive?
The Author:
Susan Cahill grew up by the sea in West Cork, Ireland.
Obsessed with stories from a young age, Susan decided to study them in university, although secretly she always wanted to be a novelist. Becoming an Associate Professor of Literature instead, Susan taught in universities until she couldn’t ignore her own stories clamouring to be told.
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Genre: Fantasy Middle Grade
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It's the week before Halloween and Marina is about to turn thirteen. Her father died a year ago. Her mother has strangely fallen asleep and no-one can wake her. She is sent to live with her mysterious grandmother who tells her that that you can enter a strange world between the ever falling rain in the west of Ireland. Marina enters a haunting watery world full of strange creatures, demons, gods and dream makers. Meanwhile, in our world a strange sleeping sickness has taken over. Will Marina be back in time? Can she survive?
The Author:
Susan Cahill grew up by the sea in West Cork, Ireland.
Obsessed with stories from a young age, Susan decided to study them in university, although secretly she always wanted to be a novelist. Becoming an Associate Professor of Literature instead, Susan taught in universities until she couldn’t ignore her own stories clamouring to be told.
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Serena Molloy
Serena Molloy
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Two Book Special
Title 1: The Tree That Sang To Me
Title 2; Wider Than The Sea
Genre: Children
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Title 1: The Tree That Sang To Me
Some feelings are so big, they're hard to express. . . A dyslexia-friendly, beautifully illustrated verse story of friendship, family and self-discovery, perfect for readers aged 9+. By the author of Wider Than the Sea, winner of the Eilís Dillon Award, KPMG Children's Books Ireland Awards 2024
"A beautifully told story of resilience" Irish Times
"With an uplifting ending, Kai's story will remain in your mind for a long time ... a fantastic read for a class group" Editor's Choice, Children's Books Ireland, Inis Magazine
When Kai's big sister Jen leaves the family home, Kai knows it's all his fault. His secret burns, but he tells no one, just keeps pulling at tufts of his hair. But in the broad branches of a wasteland sycamore tree, Kai feels safe and free from his worries. Up there he feels he can be whoever he wants to be. And when a girl called Sky starts climbing Kai's tree, a friendship blossoms ... a friendship with the power to heal.
Up here
it's like
I'm part of something else
the wind
the leaves
the air
free to be
whoever I want to be.
Title 2; Wider Than The Sea
The award-winning tale of a girl who feels broken, and the dolphin who makes her whole. A powerful story of friendship, hope and self-discovery, perfect for readers aged 9+, beautifully illustrated by George Ermos.
Winner of the Eilís Dillon Award for debut children's book at the KPMG Children's Books Ireland Awards 2024!
Ró finds school impossible. She knows people think she's shy - and stupid. But when she goes to the bay each afternoon to watch the dolphin leap through the water, she finds the strength to keep going. Then the dolphin disappears, and everything starts falling apart.
Can Ró overcome her fears to find him?
I watch each rise and dip of wave
know Sunny must be out there
somewhere
wonder if he's missing me.
I remember that moment
when I touched his skin
and know that finding him
is the only thing
that can make
the aching stop
make me feel
not broken.
The Author:
I’m a children’s writer and I live in Galway, Ireland. As a mum of four, my house is always noisy but never, ever dull! I worked for a long time as an English teacher and I love helping children to discover the magic of books. I’ve also worked as a sixth century monk in a heritage park and as a burger-flipper in a fast food restaurant! I like writing stories about children who find themselves in difficult situations and have to find the courage to discover a way out. My stories are a celebration of empathy, neurodiversity and the power to change. I love poetry so I write my novels in verse, I think we are all poets deep down inside our hearts.
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Title 1: The Tree That Sang To Me
Title 2; Wider Than The Sea
Genre: Children
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Title 1: The Tree That Sang To Me
Some feelings are so big, they're hard to express. . . A dyslexia-friendly, beautifully illustrated verse story of friendship, family and self-discovery, perfect for readers aged 9+. By the author of Wider Than the Sea, winner of the Eilís Dillon Award, KPMG Children's Books Ireland Awards 2024
"A beautifully told story of resilience" Irish Times
"With an uplifting ending, Kai's story will remain in your mind for a long time ... a fantastic read for a class group" Editor's Choice, Children's Books Ireland, Inis Magazine
When Kai's big sister Jen leaves the family home, Kai knows it's all his fault. His secret burns, but he tells no one, just keeps pulling at tufts of his hair. But in the broad branches of a wasteland sycamore tree, Kai feels safe and free from his worries. Up there he feels he can be whoever he wants to be. And when a girl called Sky starts climbing Kai's tree, a friendship blossoms ... a friendship with the power to heal.
Up here
it's like
I'm part of something else
the wind
the leaves
the air
free to be
whoever I want to be.
Title 2; Wider Than The Sea
The award-winning tale of a girl who feels broken, and the dolphin who makes her whole. A powerful story of friendship, hope and self-discovery, perfect for readers aged 9+, beautifully illustrated by George Ermos.
Winner of the Eilís Dillon Award for debut children's book at the KPMG Children's Books Ireland Awards 2024!
Ró finds school impossible. She knows people think she's shy - and stupid. But when she goes to the bay each afternoon to watch the dolphin leap through the water, she finds the strength to keep going. Then the dolphin disappears, and everything starts falling apart.
Can Ró overcome her fears to find him?
I watch each rise and dip of wave
know Sunny must be out there
somewhere
wonder if he's missing me.
I remember that moment
when I touched his skin
and know that finding him
is the only thing
that can make
the aching stop
make me feel
not broken.
The Author:
I’m a children’s writer and I live in Galway, Ireland. As a mum of four, my house is always noisy but never, ever dull! I worked for a long time as an English teacher and I love helping children to discover the magic of books. I’ve also worked as a sixth century monk in a heritage park and as a burger-flipper in a fast food restaurant! I like writing stories about children who find themselves in difficult situations and have to find the courage to discover a way out. My stories are a celebration of empathy, neurodiversity and the power to change. I love poetry so I write my novels in verse, I think we are all poets deep down inside our hearts.
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Frank McDonough
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Book Title: The Weimar Years
Genre: History
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The Book : The Weimar Years
A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK
A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR
A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023
ASPECTS OF HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
A DAILY MAIL BEST CHRISTMAS BOOK OF 2023
The prequel to Frank McDonough's bestselling Hitler Years series, covering the dramatic era of German history that culminated in the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in 1933.
Established in the wake of German defeat in the First World War, the Weimar Republic held out the hope that democracy, stability and prosperity would take root in Germany. From the start, however, it was beset by political and economic upheaval and spasms of violence between left and right. Year by year, from 1918 to 1933, Frank McDonough describes the major events in both domestic and foreign policy and the personalities who shaped them, together with developments in Weimar's flourishing cultural sphere. McDonough places particular focus on the parliamentary history of Weimar, arguing that it was the failure of parliamentary democracy to bring stability that allowed the power of the elected Reichstag to diminish, leading to Hitler's accession to power.
The Weimar Years is the tragic story of a rise and fall, as well as a warning of how, under poor leadership, economic pressure and unrelenting political instability, a democracy can drift towards a form of authoritarian rule that eventually destroys it.
The Author: Frank McDonough
Professor Frank McDonough is an internationally renowned expert on the Third Reich. He was born in Liverpool, studied history at Balliol College, Oxford and gained a PhD from Lancaster University.
He has written many critically acclaimed books on the Third Reich, including: The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler’s Secret Police (2015). Hitler and the Rise of the Nazi Party (2012), Sophie Scholl: The Woman Who Defied Hitler (2009), The Holocaust (2008), Opposition and Resistance in Nazi Germany (2001), Hitler, Chamberlain and Appeasement (2002), and Hitler and Nazi Germany (1999). He has also published many other books, most notably, The Origins of the Second World War: An International Perspective (2011), The Conservative Party and Anglo-German Relations (2007), Chamberlain, Appeasement and the British Road to War (1998) and The Origins of the First and Second World Wars (1997).
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Genre: History
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The Book : The Weimar Years
A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK
A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR
A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023
ASPECTS OF HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEAR
A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
A DAILY MAIL BEST CHRISTMAS BOOK OF 2023
The prequel to Frank McDonough's bestselling Hitler Years series, covering the dramatic era of German history that culminated in the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in 1933.
Established in the wake of German defeat in the First World War, the Weimar Republic held out the hope that democracy, stability and prosperity would take root in Germany. From the start, however, it was beset by political and economic upheaval and spasms of violence between left and right. Year by year, from 1918 to 1933, Frank McDonough describes the major events in both domestic and foreign policy and the personalities who shaped them, together with developments in Weimar's flourishing cultural sphere. McDonough places particular focus on the parliamentary history of Weimar, arguing that it was the failure of parliamentary democracy to bring stability that allowed the power of the elected Reichstag to diminish, leading to Hitler's accession to power.
The Weimar Years is the tragic story of a rise and fall, as well as a warning of how, under poor leadership, economic pressure and unrelenting political instability, a democracy can drift towards a form of authoritarian rule that eventually destroys it.
The Author: Frank McDonough
Professor Frank McDonough is an internationally renowned expert on the Third Reich. He was born in Liverpool, studied history at Balliol College, Oxford and gained a PhD from Lancaster University.
He has written many critically acclaimed books on the Third Reich, including: The Gestapo: The Myth and Reality of Hitler’s Secret Police (2015). Hitler and the Rise of the Nazi Party (2012), Sophie Scholl: The Woman Who Defied Hitler (2009), The Holocaust (2008), Opposition and Resistance in Nazi Germany (2001), Hitler, Chamberlain and Appeasement (2002), and Hitler and Nazi Germany (1999). He has also published many other books, most notably, The Origins of the Second World War: An International Perspective (2011), The Conservative Party and Anglo-German Relations (2007), Chamberlain, Appeasement and the British Road to War (1998) and The Origins of the First and Second World Wars (1997).
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Joanne Clague
Joanne Clague
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Title: The House of Hope
Genre: Historical Saga
Format: Paperback
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The gripping first novel in a brand new 3-book saga series from Joanne Clague. Winter 1887, and in the dead of night a young woman is found on the doorstep of the House of Help for Friendless Girls. Her identity is a mystery, but she's not the only one keeping secrets.
Author bio: Joanne Clague writes historical sagas set in 19th century Sheffield. The House of Hope is the newly-published first book in her latest series.
The Author:
Joanne Clague is the author of historical saga fiction set in nineteenth century Yorkshire. Born and raised in Sheffield, Joanne rediscovered her passion for the city, for its past and its people, during research for her debut novel The Ragged Valley. Two sequels followed – The Girl at Change Alley and The Watchman’s Widow.
The first novel in Joanne’s next series – The House of Hope – is out now. Look out for two more books in The House of Help for Friendless Girls series coming in March and November 2025.
She lives in the Isle of Man with her family and Labrador dogs in the beautiful coastal village of Laxey. She had a career in print, radio and broadcast journalism before turning to novel writing. When she’s not writing, Joanne enjoys walking Piper and Mini in the Manx countryside, playing with her grand-daughter and chasing wild billy goats out of the garden.
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Genre: Historical Saga
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
The gripping first novel in a brand new 3-book saga series from Joanne Clague. Winter 1887, and in the dead of night a young woman is found on the doorstep of the House of Help for Friendless Girls. Her identity is a mystery, but she's not the only one keeping secrets.
Author bio: Joanne Clague writes historical sagas set in 19th century Sheffield. The House of Hope is the newly-published first book in her latest series.
The Author:
Joanne Clague is the author of historical saga fiction set in nineteenth century Yorkshire. Born and raised in Sheffield, Joanne rediscovered her passion for the city, for its past and its people, during research for her debut novel The Ragged Valley. Two sequels followed – The Girl at Change Alley and The Watchman’s Widow.
The first novel in Joanne’s next series – The House of Hope – is out now. Look out for two more books in The House of Help for Friendless Girls series coming in March and November 2025.
She lives in the Isle of Man with her family and Labrador dogs in the beautiful coastal village of Laxey. She had a career in print, radio and broadcast journalism before turning to novel writing. When she’s not writing, Joanne enjoys walking Piper and Mini in the Manx countryside, playing with her grand-daughter and chasing wild billy goats out of the garden.
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Anne Louise Avery
Anne Louise Avery
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Title: Reynard the Fox
Genre: Medieval/Folk tales/Fairy tales/Myth & legend.
Format: Hardback
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Reynard – a subversive, dashing, anarchic, aristocratic, witty fox from the watery lowlands of medieval East Flanders – is in trouble. He has been summoned to the court of King Noble the Lion, charged with all manner of crimes and misdemeanours. How will he pit his wits against his accusers – greedy Bruin the Bear, pretentious Courtoys the Hound or dark and dangerous Isengrim the Wolf – to escape the gallows?
Reynard was once the most popular and beloved character in European folklore, as familiar as Robin Hood, King Arthur or Cinderella. His character spoke eloquently for the unvoiced and disenfranchised, but also amused and delighted the elite, capturing hearts and minds across borders and societal classes for centuries.
Based on William Caxton’s bestselling 1481 English translation of the Middle Dutch, but expanded with new interpretations, innovative language and characterisation, this edition is an imaginative retelling of the Reynard story. With its themes of protest, resistance and duplicity fronted by a personable, anti-heroic Fox making his way in a dangerous and cruel world, this gripping tale is as relevant and controversial today as it was in the fifteenth century.
"Anne Louise Avery presents the full, complicated glory of the silver-tongued predator and his milieu in Reynard the Fox, a tour de force of storytelling and a beautiful object in itself. A writer and art historian, Ms. Avery deploys a scholar’s fluency with medieval language, literature and religion and a raconteur’s ease with anecdote." - Wall Street Journal
Author Bio:
Anne Louise is a writer and art historian based in Oxford.
Born in London to bohemian parents - her mother was a novelist and her father a journalist who worked with Ian Fleming and Graham Greene in Naval intelligence during the War – Avery received a First Class degree in art history at SOAS. She then held a fellowship at Brown, and studied Japanese at ICU University in Tokyo, before becoming an art historian and writer.
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Genre: Medieval/Folk tales/Fairy tales/Myth & legend.
Format: Hardback
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Reynard – a subversive, dashing, anarchic, aristocratic, witty fox from the watery lowlands of medieval East Flanders – is in trouble. He has been summoned to the court of King Noble the Lion, charged with all manner of crimes and misdemeanours. How will he pit his wits against his accusers – greedy Bruin the Bear, pretentious Courtoys the Hound or dark and dangerous Isengrim the Wolf – to escape the gallows?
Reynard was once the most popular and beloved character in European folklore, as familiar as Robin Hood, King Arthur or Cinderella. His character spoke eloquently for the unvoiced and disenfranchised, but also amused and delighted the elite, capturing hearts and minds across borders and societal classes for centuries.
Based on William Caxton’s bestselling 1481 English translation of the Middle Dutch, but expanded with new interpretations, innovative language and characterisation, this edition is an imaginative retelling of the Reynard story. With its themes of protest, resistance and duplicity fronted by a personable, anti-heroic Fox making his way in a dangerous and cruel world, this gripping tale is as relevant and controversial today as it was in the fifteenth century.
"Anne Louise Avery presents the full, complicated glory of the silver-tongued predator and his milieu in Reynard the Fox, a tour de force of storytelling and a beautiful object in itself. A writer and art historian, Ms. Avery deploys a scholar’s fluency with medieval language, literature and religion and a raconteur’s ease with anecdote." - Wall Street Journal
Author Bio:
Anne Louise is a writer and art historian based in Oxford.
Born in London to bohemian parents - her mother was a novelist and her father a journalist who worked with Ian Fleming and Graham Greene in Naval intelligence during the War – Avery received a First Class degree in art history at SOAS. She then held a fellowship at Brown, and studied Japanese at ICU University in Tokyo, before becoming an art historian and writer.
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Annie Lyons
Annie Lyons
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*Two Great Books
Title 1: The Air Raid Book Club
Title 2: A Girls' Guide to Winning the War
Genre: Historical Romance
Format: Hardback
Dedication Available: YES
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Title 1: The Air Raid Book Club
As the bombs began to fall, the book club kept their hopes alive...
London, 1938. Bookseller Gertie Bingham is facing difficult times, having just lost her beloved husband, Harry, and with a lingering sadness at never having been able to have a child of her own. Struggling to face running the bookshop she and Harry opened together, Gertie is preparing to sell up and move away when she is asked if she would be willing to take in a young Jewish refugee from Germany. Gertie is unsure and when sullen teenager Hedy Fischer arrives, Gertie fears she has nothing left to give the troubled girl.
But when the German bombers come and the lights go out over London, Gertie and Hedy realise that joining forces will make them stronger, and that books have the power to bring young and old together and unite a community in need in its darkest hour...
Title 2: A Girls' Guide to Winning the War
Can two young women and one book change the course of war?
1940. Whip-smart librarian Peggy Sparks is determined to make sure that her brother Joe returns from the frontline to their London home, which they share with their beloved mother and grandmother. So when she is offered a once-in-a-lifetime job at the heart of the war effort, Peggy jumps at the prospect of making a real contribution to her country.
But when she finds herself working under the fanciful socialite Lady Marigold Cecily, Peggy discovers that those around her are more keen on dancing at the Café de Paris than on ending the war. Writing accounts of her daily life is the only thing keeping Peggy’s hopes alive. But when she finds her inner-most thoughts accidentally published by the Ministry of Information, Peggy realises she needs Marigold’s help to save her job, and to bring her brother home . . .
Author Bio:
I am the author of seven novels and one novella. My first book, Not Quite Perfect was a Kindle number one bestseller and my most recent featuring octogenarian, Eudora Honeysett was a USA Today bestseller as well as being nominated for the RNA Contemporary Novel Award. My new book, The Air Raid Book Club is my first historical fiction novel and will be published on the 11th of July. I can’t wait for readers to meet Gertie and Hedy, who are thrown together by the events of the Second World War and who form a book club to support their community through these dark times. This book is particularly special to me as I’ve spent my life around books, from trips to the library with my Mum as a child to my early career as a bookseller on Charing Cross Road and then over ten years in publishing and now as a writer and creative writing teacher.
My favourite thing about being an author is when readers contact me to let me know that a book has touched them, made them laugh or just served as a companion for a while. I recently received a card all the way from New York from eighty-four-year-old Rita in praise of the story of eighty-four-year-old Eudora and that was my week made
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Title 1: The Air Raid Book Club
Title 2: A Girls' Guide to Winning the War
Genre: Historical Romance
Format: Hardback
Dedication Available: YES
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Title 1: The Air Raid Book Club
As the bombs began to fall, the book club kept their hopes alive...
London, 1938. Bookseller Gertie Bingham is facing difficult times, having just lost her beloved husband, Harry, and with a lingering sadness at never having been able to have a child of her own. Struggling to face running the bookshop she and Harry opened together, Gertie is preparing to sell up and move away when she is asked if she would be willing to take in a young Jewish refugee from Germany. Gertie is unsure and when sullen teenager Hedy Fischer arrives, Gertie fears she has nothing left to give the troubled girl.
But when the German bombers come and the lights go out over London, Gertie and Hedy realise that joining forces will make them stronger, and that books have the power to bring young and old together and unite a community in need in its darkest hour...
Title 2: A Girls' Guide to Winning the War
Can two young women and one book change the course of war?
1940. Whip-smart librarian Peggy Sparks is determined to make sure that her brother Joe returns from the frontline to their London home, which they share with their beloved mother and grandmother. So when she is offered a once-in-a-lifetime job at the heart of the war effort, Peggy jumps at the prospect of making a real contribution to her country.
But when she finds herself working under the fanciful socialite Lady Marigold Cecily, Peggy discovers that those around her are more keen on dancing at the Café de Paris than on ending the war. Writing accounts of her daily life is the only thing keeping Peggy’s hopes alive. But when she finds her inner-most thoughts accidentally published by the Ministry of Information, Peggy realises she needs Marigold’s help to save her job, and to bring her brother home . . .
Author Bio:
I am the author of seven novels and one novella. My first book, Not Quite Perfect was a Kindle number one bestseller and my most recent featuring octogenarian, Eudora Honeysett was a USA Today bestseller as well as being nominated for the RNA Contemporary Novel Award. My new book, The Air Raid Book Club is my first historical fiction novel and will be published on the 11th of July. I can’t wait for readers to meet Gertie and Hedy, who are thrown together by the events of the Second World War and who form a book club to support their community through these dark times. This book is particularly special to me as I’ve spent my life around books, from trips to the library with my Mum as a child to my early career as a bookseller on Charing Cross Road and then over ten years in publishing and now as a writer and creative writing teacher.
My favourite thing about being an author is when readers contact me to let me know that a book has touched them, made them laugh or just served as a companion for a while. I recently received a card all the way from New York from eighty-four-year-old Rita in praise of the story of eighty-four-year-old Eudora and that was my week made
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Claire Wilson
Claire Wilson
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Book Title: Five by Five
Genre: Crime/thriller
Format: Hardback
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The Book:
Just because the most dangerous criminals in society are caught and locked up, doesn’t mean they stop committing crime.
That’s where Kennedy Allardyce comes in – monitoring not just the prisoners, but also the staff.
And she’s just stumbled across her most dangerous foe yet – rumours of a corrupt guard with lethal influence. And what’s worst, it seems they’ve already realised Kennedy is on their tail.
At least one thing is giving her joy – a blossoming relationship with Molly, a beautiful, enigmatic new guard.
Wouldn’t it be awful if the killer she’s hunting turned out to be the woman she’s falling for?
Described as Line of Duty meets Orange is the New Black;
Five by Five won the inaugural Penguin Michael Joseph Undiscovered Writers Prize and is based on the author’s experience working in a Scottish Prison.
‘Raw, brutal, claustrophobic, fast and impossible to put down. Written by someone who's walked the walk and seen the prison system close up’ Neil Lancaster, bestselling author of Dead Man’s Grave
‘Grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go’ Professor David Wilson, leading criminologist and author of My Life with Murderers
‘Brilliantly plotted, and so tense I forgot to breathe in places’ Lisa Hall, author of Between You and Me
‘Gritty and unflinching, unbearably tense and claustrophobic, it gripped me throughout. Claire’s professional expertise shines through and gives such authenticity to the story’ Natalie Chandler, author of What We Did
The Author:
Claire is from Falkirk, Scotland. Five by Five is based on her day job as an intelligence analyst in a Scottish Prison. She said: “I’ve always been taught to write what you know and I’m using my knowledge of the prison service to bring to life a unique crime setting and a heartbreaking dilemma. I can’t wait to welcome you into the depths of HMP Forth Valley.”
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Genre: Crime/thriller
Format: Hardback
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The Book:
Just because the most dangerous criminals in society are caught and locked up, doesn’t mean they stop committing crime.
That’s where Kennedy Allardyce comes in – monitoring not just the prisoners, but also the staff.
And she’s just stumbled across her most dangerous foe yet – rumours of a corrupt guard with lethal influence. And what’s worst, it seems they’ve already realised Kennedy is on their tail.
At least one thing is giving her joy – a blossoming relationship with Molly, a beautiful, enigmatic new guard.
Wouldn’t it be awful if the killer she’s hunting turned out to be the woman she’s falling for?
Described as Line of Duty meets Orange is the New Black;
Five by Five won the inaugural Penguin Michael Joseph Undiscovered Writers Prize and is based on the author’s experience working in a Scottish Prison.
‘Raw, brutal, claustrophobic, fast and impossible to put down. Written by someone who's walked the walk and seen the prison system close up’ Neil Lancaster, bestselling author of Dead Man’s Grave
‘Grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go’ Professor David Wilson, leading criminologist and author of My Life with Murderers
‘Brilliantly plotted, and so tense I forgot to breathe in places’ Lisa Hall, author of Between You and Me
‘Gritty and unflinching, unbearably tense and claustrophobic, it gripped me throughout. Claire’s professional expertise shines through and gives such authenticity to the story’ Natalie Chandler, author of What We Did
The Author:
Claire is from Falkirk, Scotland. Five by Five is based on her day job as an intelligence analyst in a Scottish Prison. She said: “I’ve always been taught to write what you know and I’m using my knowledge of the prison service to bring to life a unique crime setting and a heartbreaking dilemma. I can’t wait to welcome you into the depths of HMP Forth Valley.”
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Jemma Hatt
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*Two Book Bonanza
Title 1: Secrets at No.6
Title 2: Secrets at No.7
Genre: Children - Mystery & Adventure
Format: Paperbacks
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The Book 1 : Secrets at No.6
Edwardian London, a forbidden friendship and a house filled with secrets …
A robbery rocks the entire household of No.6, and everyone is a suspect. Twelve-year-old trainee housemaid Alice and reclusive young aristocrat Theo are determined to solve the case. As they investigate upstairs and downstairs to track down the culprit, the mystery deepens and danger looms closer.
Join them in an adventure spanning the grand streets of Belgravia to the Docklands of the East End in their headlong race to uncover the truth.
The Book 2: Secrets at No.7
An abandoned mansion, strange noises and secret spies …
Detective duo Alice and Theo reunite with their East End friends to solve a new mystery in Edwardian London. Their curiosity is awakened when sounds come from the spooky house next door. A plea for help catapults the gang into a thrilling chase.
Join them as they dash across historic sites from the British Museum to hidden catacombs in a fast-paced action adventure.
The Author:
Hello! My name is Jemma, and I write stories for the young and the young at heart!
Over the years I’ve lived and worked in London, Exeter, New York and Delaware, and am now living close to where I grew up in Sevenoaks, Kent.
I’m best known for The Adventurers Series, featuring a group of children and their Border collie as they travel everywhere from Cornwall to Cairo in search of treasure, adventure and fun! The series has been translated into Estonian, Finnish, Polish and Spanish to date, and won the inaugural Children’s Selfies Award in 2020.
In 2023 Secrets at No.6 was released: the first book in my new mystery series set in Edwardian London.
Previously in 2021 my first non-Adventurers book, The Treasure of Tea Towers, was published by Klett Sprachen in Germany.
Reading has always been one of my favourite things to do; during reading hour at primary school I would become so absorbed in imaginary worlds that at the end my name would have to be called several times before I’d notice! One teacher even arranged a hearing test for me! (My hearing was fine – my listening skills, not so much!)
A good book becomes like an old friend, being revisited again and again. I hope to entertain young readers with adventures and laughs to enjoy alongside the characters.
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Title 1: Secrets at No.6
Title 2: Secrets at No.7
Genre: Children - Mystery & Adventure
Format: Paperbacks
Signed: Dedications are Available
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: Worldwide
The Book 1 : Secrets at No.6
Edwardian London, a forbidden friendship and a house filled with secrets …
A robbery rocks the entire household of No.6, and everyone is a suspect. Twelve-year-old trainee housemaid Alice and reclusive young aristocrat Theo are determined to solve the case. As they investigate upstairs and downstairs to track down the culprit, the mystery deepens and danger looms closer.
Join them in an adventure spanning the grand streets of Belgravia to the Docklands of the East End in their headlong race to uncover the truth.
The Book 2: Secrets at No.7
An abandoned mansion, strange noises and secret spies …
Detective duo Alice and Theo reunite with their East End friends to solve a new mystery in Edwardian London. Their curiosity is awakened when sounds come from the spooky house next door. A plea for help catapults the gang into a thrilling chase.
Join them as they dash across historic sites from the British Museum to hidden catacombs in a fast-paced action adventure.
The Author:
Hello! My name is Jemma, and I write stories for the young and the young at heart!
Over the years I’ve lived and worked in London, Exeter, New York and Delaware, and am now living close to where I grew up in Sevenoaks, Kent.
I’m best known for The Adventurers Series, featuring a group of children and their Border collie as they travel everywhere from Cornwall to Cairo in search of treasure, adventure and fun! The series has been translated into Estonian, Finnish, Polish and Spanish to date, and won the inaugural Children’s Selfies Award in 2020.
In 2023 Secrets at No.6 was released: the first book in my new mystery series set in Edwardian London.
Previously in 2021 my first non-Adventurers book, The Treasure of Tea Towers, was published by Klett Sprachen in Germany.
Reading has always been one of my favourite things to do; during reading hour at primary school I would become so absorbed in imaginary worlds that at the end my name would have to be called several times before I’d notice! One teacher even arranged a hearing test for me! (My hearing was fine – my listening skills, not so much!)
A good book becomes like an old friend, being revisited again and again. I hope to entertain young readers with adventures and laughs to enjoy alongside the characters.
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Website: https://www.jemmahatt.com
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Iqbal Hussain
Iqbal Hussain
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Book Title: Northern Boy
Genre: Coming of Age Fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
Meet Rafi Aziz, an ABBA-loving ten-year-old growing up in early ‘80s Lancashire. Flamboyant, sensitive and confused about his feelings for the new boy in school, Rafi is a butterfly among the bricks.
He has to face bullies, challenge the shifting expectations of his eccentric mother and break out from the confines of his smalltown world if he is to be true to himself.
But Rafi isn’t prepared to leave his childhood behind without one final flourish of high kicks, a swish of sequinned cape and his impeccably Brylcreemed head held high.
The Author:
I studied Mathematics at a small Welsh university, far from the cobbled streets of my childhood. But I chose to earn a living with words. I worked as a journalist, on publications ranging from the Guardian to the Young Telegraph. In recent years, I've turned to fiction, writing short stories, often based on my cultural heritage. I have also written my first full work, Northern Boy, a coming-of-age novel about being a “butterfly among the bricks”. It will be published in Summer 2024 by Unbound Firsts.
I live in north London with my partner and our labradoodle Milo. When I'm not working on my writing or in my day job at a large City law firm, I enjoy long walks in Epping Forest, dreaming up new stories. I also compose music and would one day love to write an all-out Gothic musical version of Dracula.
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Genre: Coming of Age Fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
Meet Rafi Aziz, an ABBA-loving ten-year-old growing up in early ‘80s Lancashire. Flamboyant, sensitive and confused about his feelings for the new boy in school, Rafi is a butterfly among the bricks.
He has to face bullies, challenge the shifting expectations of his eccentric mother and break out from the confines of his smalltown world if he is to be true to himself.
But Rafi isn’t prepared to leave his childhood behind without one final flourish of high kicks, a swish of sequinned cape and his impeccably Brylcreemed head held high.
The Author:
I studied Mathematics at a small Welsh university, far from the cobbled streets of my childhood. But I chose to earn a living with words. I worked as a journalist, on publications ranging from the Guardian to the Young Telegraph. In recent years, I've turned to fiction, writing short stories, often based on my cultural heritage. I have also written my first full work, Northern Boy, a coming-of-age novel about being a “butterfly among the bricks”. It will be published in Summer 2024 by Unbound Firsts.
I live in north London with my partner and our labradoodle Milo. When I'm not working on my writing or in my day job at a large City law firm, I enjoy long walks in Epping Forest, dreaming up new stories. I also compose music and would one day love to write an all-out Gothic musical version of Dracula.
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Alex Frost
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Title: Our Daily Bread
Genre: Biography - Lifestyle
Format: Hardback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: Free
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The Book:
‘No one cares, that’s the real pandemic’
A warmly funny, intensely moving and startlingly personal account of the lives of an urban parish priest and his parishioners.
Father Alex Frost was not always a man of the cloth. He found his calling while running an Argos store in his native Burnley, moonlighting as a stand-up comedian and die-hard fan of The Clarets and Depeche Mode.
But having achieved his profession, Fr Alex quickly recognised the 17,000 inhabitants of his new parish were in dire need of help. Burnley is typical of many towns across Britain: a place of run-down council estates, severe poverty litter, crime and drugs, but also a place where the sacred sits alongside the secular in an intimate and personal way. And so it was that he found himself running a food bank from a car park, helping the desperate amid his flock as the pandemic raged.
Fr Alex’s down-to-earth style of ministry struck a chord with people of all faiths, cultures and class at a time when the divide between rich and poor is widening cataclysmically. But amid the tragedy, addiction, appalling loss, illness and neglect, there also lies hope, joy and moments of comedy. Our Daily Bread is as much the story of the rich cast of characters that cross the threshold of any church as it is our vicar’s. Through them it shows the continued relevance of the church for those in peril: the poor and the marginalised.
This heartfelt and moving book seeks to give a voice to the voiceless, charting the tragedy and pain, humour and hope which are ever-present in his community. It is ultimately about modern poverty – and how we all can, and should, espouse Christian virtues of love, kindness, tolerance.
The Author:
Fr Alex Frost is the vicar of St Matthew’s the Apostle, Burnley, where he grew up. He describes himself as the ‘fundamentally unemployable’ host of The God Cast, a podcast devoted to issues of faith and spirituality, which has featured celebrities such as Eamonn Holmes, Alastair Campbell, Edwina Currie, Dom Joly, George Galloway, Anthea Turner and football legend Lou Macari. Ordained in 2012 after a mixed career working as a football referee, manager at Argos and a stand-up comic, Fr Alex was recently appointed to the General Synod for Blackburn Diocese. He is married and has three children.
Fr Alex made headlines when he featured in a 2021 BBC documentary The Cost of Covid – One Year On, which has been viewed over 12 million times since it was aired. Running a food bank from a car park in Burnley, helping the desperate amid his flock as the pandemic raged, Fr Alex’s down-to-earth style of ministry struck a chord with people of all faiths, cultures and classes across the UK in a time when the divide between rich and poor widens cataclysmically. The Church of England priest, who sports tattoos of his favourite band Depeche Mode, has become the last bastion of support for many in the aftermath of austerity measures, Government cuts and Covid 19 upon a community already ravaged by poverty, addiction and neglect. ‘No-one cares, that is the real pandemic,’ Fr Alex says about his 17,000 parishioners whose souls he has care of at St Matthew’s, yards from the estates which have been abandoned and forgotten.
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Genre: Biography - Lifestyle
Format: Hardback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: Free
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The Book:
‘No one cares, that’s the real pandemic’
A warmly funny, intensely moving and startlingly personal account of the lives of an urban parish priest and his parishioners.
Father Alex Frost was not always a man of the cloth. He found his calling while running an Argos store in his native Burnley, moonlighting as a stand-up comedian and die-hard fan of The Clarets and Depeche Mode.
But having achieved his profession, Fr Alex quickly recognised the 17,000 inhabitants of his new parish were in dire need of help. Burnley is typical of many towns across Britain: a place of run-down council estates, severe poverty litter, crime and drugs, but also a place where the sacred sits alongside the secular in an intimate and personal way. And so it was that he found himself running a food bank from a car park, helping the desperate amid his flock as the pandemic raged.
Fr Alex’s down-to-earth style of ministry struck a chord with people of all faiths, cultures and class at a time when the divide between rich and poor is widening cataclysmically. But amid the tragedy, addiction, appalling loss, illness and neglect, there also lies hope, joy and moments of comedy. Our Daily Bread is as much the story of the rich cast of characters that cross the threshold of any church as it is our vicar’s. Through them it shows the continued relevance of the church for those in peril: the poor and the marginalised.
This heartfelt and moving book seeks to give a voice to the voiceless, charting the tragedy and pain, humour and hope which are ever-present in his community. It is ultimately about modern poverty – and how we all can, and should, espouse Christian virtues of love, kindness, tolerance.
The Author:
Fr Alex Frost is the vicar of St Matthew’s the Apostle, Burnley, where he grew up. He describes himself as the ‘fundamentally unemployable’ host of The God Cast, a podcast devoted to issues of faith and spirituality, which has featured celebrities such as Eamonn Holmes, Alastair Campbell, Edwina Currie, Dom Joly, George Galloway, Anthea Turner and football legend Lou Macari. Ordained in 2012 after a mixed career working as a football referee, manager at Argos and a stand-up comic, Fr Alex was recently appointed to the General Synod for Blackburn Diocese. He is married and has three children.
Fr Alex made headlines when he featured in a 2021 BBC documentary The Cost of Covid – One Year On, which has been viewed over 12 million times since it was aired. Running a food bank from a car park in Burnley, helping the desperate amid his flock as the pandemic raged, Fr Alex’s down-to-earth style of ministry struck a chord with people of all faiths, cultures and classes across the UK in a time when the divide between rich and poor widens cataclysmically. The Church of England priest, who sports tattoos of his favourite band Depeche Mode, has become the last bastion of support for many in the aftermath of austerity measures, Government cuts and Covid 19 upon a community already ravaged by poverty, addiction and neglect. ‘No-one cares, that is the real pandemic,’ Fr Alex says about his 17,000 parishioners whose souls he has care of at St Matthew’s, yards from the estates which have been abandoned and forgotten.
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Lilac Mills
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Title: The Tanglewood Bookshop
Genre: Christmassy/Romcom
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: Yes
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Bids Accepted: UK
Blurb:
A rural book shop. A chance to start over. But can she make her dream a reality?
Kazz used to love the excitement of her London life, but lately her passion for expensive city living has begun to wane. So when she's given the opportunity to open a bookshop in picturesque Tanglewood, she jumps at the chance.
But village life is much quieter than she anticipated – is she actually suited for rural living? Resigned to a boring and uneventful Christmas, when she meets gorgeous Saul she is more than ready to have some fun and enjoy the festivities. If only Saul didn't have a reputation for being a player...
Will Kazz become the heroine in her own Christmas romance, or will he love her and leave her under the mistletoe?
Author Bio:
Lilac Mills lives on a Welsh mountain with her very patient husband and incredibly sweet dog, where she grows veggies (if the slugs don't get them), bakes (badly) and loves making things out of glitter and glue (a mess, usually). She's been an avid reader ever since she got her hands on a copy of Noddy Goes to Toytown when she was five, and she once tried to read everything in her local library starting with A and working her way through the alphabet.
She loves long, hot summer days in the garden, and cold winter ones snuggled in front of the fire, but whatever the weather she's usually writing or thinking about writing, with heartwarming romance and happy-ever-afters always on her mind.
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Genre: Christmassy/Romcom
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Bids Accepted: UK
Blurb:
A rural book shop. A chance to start over. But can she make her dream a reality?
Kazz used to love the excitement of her London life, but lately her passion for expensive city living has begun to wane. So when she's given the opportunity to open a bookshop in picturesque Tanglewood, she jumps at the chance.
But village life is much quieter than she anticipated – is she actually suited for rural living? Resigned to a boring and uneventful Christmas, when she meets gorgeous Saul she is more than ready to have some fun and enjoy the festivities. If only Saul didn't have a reputation for being a player...
Will Kazz become the heroine in her own Christmas romance, or will he love her and leave her under the mistletoe?
Author Bio:
Lilac Mills lives on a Welsh mountain with her very patient husband and incredibly sweet dog, where she grows veggies (if the slugs don't get them), bakes (badly) and loves making things out of glitter and glue (a mess, usually). She's been an avid reader ever since she got her hands on a copy of Noddy Goes to Toytown when she was five, and she once tried to read everything in her local library starting with A and working her way through the alphabet.
She loves long, hot summer days in the garden, and cold winter ones snuggled in front of the fire, but whatever the weather she's usually writing or thinking about writing, with heartwarming romance and happy-ever-afters always on her mind.
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Lily Joseph
Lily Joseph
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Title: Stuck Together
Genre: Romantic Comedy
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The Book;
The hate is real. So is the chemistry.
Annie is heading into the holidays alone. And as a confirmed singleton, she decides to open a shop selling the kind of treats every single woman would want to find under the tree. After all, who doesn’t like to get a ‘Premium Sensual Lifestyle Product’ for Christmas, right?
Penn is in a bind. He needs to come home for Christmas with a girl, or his parents will set him up with someone ‘suitable’. Nothing is too good for the Honourable Peregrine Burton-Edwards after all. But that’s not what Penn wants. He just wants to sell vintage records in his shop and meet a nice, normal girl.
The first time Annie and Penn meet, Annie feels a flutter in her chest – he’s tall, dark and handsome, with cheekbones you could sharpen a blade on. So when he offers to share the shop with her to save on rent, she gladly accepts.
Huge mistake… Annie and Penn are poles apart and butt heads at every turn. But with the holidays looming, Penn will soon need to ask for a big favour, and Annie, with no plans to speak of, is the only girl who can help. As the arguments get more heated, so do the sparks flying between them. Will they put their differences aside and come together? And could it be for more than just Christmas?
The Author:
I’m Lily Joseph and I’m a romantic comedy author based in the North-East of England; a setting that features heavily in my writing.
My first novel, The Near Miss, about fate, love and a close encounter with a falling window is available now. My upcoming novel, Stuck Together, a Christmassy enemies-to-lovers romance will be released on October 29th and is available to pre-order.
I also dabble in writing crime fiction and my current work-in-progress was shortlisted for the 2023 Lindisfarne Prize.
Outside of my writing life I work as a dentist (trigger warning for those that aren’t a fan), and live in North Yorkshire with my partner, two teens and two cats, none of whom are interested in books whatsoever. At least the cats have an excuse.
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Genre: Romantic Comedy
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
The hate is real. So is the chemistry.
Annie is heading into the holidays alone. And as a confirmed singleton, she decides to open a shop selling the kind of treats every single woman would want to find under the tree. After all, who doesn’t like to get a ‘Premium Sensual Lifestyle Product’ for Christmas, right?
Penn is in a bind. He needs to come home for Christmas with a girl, or his parents will set him up with someone ‘suitable’. Nothing is too good for the Honourable Peregrine Burton-Edwards after all. But that’s not what Penn wants. He just wants to sell vintage records in his shop and meet a nice, normal girl.
The first time Annie and Penn meet, Annie feels a flutter in her chest – he’s tall, dark and handsome, with cheekbones you could sharpen a blade on. So when he offers to share the shop with her to save on rent, she gladly accepts.
Huge mistake… Annie and Penn are poles apart and butt heads at every turn. But with the holidays looming, Penn will soon need to ask for a big favour, and Annie, with no plans to speak of, is the only girl who can help. As the arguments get more heated, so do the sparks flying between them. Will they put their differences aside and come together? And could it be for more than just Christmas?
The Author:
I’m Lily Joseph and I’m a romantic comedy author based in the North-East of England; a setting that features heavily in my writing.
My first novel, The Near Miss, about fate, love and a close encounter with a falling window is available now. My upcoming novel, Stuck Together, a Christmassy enemies-to-lovers romance will be released on October 29th and is available to pre-order.
I also dabble in writing crime fiction and my current work-in-progress was shortlisted for the 2023 Lindisfarne Prize.
Outside of my writing life I work as a dentist (trigger warning for those that aren’t a fan), and live in North Yorkshire with my partner, two teens and two cats, none of whom are interested in books whatsoever. At least the cats have an excuse.
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Lola Jay
Lola Jay
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Title: The Attic Child
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
A hauntingly powerful and emotionally charged novel about family secrets, love and loss, identity and belonging.
Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret. Early 1900s Taken from his homeland, twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of the time locked away in the attic of a large house by the sea. The only time Celestine isn’t bound by confines of the small space is when he is acting as an unpaid servant to English explorer Sir Richard Babbington, As the years pass, he desperately clings on to memories of his family in Africa, even as he struggles to remember his mother’s face, and sometimes his real name . . . 1974: Lowra, a young orphan girl born into wealth and privilege whose fortunes have now changed, finds herself trapped in the same attic. Searching for a ray of light in the darkness of the attic, Lowra finds under the floorboards an old-fashioned pen, a porcelain doll, a beaded necklace, and a message carved on the wall, written in an unidentifiable language. Providing comfort for her when all hope is lost, these clues will lead her to uncover the secrets of the attic.
The Author:
Lola Jaye is an author, registered psychotherapist and speaker who has penned six novels and a self-help book.
She was born and raised in London, England and has lived in Nigeria and the United States. She currently works as a psychotherapist. She has written for, CNN, HuffPost, Essence and the BBC and also speaks on issues of mental health and racism. She has also appeared on national television, most recently discussing the inspiration for her latest novel The Attic Child.
Lola once gave a presentation on imposter syndrome – a subject close to her heart, because at times she’s unable to believe she’s an actual writer!
The Attic Child is her first epic historical novel.
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Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
A hauntingly powerful and emotionally charged novel about family secrets, love and loss, identity and belonging.
Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret. Early 1900s Taken from his homeland, twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of the time locked away in the attic of a large house by the sea. The only time Celestine isn’t bound by confines of the small space is when he is acting as an unpaid servant to English explorer Sir Richard Babbington, As the years pass, he desperately clings on to memories of his family in Africa, even as he struggles to remember his mother’s face, and sometimes his real name . . . 1974: Lowra, a young orphan girl born into wealth and privilege whose fortunes have now changed, finds herself trapped in the same attic. Searching for a ray of light in the darkness of the attic, Lowra finds under the floorboards an old-fashioned pen, a porcelain doll, a beaded necklace, and a message carved on the wall, written in an unidentifiable language. Providing comfort for her when all hope is lost, these clues will lead her to uncover the secrets of the attic.
The Author:
Lola Jaye is an author, registered psychotherapist and speaker who has penned six novels and a self-help book.
She was born and raised in London, England and has lived in Nigeria and the United States. She currently works as a psychotherapist. She has written for, CNN, HuffPost, Essence and the BBC and also speaks on issues of mental health and racism. She has also appeared on national television, most recently discussing the inspiration for her latest novel The Attic Child.
Lola once gave a presentation on imposter syndrome – a subject close to her heart, because at times she’s unable to believe she’s an actual writer!
The Attic Child is her first epic historical novel.
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Helena Kelly
Helena Kelly
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Book Title: The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens
Genre: Biography
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
Think you already know the story of Charles Dickens' life? Think again.
Almost everything you're familiar with was first mentioned in an authorised biography written by Dickens' close friend John Forster 150 years ago. It's the version of events that Dickens himself chose to make public, and newly accessible archives reveal that it's crammed with gaps, inconsistencies, and outright lies.
There's the sister whose existence Dickens kept secret and the Jewish relations whose faith he strove to conceal. There's plagiarism, fraud, and suicide.
And that's only for starters.
Helena Kelly, author of the acclaimed Jane Austen, the Secret Radical, retells Dickens' story from his childhood to his deathbed, uncovers the truths he tried to keep hidden, and offers a fresh - and deeply troubling - perspective on the man who remains one of Britain's best-known novelists.
You won't be able to look at him - or his work - in the same way again.
The Author:
Dr. Helena Kelly is a scholar and author known for her work on notable literary figures. She holds a doctorate in English Literature from the University of Oxford and has taught there as well.
Dr. Kelly has written several acclaimed books, including Jane Austen, the Secret Radical and The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens. Currently, she is a visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing
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Genre: Biography
Format: Paperback
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The Book:
Think you already know the story of Charles Dickens' life? Think again.
Almost everything you're familiar with was first mentioned in an authorised biography written by Dickens' close friend John Forster 150 years ago. It's the version of events that Dickens himself chose to make public, and newly accessible archives reveal that it's crammed with gaps, inconsistencies, and outright lies.
There's the sister whose existence Dickens kept secret and the Jewish relations whose faith he strove to conceal. There's plagiarism, fraud, and suicide.
And that's only for starters.
Helena Kelly, author of the acclaimed Jane Austen, the Secret Radical, retells Dickens' story from his childhood to his deathbed, uncovers the truths he tried to keep hidden, and offers a fresh - and deeply troubling - perspective on the man who remains one of Britain's best-known novelists.
You won't be able to look at him - or his work - in the same way again.
The Author:
Dr. Helena Kelly is a scholar and author known for her work on notable literary figures. She holds a doctorate in English Literature from the University of Oxford and has taught there as well.
Dr. Kelly has written several acclaimed books, including Jane Austen, the Secret Radical and The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens. Currently, she is a visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing
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Jenny O'Brien
Jenny O'Brien
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Title: Cage of Bones
Genre: Detective Fiction
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The Book:
Human bones in a crab pot. A family's dark secrets. A killer's twisted revenge.
When human remains are found in a fisherman's crab pot, Detective Alana Mack faces her toughest case yet. As she unravels a complex web of genetic links, Alana becomes the target of a seemingly random attack, leaving her injured and reliant on her ex-husband for help.
Determined to solve the case, Alana discovers a chilling connection between the victim and Ciara Buckley, the sole survive of a house fire who shares DNA with the unidentified woman. But Ciara believes both her parents died in the blaze that scarred her childhood.
When the fisherman's estranged brother is found dead, Alana uncovers a startling truth – both were adopted, and their mother vanished decades ago. As she decodes cryptic forensic clues, Alana races to stop the killer from erasing more family secrets. Can she catch the culprit before becoming the next victim?
The Author:
Born in Dublin, Jenny O’Brien moved to Wales and then Guernsey, where she tries to find time to both read and write in between working as a nurse and ferrying around three teenagers.
In her spare time she can be found frowning at her wonky cakes and even wonkier breads. You'll be pleased to note she won't be entering Bake Off. She's also an all-year-round sea swimmer.
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Genre: Detective Fiction
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The Book:
Human bones in a crab pot. A family's dark secrets. A killer's twisted revenge.
When human remains are found in a fisherman's crab pot, Detective Alana Mack faces her toughest case yet. As she unravels a complex web of genetic links, Alana becomes the target of a seemingly random attack, leaving her injured and reliant on her ex-husband for help.
Determined to solve the case, Alana discovers a chilling connection between the victim and Ciara Buckley, the sole survive of a house fire who shares DNA with the unidentified woman. But Ciara believes both her parents died in the blaze that scarred her childhood.
When the fisherman's estranged brother is found dead, Alana uncovers a startling truth – both were adopted, and their mother vanished decades ago. As she decodes cryptic forensic clues, Alana races to stop the killer from erasing more family secrets. Can she catch the culprit before becoming the next victim?
The Author:
Born in Dublin, Jenny O’Brien moved to Wales and then Guernsey, where she tries to find time to both read and write in between working as a nurse and ferrying around three teenagers.
In her spare time she can be found frowning at her wonky cakes and even wonkier breads. You'll be pleased to note she won't be entering Bake Off. She's also an all-year-round sea swimmer.
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Kathryn Freeman
Kathryn Freeman
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Title:Thank You, Next
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
In this game of hearts, the stakes have never been higher…
Molly Harris is used to being left. Parents, boyfriends – she’s the queen of rejection. Her latest boyfriend, gym-fanatic Duncan, dumps her to go on reality dating show The One which sets up hot singletons to date for four weeks before meeting at the altar to say, ‘I do’.
But Duncan was the one who picked Molly up and put her back together the last time her heart got broken, so, determined not to let ‘The One’ get away, she follows Duncan onto the show. If she can prove that they’re meant to be, she might just get the happily ever after of her dreams…
But on the first day of filming, another reminder of her painful history walks into Happily Ever After Towers: Ben Knight, her it’s-not-you-it’s-me heartbreaker. The one she loved before Duncan.
In four weeks’ time, who will she meet at the altar? Duncan, the first person who ever made her feel loved, or Ben, the first person who made her feel?
The Author:
A former pharmacist, I now write romantic comedies; books that bring a smile to the face, but also a lump to the throat. Mr Right Across the Street won the RNA Award for Romantic Comedy in 2022.
With a husband who asks every Valentine’s Day whether he has to buy a card (yes, he does), the romance is all in my head. Then again, his unstinting support of my career change proves love isn't always about hearts and flowers - and heroes come in many disguises.
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Genre: Romantic Comedy
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The Book;
In this game of hearts, the stakes have never been higher…
Molly Harris is used to being left. Parents, boyfriends – she’s the queen of rejection. Her latest boyfriend, gym-fanatic Duncan, dumps her to go on reality dating show The One which sets up hot singletons to date for four weeks before meeting at the altar to say, ‘I do’.
But Duncan was the one who picked Molly up and put her back together the last time her heart got broken, so, determined not to let ‘The One’ get away, she follows Duncan onto the show. If she can prove that they’re meant to be, she might just get the happily ever after of her dreams…
But on the first day of filming, another reminder of her painful history walks into Happily Ever After Towers: Ben Knight, her it’s-not-you-it’s-me heartbreaker. The one she loved before Duncan.
In four weeks’ time, who will she meet at the altar? Duncan, the first person who ever made her feel loved, or Ben, the first person who made her feel?
The Author:
A former pharmacist, I now write romantic comedies; books that bring a smile to the face, but also a lump to the throat. Mr Right Across the Street won the RNA Award for Romantic Comedy in 2022.
With a husband who asks every Valentine’s Day whether he has to buy a card (yes, he does), the romance is all in my head. Then again, his unstinting support of my career change proves love isn't always about hearts and flowers - and heroes come in many disguises.
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Website: https://kathrynfreeman.co.uk
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Catharine Arnold
Catharine Arnold
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Title: Pandemic 1918
Genre: History
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
In the dying months of World War I, Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world, killing between 50 and 100 million people.
German soldiers termed it Blitzkatarrh, British soldiers called it Flanders Grippe, but globally the pandemic gained the notorious title of 'Spanish Flu'.
Nowhere escaped this common enemy: in Britain, 250,000 people died, in the United States it was 750,000, five times its total military fatalities in the war, while European deaths reached over two million. The numbers are staggering. And yet at the time, news of the danger was suppressed for fear of impacting war-time morale. Even today these figures are shocking to many - the war still hiding this terrifying menace in its shadow.
And behind the numbers are human lives, stories of those who suffered and fought it - in the hospitals and laboratories. Catharine Arnold traces the course of the disease, its origins and progress, across the globe via these remarkable people. Some are well known to us, like British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, US President Woodrow Wilson, and writers Robert Graves and Vera Brittain, but many more are unknown. They are the doughboys from the US, gold miners in South Africa, schoolgirls in Great Britain and many others.
Published 100 years after the most devastating pandemic in world history, Pandemic 1918 uses previously unpublished records, memoirs, diaries and government publications to uncover the human story of 1918.
The Author:
Catharine Arnold is a popular historian, author of the London quartert (Necropolis London and its Dead, Bedlam, City of Sin and Underworld London City of Crime). She studied English literature at the University of Cambridge and holds a post graduate diploma in psychology. Catharine was UK Council for Psychotherapy Writer in Residence 2020.
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Genre: History
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
In the dying months of World War I, Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world, killing between 50 and 100 million people.
German soldiers termed it Blitzkatarrh, British soldiers called it Flanders Grippe, but globally the pandemic gained the notorious title of 'Spanish Flu'.
Nowhere escaped this common enemy: in Britain, 250,000 people died, in the United States it was 750,000, five times its total military fatalities in the war, while European deaths reached over two million. The numbers are staggering. And yet at the time, news of the danger was suppressed for fear of impacting war-time morale. Even today these figures are shocking to many - the war still hiding this terrifying menace in its shadow.
And behind the numbers are human lives, stories of those who suffered and fought it - in the hospitals and laboratories. Catharine Arnold traces the course of the disease, its origins and progress, across the globe via these remarkable people. Some are well known to us, like British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, US President Woodrow Wilson, and writers Robert Graves and Vera Brittain, but many more are unknown. They are the doughboys from the US, gold miners in South Africa, schoolgirls in Great Britain and many others.
Published 100 years after the most devastating pandemic in world history, Pandemic 1918 uses previously unpublished records, memoirs, diaries and government publications to uncover the human story of 1918.
The Author:
Catharine Arnold is a popular historian, author of the London quartert (Necropolis London and its Dead, Bedlam, City of Sin and Underworld London City of Crime). She studied English literature at the University of Cambridge and holds a post graduate diploma in psychology. Catharine was UK Council for Psychotherapy Writer in Residence 2020.
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Fiona Woodifield
Fiona Woodifield
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Two Book Special! Plus A Book of Jane Austin Sticky Notes!
Title 1: The Jane Austen Dating Agency
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Format: Paperback
Title 2: Wedding at the Jane Austen Dating Agency
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Format: Paperback
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Website: https://fionawoodifield.co.uk
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The Book 1: The Jane Austen Dating Agency
Sophie Johnson is young, intelligent and attractive. So, when she lands the dream position of Sales Executive at a leading fashion magazine, it appears she has it all. But in reality, she hates her job, is sick of her controlling mother and is a dating disaster.
Then she discovers The Jane Austen Dating Agency, an exclusive club for ladies who want to meet real gentlemen and believes her luck has changed. And when Sophie meets Darcy Drummond, she thinks her dreams have come true. That is until she discovers he is arrogant and hard-headed.
So, when Daniel Becks steps into her life, she thinks she’s found the one. But is he really all he seems?
The Jane Austen Dating Agency is for anyone who has ever dreamed of romance and wondered if it really exists.
The Book 2; Wedding at the Jane Austen Dating Agency
Sophie Johnson appears to be living the perfect life. She has landed her dream job as Managing Director of The Jane Austen Dating Agency and is dating the world’s most desirable man, Darcy Drummond.
But all is not as it seems. The relationship with Darcy is failing to live up to expectations and his awful mother is determined to cause trouble. To add to Sophie’s problems, the agency is struggling to attract enough eligible men, she has a Regency wedding to plan, and then there’s the amusing and disturbingly cute Henry Baxter who is making it hard for her to concentrate.
The problem is Sophie wants it all, but in trying to manage everything, she’s in danger of losing what matters most. Can she keep the dating agency afloat and find her own happy ever after?
Or is business and romance an impossible combination?
The Author:
Fiona Woodifield is a romantic comedy writer. 'The Jane Austen Dating Agency' is her debut novel. As a child, Fiona spent many happy hours reading each and every book she could get hold of and has always wanted to write novels ever since. She has also written non-fiction articles for magazines on diverse subjects from Jane Austen to dogs!
Fiona obviously loves writing, looking after her daughters (with the result she has begun to sympathise with Mrs Bennet), spending time with friends and family, walking her dogs, dancing, visiting stately homes (imagining she lives in them of course) and escaping into a book whilst consuming a worrying amount of chocolate.
Title 1: The Jane Austen Dating Agency
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Format: Paperback
Title 2: Wedding at the Jane Austen Dating Agency
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Format: Paperback
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Postage & Packaging: Free UK Only
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Website: https://fionawoodifield.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FionaWoodifield
The Book 1: The Jane Austen Dating Agency
Sophie Johnson is young, intelligent and attractive. So, when she lands the dream position of Sales Executive at a leading fashion magazine, it appears she has it all. But in reality, she hates her job, is sick of her controlling mother and is a dating disaster.
Then she discovers The Jane Austen Dating Agency, an exclusive club for ladies who want to meet real gentlemen and believes her luck has changed. And when Sophie meets Darcy Drummond, she thinks her dreams have come true. That is until she discovers he is arrogant and hard-headed.
So, when Daniel Becks steps into her life, she thinks she’s found the one. But is he really all he seems?
The Jane Austen Dating Agency is for anyone who has ever dreamed of romance and wondered if it really exists.
The Book 2; Wedding at the Jane Austen Dating Agency
Sophie Johnson appears to be living the perfect life. She has landed her dream job as Managing Director of The Jane Austen Dating Agency and is dating the world’s most desirable man, Darcy Drummond.
But all is not as it seems. The relationship with Darcy is failing to live up to expectations and his awful mother is determined to cause trouble. To add to Sophie’s problems, the agency is struggling to attract enough eligible men, she has a Regency wedding to plan, and then there’s the amusing and disturbingly cute Henry Baxter who is making it hard for her to concentrate.
The problem is Sophie wants it all, but in trying to manage everything, she’s in danger of losing what matters most. Can she keep the dating agency afloat and find her own happy ever after?
Or is business and romance an impossible combination?
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Fiona Woodifield is a romantic comedy writer. 'The Jane Austen Dating Agency' is her debut novel. As a child, Fiona spent many happy hours reading each and every book she could get hold of and has always wanted to write novels ever since. She has also written non-fiction articles for magazines on diverse subjects from Jane Austen to dogs!
Fiona obviously loves writing, looking after her daughters (with the result she has begun to sympathise with Mrs Bennet), spending time with friends and family, walking her dogs, dancing, visiting stately homes (imagining she lives in them of course) and escaping into a book whilst consuming a worrying amount of chocolate.
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Lynette Creswell
Lynette Creswell
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Title: Hoglets’ Christmas Magic
Genre: Children
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It’s Christmas Eve with the hoglets!
Prickles and Primrose are excited. That is until… As they decorate the Christmas tree they discover the star for the top has shattered. Not to be defeated – the brave hoglets set out into the woods to seek a substitute star but stumble across Santa instead.
What adventure will they encounter?
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If you love Winnie the Pooh you’ll fall in love with the hoglets
Prickles and Primrose, from Briar Wood.
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Lynette was born in London, but raised in Burnley, Lancashire. From the tender age of five she lived with her grandmother who gave her books to keep her quiet. Lynette found she had a passion for reading and started writing once she began school.
Lynette’s inspiration came from childhood books written by Enid Blyton. The Enchanted Wood and The Faraway Tree were her first taste of fantasy. In adulthood, Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight Series captured her own vivid imagination.
Her first novel Sinners of Magic won her acclaim and the story soon turned into a trilogy. With readers begging for more Lynette ended the series with a spin off story featuring a windigo.
Wishing to be a multi-genre author, Lynette turned her pen to romance. Her two novels: Cracks in the Glass and Two Kinds of Truth were a huge hit with readers.
Returning to her love of short story writing, Lynette entered the 2019 SWWJ (Society of Women Writers and Journalists) competition. A Slice of Cake – a light-hearted story about her five year old granddaughter came runner up.
In 2020 Lynette launched a compilation of short stories. Most having won popular writing competitions.
Later this year, Lynette is breaking out of her comfort zone with the release of her new children’s book. Hoglets’ Christmas Magic is a delightful tale starring two adorable hedgehogs. The book is due for publication 28th August by White Rabbit Books.
Lynette lives in North East Lincolnshire with her husband. All her grandchildren are the apple of her eye.
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The Book;
It’s Christmas Eve with the hoglets!
Prickles and Primrose are excited. That is until… As they decorate the Christmas tree they discover the star for the top has shattered. Not to be defeated – the brave hoglets set out into the woods to seek a substitute star but stumble across Santa instead.
What adventure will they encounter?
AND… what about the star?
If you love Winnie the Pooh you’ll fall in love with the hoglets
Prickles and Primrose, from Briar Wood.
The Author:
Lynette was born in London, but raised in Burnley, Lancashire. From the tender age of five she lived with her grandmother who gave her books to keep her quiet. Lynette found she had a passion for reading and started writing once she began school.
Lynette’s inspiration came from childhood books written by Enid Blyton. The Enchanted Wood and The Faraway Tree were her first taste of fantasy. In adulthood, Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight Series captured her own vivid imagination.
Her first novel Sinners of Magic won her acclaim and the story soon turned into a trilogy. With readers begging for more Lynette ended the series with a spin off story featuring a windigo.
Wishing to be a multi-genre author, Lynette turned her pen to romance. Her two novels: Cracks in the Glass and Two Kinds of Truth were a huge hit with readers.
Returning to her love of short story writing, Lynette entered the 2019 SWWJ (Society of Women Writers and Journalists) competition. A Slice of Cake – a light-hearted story about her five year old granddaughter came runner up.
In 2020 Lynette launched a compilation of short stories. Most having won popular writing competitions.
Later this year, Lynette is breaking out of her comfort zone with the release of her new children’s book. Hoglets’ Christmas Magic is a delightful tale starring two adorable hedgehogs. The book is due for publication 28th August by White Rabbit Books.
Lynette lives in North East Lincolnshire with her husband. All her grandchildren are the apple of her eye.
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Lizzie Chantree
Lizzie Chantree
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Title: Ninja School Mum
Genre: Romance
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Obsessive-compulsive school mum, Skye, is a lonely elite spy, who is running from her past whilst trying to protect the future of her child. She tries hard to fit in with the other parents at her son’s new school, but the only person who accepts her unconventional way of life is new mother, Thea.
Thea is feeling harassed by her sister and bored with her life, but she suspects that there is something strange about the new school mum, Skye. Thea has secrets of her own and, although the two become unlikely friends, she hesitates to tell Skye about the father of her own child.
Zack’s new business is growing faster than he could have dreamed but, suddenly, he finds himself the owner of a crumbling estate on the edge of a pretty village, and a single parent to a very demanding child. Could he make a go of things and give his daughter the life she deserved?
When three lives collide, it appears that only one of them is who they seem to be, and you never know who the person next to you in the school playground really is.
The Author:
I write sizzling romances and am an enthusiastic inventor, businesswoman and artist. I founded my first company at the age of 17 and have been creating products and driving my family mad ever since.
I live in Essex, with my gorgeous family and I sit in my rooftop studio daydreaming of new stories about quirky businesses and the romantic escapades of the women who run them. My books are full of romance, laughter and uplifting storylines.
I appeared on Sky News, ITV Lunchtime News, This Morning, The Gloria Hunniford show, The Big Breakfast, BBC’s Worldwide Radio Service, amongst others for becoming one of Fair Play London’s Female Innovators for inventing Runaway Spray, a ‘ladder’ stop spray for hosiery.
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Obsessive-compulsive school mum, Skye, is a lonely elite spy, who is running from her past whilst trying to protect the future of her child. She tries hard to fit in with the other parents at her son’s new school, but the only person who accepts her unconventional way of life is new mother, Thea.
Thea is feeling harassed by her sister and bored with her life, but she suspects that there is something strange about the new school mum, Skye. Thea has secrets of her own and, although the two become unlikely friends, she hesitates to tell Skye about the father of her own child.
Zack’s new business is growing faster than he could have dreamed but, suddenly, he finds himself the owner of a crumbling estate on the edge of a pretty village, and a single parent to a very demanding child. Could he make a go of things and give his daughter the life she deserved?
When three lives collide, it appears that only one of them is who they seem to be, and you never know who the person next to you in the school playground really is.
The Author:
I write sizzling romances and am an enthusiastic inventor, businesswoman and artist. I founded my first company at the age of 17 and have been creating products and driving my family mad ever since.
I live in Essex, with my gorgeous family and I sit in my rooftop studio daydreaming of new stories about quirky businesses and the romantic escapades of the women who run them. My books are full of romance, laughter and uplifting storylines.
I appeared on Sky News, ITV Lunchtime News, This Morning, The Gloria Hunniford show, The Big Breakfast, BBC’s Worldwide Radio Service, amongst others for becoming one of Fair Play London’s Female Innovators for inventing Runaway Spray, a ‘ladder’ stop spray for hosiery.
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Mark Bird
Mark Bird
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*Roses are red, Zombies are green, This is the strangest tale, You've ever seen, No soppy romance, No fancy cuisine, Just a deadly date on, A hellish Halloween!
As a bonus Mark is adding a paperback copy of his first book 'Halloween Date From Hell'
Book Title: The Klangaroo
Genre: Children's Picture Book
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Two baby kangaroos, one wacky inventor and a gigantic robot have a day at the zoo no one will ever forget!
With no Mummy or Daddy to teach them to hop,
the zoo's baby joeys just wobble and flop.
Dr Try builds a robot to help them bounce high,
but when things all go wrong,
will their bouncing dreams fly?
The Author:
Mark Bird is a children’s author and teacher. His debut picture book, ‘Halloween Date From Hell’ came out in October 2022 followed by ‘The Klangaroo’ in 2024. Mark has poems featured in several anthologies including Ana Sampson’s ‘Heroes and Villains: Poems about Legends’, Gaby Morgan’s ‘Cosy Poems’, Brian Moses’ ‘The Best Ever Book of Funny Poems’, Kathryn Beevors’ ‘Peak Poetry’ and in Gill Education’s ‘Over The Moon’ series. He is also featured in the upcoming ‘Sky Surfing – Adventures in a Poetry Balloon’ edited by Jonathan Humble.
Mark has also had poems published by Northern Gravy, The Dirigible Balloon and in several magazines including The Caterpillar, The Toy, Parakeet, Little Thoughts Press and Paperbound Magazine.
Many more of Mark’s poems can be found on his website and blog: http://www.Dreambeastpoems.com.
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Book Title: The Klangaroo
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Two baby kangaroos, one wacky inventor and a gigantic robot have a day at the zoo no one will ever forget!
With no Mummy or Daddy to teach them to hop,
the zoo's baby joeys just wobble and flop.
Dr Try builds a robot to help them bounce high,
but when things all go wrong,
will their bouncing dreams fly?
The Author:
Mark Bird is a children’s author and teacher. His debut picture book, ‘Halloween Date From Hell’ came out in October 2022 followed by ‘The Klangaroo’ in 2024. Mark has poems featured in several anthologies including Ana Sampson’s ‘Heroes and Villains: Poems about Legends’, Gaby Morgan’s ‘Cosy Poems’, Brian Moses’ ‘The Best Ever Book of Funny Poems’, Kathryn Beevors’ ‘Peak Poetry’ and in Gill Education’s ‘Over The Moon’ series. He is also featured in the upcoming ‘Sky Surfing – Adventures in a Poetry Balloon’ edited by Jonathan Humble.
Mark has also had poems published by Northern Gravy, The Dirigible Balloon and in several magazines including The Caterpillar, The Toy, Parakeet, Little Thoughts Press and Paperbound Magazine.
Many more of Mark’s poems can be found on his website and blog: http://www.Dreambeastpoems.com.
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Karen Swan
Karen Swan
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Title: All I Want For Christmas
Genre: Paperback First Edition
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Three first dates and an art-world mystery – it's going to be a busy Christmas for Darcy. All I Want for Christmas is the Sunday Times bestselling cosy winter romance from Karen Swan, author of Christmas By Candlelight.
Can she find love this Christmas?
Christmas in Copenhagen is a magical time of year but Darcy Cotterell isn’t feeling festive. Newly single, again, she's not even going home for Christmas. Instead she will be spending her holiday finishing her art history PhD. Her best friend, Freja, has other ideas. She signs Darcy up to a dating app, determined that she won't be lonely this Christmas.
Darcy agrees to three dates – but her mind is on work, not play: an unknown portrait by Denmark’s greatest painter has been found and she is tasked with identifying the woman in the painting. During her research, she encounters sexy, arrogant lawyer Max Lorensen – who happens to be bachelor number one! The attraction is instant but, knowing they must work together, they abandon the match. Or try to. But their feelings are undeniable - until Darcy discovers Max has an agenda . . .
Author:
Karen Swan is the Sunday Times Top Three and international best-selling author. Her novels sell all over the world and she writes two books each year - one for the summer period and one for the Christmas season. Her books are known for their evocative locations and Karen sees travel as vital research for each story. She loves to set deep, complicated love stories within twisting plots.
The Last Summer is the first book in her five-book historical series called The Wild Isle Girls, set around the dramatic evacuation of the Scottish island St Kilda in the summer of 1930. It was partly inspired by Karen’s Scottish roots: her father’s family came from Skye, moving to Fort William where Karen was christened and where many of her family still live. Her childhood memories are full of Christmases, Hogmanay and summer holidays spent in the Highlands and she was married there in 2001.
She lives in Sussex with her husband, three children and two dogs.
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The Book
Three first dates and an art-world mystery – it's going to be a busy Christmas for Darcy. All I Want for Christmas is the Sunday Times bestselling cosy winter romance from Karen Swan, author of Christmas By Candlelight.
Can she find love this Christmas?
Christmas in Copenhagen is a magical time of year but Darcy Cotterell isn’t feeling festive. Newly single, again, she's not even going home for Christmas. Instead she will be spending her holiday finishing her art history PhD. Her best friend, Freja, has other ideas. She signs Darcy up to a dating app, determined that she won't be lonely this Christmas.
Darcy agrees to three dates – but her mind is on work, not play: an unknown portrait by Denmark’s greatest painter has been found and she is tasked with identifying the woman in the painting. During her research, she encounters sexy, arrogant lawyer Max Lorensen – who happens to be bachelor number one! The attraction is instant but, knowing they must work together, they abandon the match. Or try to. But their feelings are undeniable - until Darcy discovers Max has an agenda . . .
Author:
Karen Swan is the Sunday Times Top Three and international best-selling author. Her novels sell all over the world and she writes two books each year - one for the summer period and one for the Christmas season. Her books are known for their evocative locations and Karen sees travel as vital research for each story. She loves to set deep, complicated love stories within twisting plots.
The Last Summer is the first book in her five-book historical series called The Wild Isle Girls, set around the dramatic evacuation of the Scottish island St Kilda in the summer of 1930. It was partly inspired by Karen’s Scottish roots: her father’s family came from Skye, moving to Fort William where Karen was christened and where many of her family still live. Her childhood memories are full of Christmases, Hogmanay and summer holidays spent in the Highlands and she was married there in 2001.
She lives in Sussex with her husband, three children and two dogs.
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Rob Keeley
Rob Keeley
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Book Title: The Teacher Who Knew Too Much
Genre: Children's comedy thriller
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Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker!
With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job...
This new novel from award-winning children’s and YA author Rob Keeley is a quick and breathless read, a comedy crime thriller that will enthral the young reader and keep the pages turning! Perfect for confident readers, reluctant readers or as a holiday gift.
“Rob Keeley does it again with another fantastic book for children! I have long admired his writing... His award-winning Spirits series was fabulous... I am very excited to share this book with my class in the new year. A five-star triumph from Rob Keeley.” Book Addict on The Treasure in the Tower
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Rob Keeley is an award-winning author of children’s novels, short stories and picture books, including the Spirits series. Credits include the award-listed stage play Mr. Everyone, Chain Gang and Newsjack for BBC Radio. He holds author workshops in schools and libraries, and teaches Creative Writing to children and adults.
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Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker!
With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job...
This new novel from award-winning children’s and YA author Rob Keeley is a quick and breathless read, a comedy crime thriller that will enthral the young reader and keep the pages turning! Perfect for confident readers, reluctant readers or as a holiday gift.
“Rob Keeley does it again with another fantastic book for children! I have long admired his writing... His award-winning Spirits series was fabulous... I am very excited to share this book with my class in the new year. A five-star triumph from Rob Keeley.” Book Addict on The Treasure in the Tower
The Author:
Rob Keeley is an award-winning author of children’s novels, short stories and picture books, including the Spirits series. Credits include the award-listed stage play Mr. Everyone, Chain Gang and Newsjack for BBC Radio. He holds author workshops in schools and libraries, and teaches Creative Writing to children and adults.
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