Ruby's Spoon

Author: Anna Lawrence Pietroni
Price: £12.99
Published by Chatto and Windus
Date Available: 4 February 2010

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Synopsis
This is the tale of three women - one witch, one mermaid and one missing - and how Ruby was caught up in between. When Isa Fly appears in the doorway of Captin Len's Fried Fish Shop, thirteen-year-old Ruby is entranced. Isa comes from the coast where the air is fresh; unlike Ruby's home in Cradle ...more

Parrot and Olivier in America

Author: Peter Carey
Price: £18.99
Published by Faber and Faber
Date Available: 4 February 2010

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Synopsis
Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be brought together by their travels in America. When ...more

Gone

Author: Mo Hayder
Price: £14.99
Published by Bantam Press
Date Available: 4 February 2010

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Synopsis
It's November in the West Country, and evening is closing in as murder detective Jack Caffery arrives to interview the victim of a car-jacking. He's dealt with routine car-thefts before, but this one is different. This car was taken by force. And on the back seat was a passenger. An ...more

Man from Beijing

Author: Henning Mankell
Price: £34.99
Published by Harvill Press
Date Available: 4 February 2010

UK First Edition / First Printing. SIGNED & DATED 21st January 2010 by the author.

Synopsis
One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they discover a savagely murdered man lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seems eerily quiet and deserted. Going from house to ...more

Pretty Little Things

Author: Jilliane Hoffman
Price: £12.99
Published by Harper Collins
Date Available: 4 February 2010

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Synopsis
A terrifying new standalone psycholgical thriller from the bestselling writer of 'Plea of Insanity' Special Agent Bobby Dees knows what grief feels like. He understands the pain of losing a child. And he'll do whatever he can to prevent it from happening again. The phone call that comes on a ...more

Requiem For A Slave

Author: Rosemary Rowe
Price: £19.99
Published by Severn House
Date Available: 1 February 2010

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Synopsis
Liburtus Mystery of Roman Britain

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Wheel of Fate

Author: Kate Sedley
Price: £19.99
Published by Severn House
Date Available: 1 February 2010

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Synopsis
New advernture for Roger the Chapman.

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Death of a Wine Merchant

Author: David Dickinson
Price: £18.99
Published by Constable
Date Available: 28 January 2010

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Synopsis
An unwelcome guest - Death - gatecrashes a society wedding and Lord Francis Powerscourt is summoned by his barrister friend, Charles Augustus Pugh, to investigate this most singular case of murder in the Fens. The dead man is Randolph Colville, successful wine merchant and father of the groom. ...more

Blasphemer

Author: Nigel Farndale
Price: £12.99
Published by Doubleday
Date Available: 22 January 2010

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Synopsis
On its way to the Galapagos Islands, a light aircraft ditches into the sea. Zoologist Daniel Kennedy is confronted with a stark choice - should he save himself, or Nancy, the woman he loves? But how can one moment of betrayal ever be forgiven? And after he escapes the plane and swims for ...more

Blacklands

Author: Belinda Bauer
Price: £14.99
Published by Bantam Press
Date Available: 21 January 2010

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Synopsis
Twelve-year-old Steven Lamb digs holes on Exmoor, hoping to find a body. Every day after school, while his classmates swap football stickers, Steven goes digging to lay to rest the ghost of the uncle he never knew, who disappeared aged eleven and is assumed to have fallen victim to the notorious ...more

Last 10 Seconds

Author: Simon Kernick
Price: £14.99
Published by Bantam Press
Date Available: 21 January 2010

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Synopsis
When ex-police officer John Cone is found lying wounded in a room full of dead bodies, he has a terrifying story to tell. Three days earlier he was hired by a mysterious client to snatch a suspected serial killer, Andrew Kent (aka the Penthouse Predator) from custody while he's being transferred ...more

Rome : Emperor's Spy

Author: Manda Scott
Price: £12.99
Published by Bantam Press
Date Available: 16 January 2010

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Synopsis
'Stop this fire, whatever it takes. I, your Emperor, order it'. The Emperor: Nero, Emperor of Rome and all her provinces, feared by his subjects for his temper and cruelty, is in possession of an ancient document predicting that Rome will burn. The Spy: Sebastos Pantera, assassin and spy for the ...more

Rupture

Author: Simon Lelic
Price: £12.99
Published by Picador
Date Available: 15 January 2010

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Synopsis
‘Find what you were looking for, Inspector?’

Every day the same question. A different uniform but the same question. They thought Lucia enjoyed being here. They thought that was why she kept coming back. But they were asking the wrong thing. She had found what she ...more

Shades of Grey

Author: Jasper Fforde
Price: £16.99
Published by Hodder & Stoughton
Date Available: 14 January 2010

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Synopsis
No one could cheat the Colourman and the colour test. What you got was what you were, forever. Your life, career and social standing decided right there and then, and all worrisome life-uncertainties eradicated forever. You knew who you were, what you would do, where you would go, and what was ...more

The Disappeared

Author: M. R. Hall
Price: £12.99
Published by Macmillan
Date Available: 14 January 2010

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Synopsis
Two young British students, Nazim Jamal and Rafi Hassan vanish without a trace. The police tell their parents that the boys had been under surveillance, that it was likely they left the country to pursue their dangerous new ideals. Seven years later, Nazim's grief-stricken mother is still ...more

Loss

Author: Tony Black
Price: £17.99
Published by Preface Publishing (Random House)
Date Available: 7 January 2010

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Synopsis
Gus Dury is a changed man. He is off the Edinburgh streets and back with estranged wife, Debs. He has promised her that he won't get involved in any more dodgy cases which the police can't or won't solve. And above all, he's off the drink. In his pocket at all times is a half bottle of scotch, ...more

Captain of Rome

Author: John Stack
Price: £32.99
Published by Harper Collins
Date Available: 7 January 2010

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Book Detail
The second installment of the thrilling maritime adventure; two mighty empires battle each other for control of the high seas.

Synopsis
Atticus is the young captain of the Aquila, the flagship of the attack fleet of the Roman ...more

Shangani Patrol

Author: John Wilcox
Price: £24.99
Published by Headline
Date Available: 7 January 2010

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Synopsis
This gripping new military adventure featuring Simon Fonthill brilliantly depicts one of the last and most tragic of all battles in the ‘Scramble for Africa’.

1893. In the African Cape, ex-captain and one-time subaltern Simon Fonthill and his wife Alice find themselves ...more

Death by Design

Author: Barbara Nadel
Price: £19.99
Published by Headline
Date Available: 7 January 2010

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Synopsis
Barbara Nadel's new Turkish crime novel sees Inspector Ikmen tackling a complex case of organised crime in London.

When the Istanbul police raid a counterfeit goods factory in the run-down district of Tarlabasi, a young man with explosives strapped to his chest blows himself up in ...more

Left Hand of God

Author: Paul Hoffman
Price: £15.99
Published by Michael Joseph
Date Available: 7 January 2010

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Synopsis
Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes on there and less sanctuary.” The Sanctuary of the Redeemers is a vast and desolate place – a place without joy or hope. Most of its occupants were taken there as boys and for ...more

Bequest

Author: A.K.  Shevchenko
Price: £29.99
Published by Headline
Date Available: 7 January 2010

UK First Editon / First Printing. SIGNED, LINED & DATED by the author on the title page.

History can be a powerful and ruthless enemy.

Taras Petrenko, an ambitious lieutenant of the Russian Security Service, is sieving through the Moscow archives of Stalin’s regime when he stumbles over file N1247 – a case first opened by the Russian secret police more than two ...more

Long Time Coming

Author: Robert Goddard
Price: £14.99
Published by Bantam Press
Date Available: 7 January 2010

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About the Author
Eldritch Swan is a dead man. Or at least that is what his nephew Stephen has always been told. Until one day Eldritch walks back into his life after 36 years in an Irish prison. He won't reveal any of the details of his incarceration, insisting only that he is innocent of any crime. His ...more

Master of Bruges

Author: Terence Morgan
Price: £16.99
Published by Macmillan New Writing
Date Available: 1 January 2010

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Synopsis
T.G. Morgan’s vivid debut brings to life one of Europe’s most brilliant and enigmatic painters, and compels us to look again at a sensational period in history. In fifteenth century Bruges, master painter Hans Memling is about to find himself at the heart of a political storm that ...more

Murder on London Bridge

Author: Susanna Gregory
Price: £19.99
Published by Sphere
Date Available: 20 December 2009

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Synopsis
The murder of a man in broad daylight on London Bridge is the first indication that the Earl of Clarendon's fears of a rebellion against the newly restored monarchy may be well-founded. His spy, Thomas Chaloner, suspects the assassin may be a member of a group dedicated to seeing the return of ...more

Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains

Author: Catriona McPherson
Price: £19.99
Published by Hodder & Stoughton
Date Available: 10 December 2009

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Synopsis
1st May 1926 - Dear Alec,
Just when those who should be working are all downing tools for this wretched strike (and I still can’t believe it – I mean to say: riots, Alec – in Edinburgh of all places) guess who is setting her virgin shoulder to its very first wheel? I am dressed in serge ...more

Warriors

Author: Jack Ludlow
Price: £19.99
Published by Allison and Busby
Date Available: 16 November 2009

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Synopsis
The Byzantine Empire rules in Southern Italy, but the indigenous populations are restless. The Lombards are no exception - unwilling subjects to an overwhelming military empire - yet they have been too divided to threaten the hegemony of Constantinople. One of their number, Arduin of Fassano, is ...more

An Ill Wind

Author: David Donachie
Price: £19.99
Published by Allison and Busby
Date Available: 16 November 2009

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Synopsis
It is 1793. John Pearce and his Pelicans are going home - to gain their freedom and, using the evidence they have, put the treacherous Captain Ralph Barclay in the dock. But first they must take part in the evacuation of Toulon. With the Republican Army at the gates the citizens are panicking, ...more