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£25.00

Hart of Empire - 250 Exclusive Numbered Edition

Author: Saul David

Price: £25.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 05 August 2010

 

Synopsis

Back in England following his heroics in the Zulu Wars, George Hart is summoned to a new adventure when Prime Minister Disraeli asks him to go ... read more

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£35.00

The Whisperers - Includes CD

Author: John Connolly

Price: £35.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 13 May 2010

 

Synopsis

Parker returns in the chilling new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE LOVERS. The border between Maine and Canada ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author

£24.99

Zulu Hart - Signed, Lined and Dated

Author: Saul David

Price: £24.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 01 March 2010

 

Synopsis

Bullied at school for his suspiciously dark skin and lack of a father, Hart soon learns to fight – and win. At eighteen, his world is sha ... read more

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£12.99

Zulu Hart

Author: Saul David

Price: £12.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 05 February 2010

 

Synopsis

Bullied at school for his suspiciously dark skin and lack of a father, Hart soon learns to fight – and win. At eighteen, his world is sha ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£17.99

The Viceroy's Captain

Author: Anthony Conway

Price: £17.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 07 December 2000

 

Synopsis

The Eye of the Storm is a diamond said to bring its owner control of India. Now, bandits have stolen it with a party of Bolshevik fanatics in h ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£25.00

The Garden of Weapons

Author: John Drake

Price: £25.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 01 August 1980

 

Synopsis

The Garden of Weapons is a suspenseful spy novel set in East Berlin during the Cold War. John Gardener's thriller is full of suspense and o ... read more

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£35.00

The Pirate Devlin

Author: Mark Keating

Price: £35.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 04 February 2010

 

Synopsis

As the great powers of Europe fight over the spoils of slavery, corruption and greed, the golden age of piracy is born. Sold by his father ... read more

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£39.99

Wounds of Honour (Empire)

Author: Anthony Riches

Price: £39.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 20 August 2009

 

Synopsis

0Marcus Valerius Aquila has scarcely landed in Britannia when he has to run for his life - condemned to dishonorable death by power-crazed ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£45.00

Mutiny

Author: Julian Stockwin

Price: £45.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 01 November 2003

 

Synopsis

It is 1797 when Kydd, now a master's mate, sails to the fabled Rock of Gibraltar - the uttermost end of Europe, the finality of a continent ... read more

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£24.99

Invasion

Author: Julian Stockwin

Price: £24.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 15 October 2009

 

Synopsis

Napoleon's forces are poised to invade Britain, and Commander Thomas Kydd's ship is at the forefront of the fleet defending the English ... read more

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£55.00

Artemis (Kydd 2)

Author: Julian Stockwin

Price: £55.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 04 April 2002

 

Synopsis

The second naval adventure following the life of Thomas Paine Kydd. Kydd sails into Portsmouth a hero, after a ferocious battle against the Fre ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£18.99

Last to Know

Author: Liz Allen

Price: £18.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 24 May 2004

 

Synopsis

Torn apart by tragedy, bought together by crime. Deborah Parker is the newest recruit at Jennings and Associates solicitors, and she's just ... read more

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£15.00

Mall Time

Author: Chaz Brenchley

Price: £15.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 17 October 1991

 

Synopsis

The author plots 24 hours in the lives of a group of disparate characters drawn together in a few hours of terrifying carnage.   ( ... read more

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£45.00

The Tavern in the Morning (Hawkenlye Mystery)

Author: Alys Clare

Price: £45.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 07 December 2000

 

Synopsis

This is the third book in a series of medieval mysteries, set around the Great Forest in the Weald of Kent. Josse d'Acquin is hunting a poi ... read more

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£30.00

The 37th Hour

Author: Jodi Compton

Price: £30.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 16 February 2004

 

Synopsis

Sarah Pribek is a police officer in Minneapolis' Missing Persons department. Her department, always small, is down to two people since the ... read more

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£35.00

The Black Angel

Author: John Connolly

Price: £35.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 25 April 2005

 

Synopsis

The Black Angel is not an object. The Black Angel is not a myth. The Black Angel lives. A young woman goes missing from the streets of New York ... read more

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£40.00

Dark Hollow

Author: John Connolly

Price: £40.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 06 January 2000

 

Synopsis

A young woman and her little son die at the hands of an unknown killer, and the past and present collide for Charlie Parker. Still raw from the ... read more

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£20.00

The Lovers

Author: John Connolly

Price: £20.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 09 July 2009

 

Synopsis

When Charlie Parker was still a boy, his father, a NYPD cop, killed a young couple, a boy and a girl barely older than his son, then took his o ... read more

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£25.00

Nocturnes

Author: John Connolly

Price: £25.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 11 October 2004

 

Synopsis

John Connolly, bestselling author of five brilliantly scary mystery novels, now turns his pen to the short story to give us a dozen chilling ta ... read more

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£19.99

The Prisoner of Guantanamo

Author: Dan Fesperman

Price: £19.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 27 July 2006

 

Synopsis

Revere Falk is an FBI interrogator who believes it is possible to get more from a terrorist suspect by treating him decently than by using more ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

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£50.00

Kill Chain

Author: Meg Gardiner

Price: £50.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 05 October 2006

 

Synopsis

When Evan Delaney's father disappears, the cops think he's fled the country to avoid prosecution. But Evan is sure that Phil has be ... read more

UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author

£19.99

The Dirty Secrets Club

Author: Meg Gardiner

Price: £19.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 24 July 2008

 

Synopsis

Meet Jo Beckett - a forensic psychiatrist who profiles victims lives to help solve their deaths. On a San Francisco street, Jo confronts a ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

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£135.00

China Lake

Author: Meg Gardiner

Price: £135.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 04 July 2002

 

Synopsis

Evan Delaney is a heroine of our times: a woman with a big heart, a quick tongue and a hot temper that gets her into trouble. She is shocked to ... read more

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£59.99

Jericho Point

Author: Meg Gardiner

Price: £59.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 19 July 2004

 

Synopsis

When a young woman tumbles dead onto the beach, the police identify the body. It's Evan Delaney. Except that Evan is very much alive. It ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£35.00

The Black Seraphim

Author: Michael Gilbert

Price: £35.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 01 September 1983

 

Synopsis

When overworke catches up with Dr James Scotland, the young forensic pathologist takes himself off for a month's sabbatical at the Melchest ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£35.00

The Final Throw

Author: Michael Gilbert

Price: £35.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 01 January 1983

 

Synopsis

THE FINAL THROW is one of Michael Gilbert's most exciting, complex and satisfying stories. read more

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£17.99

Without Consent

Author: Georgie Hale

Price: £17.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 01 January 2001

 

Synopsis

Detective-Inspector Ray Whitelaw thinks - like everyone else - that Danny is just another young thug. But Danny’s drama teacher is Kieran ... read more

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£18.99

Better Than Death

Author: Georgie Hale

Price: £18.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 04 August 2003

 

Synopsis

When Matthew Cosgrave and a number of fellow-students at Blackport University were acquitted of a terrible crime, he felt that he could put his ... read more

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£18.99

Hear No Evil

Author: Georgie Hale

Price: £18.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 01 September 2004

 

Synopsis

The Somerfords are the kind of family other people envy: the successful husband and his beautiful wife have a gorgeous house, lots of money and ... read more

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£75.00

Tread Softly

Author: Georgie Hale

Price: £75.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 06 July 2000

 

Synopsis

Georgie Hale's novel is set in a grimy northern university town in which a killer is murdering attractive red-haired women. The police susp ... read more

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£18.99

Haunted Ground

Author: Erin Hart

Price: £18.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 01 January 2003

 

Synopsis

When a red-haired girl's severed head is found in an ancient bog in southeast Galway, it may be an historical relic or the answer to a loca ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£18.99

The Game

Author: Mandasue Heller

Price: £18.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 03 January 2005

 

Synopsis

Mary James is a bright, confident, rebellious teenager who never sticks to the rules. Thrown out of the family home on the notorious Crescents ... read more

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£18.00

Forget Me Not

Author: Mandasue Heller

Price: £18.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 06 January 2003

 

Synopsis

Manchester's Westy Lane is no longer a safe haven for the working girl. A killer has made it his local hunting ground and leaving the polic ... read more

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£40.00

Too Many Blondes

Author: Lauren Henderson

Price: £40.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 17 October 1996

 

Synopsis

This mystery thriller is set in the Chalk Farm Gym and Leisure Centre. It is the second book to feature sculptress detective Sam Jones. &nb ... read more

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£550.00

Dead White Female

Author: Lauren Henderson

Price: £550.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 02 November 1995

 

Synopsis

When Lee Jackson is found dead the morning after a riotous London party, the verdict of police and fellow partygoers unanimous: death by misadv ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£50.00

The Stonebreakers

Author: Philip Hook

Price: £50.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 15 September 1997

 

Synopsis

Art dealer Oswald Ginn is sent a photograph of a 19th century masterpiece presumed destroyed in Dresden's bombing. As rumours of the painti ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£55.00

An Innocent Eye

Author: Philip Hook

Price: £55.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 01 January 2000

 

Synopsis

A man is found dead in a London hotel room, the only clue to his identity a polaroid of a lost Impressionist painting. A young man inherits his ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£75.00

The Soldier in the Wheatfield

Author: Philip Hook

Price: £75.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 02 July 1998

 

Synopsis

Parnello Moran buys a German romantic landscape at an auction, but then it's stolen from him. When he sets out to recover it he discovers a ... read more

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£55.00

The Bone Yard

Author: Paul Johnston

Price: £55.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 02 July 1998

 

Synopsis

Independent Edinburgh, 2022. Subversive blues-haunted private investigator Quintilian Dalrymple and his side-kick Davie try to solve a series o ... read more

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£25.00

A Deeper Shade of Blue

Author: Paul Johnston

Price: £25.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 05 September 2002

 

Synopsis

When Alex Mavros is asked to track down a missing woman, he jumps at the chance to leave the stifling heat of Athens. Travelling to the small i ... read more

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£18.99

The Last Red Death

Author: Paul Johnston

Price: £18.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 01 September 2003

 

Synopsis

The second chilling thriller featuring half Scots, half Greek detective, Alex Mavros - the new name in crime fiction: IRAKLIS - a mysterious Gr ... read more

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£35.00

Fearful Symmetry

Author: Morag Joss

Price: £35.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 04 November 1999

 

Synopsis

Exhausted after a gruelling world tour, cellist Sara Selkirk is looking forward to a few months' recuperation. But her peace is shattered w ... read more

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£45.00

Fruitful Bodies

Author: Morag Joss

Price: £45.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 04 January 2001

 

Synopsis

When she finds her first cello teacher having problems, cellist Sara Selkirk sets her up as the resident music therapist for the clientle of th ... read more

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£150.00

Funeral Music

Author: Morag Joss

Price: £150.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 05 November 1998

 

Synopsis

Cellist Sara Selkirk is apprehensive about the charity concert to be performed in Bath's Pump Room. It is the first time she has performed ... read more

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£35.00

Death in the Peerless Pool

Author: Deryn Lake

Price: £35.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 06 June 1999

 

Synopsis

After the discovery of a body in a popular swimming bath, the Peerless Pool, 18th-century apothecary John Rawlings and magistrate Blind Beak fi ... read more

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£18.99

Die Once - A Dido Hoare mystery

Author: Marianne Macdonald

Price: £18.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 06 June 2002

 

Synopsis

Tim Curwen the ideal customer. But three days after Dido Hoare sells him Charles Dickens's The Haunted Man, her elegant young customer jump ... read more

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£70.00

Bury Her Deep

Author: Catriona McPherson

Price: £70.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 09 August 2007

 

Synopsis

Dear Alec, Remember my engagement yesterday? The annual duty luncheon for the Reverend Mr Tait from which and whom I expected only boredom? I ... read more

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£16.99

Road Kill

Author: Marianne Macdonald

Price: £16.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 01 June 2000

 

Synopsis

Dido and her family find themselves in danger after Phyllis, the family's nanny, is burgled by an odd trio who seem to be looking for somet ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£10.00

Shadow Man

Author: Cody McFadyen

Price: £10.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 08 May 2006

 

Synopsis

FBI agent Smoky Barrett is no stranger to the darker recesses of the human mind. But nothing could have prepared her for the day she had to wat ... read more

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£12.99

Stag Hunt

Author: Anthony McGowan

Price: £12.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 15 March 2004

 

Synopsis

The smiling one; the one who hurt; the shy one; the one who cried; the one who kissed. That is how he remembers the gang of boys who torme ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£12.99

The First Counsel

Author: Brad Meltzer

Price: £12.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 25 January 2001

 

Synopsis

Shadow is the secret codename for the President's Daughter, Nora; when she starts dating White House lawyer Michael Garrick he feels like t ... read more

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£45.00

The Well of Lost Plots

Author: Jasper Fforde

Price: £45.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 07 July 2003

 

Synopsis

Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective an ... read more

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£95.00

Lost in a Good Book

Author: Jasper Fforde

Price: £95.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 18 July 2002

 

Synopsis

Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own doorstep. It seems tha ... read more

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£35.00

The Big Over Easy

Author: Jasper Fforde

Price: £35.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 11 July 2005

 

Synopsis

It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty, well-known nursery favourite, lar ... read more

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£30.00

Thermal Image

Author: Pat O'Keeffe

Price: £30.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 03 January 2002

 

Synopsis

Crippling debts and the return of his unfaithful partner have bent fireman, Steve Jay, out of shape. A horrific fire in East London tests him a ... read more

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£16.99

Fire Sale

Author: Sara Paretsky

Price: £16.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 13 March 2006

 

Synopsis

Death, conspiracy and burning buildings -- coming home wasn't meant to be like this. A dangerous, depressed place reeking of bad memories, ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£125.00

Lisey's Story

Author: Stephen King

Price: £125.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 24 October 2006

 

Synopsis

Lisey Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five-year marriage of profound, sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was a c ... read more

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£18.99

Burn Out

Author: Pat O'Keeffe

Price: £18.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 05 December 2002

 

Synopsis

Wales is supposed to be a rest cure, a chance to exorcise the demons of injury, guilt and betrayal. But before Steve Jay has even reached the r ... read more

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£12.99

The Valley of Secrets

Author: Charmian Hussey

Price: £12.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 04 October 2004

 

Synopsis

Abandoned as a baby, Stephen had nearly given up hope of ever finding his family. This epic adventure follows his change in fortunes as he rece ... read more

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£45.00

The Wishing Game

Author: Patrick Redmond

Price: £45.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 01 January 1999

 

Synopsis

Something terrible happened at Kirkston Abbey school for boys during 1954. More than 40 years later, Tom Webber is determined to find the truth ... read more

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£20.00

The Puppet Show

Author: Patrick Redmond

Price: £20.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 01 January 2000

 

Synopsis

Michael Turner is fighting the demons of his childhood. He has a loving fiancee and is in a promising legal career when a powerful father figur ... read more

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£40.00

Something Rotten + Postcard

Author: Jasper Fforde

Price: £40.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 26 July 2004

 

Synopsis

Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Haml ... read more

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£30.00

First Among Sequels + Postcard

Author: Jasper Fforde

Price: £30.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 05 July 2007

 

Synopsis

Fourteen years after Thursday Next pegged out at Superhoop ‘88, her Jurisfiction job has been downgraded due to a potential conflict of i ... read more

£25.00

The Fourth Bear (Large Format Hardback) + Postcard

Author: Jasper Fforde

Price: £25.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 06 July 2006

 

Synopsis

The Gingerbreadman - psychopath, sadist, convicted murderer and cake/biscuit - is loose on the streets of Reading. It isn't Jack Spratt' ... read more

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£20.00

Something Rotten (Small Hardback Edition) + Postcard

Author: Jasper Fforde

Price: £20.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 26 July 2004

 

Synopsis

Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Haml ... read more

UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author

£24.99

The Terror of Constantinople

Author: Richard Blake

Price: £24.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 05 February 2009

 

Synopsis

610AD The bloodthirsty Emperor Phocas is preparing for the greatest battle of his life. Enemy armies are racing closer to attack his fortress ... read more

£150.00

Blood and Sand

Author: Rosemary Sutcliff

Price: £150.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 01 November 1987

 

Synopsis

The Ottoman Empire (that ''Sick Old Man of Europe''), is the setting of an aptly titled novel that examines the loyalty between ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£18.00

The Vanquish Vendetta

Author: David Lee Stone

Price: £18.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 20 July 2006

 

Synopsis

Lord Curfew has been returned to Dullitch, but things are not as they seem. The real Lord Curfew was brutally murdered and now an evil impostor ... read more

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£10.99

The Ratastrophe Catastrophe

Author: David Lee Stone

Price: £10.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 12 June 2003

 

Synopsis

The Duke of Dullitch is in distress - several reports are coming in that the city is beginning to be over-run by a plague of rats. Naturally he ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£25.00

The Dwellings Debacle

Author: David Lee Stone

Price: £25.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 05 January 2006

 

Synopsis

A dark enemy is about to make its presence felt in Dullitch...something even more twisted and evil than the citizens themselves. But for Enoch ... read more

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£10.99

The Yowler Foul-Up

Author: David Lee Stone

Price: £10.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 12 June 2004

 

Synopsis

A terrible sect has arisen is Dullitch: they're dark, they're deadly and they're even more hell bent on the destruction of the city ... read more

UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author

£26.99

The Straight Razor Cure - AUGUST 2011 BOOK OF THE MONTH

Author: Daniel Polansky

Price: £26.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 09 August 2011

 

Synopsis

Welcome to Low Town. Here, the criminal is king. The streets are filled with the screeching of fish hags, the cries of swindled merchants, ... read more

UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author

£24.99

The Illusion of Murder

Author: Carol McCleary

Price: £24.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 24 June 2010

 

Synopsis

In the bustling harbour city of Port Said, Nellie witnesses a mysterious death and this makes her a target for a killer and involves her in int ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£15.00

Margarettown

Author: Gabrielle Zevin

Price: £15.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 18 July 2005

 

Synopsis

It could be about anyone - you, your parents, your best friends. But it's not. It's about a woman called Margaret Towne, and the man wh ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£16.99

The Collaborator

Author: Gerald Seymour

Price: £16.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 17 September 2009

 

Synopsis

Deadlier than the Mafia, the Camorra never forget, and never forgive. She is an Italian accountancy student in London, and her boyfriend E ... read more

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£30.00

In Your Face

Author: Scarlett Thomas

Price: £30.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 01 April 1999

 

Synopsis

Lily gets a call from her old friend Jess, a journalist selling true-life stories to a magazine. She has written a feature about three women wh ... read more

UK First Edition, Signed, Lined & Dated by the author

£19.99

Hart of Empire

Author: Saul David

Price: £19.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 05 August 2010

 

Synopsis

George Hart, back in England following his heroics in the Zulu Wars, scarcely has time to gamble away his meagre fortune when he is summoned to ... read more

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£30.00

The Long Close Call

Author: J. Wallis Martin

Price: £30.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 02 March 2000

 

Synopsis

When Flying Squad officer Robbie McLaughlan shoots and kills a robber during a bank raid, his private and professional life fall apart. When th ... read more

UK Unsigned First Edition

£95.00

The Bird Yard

Author: J. Wallis Martin

Price: £95.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 01 January 1998

 

Synopsis

Roly's Yard is an aviary tacked on to the back of a squat in Central Manchester and Roland Barnes is a killer. Or is he? Boy after boy has ... read more

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£25.00

Dancing with the Uninvited Guest

Author: J. Wallis Martin

Price: £25.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 04 April 2002

 

Synopsis

An 18-year-old girl and Francis Herrol, the owner of Lyndle Hall, disappear. First assumptions are that they ran off together, but when Detecti ... read more

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£250.00

A Likeness in Stone

Author: J. Wallis Martin

Price: £250.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 20 March 1997

 

Synopsis

When a diver discovers the body of Helena Warner in a house at the bottom of a reservoir, he awakens memories of the murder of an Oxford studen ... read more

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£19.99

In at the Death

Author: David Wishart

Price: £19.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 22 March 2007

 

Synopsis

The surprise suicide of a young man with -- apparently -- everything to live for, prompts his family to ask Marcus Corvinus to investigate. All ... read more

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£60.00

Crusade

Author: Robyn Young

Price: £60.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 23 August 2007

 

Synopsis

It is 1274 and in the fortified city of Acre, the last major stronghold of the Crusaders in Palestine, an epic conflict is beginning. Will ... read more

UK First Edition / First Printing

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£60.00

Seaflower

Author: Julian Stockwin

Price: £60.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 28 April 2003

 

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It is two years since Thomas Paine Kydd was spirited away in the night to serve his country aboard the old line-of-battle ship Duke William. No ... read more

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Brethren

Author: Robyn Young

Price: £100.00

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Date Available: 24 August 2006

 

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BRETHREN is a fabulously rich and exciting novel set on the eve of the last Crusade, at the end of the thirteenth century. Before young Will Ca ... read more

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Kydd

Author: Julian Stockwin

Price: £75.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 05 April 2001

 

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KYDD announces a major new voice in naval adventure writing. Thomas Paine Kydd, a young wig-maker from Guildford, is seized by the press gang, ... read more

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The Conjuror's Bird - Stamped Edition

Author: Martin Davies

Price: £45.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 07 November 2005

 

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It seems a long time ago that Fitz and Gabby were together, with his work on extinct species about to make him world-famous. Now, it's his ... read more

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The Unicorn Road

Author: Martin Davies

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 08 January 2009

 

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On the coast of southern Spain, an English father sits waiting for his son. It is many years since Benedict, then still a child, set out wi ... read more

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The Science of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials **Signed by Philip Pullman and Mary Gribbin**

Author: Mary & John Gribbin

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 13 November 2003

 

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With an introduction by Philip Pullman, award-winning science writers Mary and John Gribbin reveal how "Pullman's His Dark Materials&q ... read more

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Flying Hero Class

Author: Thomas Keneally

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Date Available: 01 January 1991

 

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Hijackers, representing a Palestinian faction, take over an airliner flying between New York and Frankfurt. But nothing is straightforward. The ... read more

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Command - Embossed, Numbered Edition

Author: Julian Stockwin

Price: £40.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 05 October 2006

 

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Thrilled at his first command, a little brig sloop called Teazer, Thomas Kydd must race to bring his ship to battle readiness -- he is desperat ... read more

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The Burning Wire

Author: Jeffery Deaver

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Date Available: 22 July 2010

 

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New York is being held to ransom. Manhattan’s electricity grid has been the victim of a horrific attack . . . and more are planned. ... read more

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The Constant Gardener

Author: John Le Carre

Price: £130.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 04 October 2001

 

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Tessa Quayle has been horribly murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover, ... read more

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Hurting Distance

Author: Sophie Hannah

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Date Available: 05 April 2007

 

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Three years ago, something terrible happened to Naomi Jenkins - so terrible that she never told anybody. Now Naomi has another secret - th ... read more

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The Alchemy of Murder

Author: Carol McCleary

Price: £35.00

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Date Available: 02 April 2009

 

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PARIS 1889. THE WORLD’S FAIR The Alchemist is how I’ve come to think of him; he has a passion for the dark side of knowledge, ... read more

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Murderers Make Mistakes

Author: Freeman Wills Croft

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Date Available: 01 January 1947

 

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This collection of stories formed the basis of eighteen short plays entitled Inspector French's Cases. Half are presented as 'double ... read more

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One of Our Thursdays Is Missing - SMALL HARDBACK

Author: Jasper Fforde

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Date Available: 22 February 2011

 

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It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. ... read more

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Absolute Friends

Author: John Le Carre

Price: £75.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 01 March 2004

 

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The end of the Cold War stalled the career of many espionage novelists, and although John le Carr seemed to lack direction for a time, it is he ... read more

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Blood and Ashes

Author: Matt Hilton

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 03 February 2011

 

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Brooke Reynolds died in a car crash. Tragic accident, the police say. But her father Don Hoffman knows otherwise. And he wants Joe Hunter to fi ... read more

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Land of Painted Caves - Limited Edition AR Cover

Author: Jean Auel

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 29 March 2011

 

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THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES concludes the story of Ayla, her mate Jondalar, and their little daughter, Jonayla, taking readers on a journey of di ... read more

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Land of Painted Caves - Limited Slipcase Edition

Author: Jean Auel

Price: £100.00

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 29 March 2011

 

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  THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES concludes the story of Ayla, her mate Jondalar, and their little daughter, Jonayla, taking readers on a jo ... read more

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The Afrika Reich

Author: Guy Saville

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 11 February 2011

 

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1952. It is more than a decade since the Dunkirk fiasco marked the end of Britain’s war and an uneasy peace with Hitler. In Africa, ... read more

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Wink Murder

Author: Ali Knight

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 14 April 2011

 

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Kate Forman has an enviable life: a loving family and a perfect husband, Paul. But one night she finds Paul drunk and covered in blood, mumblin ... read more

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Fortress of Spears

Author: Anthony Riches

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Date Available: 28 April 2011

 

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In the enthralling third volume of Empire, Anthony Riches takes the legions deep into north Britannia, where the survivors of the rebellion sti ... read more

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Ashes of The Elements

Author: Alys Clare

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Date Available: 04 May 2000

 

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A grove of huge oak trees in the Wealden forest is felled, and, as if some ancient curse is being brought alive, the man who wielded the axe me ... read more

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Twilight Time

Author: Karen Campbell

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Date Available: 03 April 2008

 

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Anna Cameron is a new Sergeant in the Flexi Unit. On her first day in the new job she discovers she’ll be working with her ex, Jamie, now ... read more

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Dead Men's Harvest

Author: Matt Hilton

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Date Available: 18 August 2011

 

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The Harvestman is back! And determined to wreak revenge on Joe Hunter. When Rink is ambushed by a team of highly skilled killers, Joe is p ... read more

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The Happy Hoofer

Author: Celia Imrie

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Date Available: 12 May 2011

 

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One of our best-loved actresses, Celia Imrie would rather have been a dancer. As a child she planned to join the Royal Ballet and marry Rudolf ... read more

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The Sick Rose

Author: Erin Kelly

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Date Available: 09 June 2011

 

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'You kept my secret. I know yours now. That makes us even.' Paul has been led into a life of crime by his schoolyard protector, Da ... read more

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Sword of Damascus

Author: Richard Blake

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Date Available: 09 June 2011

 

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Murderous intrigue brings Aelric - Blake's engaging, murderous antihero - to Damascus as the triumphant Muslim caliphate sweeps up from Ara ... read more

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Proof of Life

Author: Karen Campbell

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 23 June 2011

 

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The girl in the foyer could not hear them, could not possibly have heard Anna, or know that she was there through two thick doors, but her pale ... read more

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Dark Hollow - Signed & LIned

Author: John Connolly

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 06 January 2000

 

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SIGNED and LINED 'syrup laced with arsenic'   A young woman and her little son die at the hands of an unknown killer, and ... read more

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In The Woods

Author: Tana French

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 08 March 2007

 

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When he was twelve years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods one day with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were ... read more

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Midwinter Sacrifice - NOVEMBER 2011 BOOK OF THE MONTH - SIGNED, PRE-PUBLICATION DATED & LOCATED

Author: Mons Kallentoft

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 27 September 2011

 

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'An investigation consists of a mass of voices, the sort you can hear, and the sort you can't. You have to listen to the soundless voic ... read more

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Before the Poison

Author: Peter Robinson

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 18 August 2011

 

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Through years of success in Hollywood composing music for Oscar-winning films, Chris Lowndes always imagined he would come full circle, home to ... read more

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The Leopard Sword: Empire IV - SIGNED, LINED & DATED

Author: Anthony Riches

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 26 April 2012

 

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Britannia has been subdued - and an epic new chapter in Marcus Valerius Aquila's life begins. The murderous Roman agents who nearly ca ... read more

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The Siege (Agent of Rome 1.)

Author: Nick Brown

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 03 October 2011

 

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270 AD Rome has ruled Syria for over three centuries. But now the weakened empire faces a desperate threat: Queen Zenobia of Palmyra ... read more

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Daughter of Smoke and Bone - SIGNED, LINED & PUBLICATION DATED

Author: Laini Taylor

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 29 September 2011

 

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Errand requiring immediate attention. Come. The note was on vellum, pierced by the talons of the almost-crow that delivered it. Karou read ... read more

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The Song of the Quarkbeast: A Last Dragonslayer Novel (Dragonslayer Trilogy)

Author: Jasper Fforde

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 10 November 2011

 

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A long time ago magic faded away, leaving behind only yo-yos, the extremely useful compass-pointing-to-North enchantment and the spell that kee ... read more

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Kind of Cruel

Author: Sophie Hannah

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 08 February 2012

 

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Description: When Amber Hewerdine consults a hypnotherapist as a desperate last resort, she doesn't expect that anything much will change. ... read more

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No Going Back (Joe Hunter 7) - SIGNED & PRE-PUBLICATION DATED

Author: Matt Hilton

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 16 February 2012

 

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Jameson Walker approaches Joe Hunter when his daughter Jay and her friend Nicole go missing at a gas station in the Arizona desert while on a c ... read more

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Advent - SIGNED & PUBLICATION DATED

Author: James Treadwell

Price: £19.99

Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 12 January 2012

 

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For centuries it has been locked away Lost beneath the sea Warded from earth, air, water, fire, spirits, thought and sight. But now ma ... read more

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The Leopard Sword: Empire IV - SIGNED & DATED

Author: Anthony Riches

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 26 April 2012

 

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Britannia has been subdued - and an epic new chapter in Marcus Valerius Aquila's life begins. The murderous Roman agents who nearly ca ... read more

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Master and God

Author: Lindsey Davis

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 15 March 2012

 

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AD81. The Roman Emperor Domitian seizes power. Afflicted by classic paranoia, the self-styled Master and God sees enemies everywhere - and he i ... read more

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Watching the Dark (Inspector Banks Mystery)

Author: Peter Robinson

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 16 August 2012

 

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Banks is back - and this time he's investigating the murder of one of his own. Detective Inspector Bill Reid is killed by a crossbow i ... read more

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The Good Father - SIGNED & PRE-PUBLICATION DATED

Author: Noah Hawley

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 19 March 2012

 

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An ordinary boy with an ordinary life stands accused of killing the next president of the United States. WHAT HAPPENED? Dr Paul Allen ... read more

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The Good Father - SIGNED, LINED & PRE-PUBLICATION DATED

Author: Noah Hawley

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 19 March 2012

 

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An ordinary boy with an ordinary life stands accused of killing the next president of the United States. WHAT HAPPENED? Dr Paul Allen ... read more

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The Woman Who Died a Lot

Author: Jasper Fforde

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Date Available: 12 July 2012

 

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The BookWorld's leading enforcement officer Thursday Next is four months into an enforced semi-retirement following an assassination attemp ... read more

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The Imperial Banner ( Agent of Rome 2.)

Author: Nick Brown

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 07 June 2012

 

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272 AD The Roman Emperor Aurelian has defeated Queen Zenobia and crushed the Palmyran revolt. Faridun's Banner, hallowed battle s ... read more

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The Wrath of Angels

Author: John Connolly

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Date Available: 30 August 2012

 

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In the depths of the Maine woods, the wreckage of an aeroplane is discovered. There are no bodies, and no such plane has ever been reported mis ... read more

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Blood Diamond: A Pirate Devlin Novel (Pirate Devlin 3)

Author: Mark Keating

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 19 July 2012

 

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Each Devlin novel is a standalone adventure. In BLOOD DIAMOND the fearless pirate captain Devlin is invited to London by the Prince of Wales, n ... read more

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Do Me No Harm

Author: Julie Corbin

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Published by: Hodder & Stoughton

Date Available: 07 June 2012

 

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When her teenage son Robbie's drink is spiked, Olivia Somers is devastated. She has spent her adult life trying to protect people and keep ... read more

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A Dark and Broken Heart

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It should have all been so easy for Vincent Madigan. Take four hundred grand from the thieves who stole it in the first place and who could the ... read more

 

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1164. The young warrior Saladin joins a Saracen army headed for Egypt. He finds there a land of wonders - from the ancient pyramids and the tow ... read more

 

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FIGHTING FANTASY meets WORLD OF WARCRAFT- a new type of adventure novel for a new generation. Complex, well-written and impossible to put down. ... read more

 

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We are the last defence. I've seen him on the news. Followed the stories about what happened to John Smith. To the world he's a mys ... read more

 

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Foundation: A History of England Volume I

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Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volu ... read more

 

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