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Delve into this thrilling tale about a troubled chess prodigy and her battle to survive. Now a major Netflix series starring Anya Taylor-Joy. When she is sent to an orphanage at the age of eight, Beth Harmon soon discovers two ways to escape her surroundings, albeit fleetingly: playing chess and taking the little green pills given to her and the other children to keep them subdued. Before long, it becomes apparent that hers is a prodigious talent, and as she progresses to the top of the US chess rankings she is able to forge a new life for herself. But she can never quite overcome her urge to self-destruct. For Beth, there's more at stake than merely winning and losing. 'Few novelists have written about genius - and addiction - as acutely as Walter Tevis' – The Telegraph Product Information: • ISBN: 9781474622578 • Author: Walter Tevis • Publisher: W&N • Format: Paperback • Pages: 256 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.6 x cm
She says he's perfect. I know he's lying . . . He caught me watching, and our eyes met. That was when it hit me. There was something not quite right about my daughter's new boyfriend . . . The doting father... Ed finally meets his daughter's boyfriend for the first time. Smart, successful and handsome, Ryan appears to be a real catch. Then Abbie announces their plan to get married. The perfect fiancé...There's just one problem. Ed thinks Ryan is lying to them. Who would you believe? All of Ed's instincts tell him his daughter is in terrible danger - but no-one else can see it. With the wedding date approaching fast, Ed sets out to uncover Ryan's secrets, before it's too late . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9781838771164 • Author: T.M. Logan • Publisher: Zaffre • Format: Paperback • Pages: 448 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 3.2cm
Surely everyone deserves a second chance? Ex-fireman and edible flower farmer Shay McGillen has plenty of reasons not to give Sarah Pickering even one chance when she turns up in his small Yorkshire village. After all, she is only there to try and convince him and his fellow villagers to sell up so her company can build a bypass. If Sarah thinks she can make Shay give up his farmhouse and his business, she has another thing coming! But when an unexpected blizzard leaves Sarah stranded in Shay's home, he soon realises that they are far more alike than he could have ever imagined - and perhaps both of them deserve a second chance … Product Information: • ISBN: 9781781894606 • Author: Gina Hollands • Publisher: Choc Lit Publishing • Format: Paperback • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 cm
Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive and he is one of the powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show his weakness. When outsiders threaten the traditions of his clan, he takes violent action. Will the great man's pride eventually destroy him? Product information: ISBN: 9780141023380 Author: Chinua Achebe Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Format: Paperback Pages: 208
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders... But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late? 'So smart and funny. Deplorably good' - Ian Rankin. 'A gripping read' - Sunday Times. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241425442 • Author: Richard Osman • Publisher: Viking • Format: Hardback • Pages: 400 • Dimensions: 24 x 16.2 x 3.5cm
Immi think she has found the perfect new home in central London: a shared warehouse with luxury accommodation, a rooftop terrace and daily yoga, all with a surprisingly affordable price tag. The Dye Factory is a 'co-living' community, designed to combat the loneliness of big city life. But soon after she moves into her new haven, Immi realises that it's not quite as idyllic as it appears. No one seems to know who is behind this multi-million pound urban experiment. And her housemates may be hiding a dangerous secret. Then, as a series of pranks escalates into something much darker, Immi is left questioning whether, in this group of strangers, she can ever really be safe... Product Information: • ISBN: 9781785767746 • Author: Kate Helm • Publisher: Zaffre • Format: Paperback • Pages: 400 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2cm
Sally Page is an MI5 'footie', a junior Secret Service Agent who maintains 'legends': fake identities or footprints used by real spies. Her day consists of maintaining flats and houses where the legends allegedly live, doing online shopping, using payment, loyalty and travel cards and going on social media in their names - anything to give the impression to hostile surveillance that the legends are living, breathing individuals. One day she goes out for coffee leaving the safe house from which she and her fellow footies operate. When she comes back they have all been murdered and she barely escapes with her own life. She is on the run: but from whom she has no idea. Worse, her bosses at MI5 seem powerless to help her. To live, she will have to use all the lies and false identities she has so carefully created while discovering the truth... Product Information: ISBN: 9781529345193 Author: Stephen Leather Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks Format: Paperback Pages: 336 Dimensions: 20.3 x 12.7 x 2.2cm
Tash and Rich are wild about each other; wrapped up in their fairy-tale love and excited for the future, they plan an elopement in the French Alps. When Rich invites his old university friends along for the celebrations, Tash is excited to get to know more about the people who shaped him. But Tash gets more than she bargained for when an unexpected guest arrives, armed with secrets about Rich... Can she still hold on to plans of a bright future with Rich once she learns the truth about his shady past? Product Information: ISBN: 9780755394241 Author: Adele Parks Publisher: Headline Format: Paperback Pages: 592 Dimensions: 19.7 x 13 x 3.8cm
After a scandal forces DI Kelly Porter out of the Met, she returns to her home turf in the Lake District. Crimes in the Cumbrian constabulary tend to be of the minor sort, but Kelly begins work on a cold case that shocked the local community – the abduction and brutal murder of ten-year-old Lottie Davies. Meanwhile, Kelly is also investigating two seemingly straightforward crimes: a case involving an illegal immigrant, and a robbery following the death of local businessman Colin Day. But evidence comes to light that reveals a web of criminal activity beyond anything Kelly imagined. Behind the veneer of sleepy, touristy towns lies a dark and dangerous underworld. As Kelly threatens to expose those with much to lose, she risks paying the ultimate price to get to the truth... Product Information: ISBN: 9781788633994 Author: Rachel Lynch Publisher: Canelo Format: Paperback Pages: 370 Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm
Izzy Brown has always dreamed of making it big on Instagram, but her followers just aren’t growing. So when her colleague and fellow ‘influencer’ Luke suggests they fake date to boost their profiles, Izzy says yes – against her better judgement. Now Izzy’s profile shows a confident, glamorous thirty-something with the perfect boyfriend, and her followers are shooting up by the thousands. So what if behind the scenes, things are a little different? Izzy can’t stop bickering with Luke, his habit of checking his quiff in EVERY SINGLE mirror is driving her insane, and she’s hiding a secret heartache. But everyone tells a few fibs on social media, right? Then Izzy runs into Aidan, the mysterious stranger who saved her the day her world fell apart two years ago – and major sparks start to fly. Izzy’s sure she can have the online success she’s always dreamed of, whilst falling in love in real life. After all, Aidan doesn’t use social media… what could possibly go wrong? Product Information: ISBN: 9780008340773 Author: Anna Bell Publisher: HQ Format: Paperback Pages: 400 Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.4cm
What do you do when your fake engagement starts to feel too real… Aspiring clothes designer Victoria Scott spends her days working in a bar in Chelsea, and her evenings designing vintage clothes, dreaming of one day opening her own boutique. But these aspirations are under threat from the new department store opening at the end of her road. She needs a Christmas miracle, but one is not forthcoming. Oliver Russell’s Christmas is not looking very festive right now. His family’s new London department store opening is behind schedule, and on top of that his interfering, if well meaning, mother is pressing him to introduce his girlfriend to her. A girlfriend who does not exist. He needs a diversion. Something to keep his mother from interfering while he focuses on the business. When Oliver meets Victoria, he offers a proposition: pretend to be his girlfriend at the opening of his store and he will provide an opportunity for Victoria to showcase her designs. But what starts as a business arrangement soon becomes something more tempting, as the fake relationship starts to feel very real. But when secrets in Victoria’s past are exposed will Oliver walk away, or will they both follow their hearts and find what neither knew they were looking for… Sunday Times Top 20 Bestseller, Meet Me in London is the sparkling new and bestselling romance. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008375850 • Author: Georgia Toffolo • Publisher: Mills & Boon • Format: Paperback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.2 cm
Her life was perfect. Until the video. Scarlett’s golden life suddenly unravels when someone sends a shocking video of her to everyone she knows. The only people who claim they haven’t seen it are the friends in her new mothers’ group: Cora, Emma and Asha. Scarlett is forced to delve into her past to discover who is out to get her. But as her circle of trust gathers around her, she has to ask – are her friends as innocent as they seem? Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008335120 • Author: Caroline Corcoran • Publisher: Avon • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.2 cm
GRUESOME MURDERS His victims are young, beautiful and coldly mutilated. He calls himself the Beijing Ripper. Li Yan, head of Beijing's serious crime squad, must stop him. FEARSOME LETTERS Just as pathologist Margaret Campbell finds an insight into the killer's cruel signature, Li receives a letter from the killer, betraying his cruel intentions. CHINESE WHISPERS There's no way Li can misinterpret the Ripper's motives: he wants to tear Li and Campbell's lives apart, and write the darkest chapter in Beijing's history. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781784295349 • Format: Paperback • Author: Peter May • Publisher: Riverrun • Pages: 504 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 3cm
31 year old Lydia has twice survived cancer but is she brave enough to risk falling in love? Meanwhile image conscious Jacqueline is in her mid-forties with an empty marriage and is devastated her son has married beneath himself. High-powered 37 year old Carol longs for a baby, after 2 failed IVF attempts. She is hoping for one last miracle. After a tough childhood, young Alix is angry and defensive. But meeting someone special from her schooldays may make her change her ways. None of these women could ever have guessed how close they would become or where their friendship would lead them.
There are two sides to every love story... Theo Montgomery grew up in a rich family, but his childhood was full of neglect. Now he is an adult, he longs to find a soulmate. Someone who understands him. Someone who will love him unconditionally. One day, Theo meets Anna Cole in a lift. Anna grew up in a care home, and has always wanted to create the noisy family life she never had. She brings love and laughter into Theo's life. But she wants a baby, and Theo can't imagine bringing a child into this cruel world. Theo and Anna are two damaged souls, from two different worlds. Is their love for each other enough to let go of the pain of their pasts? Or will Anna and Theo break each others' hearts? There are two sides to every love story. This is Theo's. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781788542104 • Author: Amanda Prowse • Publisher: Head of Zeus • Format: Paperback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 21.59 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm
Elizabeth has two goals in life. Once she fulfils the first - finding a sexy Italian husband - she thinks the second will come easy. But getting pregnant is proving difficult. So when the couple move to Italy for Roberto to run the family business, Elizabeth hopes the relaxing lifestyle will boost her chances of conceiving. But Italy is anything but peaceful... Elizabeth's wily mother-in-law seems to instantly hate her, Roberto's gorgeous ex is lingering a little too close for comfort... And. Still. No. Baby. Will Elizabeth's hunger for a bambino be enough to hold her marriage together? Or will she find herself dreaming of something else all together? Product Information: ISBN: 9780755394272 Author: Adele Parks Publisher: Headline Review Format: Paperback Pages: 512 Dimensions: 199.7 x 13 x 3.3cm
A lifetime ago, a patient escaped Nazareth mental asylum. They covered their tracks carefully. Or so they thought. Thirty years ago, Marianne Smy committed a crime then fled from her home to leave the past behind. Or so she thought. Now, Marianne has been forced to return. Nazareth asylum has been converted to luxury flats, but its terrible hold on her is still strong. A successful academic, a loving mother and a loyal wife, she fears her secret being revealed and her world shattering. She is right to be scared. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781444797305 • Author: Erin Kelly • Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks • Format: Paperback • Pages: 352 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3 cm
One little girl. Mirabelle’s mother loves her. She’s her ‘little doll’. Mother dresses her, paints her face, and plaits her hair. But as Mirabelle grows, the dresses no longer fit quite as well, the face paint no longer looks quite so pretty. And Mother isn’t happy. Two little girls. On Mirabelle’s 13th birthday, Mother arrives home with a present – a new sister, 5-year-old Clarabelle, who Mother has rescued from the outside world. But Mother only needs one. As it dawns on Mirabelle that there is a new ‘little doll’ in her house, she also realises that her life isn’t what she thought it was. And that dolls often end up on the scrap heap… Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008389512 • Author: Abby Davies • Publisher: HarperCollins • Format: Paperback • Pages: 304 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2 cm
The sleepy town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is jolted into panic when Sara Linton, paediatrician and medical examiner, finds Sibyl Adams dead in the local diner. As well as being viciously raped, Sibyl has been cut: two deep knife wounds form a lethal cross over her stomach. But it's only once Sara starts to perform the post-mortem that the full extent of the killer's brutality becomes clear. Police chief Jeffrey Tolliver - Sara's ex-husband - is in charge of the investigation, and when a second victim is found, crucified, only a few days later, both Jeffrey and Sara have to face the fact that Sibyl's murder wasn't a one-off attack. What they're dealing with is a seasoned sexual predator. A violent serial killer... Product Information: • ISBN: 9780099556930 • Author: Karin Slaughter • Publisher: Arrow Books • Format: Paperback • Pages: 393 • Dimensions: 17.7 x 11 x 2.7cm
Until Rebecca had met Paul, she never thought that love was possible with a past as dark as hers... But twenty years on and the damage and secrets that had drawn them together is threatening to break them apart. After two women go missing, Paul catches the attention of the police and Rebecca discovers that he has an elaborate plan to build a life... without her. Quickly spiralling out of control, Rebecca must hatch a devastating plot of her own to get revenge. After all, til death do us part. 'This slick, sleek thriller held me breathless' - A J Finn. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781409185345 • Author: E G Scott • Publisher: Trapeze • Format: Paperback • Pages: 330 • Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2.5cm