A Reese's Book Club Pick “I loved this book. It gave me the same waves of happiness I get from curling up with a classic Christie.... The alternating points of view keep you guessing, and guessing wrong.” (Alex Michaelides, number one New York Times ...

The Guest List

The shocking first true account from one of the young girls who lived through and survived the Rotherham sex abuse scandal.  In the summer of 2014, the Rotherham sex abuse scandal sent shockwaves through the nation. A report revealed that since the 1...

Violated: A shocking and harrowing survival story from the notorious Rotherham abuse scandal

A physicist explains daily phenomena from the mundane to the magisterial.  Take a look up at the stars on a clear night and you get a sense that the universe is vast and untouchable, full of mysteries beyond comprehension. But did you know that the k...

Storm in a Teacup

Dead Beat introduces Kate Brannigan, a Thai-boxing, rock-and-roll female private detective from Manchester.  As a favor to her rock journalist boyfriend, Kate agrees to track down a missing song-writer Moira Pollock, a search that takes her into some...

Dead Beat

Dark, gritty and always edge-of-your-seat: the number one best seller is back with a standout new heroine.  Unknown, alone and fearing for your life. As PC Lucy Clayburn is about to find out, going undercover is the most dangerous work there is. But ...

Strangers

In this riveting tale of psychological suspense, a divorce lawyer risks her career, her sanity, and her life when she falls into an illicit, all-consuming affair with her client - who becomes the primary suspect in his estranged wife’s sudden disappe...

Mine

In the second in the series, Kate Brannigan investigates the bizarre case of the missing conservatories (sunrooms attached to the back of a standing house), unearthing an unscrupulous lawyer (later found hanging from his balcony in flimsy women's app...

Kick Back

There was only one reason Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan was prepared to let her boyfriend help out with an investigation into a car sales fraud - nothing bad could happen. But by now Kate should know that with Richard you have to expect...

Crack Down

Laura and Tyler are best friends who live together, angrily philosophising and leading each other astray in the pubs and flats of Manchester. But things are set to change.  Laura is engaged to teetotal Jim, the wedding is just months away, and Tyler becomes hell-bent on sabotaging her friend's plans for a different life.

Animals

Kate Brannigan is having a bad weekend, her boyfriend's death notice is in the newspaper, her plans to capture a team of heartless fraudsters are in disarray, and a Celtic neo-punk band want her to rescue them from saboteurs. As if that isn't enough,...

Blue Genes

Just as Freakonomics brought economics to life, so Storm in a Teacup brings physics into our daily lives and makes it fascinating.  What is it that helps both scorpions and cyclists to survive? What do raw eggs and gyroscopes have in common? And why ...

The Sunday Times best seller returns with the second book in the PC Lucy Clayburn series - a must for all fans of Happy Valley and M. J. Arlidge.  As a female cop walking the mean streets of Manchester, life can be tough for PC Lucy Clayburn. But whe...

Shadows

The Sunday Times best seller returns with his latest nail-shredding thriller - a must for all fans of Happy Valley and M.J. Arlidge.  How do you find the missing when there’s no trail to follow? DC Lucy Clayburn is having a tough time of it. Not only...

Stolen

When Jessica Beam is thrown out of her flat, she finds herself relying on her only family.  Things aren't going so well for Grandma, either. Her 1950s Good Woman guide books are out of print, and her mortgage is staggering.  When a publisher throws them a lifeline - a new contract if they can prove the Good Woman guides still work - Jess and Matilda have to work together if they want a roof over their heads. 

The Vintage Guide to Love and Romance

The stunning first novel in the Kate Brannigan series, from number one Sunday Times best seller Val McDermid. As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing songwriter, Moria Pollock. It was supposed to be a nice simple case, but the search soon leads Kate into the dark underworld of Leeds, Manchester and Bradford – and finally to a shocking confrontation with a killer....

The powerful story of Cecily Neville, torn between both sides in the War of the Roses, from the critically acclaimed author of The Agincourt Bride.  In fifteenth century England the Neville family rules the north with an iron fist. Ralph Neville, Ear...

Red Rose, White Rose

Fatal Attraction meets Apple Tree Yard. This debut novel will be your new obsession. Francine Day is a high-flying lawyer about to apply for silk, ambitious and brilliant. She just needs one headline grabbing client to seal her place as queen's couns...

The second gripping thriller in the Kate Brannigan series, from best-selling author Val McDermid. PI Kate Brannigan is hired to investigate a series of strange financial scams across Manchester. At first it looks like a discrepancy with the paperwork, but the deeper Kate digs, the murkier the case becomes. Before long she’s up to her neck in crooked land deals – and murder – and her own life is on the line....

The fourth riveting thriller in the Kate Brannigan series, from best-selling author Val McDermid. When a Monet is stolen from a stately home, Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan goes head to head with organised crime as she hunts the thieves through Europe. Meanwhile, someone is leaving a trail of bodies across the Northwest. As Kate confronts some harsh truths in her own life, the case stretches her love and loyalty to its limits.

Clean Break

How did it come to this? I am tough, I am smart, I have lived alone. Now I am cracking, right down the middle.... Six months after the birth of her son, Emma Jane Unsworth finds herself in the eye of a storm. Nothing - from pregnancy to birth and bey...

After the Storm

Kate Lawler has never been maternal. And yet here she is: mother to Noa, after years of going back and forth about having children at all. This is the story of her journey from parentally undecided to early motherhood, via raging hormones, sleepless ...

Maybe Baby: On the Mother Side

There are some friends you'll never forget...no matter how hard you try.  Before: Edie is the friend that Heather has always craved. But one night it goes terrifyingly wrong. And what started as an innocent friendship ends in two lives being destroye...

Watching Edie

Young, talented, intelligent, and with a thriving social life, on the surface Terri Cox had it all. But deep down in her mind, a storm was brewing, and a series of life-changing events were about to unfold in quick succession that would send her spir...

Shiny Happy Person

The sixth stunning thriller in the Kate Brannigan series, from best-selling author Val McDermid. Manchester PI Kate Brannigan finds herself with no choice but to take the only case on offer: bodyguarding a paranoid soap star. But the glitzy world of ...

Star Struck

The fifth stunning thriller in the Kate Brannigan series, from best-selling author Val McDermid. Kate Brannigan’s having a bad week. Her boyfriend’s death notice is in the paper and her plan to catch a team of fraudsters is in disarray. Kate can’t ev...

Lauren Pailing is born in the '60s and a child of the '70s. She is 13 years old the first time she dies. Lauren Pailing is a teenager in the '80s, becomes a Londoner in the '90s. And each time she dies, new lives begin for the people who loved her - ...

The First Time Lauren Pailing Died

A sweet and sparkling chapter book series about finding your place and believing in yourself! Marnie Blue's adventures continue at Lady Sealia Foam's Mermaid School. Now that she's saved the day and made some new friends, she's ready to conquer the next challenge and continue to learn more about her underwater world.

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