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“inspector daniel kohi of the zimbabwean police force returns home one night to find his worst nightmare has been realised. his family dead, his house destroyed, and in fear for his life, he is forced to flee the country he loves. far away in glasgow, dsi william lorimer has his hands full. christmas is approaching, the city is bustling, and whilst the homicide rate has been relatively low, something much darker is brewing. counter-terrorism have got wind of a plot, here in lorimer’s native city, to carry out an unspeakable atrocity on christmas eve. they need someone with local knowledge to help them root it out and who better than the head of the scottish major incidents team. but the investigation is complicated by a spate of local murders, and by the rumours that someone is passing information to criminal organisations from inside the police force. soon lorimer finds himself in desperate need of assistance. then he meets an extraordinary man – a refugee from zimbabwe whose investigative skills are a match for lorimer’s own . . .”–publisher.

The adolescent christopher and his soulmate toni had sneered at the stifling ennui of metroland, their cosy patch of suburbia on the metropolitan line. they had longed for life to begin- meaning sex and freedom- to travel and choose their own clothes. then chris, at thirty, starts to settle comfortably into bourgeois contentment himself. luckily, toni is still around to challenge such backsliding.

When he was twelve years old, adam ryan went playing in the woods with his two best friends. he never saw them again. their bodies were never found, and adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree and his shoes filled with blood. he had no memory of what had happened. twenty years on, rob ryan – the child who came back – is a detective in the dublin police force. he’s changed his name. no one knows about his past. then a little girl’s body is found at the site of the old tragedy and rob is drawn back into the mystery. knowing that he would be thrown off the case if his past were revealed, rob takes a fateful decision to keep quiet but hope that he might also solve the twenty-year-old mystery of the woods.

It happens in one night: a girl who died now walks among the living, zil and the human crew set fire to perdido beach, and amid the flames and smoke, sam sees the figure of the boy he fears the most – drake. but sam and caine defeated him along with the darkness – or so they thought.

“speaking to the dead is nothing for daisy goodnight. the living, on the other hand, can occasionally be a problem. especially when they knock you out and kidnap you. willing or not, daisy finds herself on a high-speed mission to track down a mob boss’s precious daughter, but she’s running out of time. the dead are coming to take over.”

Get to know tess and gus in kate eberlen’s first novel, miss you. a radio 2 book club choice 2016tess and gus are meant to be. they just haven’t met properly yet. and perhaps they never will . . . today is the first day of the rest of your life is the motto on a plate in the kitchen at home, and tess can’t get it out of her head, even though she’s in florence for a final, idyllic holiday before university. her life is about to change forever – but not in the way she expects. gus and his parents are also on holiday in florence. their lives have already changed suddenly and dramatically. gus tries to be a dutiful son, but longs to escape and discover what sort of person he is going to be. for one day, the paths of these two eighteen-year-olds will criss-cross before they each return to england. over the course of the next sixteen years, life and love will offer them very different challenges. separated by distance and chance, there’s no way the two of them are ever going to meet each other properly . . . or is there?

‘warm, witty and wise’ marian keyes three women, three birthdays, one year that will change everything… ginger isn’t spending her thirtieth the way she would have planned. tonight might be the first night of the rest of her life – or a total disaster. sam is finally pregnant after years of trying. when her waters break on the morning of her fortieth birthday, she panics: forget labour, how is she going to be a mother? callie is celebrating her fiftieth at a big party in her dublin home. then a knock at the door mid-party changes everything… treat yourself to the heartwarming and life-affirming new story from international bestseller cathy kelly *** everyone loves cathy kelly: ‘this book is full of joy – and i devoured every page of it gladly’ – milly johnson ‘filled with nuggets of wisdom, compassion and humour, cathy kelly proves, yet again, that she knows everything there is to know about women’ – patricia scanlan ‘packed with cathy’s usual magical warmth’ – sheila o’flanagan ‘a lovely story of life and change’ – prima ‘comforting and feel-good, the perfect treat read’ – good housekeeping