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In a remand centre in the Ural Mountains, Oxana Vorontsova awaits trial for triple murder. Not what you’d expect from a star linguistics student. Half a world away, her potential has been noted. Sprung from prison and trained in the dark arts of assassination, she’s reborn as the beautiful...

The Songs follows Iz Herzl, famed political activist and protest singer, who has always told his children that it is the future not the past they should concentrate on. Now, at 80, an almost forgotten figure, estranged from everyone who has ever loved him, his refusal to look back on his extraordinary life leaves his teenage children, the brilliant Rose and her ailing younger brother, Huddie, adrift in myths and uncertainty that cause them to retreat into a secret world of their own.

WINNER SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR. The adrenaline-charged and suspenseful thriller set in a ruthless world where all means are permitted in the fight for power. When a savaged body is found in the waters outside the governing party’s conference centre, the case lands on detective Julia...

Dr Maria Martinez has finally escaped The Project facility that has been controlling her since birth. But in going against The Project’s rigid protocol, the powers at the very top of the organisation will go to any length to re-initiate her. Their aim? To get her back in Room 17, where their...

‘Set in a vividly realised world of elite Alphas and their ‘weaker’ Omega twins, it holds a mirror up to our obsession with perfection’ – Guardian Paloma’s arrival, with news of Elsewhere and the possibility of a world free of the fatal bond between twins, has given Cass and the...

My name is Dr. Maria Martinez and I am - was - a consultant plastic surgeon. I am 33 years old. Place of birth: Salamanca, Spain. And I was convicted of the murder of a Catholic priest.

Maria is in prison. She says she’s innocent and is fighting to clear her name. Because deep down she knows the truth better than anyone. Doesn’t she?

The beginning of a relationship is usually all about getting to know each other. Not so for Dave and Alena. He's from London, she's from Siberia. They meet in a slick Bond Street department store, where she's up to no good and it's his job to catch her. So begins an unlikely relationship between...

The truth weighs nothing… Klara Walldeen, orphaned as a child and brought up by her grandparents, is now a political aide in Brussels. And she has just seen something she shouldn't. On the other side of the world, an old spy hides. Once, he was a man so dedicated that he abandoned his daughter...

"An enthralling thriller . . . utterly addictive" Sunday Telegraph. A tense psychological thriller with a devastating twist, perfect for fans of BA Paris' Behind Closed Doors and The Girl on the Train. Sarah is in a coma. Her memory is gone - she doesn't know how she got there. And she doesn't...

Natalie O'Rourke was an ordinary little girl from Birmingham in all respects save one: she was lonely. When she discovered how much she loved horses, she decided she wanted to grow up and run a riding stables. She wanted her stables to cater for children and adults with disabilities, additional needs and anyone who needed a friend—people who you might not expect to find riding, but who she knew could find happiness through horses, because she had.

**Helen Monks Takhar’s latest psychological thriller, Such A Good Mother, is available to pre-order now** YOUR FIRST MISTAKE WAS LETTING HER IN… ‘Oh my gosh, this book! Where do I start! If you like a thriller, you'll love this Single White Female thrillfest. The suspense keeps you hooked...

‘Exciting, glitzy and gripping… perfect summer reading’ -Daily Mail They should have stayed as one. They couldn’t survive apart. It was fate, forever destined to come to this: from birth to death, two halves of the same whole. Twins Calida and Teresita Santiago have never known a world...

The second book in Francesca Haig’s incredible Fire Sermon series. ‘Set in a vividly realised world of elite Alphas and their ‘weaker’ Omega twins, it holds a mirror up to our obsession with perfection’ – The Guardian The Omega resistance has been brutally attacked, its members dead...

When Zach and I were born our parents must have counted and recounted: limbs, fingers, toes. The complete set. They would have been disbelieving – nobody dodged the split between Alpha and Omega. Nobody. Cass is born a few minutes after her brother, Zach. Both infants are perfect, but only one...

A stunning novel set in the Tudor court, from the Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Philippa Gregory. 1553. Hannah Green, the young daughter of a Jewish bookseller, is forced out of Spain by the Inquisition, and becomes an unlikely player at the fractious Tudor Court. Her gifts of foresight mean that...

Getting lost and feeling found... 'I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.' - John Muir, John of the Mountains Walking is medicine for the mind. It helps us slow down and think things through. It also helps us perk...

Can washing up really be good for you? Can we discover a moment of insight, a wave of calm, a tickle of delight or a tingle of connection within our simple, readily available, everyday routine? Without needing to alter our entire lifestyle, can we unearth a fresh way in, hidden inside the daily...