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Rebus is retired with health problems, but when his daughter’s husband goes missing, he immediately drives his aged Saab to her home on Scotland’s windswept northern coast. The Inverness police are on the case, but as Rebus senses something secretive about the small, remote town, the detective instinct kicks in.

When a colleague goes missing at a satellite launch facility, Martin Hepton suspects something is amiss, but the only person who believes him is his journalist ex-girlfriend. This early thriller is reissued with a new introduction by the author.

On holiday in the French Alps, Skye meets Johnny and a romance develops. Once Skye is home in Edinburgh, he disappears from her life, but Skye will stop at nothing to find him, and discover the secrets he’s hiding.

A journalist with a record of tracking down killers, Jack McEvoy is now a suspect in the murder of Tina Portrero, a woman he barely knew. Disturbed by the nature of her death he begins investigating it, and finds himself on the trail of a serial killer.

The second novel in Turney’s Damned Emperors series is narrated by Marcia, a Christian woman who becomes Commodus’s mistress. As Rome faces conspiracies, fire and plague she is the only person who can control the emperor’s dark moods.

Humans have colonized the Moon, the dead are kept in cryogenic suspension, and psychic powers are commonplace. Joe Chip’s job is to guard against the latter, but after he survives a murder attempt, reality begins to unravel.

As rising temperatures make much of the Earth uninhabitable, its citizens flee to cramped space colonies, where they alleviate the boredom with a hallucinogenic drug. When Palmer Eldritch discovers a more potent version, it threatens to plunge the population into an alternative sense of reality.

Philip K Dick’s best-known and most celebrated work, the novel on which Blade Runner is based is a philosophical tale of mortality and humanity in a dystopian future where the lines between nature and technology are blurred.

In this classic 1941 thriller, a young woman without family or friends attends a job interview. Two days later, she wakes in a strange house, in different clothes, with a new identity – and no one will believe anything she says.

Searching for old furniture, antique dealer Cara Hargreaves finds a Second World War diary in a drawer. Reading Louise Keene’s account of her love for an RAF pilot, and her defiance of her mother to become a gunner, will change Cara’s life.

In a luxury penthouse, masked intruders douse a terrified man with petrol and set him alight. Unable to locate the victim's girlfriend, DS Pete Bains’s investigation stalls, his frustration exacerbated by another missing person case – that of his colleague, DC Karen Sharpe.

When a young woman is put into a coma after a brutal and unexplained attack, it falls to DS Kate Munro to track down the perpetrator before the same fate is visited upon the victim’s estranged twin sister.

Known for her warm tales of country life, Rebecca Shaw (1931–2015) was a Sunday Times bestselling author and all 28 of her books remain in print. Most of her novels are set in the fictional villages of Turnham Malpas and Barleybridge, both inspired by her rural Dorset location, and follow the lives and loves of the local residents. Off-mint. The three titles included in this set are: The Village Green Affair (Read more...) Love in the Country (Read more...) A Village Feud (Read more...)

Drawn out of retirement, Rebus is haunted by the murder of a young woman forty years ago. Meanwhile, rivalry in Edinburgh's criminal world results in a vicious attack on newcomer Darryl Christie, and rumours of crime boss Big Ger Cafferty’s return. Slightly off-mint and felt-tip mark on upper trimmed edge.

The 29 short stories in this collection all feature Ian Rankin’s irascible, rock’n’roll-loving Edinburgh detective John Rebus, and include his debut in ‘Dead and Buried’. Some are previously unpublished, and two were written specially for this book.

A mysterious stranger is snooping around Turnham Malpas, sparking rumours and outrage in the village, but Neville is more concerned with planning his silver wedding celebration – until he realizes his marriage could be on the rocks. Slightly off-mint.

Rector Peter Harris has gone to Africa, leaving his troubled family at home in Turnham Green. With his wife struggling to help their traumatized children, and the village store a target for theft and violence, everyone’s hopes are pinned on Peter coming home and restoring normality. Slightly off-mint.

Seb is keen to settle into country life when he takes a new job as a vet in Barleybridge. His expertise and rapport with the locals soon put him at the heart of the village, and before long an unexpected romance develops. Off-mint.

Formerly head chef at Ottolenghi’s Nopi in Soho, Nicole Pisani presents 100 ideas for breakfasts, mains and desserts inspired by her world travels. Making good use of her favourite ingredients and adapting professional techniques such as smoking and curing for the home kitchen, she shows how the simplest of recipes can create an intensely flavoured dish.

Detective Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch, now retired from the LAPD and working on cold cases, first meet when they revisit the unsolved murder of runaway Daisy Clayton, seemingly involving police corruption and teen exploitation.

Having made himself invisible through an irreversible process, scientist Griffin is free from the constraints of the law, but also on the path to insanity. Written in 1897, his story offers a warning about unintended consequences and explores questions of morality.

When Leonard Howell’s daughter is kidnapped, the only man he trusts to get her back is Eddie Flynn, a former con-artist turned hot-shot attorney. Flynn soon realizes that he is being played, and needs to know who is pulling the strings.

Hard-drinking New Orleans cop Dave Robicheaux finds the crucified body of a young woman. The evidence points to his oldest friend, Desmond Cormier, now a successful film director, and Robicheaux’s past comes back to haunt him.

In Swansea in 1941, Spark Girl Peggy Collins becomes a squadron leader’s driver, and falls in love with pilot Jim. This romantic saga about a group of women in the ATS follows how their lives were transformed by the war.

Searching for old furniture, antique dealer Cara Hargreaves finds a Second World War diary in a drawer. Reading Louise Keene’s account of her love for an RAF pilot, and her defiance of her mother to become a gunner, will change Cara’s life.

The ageing John Rebus is out of retirement and back on the force, and finds himself investigating the activities of his own colleagues from 30 years ago, when he was part of an uncompromising team known as The Saints.

Drawn out of retirement, Rebus is haunted by the murder of a young woman forty years ago. Meanwhile, rivalry in Edinburgh's criminal world results in a vicious attack on newcomer Darryl Christie, and rumours of crime boss Big Ger Cafferty’s return.

A government prosecutor is murdered, and a sinister note is left at the scene. DI Siobhan Clarke calls her old boss John Rebus out of retirement, setting in train a dark, explosive mystery that reunites Ian Rankin’s greatest characters.

Jeremy Wade, whose angling adventures are featured on the television series River Monsters, tells the story of his lifelong quest to track down the freshwater predators that have a fearsome reputation in local traditions across the world. He brings his zoological expertise and personal observations to the description of such creatures as the Himalayan man-eating goonch and the huge paraiba (‘mother of all the fishes’) found in the Amazon.

Offering a summary of everything and everyone in Horrid Henry's wicked world, including his perennially furious babysitter Angry Anna, his long-suffering teddy bear Mr Kill and his saintly brother Perfect Peter, this encyclopaedia, exuberantly illustrated by Tony Ross, is cross-referenced and indexed. Age 6+

Over the centuries, many tales from British history have been embellished to present a more flattering picture of 'Britannia's realm'. In this illustrated compendium, Geraldine McCaugherean retells 100 such stories, featuring figures such as King Canute, Lady Godiva, Guy Fawkes and Grace Darling, each with an addendum that separates the facts from the folklore. Age 9+

After witnessing a horrific exhumation, reporter Kate Hemingway begins to work on the tragic story of the burial, but finds herself caught up in a macabre cover-up involving a well-respected anaesthetist and his obsession with the age-old question: is there life after death?

The winner of The Alan Titchmarsh Show’s ‘People’s Author’ competition recalls his adventures growing up in the close-knit neighbourhood of post-war Brixton, where reports of his mischief could be quick to reach his mother's ears. Nevertheless, he scoured bombsites and markets, selling everything from bricks to horse dung, amid spivs, barrow boys and new arrivals from the West Indies, and found himself in more scrapes than most.

Hilda Kemp grew up in the slums of Bermondsey in the 1930s depression with her father, a heavy-drinking docker who regularly beat his wife and child. Her granddaughter Cathryn has brought to life the stories she heard as a child of her nan playing in the dockyards, stealing coal from barges and dodging the rag-and-bone man, all set against a background of inner-city deprivation.

The Chinese I Ching is an ancient divination text that has been used for centuries to help people make decisions, manage relationships and find inner strength. This introductory guide provides interpretations for all 64 hexagrams.

Including guides to which crystals bring luck or help medical conditions, and advice on buying, purifying and charging stones, this book explores ways in which crystals can heal, channel positive energy and enhance psychic powers.

Kitty Williams is devastated when she discovers her fiancé has been killed in the war. Determined to carry on his fight, she signs up for the women’s army.

In this prequel to the much-loved Burracombe novels, young Maddy Simmons arrives in the village after losing her mother and brother in the Blitz. Could this be somewhere she could finally call home?

David Harwood moved back to his small-town childhood home; but when he visits his cousin Marla and a new baby that she claims is her own, Marla’s bizarre story reveals dark currents below the surface calm of Promise Falls.

For Detective Barry Duckworth, the day begins like any other Saturday in the town of Promise Falls – but then chaos ensues. The hospital and emergency services are overwhelmed with casualties, and the fatalities seem to be mysteriously linked by the number 23. Final part of the Promise Falls trilogy.

After his retirement in Exit Music, Inspector Rebus finds himself working as a civilian investigator for a cold-case unit, and is drawn to investigate the case of a missing girl and a series of apparently unrelated disappearances.

Fasting for two days a week and eating normally for five encourages weight loss and may cut the risk of conditions such as cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s. This book explains the concept and research behind the 5:2 diet, discusses how to get started and provides ideas for meals and snacks. The author’s diary entries also offer a revealing insight into life on the diet.

Born in a Gypsy wagon in 1938, Rosemary Penfold grew up amid the fields of Somerset. In this memoir, she recounts the love and losses, hopes and struggles, traditions and prejudices of a close-knit community faced with a rapidly changing world. This moving testament to a disappearing way of life took her to the finals of Alan Titchmarsh’s People’s Author competition.

Chef Nicole Pisani and the writer Kate Adams join forces to extol soup as taking us ‘back to basics, to the essence of simple food for the body and soul’. Their magnificent selection of recipes has soups arranged from Quick Fixes, such as Chana Masala, to Feasts, including the bouillabaisse-based Feast of Seven Fish. Along with the recipes, there are features on stocks, ingredients, spice and spice mixtures, and recipes for accompanying breads.