Slightly off-mint.

Slightly off-mint.

Off-mint.

A chance meeting brings Frannie together with a handsome man, but their romantic relationship is marred by a series of gruesome events. Is this just coincidence, or must she face the possibility that she has awakened long-dormant supernatural forces?

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. In Edinburgh, rivalry in the 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+

From their first gig at a caravan site in Carlisle, to 2013 – still making albums in their sixties, this is the story of the heaviest of the early heavy metal bands – Black Sabbath: Tommy Iommi, Terry ‘Geezer’ Butler, Bill Ward and Ozzy Osborne.

After losing her secretarial job in 1950s Liverpool, Violet is resigned to being a childless spinster until she adopts two orphaned children. This saga follows Abby and Will over subsequent decades, as they find love and safety in her home, before they explore the wider world.

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?

After a lonely postwar childhood, Annie Harrison finds love, and motherhood, with a handsome foreigner, Lauri. When his sudden death leaves her alone again, she sets up a market stall to provide for her children – but will a chance meeting lead to happiness?

Retired and in failing health, Edinburgh sleuth Inspector Rebus is called in to examine an old missing person’s case when a body is found hidden in the woods. Detectives in charge of the original investigation and the new inquiry all seem to have something to hide.

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.

Set in the 1970s, this thriller follows the planning of an IRA plot and the struggles of a northern football team. The two strands converge when the team travel to London for a crucial fixture.

This is the second in the Promise Falls trilogy about the dark side of a small American town. After a freak accident kills Lucy Brighton's father she calls in private investigator Cal Weaver who discovers a secret basement 'playroom' and evidence of other mysteries.

After six years in prison for murdering her best friend, Kate Reynolds returns to her home town, unable to move on until she proves her innocence. For help, she turns to Madison Attallee, a private investigator now, but six years ago, the first police detective on the murder scene.

Veronica Henry weaves two stories around the house at 11 Lark Hill in Bath; one is set in wartime, the other sees the present occupant’s daughter going off to university, leaving 40-something Laura – and her Aga – facing a different life in a quiet, half empty house.

With stories about Christmas presents, school plays, eating vegetables, and the Abominable Snowman, jokes, puzzles, games and Henry’s Christmas survival guide, this set of three Horrid Henry books – his Merry Mischief, Cracking Christmas and Jolly Holidays – Will occupy even the most lively children over the festive season.

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 Oxfordshire in 1947 Kit, an English midwife, and Anto, an Indian doctor, fall in love. Against Kit’s mother’s wishes, the young couple secretly marry and leave for South India, on the eve of Indian independence.

Wiltshire, 1922. When murder comes to a sleepy village, Pudding Cartwright’s brother becomes a suspect. Determined to prove his innocence, she and her friend Irene uncover a secret that will devastate the community.

In this sixth DS Fiona Griffiths murder case, the victim is an archaeologist who was excavating an Iron Age site; she has been decapitated in what looks like a ritual killing and the crime grows ever more bizarre as Griffiths investigates.

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.

Newly knighted on the battlefield outside Florence, Sir William Gold is looking forward to a lucrative career as a sword for hire to Italy’s warring cities. But then he receives an order he cannot refuse – to join a crusade to the Holy Land.

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.

In August 1939, after a tour across Europe promoting her latest book, Romily Temple returns home to Island House and her beloved Jack, to find him seriously ill. His estranged family from a previous marriage are summoned, forced by Jack’s illness to accept their young stepmother and bury their resentments.

In Webb’s evocation of the romance and magic of the desert, a young archaeologist on her first trip to Arabia meets her childhood heroine and is swept into a dangerous adventure of the older woman’s making.

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.

Maureen Lee's novel opens as the Second World War begins and traces the individual dramas of the men, women and children of Pearl Street, Liverpool, as they face the challenges of war, life on the home front and evacuation. First published in 1995.

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.