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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.

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...)

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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.

Nicole Pisani, formerly head chef at Ottolenghi’s Nopi in Soho, shares a collection of 100 intensely flavoured dishes influenced by her world travels – from smoked monkfish with kimchi to goats’ cheese gnocchi carbonara and beetroot ice cream. She offers insights into her instinctive cooking style and explains how to adapt professional techniques to the home kitchen.

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. 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+

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.