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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 all hell breaks loose. The hospital and emergency services are overwhelmed with casualties, and the fatalities seem to be mysteriously linked by the number 23.

A murder case for Los Angeles defence attorney, Mickey Haller, becomes personal when he discovers that the victim was known to him and he might have inadvertently set the events in motion that led to her death. Unabridged.

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.

In this memoir, the author recalls growing up with her coal miner father, mother and siblings in a Derbyshire village and describes how the outbreak of war and the nearby PoW camp and American base changed life for everyone.

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.

Erica James’s novel tells the story of young Lizzie, forced to go back home to live with her parents, and an old woman that she meets in her new job – Mrs Dallimore, who has her own story to tell, one that dates back to 1939.

Philip Kazan evokes the sights, smells and passions of quattrocento Florence in this imagined life of Filippo Lippi, tracing the artist’s colourful early career from street urchin to Carmelite friar.

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 beautifully written, richly evocative 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.

Exchanging her native Belfast for Cumbria, Patricia Jordan worked as a midwife and district nurse in Borrowdale during the 1950s. This memoir recalls her tough nursing training in London, tells how a romance with a patient took her to the North West and recounts her many heart-warming and sometimes heartbreaking experiences as her work took her into people's homes at times of crisis and celebration.

In December 1975, Nature, the prestigious scientific journal, published Sir Peter Scott’s article ‘Naming the Loch Ness Monster’ and a photograph of the monster’s diamond-shaped fin. This book looks afresh at the ensuing saga of the ‘plesiosaur in Loch Ness’.

Exploring the island of Capri and the Amalfi coast, Nina Parker draws on her passion for southern Italian cooking as well as her training in the top Italian restaurants in London. Gleaning recipes from local chefs and family cooks – Nunzia’s Green Lasagne or Donatella’s Golden Risotto Cake – Nina presents a collection of classic dishes from this spectacular part of Italy, illustrated with photographs of the region as well as the food.

Crossing 14th-century Europe from Scotland to Constantinople, this epic adventure sees the fates of three very different people – a prince, a young Scot named John Grant and a girl in hiding – intertwined in the besieged city of Constantinople.

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.

Recently married to a rich man and with a manipulative stepdaughter to contend with, Helen finds life is no bed of roses. Will the gardens of Lake Como bring solace, or more problems? A former Romantic Novel of the Year Award winner (2005).

Living alone in her damp but picturesque cottage after her husband left her, Ellen decides to marry for money. Her wealthy divorce lawyer is at hand; but so too are young Jo-Jo and Matthew, ready to shame her mercenary motives.

Six weeks was the average life expectancy of junior officers in the First World War trenches. Many had come straight from the classroom to the most dangerous job in the world, yet nearly all stepped forward, unflinchingly, to do their duty. Based on first-person accounts, including letters and diaries, and following the course of the war, this book gives a vivid account of the Army subalterns, lieutenants and captains – the leaders in the trenches, the first 'over the top' and the last to retreat.

You may be an expert on dog breeds, but can you identify them by windswept heads hanging out of car windows? There are captions telling you what sort of dogs they are and where they are travelling, but most importantly, these 95 wonderful photographs show dogs enjoying the open road and the wind in their ears.

Anthony Horowitz reinvents the golden age of James Bond, incorporating previously unseen material by Ian Fleming, as 007 encounters SMERSH, a sinister Korean millionaire and a plot to bring down the West.

In 1925, Patricia, Tara and Aideen's father sweeps them aboard a liner bound for America, only for him to disappear in the mid-Atlantic. This tale from bestselling author Maureen Lee charts the girls' attempts to build a new life in New York in the Roaring Twenties.

Set in 15th-century Florence, Kazan's vivid novel follows the fortunes of Nino Latini, a young man who tastes things in shapes and colours – a master chef negotiating the intrigue and violence of Renaissance Italy.