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After a post-war career slump, Frank Sinatra established himself as an all-time great from the mid 1950s with a string of hit records and notable films. This second volume of James Kaplan’s biography picks up the story the day after Sinatra received an Oscar for his role in From Here to Eternity and describes the entertainer’s prime and later years, discussing his classic recordings and Rat Pack friendships. Off-mint.

Lily was a housemaid at St Clere’s Hall in Essex; Charlotte was the pampered daughter of the Hall; but when war broke out in 1914, both went to work in the munitions factory. However different their backgrounds, now they must work together to improve their lives.

Investigating two different murders with one thing in common – the same rough tattoo on both victims’ legs – DI Lottie Parker’s leads converge on a former children’s home and unsolved murders from decades ago. This was the first of the bestselling Lottie Parker series.

Recently separated, Alison Taylor meets a man in a local bar in this thriller and wakes up the next morning with a bump on her head and unable to recognize her own face in the mirror.

During a narcotics investigation, Detective Erika Foster has the sludge of a disused quarry searched. A cache of drugs is recovered, along with the skeleton of a young child who went missing 26 years ago – a cold case that becomes an urgent murder investigation.

A real-life tragedy on stage ended the run of When the Curtain Falls at the Southern Cross Theatre. Sixty-six years later, a new production of the play is to open, but the ghosts of that earlier night still haunt the Southern Cross.

After a post-war career slump, Frank Sinatra established himself as an all-time great from the mid 1950s with a string of hit records and notable films. This second volume of James Kaplan’s biography picks up the story the day after Sinatra received an Oscar for his role in From Here to Eternity and describes the entertainer’s prime and later years, discussing his classic recordings and Rat Pack friendships.

Lured to a remote farmhouse in rural Québec, Armand Gamache finds himself the beneficiary of an unknown woman’s will. When a body is discovered, he must confront events that led to his suspension from the police force, and the dark secrets in his past.

In a chilling, twisting psychological thriller, Anna starts to question the circumstances of her parents’ deaths – two shocking suicides, just months apart – but sometimes it’s best to let things lie. By digging up the past, Anna endangers her future.

Psychological profiling suggests that serial killers sometimes begin by killing animals, so it makes sense that Tom Thorne, although a homicide detective, is tasked with catching a particularly brutal cat-killer before he or she starts murdering people.

After his enemies seize the Scottish crown, Robert the Bruce travels to England to seek the help of its king. But Edward proves a treacherous ally, and Robert must soon fight to save his nation. Book two of the Bravehearts Chronicles.

This fourth title in the War at Home series, following the fortunes of the Hunter family and their servants, is set against a backdrop of 1917 U-boat attacks, food shortages and German bombing campaigns.

The radio and television performer and author of Camberwell Beauty, Jenny Eclair presents a collection of short stories in which 23 down-to-earth women reach pivotal points in their lives.

A 17-year-old music student, lodging with family friends in 1930s Vienna, Stella Whittaker falls in love with the city, and with a young Jewish doctor; but as war approaches, Vienna becomes a place where no one is safe.

On a summer night in Conduit Street, London, a woman approaches Joe Trayne and asks him for help with a dead man. She leads him to her flat, then disappears – leaving Joe with a body in a box. First published in 1946.

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles’ Morland Dynasty has now reached 1919. The Great War is over, but its aftermath presents fresh challenges. While Teddy heads for France and Polly visits New York, others simply resolve to keep on dancing. Slightly off-mint.

Why visit a graveyard if you have no one to mourn? For Lorna Rhoads cemeteries can be repositories of stories, outdoor sculpture parks, habitats for birds and wildlife, gardens and oases of tranquillity. Her worldwide, illustrated directory includes burial grounds of all faiths, famous graveyards such Père Lachaise, Boothill and the Taj Mahal, war graves and memorial parks, catacombs, dolmens and even an underwater cemetery – the Neptune Memorial Reef for those lost at sea.

Freed by the death of her husband, Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine is the most powerful woman in medieval Europe. However, the bitter rivalry between her sons challenges even her indomitable spirit.

The screenwriter of Wallander joins forces with Sweden’s leading investigative journalist to produce this page-turning fictionalized account of a real-life family struggling to choose between old crimes and a new life, between redemption and revenge.

After a false rape accusation, Philip’s life falls apart. In order to escape an impossible situation, he fakes his own death and ends up homeless. Naive and vulnerable, he gets involved with an animal-rights activist, and his life takes an even more sinister turn.

Winnie, Bella and Frankie are very different women who develop a close friendship when they join an East End ambulance crew during the Second World War. This is the first title in Hendry’s saga, inspired by her father’s wartime experiences.

Ex-conman Jerry and recently widowed Charlotte attempt to put their murky pasts behind them and embark on a relationship. Their lies and deceits start to surface, however, and when Charlotte disappears, Jerry becomes the number-one suspect.

While her husband was serving as a British Army captain, Evelyn Shillington travelled with him whenever she could. She kept a regular diary starting with their arrival home from Hong Kong in 1935, through the turbulence of the Second World War, to a stint in post-war Italy in 1946. As well as commenting on the political situation, the diaries include gossip, humour and even a meeting with Princess Elizabeth.

Phyll Macdonald-Ross was a trainee nurse at Hackney Hospital in London’s East End when war was declared in September 1939. Her memoir recalls the rigid discipline and hard work of nursing, and the harrowing experience of tending the injured and dying during the Blitz in London, but also friendship and mischief, and the beginning of a lifelong love affair. The story was presented in 2015, Phyll’s 95th year, by her grandson ID Roberts.

Still running her sweet shop in Derbyshire, Rosie is now engaged to Stephen, the son of the local posh family – but will the course of true love run smoothly? Jenny Colgan provides a 'previously in the world of Rosie Hopkins' synopsis for Sweetshop newcomers.

In the Great Hiatus (after the Reichenbach Falls incident), Sherlock Holmes is in America with Henry James investigating the 'suicide' of Clover, wife of Henry Adams. James is disturbed by a deeply troubled Sherlock as the great detective questions what is real and what is not in Dan Simmons's literary hall of mirrors.