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Tom Shakespeare

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Keith Wickham

Good behaviour goes on ice, in this darkly comic cruise to the end of the earth, with a diverse set of charactersForty-somethings Fred and Nel embark on an Arctic cruise with a pair of long-time university friends. What they haven’t counted on is the presence of a further journalist friend Heather, and her nemesis, a climate change-denying American oilman called Marvin Ridley.With a potential superpower conflict over oil also now brewing in the background, Fred and Nel disco...

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Tom Shakespeare

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Keith Wickham

A modern country house farce with a diverse cast of characters––––––––––––Fred Twistleton is about to turn forty. Gathering with his friends to celebrate at a rented stately home, he finally hopes to get together with his college crush, the woman of his dreams, Heather. But Fred is also keen to publish his memoirs, and Heather realises the revelations they contain could threaten her career as a high-flying foreign correspondent.When the treasured manuscript goes miss...

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Nigel Cawthorne

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Keith Wickham

Ships have been overwhelmed by huge waves, consumed by fires, broken apart, sunk by storms and driven onto uncharted rocks. They have collided with icebergs or other ships, been sunk by enemy torpedoes or gunfire, or run aground on unlit coastlines at night. Boilers have exploded. Magazines have ignited. Cargoes have shifted with catastrophic consequences and submarines have submerged never to come up again.Shipwrecks selects the sinkings with the greatest loss of life, th...

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Josh Cohen

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Keith Wickham

Anger is all around us, from divisive social media arguments and heightened political divides to road rage and personal spats; from Black Lives Matter and climate justice movements to Trump, incels, and white supremacists. When it materializes, it seems to cry out for recognition and response. It affects our bodies and can transition into violence. It can be inherited through the generations; it can manifest in criminal acts. What should we do with it, and can it ever be put to good use?

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Janice Hallett

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Matt Bates, Rachel Dale, Sarah Durham, Joe Eyre, Keith Wickham, Harvey Quinn, Jennifer Saayeng, Ashley Tucker, Melissa Vaughan

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERJanice Hallett, “the new queen of crime” (Electric Literature), returns with a fresh, edge-of-your-seat mystery that takes place at a pub’s weekly trivia night, revealed through quiz categories, phone messages, and email correspondence.Sue and Mal Eastwood run an isolated rural pub called The Case Is Altered where a weekly trivia game has revived its flagging fortunes—that is, until a body is found in the ne...

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John Wade

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Keith Wickham

An off-the-beaten-path tour of the city’s hidden highlights, and the stories behind them.London is full of curiosities. Who knew that beneath the Albert Memorial lies a chamber resembling a church crypt? Or that there are catacombs under Camden? Who would expect to find a lighthouse in East London, sphinxes in South London, dummy houses in West London, or a huge bust of film director Alfred Hitchcock in North London?How many of those who walk past Cleopatra’s Needle pause t...

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Trevor Douglas

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Keith Wickham

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Rowan Whitecross Murder Mystery

A British small-town murder mystery about a retired detective with missing memories who inherits an estate and is pulled back into a deadly investigation.A quiet village. A brutal murder. And a man haunted by his past.Seven months are missing from Rowan Whitecross’s life. A psychological trauma cost him his memory, his job, and his future in the police. Forced into early retirement, he retreats from London to the sleepy village of Wadhurst after inheriting his late aunt’s m...

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Swapna Haddow

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Keith Wickham

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Dave Pigeon

The series grand finale of this flyaway bestselling series. When another pigeon turns up looking a bit like Dave, can Dave prove himself to be most worthy of the name?What on Earth? The Human Lady has brought home another injured pigeon . . . and the imposter looks a little bit like Dave!When fierce competition erupts between the two birds, it's up to Skipper to find a way to prove who is more Dave, once and for all!

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Swapna Haddow

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Keith Wickham

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Dave Pigeon

It's the most wonderful time of the year: there's frozen white dust on the ground, the Human Lady has decorated her nest with shiny things, and the scent of scrumptious goodness is wafting from the kitchen . . .But then Tinkles the Canary comes with unprecedented news. That delicious smell is not just deliciousness with a sprinkling of yumminess . . . it's the smell of TURKEY. Being cooked!Horrors!Can Dave and Skipper save a bird that's delivered in a plastic wrappe...

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Brian Clegg

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Keith Wickham

As a fundamental particle, the electron is central to an understanding of the nature of matter.All of chemistry is dependent on the interaction of electrons on the outside of atoms. But the electron has also become increasingly central to our lives, first through the deployment of electricity and then as the essential driving force of electronics, with all its quantum subtlety. We spend our entire lives now bathed in the electron's output, whether we are simply turning on a light, ...

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Steve Higgs

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Keith Wickham

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DS Tony Heaton's Cold Cases

How far would you go to protect a secret?For thirty years the truth has remained hidden, but the murder inquiry he deliberately sabotaged has been reopened and DS Heaton knows his partner is bright enough to figure things out.It's all or nothing now. To evade justice he must find a way to protect his secrets, but he already knows that might mean taking a life.When his web of lies begins to fall apart, does he have what it takes to stay one step ahead, or will the wo...

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Nicola Upson

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Keith Wickham

In this festive whodunit, set in a cozy snowed-in country-house, an innocent mystery game goes horribly wrong, leaving the real-life couple who invented the game Clue to solve a real murder."A perfect Christmas crime story." —Elly Griffiths, bestselling author of the Dr. Ruth Galloway seriesIt is Christmas Eve, 1943, when Anthony and Elva Pratt arrive at a snowy English country house to host a murder mystery game, but instead find themselve...