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  • The Teacher

    A brand new case full of twists for the unforgettable must-read detective in 2024

    by Tim Sullivan ...
    Series series A DS Cross Thriller
    'Every generation has its iconic detective - Holmes, Poirot and Morse - but Cross is emerging as the one for now. Treasure him.' DAILY MAIL'DS George Cross shot to the top of my favourites when I first encountered him. The Teacher shows him at his best.' MARI HANNAH'George Cross is becoming one of my favourite detectives.' ELLY GRIFFITHSHe's a victim. But is he innocent?<stro... ... Read more

    £0.99

  • Bridges to Burn

    An unputdownable Scottish police procedural

    by Marion Todd ...
    Series Book 8 - Detective Clare Mackay
    How can DI Clare Mackay uncover the facts if nothing is what it seems?DI Clare Mackay is called to Albany High, where the body of a girl has been found. A suspected suicide – yet Sophie Bakewell was by all accounts a cheerful, talented student. Could she really have been hiding a darker side?It’s not the only disturbing case to land on Clare’s desk. Across town, an elderly man is in danger. Yet ... Read more

    £3.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fall of Roman Britain

    and Why We Speak English

    “Fascinating. . . . Will have a very special appeal to readers [interested] in the evolution of the English language, Roman history, and medieval British history.” —Midwest Book ReviewThe end of empire in Britain was both more abrupt and more complete than in any of the other European Roman provinces. When the fog clears and Britain re-enters the historical record, it is, unlike other former ... Read more

    £10.99 £1.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shared Remains

    An unputdownable must-read crime thriller

    by Rachel Lynch ...
    Series Book 12 - Detective Kelly Porter
    DI Kelly Porter knows his death was no accident.The body of a man is found at the bottom of a quarry. His appearance, and physical evidence, rule out the chance he travelled there unaided: he was put there.DI Kelly Porter is tasked to investigate and soon digs up a bitter history between the two brothers who own the Cumbrian farmland that the quarry sits on. Arthur and Samuel inherited half each ... Read more

    £3.99

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  • Free Your Mind: The new world of manipulation and how to resist it

    The Instant Sunday Times BestsellerLearn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind.There is a war on for your mind. You may not notice, but you are surrounded by manipulators: advertisers, politicians, big tech, even the humble waiter who asks, ‘Still or sparkling?’Free Your Mind is your field manual to surviving the information battlefield. In this ... Read more

    £0.99

  • The Secret Beach

    The stunning, escapist and gorgeously romantic new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

    'Dreamy and irresistible!' JILL MANSELL'A summery tale. I loved it!' SARAH MORGAN'What an amazing book!' MILLY JOHNSONNikki has kept her secret safe for twenty years.Now the tide's about to turn...Nikki finally owns the little coastguard cottage of her dreams - and it's a few steps away from the hidden beach that means so much to her.But when a handwritten note l... ... Read more

    £7.99 £6.99

  • The Wager

    by David Grann ...
    **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BALLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction books I’ve ever read'** Guardian‘The greatest sea story ever told’ Spectator‘A cracking yarn… Grann’s taste for desperate predicaments finds its f... ... Read more

    £5.99

  • Code Dependent

    Living in the Shadow of AI

    **LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024'There’s nothing like a long plane journey to rediscover the joys of reading an entire book in one sitting and I have just had that pleasure [with Madhumita Murgia's Code Dependent], understanding the dangers of where AI might take us.' – Anne Sebba, The Guardian'Code Dependent is the intimate investigation of AI that we’ve been waiting for, ... Read more

    £9.99

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  • Harrier 809

    Britain’s Legendary Jump Jet and the Untold Story of the Falklands War

    by Rowland White ...
    'Utterly brilliant: a fantastically exciting book... This really does read like the best kind of thriller. His best book yet' James Holland, author of Normandy '44April 1982. Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.In response, Britain despatches a naval task force. Eight thousand miles from home, its fate hinges on just twenty Sea Harriers against the two hundred-strong might of the Argentine Air ... Read more

    £2.99

  • Misjustice

    How British Law is Failing Women

    Two women a week are killed by a spouse or partner. Every seven minutes a woman is raped. Now is the time for change.‘Fascinating and chilling’ Caroline Criado Perez, bestselling author of Invisible WomenHelena Kennedy, one of our most eminent lawyers and defenders of human rights, examines the pressing new evidence that women are being discriminated against when it comes to the law. From the ... Read more

    £5.99 £0.99

  • Once Upon An Algorithm

    A brand new spicy STEM romance for fans of Ali Hazelwood and Sally Thorne!What do you do when your mortifying Friday night blind date is sitting opposite you at your desk on Monday morning?A hot blind date in Paris with no strings? Practical Leonie would never do such a thing! But when a new dating app that uses science and logic leads her to gorgeous, so-not-her-type Jack the chemistry is off the ... Read more

    £0.99

  • Keanu Reeves Is Not In Love With You

    The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud

    by Becky Holmes ...
    "Fabulous. I read this in a single weekend and I didn’t want it to end. Scammers, con-artists, catfishers – you have met your match" — Jeremy Vine"A brilliant read. Moves effortlessly between hilarious and informative and back again." — Ed Byrne, comedian and actor"Astonishing." — Daily MailOnline romance fraud is a problem across the globe. It causes financial and emotional devastation, yet many ... Read more

    £5.99

  • The Tywi Estuary Killings

    A gripping, gritty crime mystery from John Nicholl

    by John Nicholl ...
    Series Book 2 - Carmarthen Crime
    Is it revenge or is it justice?DI Gravel is supposed to be on mandatory leave, but when a severed head washes up on the estuary beach his holiday is cut short. Back on the job, he’s shocked when the case leads him to the victim from an old caseSeventeen years ago, the system failed Rebecca. They let the abuser of a six-year-old girl walk free. But she’s all grown up now and taking the law into her ... Read more

    £1.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When the Guilty Cry

    by M J Lee ...
    Series Book 7 - DI Ridpath Crime Thriller
    Three severed hands. No clues. A race against time.Three embalmed hands are discovered in a disused Victorian house. Is it a gangland ritual? The work of a cult? Or just a prank played by Medical Students? And what happened to the bodies?Meanwhile the Coroner needs to issue a Presumption of Death certificate on a teenage girl who vanished eleven years ago in mysterious circumstances.As hints ... Read more

    £1.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Very Private School

    In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend a boarding school.A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, firsthand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well ... Read more

    £14.99

  • Eye for An Eye

    The Richard & Judy Winter 2024 Book Club thriller that will get everyone talking

    by M. J. Arlidge ...
    OUR MOST NOTORIOUS CRIMINALS HAVE HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.UNTIL NOW...'Emily' is a devoted single mother.'Jack' starts a new job in a new town.They both share the same secret:neither of them are who they say they are.They are among only nine criminals in the UK who have been granted lifelong anonymity, for their own safety, because of th... ... Read more

    £3.99

  • How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

    by Ian Dunt ...
    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERBritish politics is broken.Anyone sitting down to watch the news will get the sense that something has gone terribly wrong. We have prime ministers who detonate the economy, secretaries of state who are intellectually incapable of doing the job and MPs who seem temperamentally unsuited to the role. Expertise is denigrated. Lies are rewarded. And deep-seated, long ... Read more

    £9.99 £5.99

  • A Family Torn Apart: Three sisters and a dark secret that threatens to separate them for ever

    by Cathy Glass ...
    Angie, 6, and sister Polly, 4, are utterly distraught when they arrive to stay with foster carer Cathy Glass. Their older half-sister Ashleigh has accused their father of something horrible, and the two young sisters have been removed from home to keep them safe.Cathy tries to comfort the girls, but they are inconsolable. They just want their mummy and daddy, whom they love dearly.The girls appear ... Read more

    £2.99

  • The Carmarthen Murders

    The start of a dark, edge-of-your-seat crime mystery series from John Nicholl

    by John Nicholl ...
    Series Book 1 - Carmarthen Crime
    One missing girl. Five bodies. Time is running out.When nineteen-year-old university student Emma goes missing, Detective Inspector Gareth Gravel is called in. But what is a simple missing person case soon turns into something much darker as Gravel’s inquiries lead him to the graves of five young women - each of whom looks just like Emma.With a serial killer on the loose and his latest victim ... Read more

    £1.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Column of Fire: A Novel (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett | Conversation Starters

    by dailyBooks ...
    A Column of Fire: A Novel (Kingsbridge) by Ken Follett | Conversation StartersA Column of Fire is the latest novel by author Ken Follett. Returning once again to Kingsbridge, England, A Column of Fire is the story of a country torn apart by religious intolerance. In 1558 England, Mary, Queen of Scots, who is better known as Bloody Mary is on the throne. She has ordered that all Protestants be ... Read more

    £3.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Motherhood Penalty

    How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career

    AN EYE-OPENING EXPLORATION OF MODERN MOTHERHOOD PACKED WITH PRACTICAL ADVICE ON NAVIGATING DISCRIMINATION IN THE WORKPLACE‘It’s the book that proves working mothers are shamefully mistreated’ - Daily Mail‘Brearley’s book leaves no stone unturned in what needs to be done to remedy these problems going forward’ – Vogue UK'Joeli is one of the most tenacious and impressive campaigners I know, and her ... Read more

    £5.99 £0.99

  • Great-Uncle Harry

    A Tale of War and Empire

    by Michael Palin ...
    From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him.The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work. Michael dug out every bit of family gossip and correspondence he could. He studied every relevant official document. He tracked down ... Read more

    £9.99 £7.99

  • The Official DVSA Guide to Learning to Drive: DVSA Safe Driving for Life Series

    Being able to drive on your own opens up a whole new world of independence. But, before you apply to take your practical test, you must have the skills and mindset you’ll need to drive independently. In this book, we explain the skills you need to understand and master before taking your test. We refer to the ‘Driver’s Record’; if you do not have one of these, ask your instructor for a copy, or ... Read more

    £10.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Haunting

    A story of love, betrayal and intrigue from bestselling novelist and national treasure Alan Titchmarsh.

    'A perfect love story' - Katie FfordeHow can the mysterious disappearance of Anne Flint and the drowning of a young girl in a chalk stream in 1816 possibly affect the life of schoolteacher Harry Flint some two centuries later?With a failed marriage and no job, Harry begins to research his ancestors. The deeper he digs, the more he realises that the past is closer than he had ever imagined, that ... Read more

    £3.99