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  • The Seventh Victim

    by Michael Wood ...
    From the bestselling author of the DCI Matilda Darke series comes a standalone thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page…‘Dark, twisting and captivating. The very essence of the just-one-more-page thriller’ Will Carver‘Wood gets better with every book. I couldn’t let go of this tragedy of loss and deception from the moment I picked it up’ Alex Marwood, author of ... Read more

    £2.99 £0.99

  • The Dictionary of Lost Words

    A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK

    by Pip Williams ...
    'An enchanting story about love, loss and the power of language' Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll FactorySometimes you have to start with what's lost to truly find yourself...Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood at her father's feet as he and his team gather words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary.One day, she sees a slip of paper containing a forgotten ... Read more

    £2.99 £0.99

  • Livid

    The new Kay Scarpetta thriller from the No.1 bestseller

    by Patricia Cornwell ...
    Book 26 - Kay Scarpetta
    THE THRILLING NEW KAY SCARPETTA MYSTERY FROM THE #1 GLOBAL BESTSELLER. SCARPETTA IS COMING TO THE SCREEN SOON, STARRING NICOLE KIDMAN AND JAMIE LEE CURTIS'I'M STILL SEEING STARS . . . KAY SCARPETTA IS THE SAME GRUMPY, WONDERFUL, RIVETING PERSONALITY SHE'S ALWAYS BEEN AND SHE'S ONLY GETTING BETTER WITH TIME' JAMES PATTERSONMurder and mayhem. Scarpetta is back, and she's racing against the clock . . ... Read more

    £8.99 £0.99

  • The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women

    by Rosalie Gilbert ...
    A “wickedly entertaining, informative and thought-provoking” look at romance, courtship, and other intimacies behind closed Medieval doors (Dr. Markus Kerr, PhD, MDR).Were medieval women slaves to their husband’s desires, jealously secured in a chastity belt in his absence? Was sex a duty or could it be a pleasure? Did a woman have a say about her own female sexuality, body, and who did or didn’t ... Read more

    £1.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lonely Hearts Lido Club

    An uplifting read about friendship that will warm your heart

    by Charlie Lyndhurst ...
    'My favorite read of 2022, I am recommending it to everyone I know.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader ReviewThree strangers all caught in the deep end… but can they help each other float through?After tragically losing her husband and being left a single mother to two children, Gabriella has only one escape for herself – swimming at a local London lido to clear her mind.A constant stream of both new and familiar ... Read more

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  • Wild Fell

    Fighting for nature on a Lake District hill farm

    by Lee Schofield ...
    'I found myself turning the pages with an inward leap of joy' - Isabella Tree*WINNER of the Richard Jefferies Award for Nature Writing**Shortlisted for the James Cropper Wainwright Prize for Conservation*'Exquisite' GUARDIANIt was a tragic day for the nation's wildlife when England's last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the remote eastern fells of the Lake District. ... ... Read more

    £7.99 £0.99

  • Lessons in Chemistry

    The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick

    by Bonnie Garmus ...
    **THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES and #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe multi-million copy bestsellerAs read on BBC Radio 4 Book at BedtimeWinner of the Goodreads Choice Best Debut Novel Award**British Book Awards Author of the Year'Sparky, rip-roaring, funny, with big-hearted fully formed, loveable characters'SUNDAY TIMES*'*The most charming, life-enhancing novel I've read in ages. Strongly recomme... ... Read more

    £9.99 £5.99

  • Kaikeyi

    the instant New York Times bestseller and Tiktok sensation

    by Vaishnavi Patel ...
    An instant New York Times bestseller and Tiktok sensation, Vaishnavi Patel's stunning debut Kaikeyi reimagines the life of the infamous queen from Indian epic the Ramayana...The only daughter of a king, Kaikeyi watches as her mother is banished and her own worth is reduced to what marriage alliance she can secure. Although she was raised on stories of the might and benevolence of the gods, her ... Read more

    £5.49

  • A Blind Eye

    A twisty and gripping detective thriller

    by Marion Todd ...
    Book 7 - Detective Clare Mackay
    The Scots Magazine Book of the Month May 2023‘Tartan Noir at its nail-biting, brutal, bloody best’ Helen Fields, author of The InstitutionCan DI Clare Mackay unravel a dead man’s secrets?Harry Richards, a local solicitor, is found in his car, throat slit.DI Clare Mackay is on the case. She soon learns that Harry was not the upstanding man he seemed to be. Finding the killer should be easy... ... Read more

    £3.99

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  • The Crossing Places

    The first book in the megaselling Ruth Galloway series

    by Elly Griffiths ...
    Book 1 - The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries
    **Start right here! Discover the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries and become obsessed with one of the most popular crime series in Britain.'Galloway now seems as real as Marple and Morse' The Times'I've never before read a crime novel in which archaeology and detection blend as successfully as in The Crossing Places' Shots**Dr Ruth Galloway is called in when a child's bones are discovered near a ... Read more

    £5.49 £0.99

  • The Spy who was left out in the Cold

    The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski

    by Tim Tate ...
    Spring 1958: a mysterious individual believed to be high up in the Polish secret service began passing Soviet secrets to the West.His name was Michal Goleniewski and he remains one of the most important, yet least known and most misunderstood spies of the Cold War. Even his death is shrouded in mystery and he has been written out of the history of Cold War espionage - until now.Tim Tate draws on a ... Read more

    £4.99 £0.99

  • What If?2

    Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

    by Randall Munroe ...
    WHAT IF... one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science.The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to ask.The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger.Planning... ... Read more

    £9.99 £0.99

  • Greek Myths

    A new retelling of your favourite myths that puts female characters at the heart of the story

    by Charlotte Higgins ...
    'A great storyteller' Madeline Miller, author of CirceIn this powerful new collection, Charlotte Higgins foregrounds Greek mythology's most enduring heroines.Here are the myths of Heracles and Theseus, the Trojan war, Thebes and Argos and Athens. They are stories of love and desire, adventure and magic, destructive gods, helpless humans, fantastical creatures and resourceful witches.In this ... Read more

    £5.99 £0.99

  • Double Crossed

    gripping, gritty and unputdownable - the best gangland crime thriller you'll read this year

    by Roberta Kray ...
    'Well into MARTINA COLE territory' Independent'A cracking good read' JESSIE KEANEON THE STREETS OF LONDON, DANGER LURKS EVERYWHERE . . .Liv Anderson can take care of herself and she knows how to make money in a man's world. The daughter of a convicted murderer, she's made her way in one of the roughest parts of London by entrapping men and extorting them for money. But Liv is playing a dangerous ... Read more

    £4.49 £0.99

  • Pageboy

    A Memoir

    by Elliot Page ...
    **'The emergence of our true selves is all of our life's work. Pageboy helps chart the course.' Jamie Lee Curtis'Searing, deeply moving, and incredibly poignant... This isn't simply a book on what it means to be trans, it's about what it means to be human.' Alok Vaid-MenonFull of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, ... Read more

    £10.99

  • Silent Bones

    An addictive and gripping crime thriller

    by Rachel Lynch ...
    Book 11 - Detective Kelly Porter
    Thirlmere hides a deadly secret…Drought hits the Lake District, uncovering a skeleton at the bottom of Thirlmere reservoir. The case quickly becomes personal for DI Kelly Porter when she discovers it’s the remains of an old classmate, missing for over twenty years.Then a day later, another body is found in a caravan park, its head broken and bloody.Kelly suspects these two crimes are linked. But ... Read more

    £3.99

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  • Original Sins

    An extraordinary memoir of faith, family, shame and addiction

    by Matt Rowland Hill ...
    An extraordinarily brave memoir about faith, family, shame and addiction - a****n Observer, New Statesman and Sunday Times Book of the YearMatt Rowland Hill grew up the son of a minister in an evangelical Christian church. It was a childhood fraught with bitter family conflict and the fear of damnation. After a devastating loss of faith in his late teens, Matt began his search for salvation ... Read more

    £4.99 £0.99

  • Dead Man Deep

    by Lynne McEwan ...
    Book 2 - Detective Shona Oliver
    Nothing stays buried foreverLifeboat volunteer DI Shona Oliver receives a Mayday call coming from Kilcatrin Island. Upon the beach is the badly burned body of a man, and a boy lies gravely injured nearby. Strewn around them are scores of Second World War incendiary bombs, presumably washed up by the tide from Beaufort’s Dyke, an offshore arms dump deep in the Irish Sea.The dead man is a local ... Read more

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  • Once Upon A Broken Heart

    the New York Times bestseller

    by Stephanie Garber ...
    series Once Upon a Broken Heart
    How far would you go for happily ever after?'An unputdownable fairy tale' Kerri Maniscalco, New York Times bestselling author of Kingdom of the WickedFrom the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Caraval series, the first book in a new series about love, curses, and the lengths that people will go to for happily ever after.For as long as she ... ... Read more

    £4.99 £0.99

  • The Dark Hours

    The gripping Ballard & Bosch Thriller

    by Michael Connelly ...
    A CRIME BURIED FOR YEARS. AND ONE THAT'S JUST BEGUN...**'An authentic, topical and terrifying thriller: one of Michael Connelly's very best'THE TIMES'Yet another superb thriller from a writer at the top of his game'SUNDAY EXPRESS'Consistently excellent'MAIL ON SUNDAY* * * * *</... ... Read more

    £4.99 £0.99

  • Ultra-Processed People

    Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?

    by Chris van Tulleken ...
    **THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'If you only read one diet or nutrition book in your life, make it this one'** Bee Wilson'A devastating, witty and scholarly destruction of the shit food we eat and why' Adam Rutherford**---An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food.**It's not you, it's the food.We have entered a new 'age of ... Read more

    £9.99 £7.99

  • The Girls in the Glen

    An unputdownable Scottish mystery

    by Lynne McEwan ...
    Book 3 - Detective Shona Oliver
    ‘A thrilling new voice in Scottish fiction’ Marion ToddIf the dead could speak, what secrets would they tell?With her daughter on an archaeological dig, the only bodies DI Shona Oliver expects to find are long-dead. But when a corpse from the 1980s is unearthed, Shona quickly realises that it may be one of the missing “Girls in the Glen”, victim of a notorious serial killer.Shona’s superiors want ... Read more

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  • A Heart Full of Headstones

    The Gripping New Must-Read Thriller from the No.1 Bestseller Ian Rankin

    by Ian Rankin ...
    THE BRAND NEW REBUS THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. ONE OF THE MUST-READ NOVELS OF THE YEAR.'I loved it - Rebus is one of fiction's greatest creations' MARIAN KEYESJohn Rebus stands accused: the once legendary detective is on trial, facing the rest of his life behind bars.How does a hero turn villain?Or have times changed, and the rules with them?Detective Inspector Siobhan C... ... Read more

    £9.99 £5.49

  • Old Bones Lie

    An unputdownable Scottish detective thriller

    by Marion Todd ...
    Book 6 - Detective Clare Mackay
    DI Clare Mackay is about to face a test of her loyalty…When a report comes in that a van containing two prison officers and a convicted jewel thief is missing, the police in St Andrews work quickly to locate the vehicle. Their efforts prove in vain when no trace is found and they realise the wives of both officers also appear to have left the area. Is this a case of corrupt guards springing a ... Read more

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