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death of his dear friend, Toko, pulls him deeper into the community’s folds. An exciting and touching 334 paperback pages with extra cover. £8.99 NOW £3


70716 PANDORA IN THE CONGO


by Albert Sánchez Piñol It is 1914. A 19-year-old asthmatic young man called Tommy Thomson, who describes himself as a ‘half-writer’, or in other words a ghost writer who fleshes out the bare bones of a story, is asked by a friend to take over his job of finishing a plot. When the friend dies suddenly, Tommy discovers


that there is a chain of other writers leading back to the original author and, strangely, all of them have died. At the funeral of two of them, Tommy is approached by a barrister who has read some of his previous ghost-writing and who offers to pay him well to ghost the testimony of one Marcus Garvey. This last is in prison accused of having stolen two giant, priceless diamonds from his employers who had mysteriously died deep in a remote area of the jungle. The barrister hopes that if Tommy takes down the whole of Garvey’s story, he may be able to establish ‘some reasonable line of defence’. 441 deviously imaginative paperback pages. £8.99 NOW £3


70851 CORSAIR by Clive


Cussler and Jack du Brul This page-turning thriller opens in the Bay of Tripoli in 1813, where Henry Lafayette and his comrade Decatur are mounting an expedition to disable the American ship Philadelphia, captured by Barbary pirates and now flying the Tripolian flag with her crew taken hostage in the Bashaw’s prison. As they approach the ship, Henry fears his


pair of mismatched flintlock pistols are puny and the ketch Intrepid inadequate for the operation, but in a breathtaking shipboard struggle the Americans are victors and the noble Philadelphia burns. Meanwhile Suleiman Al-Jama’s corsair Saqr is launching for revenge, and when the two ships meet Henry is stranded on Saqr’s deck and tumbles into the sea in one-to-one combat with Al-Jama. The scene now switches to the present day where following a plane crash the American Secretary of State Fiona Katamora is being held by Muslim terrorists. Involves Saladin’s legendary Jewel of Jerusalem and the closely guarded secret of the Knights Templar. 437pp. $27.95 NOW £5


70863 SOLDIER’S RETURN by Alan Monaghan


When the wounded Stephen comes back to Ireland from the trenches, during the First World War, he assumes he will return to his old life - but, instead, he finds himself in a complex web of deceit and violence. The new, alien Ireland he encounters has unpredictable rules. Sinn Fein is resurgent and more than ever determined to gain


independence. Stephen’s own brother is among those who are prepared to fight for their cause and, because of the shocking losses of life and limb incurred by the troops and the threat of conscription ever looming, there is growing civil unrest. Stephen must ask himself if he has chosen the right side. All he knows is that he cannot stay at home. Despite his wounds and his increasing addiction to the morphine he needs to ease his pain, he feels compelled to return to the front, where he has some hope of laying his ghosts to rest, and where at least he knows where his loyalties lie. A moving, well- paced and immensely readable 327 paperback pages. £12.99 NOW £4.50


67923 NUMBER TEN by Sue Townsend P.M. Edward Clare and his wife live at No. 10 Downing Street. PC Jack Sprat is the policeman who stands outside the door. Five years ago, Edward Clare was voted into No. 10 but now things are starting to go wrong. All he wants is for the people of Clare’s Britain to like him and for them to be happy. To find out what they really think together, he and Jack Sprat travel the country incognito, ending up at Jack’s childhood home. 324pp in paperback. ONLY £2.75


68067 PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith New York Times bestseller. ‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.’ As the story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton, and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she is soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr Darcy. 317pp in paperback.


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68354 THE BREEZES by Joseph O’Neill 14 years ago Mary Breeze was killed by lightning. As John Breeze is about to find out, his family’s bad luck will continue. John, a failing chair maker and his father are only feebly equipped with shaky religious notions, management maxims and cynical postures as they try to come to terms with the absurd unfairness of lightning striking twice. 180pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW 50p


69418 BOOK 8 PEMBERLEY CHRONICLES:


RECOLLECTIONS OF ROSINGS by Rebecca Ann Collins


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As we already know from Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte Lucas and her husband Mr Collins have very different personalities and temperaments and now so do their daughters - sisters Catherine Harrison and Becky Tate. Both grew up in the shadow of Rosings Park, domain of the formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, but, as adults, their paths have diverged dramatically. When a catastrophe at Rosings Park brings Becky back to visit her sister, the two clash on the subject of their aspirations for the marriage of Catherine’s young daughter, and both women are forced to confront the ghosts of the past, in particular Lady Catherine’s cruelty and deception. As the shocking truth emerges, the Darcy and Bingley families rally. 308 paperback pages. £14.99 NOW £3.50


69457 NOTTING HELL: A


Novel by Rachel Johnson A wickedly funny and instantly recognisable comedy of manners set around Lonsdale Gardens, a W11 square of mid-Victorian houses set around a communal garden. Mimi, who has it all - the money, the skinny jeans, the part-time vanity job and the husband who prefers the trout stream to the fast lane - meets new billionaire on the block Si


at a sushi party. Her obsessive-compulsive friend Clare, deep in biological panic about her and her husband’s enduring childlessness, spends the time she would have spent with children monitoring all illicit activity in their private compound, from light adultery to heavy construction, and her sights are trained on Mimi. Acerbic, perfectly observed, snappy and witty. 340pp. $25 NOW £3.75


68395 NANJING 1937: A Love Story by Ye Zhaoyan


As a work of historical fiction, the novel features appearances by several dozen military, political and cultural figures who were prominent in Republican China. A comprehensive Glossary of Historical Figures has been appended to the end of this volume was translated in 1996 and is set on the eve of the Rape of Nanjing, when Japanese troops massacred hundreds of thousands and committed thousands of rapes. The novel is a tender and humorous story of an impossible love. 404pp in paperback.


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68404 A PROPER EDUCATION FOR GIRLS by Elaine di Rollo


Lilian and Alice are the bright young twin daughters of the eccentric Mr Talbot. When Lilian rebels against Victorian standards of morality, she is packed off to India as the bride of a dreary missionary, leaving her sister Alice alone and in danger of falling victim to her father’s bizarre and hair-raising schemes. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the Indian Mutiny. 344pp in paperback.


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69801 BIRMINGHAM ROSE / WHERE EARTH MEETS SKY by Annie Murray


An omnibus two-in-one paperback where both stories are set in the slums of pre-war Birmingham. Life is bleak for Rose Lucas, a spirited and intelligent girl born into a large family. But her friendship with Diana, daughter of a vicar from middle class Moseley gives her hope. From Italy where she has travelled during the Second World War she is forced to return to Birmingham and an unhappy marriage, but she will not be defeated. In the second story, beautiful, dark-haired Lily has been abandoned in a Birmingham slum as a tiny child. Lily finds another post in a beautiful Himalayan hill station, yet she is unprepared for the pain and misunderstandings that follow. 486 plus 500 pages, softback. £7.99 NOW £3.50


70409 FEAST OF THE GOAT by Mario Vargas Llosa


A fierce, edgy thriller translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman, and written by the Nobel Prize Winner. Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, 49 year old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic and finds herself reliving the events of 1961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorised a nation of three million. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans called the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In his gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life but his grasp is slipping and there is a conspiracy against him - a Machiavellian revolution already under way that will have bloody consequences of its own. 404pp in paperback. $16 NOW £4


69856 SIGNALS OF


DISTRESS by Jim Crace November 1836 and Aymer Smith is making the voyage from his London home to coastal Wherrytown to deliver bad news. Once there he becomes embroiled with the American crew of the Belle, torn from their ship by a fierce storm and left stranded to wreak havoc in the village. A Dickensian cast of characters and Crace’s


characteristically poetic prose make for an extraordinary novel - an historical yet timeless exploration of clashing cultures, communication and technology, imbued with the tang and power of the sea. 296pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £2.50


69857 SIX by Jim Crace


Felix Dern is a celebrated actor, revered for his talent and his looks. Unbeknownst to those he seduces, he is exceptional in other ways too. ‘Every woman he dares to sleep with bears his child…’ Gifted or cursed, Lix now has six living reminders of what he did, with whom, and all in the pursuit of the elusive dream of love. Set in the beguiling City of Kisses, this seamless novel charts the history of a loving, baffled man in a mischievous meditation of the eternal sexual conundrums of love, power, parenthood and desire. An erotic comedy set in a fictitious European city, ingenious and beautifully written. 282pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £2.50


69828 DEVIL’S LARDER by Jim Crace Bursting with delightfully subversive ingredients and mischievous behaviour, the novel is a sensuous portrait, in 64 parts of a community. It is a book about our loves and hates, appetites and desires which is poetic, erotic and darkly funny. Crace is more imaginative with food than the most inventive posh chef! ‘One night when there were guests and all the wine has gone, they put the can into the candlelight amongst the debris of their meal and play the guessing game. An aphrodisiac, perhaps; let’s try...’ 198pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3


69901 JIM CRACE: Set of Three by Jim Crace


Set consists of The Devil’s Larder (198pp), Six (282pp) and Signals of Distress (296pp). Buy all three paperbacks and make a further saving. £23.97 NOW £7


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70190 MISS PYM DISPOSES by Josephine Tey


Leys Physical Training College was famous for its excellent discipline, and Miss Lucy Pym was pleased and flattered to be invited to give a psychology lecture there. But she had to admit that the health and vibrant beauty of the students made her feel just a little inadequate. Then there was a nasty accident - and suddenly Miss Pym was forced to apply her agile


intellect to the unpleasant fact that among all those impressively healthy bodies, someone had a very sick mind. Elegantly written. 249pp in reprinted paperback from the 1946 original. £7.99 NOW £3


70209 MAN IN THE QUEUE by Josephine Tey Outside a London theatre, a throng of people wait expectantly for the last performance of a popular musical. But as the doors open at last, something spoils all thought of entertainment - a man in the queue is found murdered by the deadly thrust of a stiletto. Inspector Alan Grant fascinatingly identifies the body then chases the suspect up to the Highlands of Scotland and all around the town. An original and mysterious plot with an unguessable ending. 247pp in paperback 1953 reprint of the 1929 original. £7.99 NOW £3


70173 BRAT FARRAR by Josephine Tey A stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the family’s sizeable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, had been carefully coached on Patrick’s mannerisms, appearance and every significant detail of Patrick’s early life, up to his 13th birthday when he disappeared and was thought to have drowned himself. It seems as if Brat is going to pull off this most incredible deception until old secrets emerge that threaten to jeopardise the imposter’s plan and his very life. 275pp in reprinted paperback from the 1949 original. £7.99 NOW £3


69816 BOYS FROM BRAZIL by Ira Levin By the author of Sliver, The Stepford Wives and other bestsellers as well as the play Death Trap, Ira Levin’s novel The Boys from Brazil was made into an acclaimed film in 1978 starring Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier. Extremely clever, consisting of familiar themes of biological engineering, the rebirth of the Devil and human automation. Levin imagines Dr Josef Mengele’s nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich. Alive and hiding in South America 30 years after the end of WWII, Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a sinister project - the creation of the Fourth Reich. 258 page paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50


69979 EINSTEIN GIRL by Philip Sington


Two months before Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, a beautiful young woman is found naked and near death in the woods outside Berlin. When she emerges from a coma, she can remember nothing, not even her own name. The only clue to her identity is a handbill found nearby, advertising a public lecture by Albert Einstein. Psychiatrist Martin Kirsch little knows that this


will be his last case. Searching for the truth about his celebrated patient, his finds professional fascination turning to love. His investigations lead him to a remote corner of Serbia via a psychiatric hospital in Zurich. 391pp, softback.


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68691 DAKOTA by Martha Grimes Andi Oliver, amnesiac and drifter, is still running from the memory, her only memory, of an occurrence in a Santa Fe bed and breakfast. Forced to invent the details of her past as she manages to hang on to a precarious present, she moves from one small town job to another across Idaho, across Montana, and into North Dakota. There she gets herself hired at Klavan’s, a massive pig farming facility that specialises in the dark art of modern livestock management. A stranger out of her past who has been stalking her for more than a year appears at her door demanding information about which she has no recollection. 414pp. £16.22 NOW £2.50


68861 COBRAS OF CALCUTTA by Grant Sutherland


The first volume of the Decipherer’s chronicles, Britain emerged from the blood-soaked Napoleonic wars as the greatest power the world had ever known. But at the very centre of the Empire’s success lies a secret institution, the Decipherers. These are the code breakers and interceptors, and among them is Alistair Douglas. He arrives in Bengal as a ‘writer’ for the East India Company, just as the whole province is thrown into conflict. Douglas finds himself thrown into the midst of battles and intrigue that will decide the fate of the Company and the British nation in the East. 455pp in paperback with line art. £7.99 NOW £3


68885 ROSE OF SEBASTOPOL by Katherine McMahon


From the author of ‘The Alchemist’s Daughter’ comes a novel set in the Crimean War. Rosa Barr travels to the battlefields, determined to save as many of the wounded soldiers as she can. For Mariella Lingwood, Rosa’s cousin, the war is contained within the pages of her scrapbook and in the letters she receives from Henry, her fiancé, who has also volunteered to work within the shadow of the guns. But when Henry falls ill, and Rosa’s communications cease, Mariella finds herself inexorably drawn towards the war. 394pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £2


69517 FIRE IN THE BLOOD by Irene Nemirovsky


A mesmerising gem from the author of Suite Francaise, whose career was cut tragically short. It is the story of Silvio, his cousin’s wife Hélène, her second husband Françoise, and of the truth, death, marriages and children, that bind them. It is a magical trip into the heart of the French countryside and the book explores how introverted rural French people conceal dark incidents in their past. 153pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50


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69057 SEAGULLS DANCE: From the Irish Musical by Larry Tracey


Set in the west of Ireland in the 19th century, when her husband, Connor, is transported to Botany Bay, Kathleen fights to bring up her children Liam and Kirsty. Her love for her family gives her the strength she needs to overcome the unwelcome attentions of the local clergyman, Fitzpatrick. The return from the Napoleonic Wars of the man responsible for the false imprisonment of Connor adds to her distress. He too forces his attentions on Kathleen and her adolescent daughter. Will they ever escape these two malevolent men? Power, corruption and lies all sound so familiar. 226 pages with FREE music CD. £14.99 NOW £1.75


69234 A SHOT ROLLING SHIP by David Donachie


Pressed into King George’s Navy for the second time in a month, John Pearce and his comrades the Pelicans find themselves working aboard HMS Griffin, a slow and overcrowded ship sailing the Channel in search of numerous French privateers that prey on English merchant shipping. Her task is to stop them and if possible capture or destroy them. But Pearce has greater things on his mind. He must rescue his ailing father from the dangers of Revolutionary Paris, and to do that he must somehow leave the ship. 381pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50


69552 CASEBOOK OF VICTOR


FRANKENSTEIN: A Novel by Peter Ackroyd Ackroyd brilliantly re-imagines a tale that has enthralled readers for nearly two centuries. He brings together the fictional Victor Frankenstein, who conducts anatomical experiments to re-animate the dead, and the author of the original novel, Mary Shelley, together with real persons of the period such as Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, and produces a story that is terrifying and fascinating in equal measure. 353 roughcut pages, one illus.


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69737 ON CHESIL BEACH: A Novel by Ian McEwan It is the early 1960s. In a masterwork from the Booker Prize-winning author, covering the first 24 hours of a marriage between two young virgins fraught with anxiety about their physical compatibility, the author captures the terrifying incompetence of two well- meaning innocents. She is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with her new husband, while at the same time experiencing nauseated disgust at the idea of physical contact. He is an earnest history student with no knowledge at all of the cutting edge of life and nursing a fear of failure. 207 roughcut pages. £22 NOW £4.50


69820 CASSANDRA’S SISTER by Veronica Bennett


Pride and Prejudice was written by Jane Austen when she was only about 19 but it was published when she was in her 30s. She despairs of ever finding a Mr Darcy of her own among the closed circle of her rural acquaintance. But in the winter of 1796, the handsome Tom Lefroy enters Jane’s quiet life. At a time when money conquers love, can the happy ending Jane wrote for her characters be heard in real life? Written with all due reverence to the Austen oeuvre. 233pp in paperback.


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69855 RELICS by Pip Vaughan-Hughes England, 1235. Brother Petroc is living a simple life as a novice, struggling to keep his soul fairly clean and worrying about resisting the local girls. Then one evening he stumbles into a vicious trap and finds himself on the run, framed by a sinister Templar knight for murder and theft. When his best friend is killed by the knight, Petroc’s flight becomes a quest for restitution. Trusting his fate to an enigmatic relic-hunter, Petroc is determined to get revenge and in the process discovers his own fate is linked to that of a priceless relic. 359pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3.50


70214 UNDER AN ENGLISH


HEAVEN by Robert Radcliffe The story of an American bomber crew stationed in Suffolk in 1943 and the way their lives intertwine with those of English folk on the ground, their British hopes and counterparts. Radcliffe provides an authentic sense of how terrifying it must have been to be at the controls of a Flying Fortress over Nazi-occupied Germany in broad daylight before there was sufficient fighter protection.


Humour and pathos are blended. 440pp in paperback. £8.99 NOW £3.50


69862 THE SUBTERRANEANS and PIC by Jack Kerouac


Leo Percepied, aspiring writer and self-styled freewheeling bum, gravitates to the subterraneans, impoverished intellectuals who haunt the bars of San Francisco. One of them is Mardou Fox, beautiful and a little crazy, with dark eyes, full of suffering and sweetness, who finds recognition in Leo. But afraid of his growing involvement, Leo sets out to destroy their love. Also included is the novel Pic, the story of a young black boy who makes his own journey on the road. 164pp, paperback. £9.99 NOW £3


69872 THE UNDERTOW by Christopher Wakling


When Wilson Taylor hears that his beloved 19 year old daughter Anna has been gravely injured while swimming in Australia, he flies across the world, ready to fix the situation. In spite of the police’s assurances that such accidents are common, Wilson’s own investigation throws up more questions. Who was Anna’s travelling companion and why did he abandon her? Who is the blackmailer threatening Wilson, how did he get those photographs and what do they mean? 306pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3


70068 TURBULENCE by Giles Foden Albert Einstein, the great quantum physicist, is said to have quipped, ‘After I die, I hope God will explain turbulence to me’. Even now, it remains one of the last unfathomable mysteries of modern physics. In this gripping blend of fact and fiction, the fate of 2,500,000 men, 3,000 landing craft and the entire future of Europe,


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