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  • av Gabby Hutchinson Crouch
    146,-

    Magic is forbidden in Myrsina, along with other abominations such as girls doing maths. This is bad news for Gretel Mudd, who doesn't perform magic but does know a lot of maths. When her inventions prompt the sinister masked Huntsmen to accuse her of witchcraft, Gretel must act fast to help the Witches save the Darkwood and her home village.

  • av Peter Maughan
    159

    On changing trains near Batch Hall, two crooks on their way home from a wages snatch in Shrewsbury find matters starting to unravel. The money goes missing, and in the midst of a historical re-enactment show, a real gun takes its place among the replica firearms. As a result, the spectators find that there's an extra event on the programme.

  • av Peter Maughan
    146,-

    Humph, a Brooklyn short-order cook who inherited the crumbling estate of Batch Hall, has married his true love and the future looks bright. But when badger baiters are discovered in Cutterbach Wood, they face the awful decision to sell up. And then Miss Wyndham, village spinster and amateur sleuth, rides to the rescue on the 49 bus...

  • av Mandy Morton
    136

    The town's psychic cat, Irene Peggledrip, is being visited by a band of malevolent spirits who all claim to be murderers. The stage is set for Hettie and Tilly to solve an old murder mystery, where all the cats involved appear to be dead.

  • av James MacManus
    134

    Ike and Kay is a thrilling tale of wartime romance, brimming with love, duty, sacrifice and heartbreak, set against the backdrop of the most tumultuous period of the twentieth century.

  • av Rachel Halliburton
    134

  • av Sue Hubbard
    134

    Martha searches for a way forward beyond grief, but finds herself drawn into tensions between entrepreneur Eugene Riordan and local hill farmer Paddy O'Connell, while also coming to know a young poet, Colm. Caught between its history and its future, the Celtic Tiger reels with change, and Martha faces redemptive choices that will change her life forever.

  • - Reconnecting in the Modern World
    av Kate Leaver
    147

    From behavioural scientists to best mates, Kate finds extraordinary stories and research, drawing on her own experiences to create a fascinating blend of accessible smart thinking, investigative journalism, pop culture and memoir to understand the meaning and importance of modern friendship.

  • av Nicola Upson
    160

    When Elsie Munday arrives to take up position as housemaid to the Spencer family, her life quickly becomes entwined with the charming and irascible Stanley, his artist wife Hilda and their tiny daughter Shirin. Elsie does her best to keep the family together even when love, obsession and temptation seem set to tear them apart...

  • av Victoria Glendinning
    134

    'Historical fiction at its finest.' @MargaretAtwood The richly atmospheric story of a young woman's struggle to define herself in a world of uncertainty, intrigue and danger in a time of great upheaval during the Tudor era.

  • av Anthony Loyd
    176

    An extraordinary memoir of military conflict and personal battle. The first book, both 'beautiful and disturbing' (Wall Street Journal), from a young man who escaped to Bosnia in search of a vocation and excitement and later went on to become an award-winning war correspondent.

  • - A Memoir of Summer People and Water Creatures
    av Bruce Fogle
    166

  • av H.F. Ellis
    141

    A. J. Wentworth, formerly teacher of mathematics at Burgrove prep school for boys, now passes his retirement years in a typically English rural village where somehow he seems unable to stay out of trouble.

  • av Victor Canning
    142

    What's going on behind the doors of Fountain Inn? This beautifully observed thriller marked Victor Canning's entree into crime fiction, and rewards with a thrilling finale - sure to delight fans of Agatha Christie's Tommy and Tuppence.

  • av Hamilton Crane
    129

    Customs & Excise are tracking a gang of cigar-smugglers who operate on the quiet Kent coast near Plummergen, home to retired art teacher Miss Emily Seeton. Their attempt at a midnight ambush goes wrong, and a man is found dead.

  • av Isabel Rogers
    156

    In a tale marrying the insight of Sue Townsend with the farcical humour of John O'Farrell, a priceless cello is abducted, a conductor is stranded on the wrong side of the Atlantic, and Erin the cellist stumbles (eventually) on her true calling in life.

  • - The English Heritage Book of New Ghost Stories
    av Mark Haddon
    196

    Eight authors were given the freedom of their chosen English Heritage site, from medieval castles to a Cold War nuclear bunker. Immersed in the past and chilled by rumours of hauntings, they channelled their darker imaginings into a series of extraordinary new ghost stories.

  • - Post-War Modernist Public Art
    av Simon Phipps
    296,-

    Concrete Poetry is the first photographic survey of Modernist sculpture within the Brutalist context.

  • av Hampton Charles
    136

    Miss Seeton is off to Buckingham Palace on a secret mission-but to foil a jewel heist, she must risk losing the Queen's head . . . and her own neck. Serene amidst every kind of skullduggery, this eccentric English spinster steps in where Scotland Yard stumbles, armed with nothing more than her sketchpad and umbrella!

  • av Hamilton Crane
    136

    The gentle Miss Seeton? A thief? A preposterous notion-until she's accused of helping a pickpocket . . . and stumbles into a nest of crime. Serene amidst every kind of skullduggery, this eccentric English spinster steps in where Scotland Yard stumbles, armed with nothing more than her sketchpad and umbrella!

  • av Hamilton Crane
    143

  • av Hamilton Crane
    146,-

    It's highway robbery for the innocent passengers of a motor coach tour. When Miss Seeton sketches the roadside bandits, she becomes a moving target herself. Serene amidst every kind of skullduggery, this eccentric English spinster steps in where Scotland Yard stumbles, armed with nothing more than her sketchpad and umbrella!

  • av Hampton Charles
    143

  • av Hampton Charles
    143

    A summer's day resounds to the thwack of ball on racket, as Britain's young hopeful seems set to knock out her American opponent. Yet it soon emerges that her father has made an enemy who will stop at little to harm them both. But the wrongdoers have reckoned without artistic sleuth Miss Seeton, who defeats them game, set and match.

  • av Jonathan Pinnock
    156

    Join disillusioned junior PR exec Tom Winscombe and a cast of disreputable and downright dangerous characters in this witty thriller set in a murky world of murder, mystery and complex equations, involving internet conspiracy theorists, hedge fund managers, the Belarusian mafia and a cat called .

  • av Chris McCrudden
    156

    When Darren Stubbs accidentally short-circuits a robot lamppost, life on the Dolestar Discovery changes forever - for everyone. This anarchic comic adventure travels from the shining skyscrapers of Singulopolis to the hidden depths of the internet, and reveals what happens when a person finally puts down their mop and bucket and says 'No.'

  • av Michael Sparrow
    166

    ''Yes, I know it contravenes every rule in the book... lucky I threw that out years ago.'' Recently retired, Dr Sparrow reveals with refreshing candour and dark humour the most memorable experiences of his career as a rural GP on the Devon/Cornwall border. From sewing a patient's finger back on during a call-out, to the emergency countryside delivery inspired by James Herriot, to suddenly remembering the body left in the back of a Volvo, and a small oversight that blew up the local crematorium, Dr Sparrow spares no blushes. Dr Michael Sparrow charted an unconventional course from the immaturity and uncertainty of life as a medical student, through hospital jobs and a six-year spell in the Royal Air Force, to the immaturity and uncertainty of life as a rural GP. He lives on the Devon/Cornwall border, after retiring as the region's longest serving GP.

  • av Michael Sparrow
    166

    Continues the memoirs of a rural doctor, following on from "Country Doctor", which sold more than 20,000 copies. Dr Sparrow guides us through the daily rounds of his practice on the Devon/Cornwall border.

  • av Michael Sparrow
    166

    This final instalment in the comic trilogy of doctor's memoirs is characterised by refreshing candour and dark humour, with a series of new rural misadventures related on a case-by-case basis inspired by James Herriot.

  • - A Highlands Walk
    av Christopher Nicholson
    164

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