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A.S. Byatt (1936-2023) was a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

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 She is an avid reader, occasional gamer and fair-weather runner. She lives in the UK with her husband, daughter and hopefully, one day, a wise border terrier named Austen.

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A K Benedict writes crime and speculative fiction in a room filled with clowns, mannequins and Doctor Who figures. Her first novel, The Beauty of Murder, was nominated for an eDunnit award and is in development for a major 8-part TV series by Company Pictures. Her second, Jonathan Dark or The Evidence of Ghosts, came out in February 2016. She's written Torchwood audio dramas for Big Finish and her short stories have featured in anthologies including Great British Horror and Best British Short Stories. She lives in St Leonards-on-Sea with her dog, Dame Margaret Rutherford.

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A.B.C. Merriman-Labor was a barrister, writer and munitions worker born in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1877. His published works include A Series of Lectures on the Negro Race and The Story of the African Slave in a Nutshell. He also edited two editions of the Handbook of Sierra Leone. He arrived in the UK in 1904 to study law. In 1907, he organised a centenary commemoration of the abolition of the slave trade in Westminster Abbey. He later embarked on an 'entertainment-lecture' tour called Life and Scenes in Britain, travelling across thousands of miles of West, South West and Central Africa, which he expanded on to create Britons Through Negro Spectacles.

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After more than fifteen years of experience as a clinical psychotherapist, Dr Aaron Balick has taken the amazing insights from psychology and psychotherapy out of the consultation room and made them accessible to the wider world. 
 
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Bea Fitzgerald

Nadine Heywood is determined to be the best actress in the world.Getting into London’s top drama school is just the first step. But there, Nadine comes head-to-head with Harper Moore. Beautiful, brilliant, effortlessly charming, she is everything Nadine isn’t. And immediately Nadine see’s her as more than just her competition.As their worlds collide against the glitz of Hollywood, they can no longer keep their rivalry private. Splashed over the tabloids, Harper and Nadine are the public’s favourite celebrity feud. 
 
But as the stakes get higher, they start to realise there is more to their passionate hate than meets the eye…

Better Than Revenge

Mark Edwards

Patrick couldn’t believe his luck when Holly fell for him. She’s wickedly funny, beautiful, and with an intimidatingly successful father, Charles. 
So when she invites him to Charles’ mansion for a New Year’s break in Scotland, all he’s hoping is that they’ll accept him as one of the family. 
But everything feels a little off. Whispers in hallways. Rumours of a body that got found nearby the previous year. And something very strange about Charles’ new girlfriend. 
Every family has secrets, and Patrick tells himself all he needs to do is survive the next few days. 
But then the first body is found, and Patrick realises that all he needs to do is survive the next few days…

One of the Family

Kate Eberle

She thought she was in a romance. Fate threw her into a thriller. Will happily-ever-after still be on the cards when fiction and reality blur for Roxie? 
When Roxie makes a tongue-in-cheek wish to live out the plot of her favourite author’s next novel, she has romance in mind — namely, the sweet, safe, swoon-worthy storylines Anna Matthews is known for. It should be a dream come true when her wish is granted by a mysterious busker. Except for one little hiccup: that dashing stranger tries to take her breath away. Literally. With a knife. The thing is, Roxie may be the new Anna Matthews protagonist — but this time, Anna is writing a crime thriller.Thrown into a perilous genre she’s never read, Roxie is desperate for help. So, when her escape from a potential murderer takes her straight into the path of Grant Hoffman — an anxious English professor with a convenient love of crime novels — she decides a little light kidnapping is a small price to pay for survival.Together, Roxie and Grant team up to navigate a madcap story where the lines between fiction and reality blur and find out if they have what it takes to make it to The End — or maybe even Happily Ever After.

If Books Could Kill

E.L Chen

Back in high school, seven unlikely students were drawn together over one shared love: all things horror. Years later they come back to their hometown of Cedar Lake Falls to reunite. The town happens to be the setting of a cult classic 80's slasher film and so what better place to stay than in the very lodge the movie was filmed in.But then ominous figures are spotted across the lake, members of the group are pulled underwater and a masked killer is unleashed.Suddenly they realise they're in the same kind of horror they love to watch, only it's not so fun being on the other side…

Slasher Summer

Jessica Bull

Jane Austen is preparing for the summer season. 
 
As guests of their wealthy relatives Mr and Mrs Leigh-Perrot, Jane and her sister Cassandra will be holidaying in Bath Spa – the world-famous health resort, and more importantly, the epicentre of the marriage mart. 
 
For many, the summer will be spent hunting husbands. But for Jane, when a series of murders take place across the city, she must chase down a killer instead. 
 
With her beloved sister by her side, Jane is determined to bring the murderer to justice. Can she stop this villain from taking any more victims, before the summer ends? Or will her only dance of the season be with death…

Pride, Prejudice and Peril

C. J. Merritt

Octagon

Eve Chase

Mimi Caswell, style icon and interiors queen, is famously private, her life shrouded in mystery – until she sensationally announces she's quitting Manhattan for London, selling off her legendary estate, and staging a confessional my-life-in-objects auction. 
 
Her new assistant, Jo, carries a secret of her own. As she unpicks Mimi’s glamorous life – and the stories behind each beautiful possession – she begins to expose what Mimi kept hidden: humble beginnings, an estranged sister, a shattering death at a country house party long ago. And a secret thread woven through it all – a far darker version of events that could upend everything. 
 
Will Jo reveal the truth, before the auctioneer’s hammer falls?

The Secret Thread

Conn Iggulden

AD 60. Nero Claudius Caesar is Emperor. He is feared for his temper. He is known to be intoxicated by the power he wields. And why not? The Roman Empire stretches from the wilds of Britain to the deserts of Parthia. Nero is god of all he surveys. 
 
Yet dangerous traitors lie close at hand. Generals commanding legions. Senators whispering in corridors. The people cheer in the circus – but curse him in the streets. As word of Nero’s cruelties and corruption spreads, they spark trouble in the north – Queen Boudicca revolts – and the ever unruly Gauls rebel. 
 
Nero's empire is aflame. Rome – his city – is a tinderbox. Perhaps it is time for a cleansing fire. But no one, not even an emperor, can escape its touch . . .

Inferno

Chris Chibnall

The new gripping mystery from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Death at the White Hart

The Parkwood Murders

Frances White

When Hop awakens in an ancient labyrinth, he has no memory of his life or how, indeed, he got here. 
He does not recognise the mysterious girl trapped with him. 
And he certainly cannot identify the shadowy figure stalking him, whispering terrible things . . . 
But there is one thing he is certain of. 
He must escape. 
The only way out of the labyrinth is through The Bone Door. But it lies behind a series of locked doors hidden across an array of realms. 
As Hop travels deeper into the maze, he discovers that he and his companions may be more connected to the place and its horrors than he could ever imagine.

The Bone Door

Benjamin Stevenson

My name is Ernest Cunningham. I’ve spent the last few years solving murders. But a bank heist is a new one, even for me. 
 
The doors are chained shut. No one’s coming in or out. Which means that when someone in the bank is murdered, hostages become suspects. 
 
THE BANK ROBBER 
THE MANAGER 
THE SECURITY GUARD 
THE TEENAGE GAMER 
THE FILM PRODUCER 
THE PRIEST 
THE RECEPTIONIST 
THE PATIENT 
THE CARER 
ME 
 
Turns out, more than one person planned to rob the bank today – and you can steal more from a bank than just money… 
 
Who is stealing what? Who is simply a robber, and who is a murderer? And can I solve the case, before any more hostages become victims?

Everyone In This Bank Is A Thief

Gillian McAllister

A road trip across America with her teenage daughter was meant to be much-needed bonding time for Simone before Lucy leaves home for university. 
 
But on the first night of their stay, in a cabin deep in the Texan desert, Simone wakes to find Lucy missing and a mobile phone in her place. The phone rings and the voice on the other end issues instructions: Don’t tell the police. Come to this location. Be prepared to do a deal… 
 
There is nothing Simone wouldn’t do to save her daughter. Hide the truth. Commit a terrible crime. Become a wanted woman. 
 
But there’s one thing Simone hasn’t considered. 
 
What if this is just what the kidnappers want?

Caller Unknown

Isha Raya

When struggling actress Dimple Kapoor pushes her Hollywood rival to her death, it’s not the first time she’s killed. Or the second... 
 
But this third time was an accident. It just so happens to be a very convenient accident that's created the perfect opportunity to land her dream role. 
 
It’s too bad another partygoer witnessed it. With everything she’s ever wanted within reach, Dimple will do anything to keep it in her grasp. 
 
Unfortunately for Dimple, top private investigator Saffi Iyer is catching onto her deadly schemes. 
 
But when the two women meet, sparks fly. 
 
Has Dimple finally met her match?

Triple Threat

Claire Douglas

When Imogen is told she’s inherited a country house near Bath, she thinks it must be a mistake. She last saw its owner, reclusive artist Dorothea Roe, sixteen years ago, during a tragic summer which changed her life for ever.Now, with partner Josh in tow, it’s a chance for a fresh start.But after discovering an old box with her name on it in Dorothea’s abandoned study, Imogen starts to believe the woman was trying to send her a secret message.And when rumours begin to swirl that Dorothea was murdered, she starts to suspect that this gift might not be the life-line she thought it was.Who would want to kill Dorothea?Could it be tangled up in Imogen’s own dark family history?And what if Imogen is now the one in danger?

The Family Friend

Gregg Hurwitz

Antihero

Leodora Darlington

Natalie’s in tears in her bedroom. She’s had a huge argument with her husband. Slowly, she realises she’s already holding a knife. 
 
She’s telling herself she doesn’t want to do it. Not again. 
 
Because Natalie has an awful secret. Sometimes, on her worst nights, she blacks out. She loses control. 
 
What do you do when there’s a killer in your house, and you think it might be you?

The Exes

Graham Brown

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Chris MacDonald

When he died, Nërëus Forbes, frontman of The Marshalls, was the most famous rockstar in the world. 
 
40 years after his death, Nërëus' status as an icon is undisputed, but the circumstances around his death remain uncertain. Despite being ruled an overdose by police, fans and conspiracy theorists alike refuse to accept it was purely accidental. 
 
In an attempt to uncover the truth, Winter Harris, an investigative journalist and daughter of The Marshalls guitarist, decides to interview those who knew Nërëus best. But when her father confesses a dark secret, hidden for decades, Winter suddenly has evidence that could bring both of their lives crashing down. . .

In The Shadows

Simone St. James

1960s: 
 
Three siblings are all haunted in three very different ways. Violet wakes to a strange and cold woman looming over her bed, Dodie wakes in a constant state of drowning and Vale wakes to beaming light and probing figures. But the one thing that haunts them the most is the dissapearance of their little brother, Ben, who went missing during a game of hide and seek. 
 
 
 
1980s: 
 
Violet is notified that Ben's spirit is seen wondering their haunted childhood home calling for them to return and the three siblings do just that. But secrets become un-earthed, their past traumas seem more connected that they thought and all siblings are faced with a very angry spirit who wants revenge.

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