A. Igoni Barrett was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 1979 and lives in Lagos. He is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. His short story collection, Love is Power, or Something Like That, was published in 2013. In 2014 he was named on the Africa39 list of sub-Saharan African writers under 40. Blackass is his first novel.

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The short life of A.J.A. Symons (1900-41) was described by his biographer as an intricate and largely harmless confidence trick. His many interests included the collection of musical boxes and rare books as well as the study and practice of forgery; they left him time to edit an anthology of Edwardian verse and compose studies of H.M. Stanley and other notable figures. He is remembered for The Quest for Corvo, one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, and for co-founding the Wine and Food Society.

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A. J. Liebling, born in Manhattan in 1904, joined the staff of the New Yorker in 1935 and contributed innumerable articles to the magazine throughout his lifetime, on subjects ranging from food to boxing and France to horse racing. As a war correspondent during the Second World War, he reported from France, England and Algeria, and participated in the Normandy landings. In later life he married the writer Jean Stafford, his third wife. He died in 1963.

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A. J. Rosen is an author of YA fantasy novels and is an ambassador for Wattpad, known as @agatharoza. Entwined is her first novel.

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A. O. Scott has been a film critic at the New York Times since 2000. His writing has appeared in many other publications, including the New York Review of Books, Slate, the New Yorker and the Nation. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism in 2010, Scott is currently Distinguished Professor of Film Criticism at Wesleyan University. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York. 
 
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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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A. T. Williams won the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2013 for his book A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa. He lives in Warwickshire.

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Dubbed ‘The new queen of spy fiction’ by the Guardian newspaper, and ‘the real thing’ by the Washington Post, A.C. 'Ava' Glass is the CWA Dagger-shortlisted author of Alias Emma (The Chase), The Traitor and The Trap. The Traitor was a 2023 Richard and Judy Bookclub pick. Alias Emma was a Barnes and Noble book of the month. A former crime reporter and communications consultant, for five years Ava worked closely with spies. Her time in that world fascinated her, and the people she met back then inspire every book she writes.

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Arthur Edward Waite was the designer and co-creator of the now famous Rider Waite Tarot deck. 
 
An American-born British poet and scholarly mystic, his strong interest in all esoteric matters - divination, magic, Kabbalism, alchemy and Freemasony - led to him penning a number of books. These include the Key to the Tarot, The Book of Ceremonial Magic and A New Encyclopedia of Freemasony.

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A.E. Warren is the author of the Tomorrow's Ancestors series, which consists of Subject Twenty-One, The Hidden Base, The Fourth Species and The Final Rising. 
 
After spending eight years working as a lawyer, she began to write in the evenings and early mornings as a form of escapism from life in a very small cubicle with lots of files. She self-published her first novels in her spare time, which were picked up by Del Rey UK which is the science fiction/fantasy imprint of Penguin Random House. 
 
 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. L. Kennedy has twice been selected as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards – including the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Day. She lives in Essex.

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A.M. Ellis is a speculative fiction author and lover of everything steeped in myth and mystery. Her stories often lean into diverse voices, not only in her identity as a Black woman, but in exploring neurodivergence and mental health. A proud introvert and nostalgic gamer, she lives in Maryland, USA, with her husband and three children.

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A.N. Wilson was born in 1950 and educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is an award-winning biographer and a celebrated novelist, winning prizes for much of his work. He lives in North London.

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A. T. Emerald lives with her husband and baby daughter in Nottinghamshire. She discovered her love of writing in 2020 and has not shut up about enemies to lovers ever since. She loves iced matcha, torrid love confessions with knives pressed to throats (fictional, of course) and does not accept bills for any therapy her books might incur.

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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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J. P. Martin

Uncle does not often go on holiday as very few hotels provide beds big enough for elephants. At Sunset Beach he hopes for a real rest and change, but almost at once fifty camels, led by the courteous Claudius, arrive with news of trouble at his great castle of Homeward. 
 
From this moment his attempts to have a holiday are interrupted by one unexpected happening after another. Uncle and his faithful followers rescue holiday-makers from the sinister Wheel House, use paraballoons at the Fun Fair, and face a fearful monster at Water-Step Hill. There’s the noisy braying affair of Idleass and Hot Donk; Fishy William at Comfort Cove; breakfast with the miraculous Singing Flower; high tea with the Glenmore Giraffes. A succession of fantastic adventures lead to the awesome moment when Uncle is chained and helpless at the mercy of the Badfort Crowd in Beaver Hateman’s Chamber of Horrors. Can Uncle possibly escape this time?

Uncle and Claudius the Camel

The sixth book about Uncle, the millionaire elephant who has a B.A. degree, begins with the Badgertown police seizing the belongings of Beaver Hateman, Uncle’s enemy, because he has refused to pay his rates. And it ends with a tremendous fight, using egg bombs and duck bombs, between the Hateman gang and Uncle’s supporters for possession of the Town Hall, and for the Great Mace, chief treasure of Badgertown. 
 
With the help of a new follower, the dog Brass – who has a bark that makes the ears tingle – Uncle continues the exploration of the great castle of Homeward. He opens the baffling Closed Gallery, discovers the fabulous Jewel Room and visits Mrs Witch, who is threatening the trade of Wizard Blenkinsop. 
 
The most hilarious adventures come at Christmas ( the time of year that the author, the late J.P. Martin, loved best) when Uncle goes shopping and attends Dr Lyre’s end-of-term party at the Academy. There is a sing-song round a Christmas tree so big that the guests can climb up into it to get their presents. Of course there is a mysterious gate-crasher hiding in the topmost branches. Who?

Uncle and the Battle for Badgertown

Quentin Blake

It begins with the arrival not of a detective, but of disaster: Badfort is for sale, but when Uncle decides to buy it, demolish it, and build a pleasantly appointed park on the site, he is forestalled. Beaver Hateman has sold it cheaply to someone on the condition that he, Hateman, is allowed to stay on as a paying guest. Forgetting that the man who has bought Badfort is certain to regret the "bargain", Uncle tries to console himself by continuing his never-ending exploration of Homeward. 
 
He soon discovers the mysterious Crack House - lair of a vicious and horribly squawking creature, half-bat, half-bird, called Batty - where there are rumours of buried treasure. Uncle is in need of a detective . . .

Uncle And His Detective

R N Currey

It is a time of rejoicing at Homeward, the Labyrinthine castle-city that is as magical as Oz and as full of wonders as Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Uncle, the wise, kind, generous, and fabulously rich elephant who rules over Homeward, has joined with his many friends to celebrate their triumph over the ruffians in neighbouring Badfort. 
 
Still, there's plenty of cleaning up to do in Homeward: the waterworks are tainted with vinegar, housing is scarce, and the Dwarftown Railway is terribly overcrowded - meanwhile the Badfort crowd has devised its most diabolical plan yet. Uncle will need all the help he can get from his faithful assistant Old Monkey and from Goodman the literate cat-and possibly a wizard's spell - to get through this mess.

Uncle Cleans Up

Ruby Nash

All aboard the school broom-bus! 
 
Sparky and his friends are going on a school trip, and they can’t wait. 
 
They are visiting a magic animal sanctuary to collect the three things they need for the Hideaway Spell: a golden egg, a dragon scale and a phoenix feather. Wowzers! 
 
Without these ingredients, their school will be discovered by humans. 
 
But somebody is trying to ruin their day out . . . and spoil the spell!

Sparky's School Trip

Bonnie Bryant

A corrupt official is after more than money – he’s after the Saddle Club! 
Stevie Lake, Carole Hanson and Lisa Atwood are at the racetrack, helping to cool off their friend’s sleek Thoroughbred racehorses by walking them. What could be better? Then the girls spot an official somewhere he shouldn’t be, taking money from someone he shouldn’t be talking to. Worse, the official sees the girls and knows they’re on to him. Now the girls are in danger. More than one race is going to run – The Saddle Club girls must race for their lives!

Saddle Club 70: Horse Race

When Stevie Lake injures herself and can’t ride for a while, the other two members of The Saddle Club, Carole Hanson and Lisa Atwood, make a pact of friendship not to ride until Stevie has recovered. To seal the pact, they decide that if the vow is broken by any of them, they’ll have to ask stuck-up Veronica diAngelo to join their club. That will keep them out of the saddle for sure. 
 
But can three horse-crazy girls really stay away from horses and riding for more than a day? Find out in this first Saddle Club Super Edition, which contains three separate stories about Lisa, Stevie and Carole – and their summer without horses!

Saddle Club Super 1: A Summer Without Horses

It’s going to be one of the most amazing adventures The Saddle Club has ever had! Stevie, Lisa and Carole are going to horsey England. They’ll even ride in a show on the grounds of a real castle. 
Then Lisa discovers an ancient, unsolved mystery about the duke who once lived in the castle. The duke buried treasure under the stall of his spirited stallion. Tragedy struck – the barn burned down and the stallion perished. A year later, the duke’s body was found in the same spot, his hands clutching a single fire opal. Legend says the treasure will be found by a rider with fire in his heart… 
Join The Saddle Club as they try to uncover the secret of the stallion.

Saddle Club Super: The Secret Of The Stallion

When Max Regnery, the manager at Pine Hollow Stables, starts sneezing and acting forgetful, Lisa, Carole and Stevie decide that it’s time for a new Saddle Club project. They’ll cure Max’s ‘hay fever’ by inviting all the eligible women they know to Pine Hollow’s Fourth of July picnic. But when Max discovers that the girls are trying to find him a girlfriend, he’s not exactly pleased. As it turns out, he’s found his own source of fireworks!

Saddle Club 34: Hay Fever

When Judy Barker, the Pine Hollow veterinarian, offers Lisa a chance to visit the stables at the racetrack, Lisa jumps at the opportunity. She’s been working on her skills as a photographer, and she’d love to take pictures of some of the Thoroughbreds – especially a beautiful mare that’s training for the upcoming Preakness race. 
Then Lisa, Carole, and Stevie learn that one of the racehorse owners may be using drugs illegally to improve his horse’s chances of winning. And one of Lisa’s photos may supply the proof of this crime that the authorities are looking for…

Saddle Club 43 - Photo Finish

It’s Carole’s birthday, and The Saddle Club is planning an extra-special celebration. They’re having their first boy-girl party, which will include a romantic moonlit hayride! 
When snooty Veronica diAngelo hears about their plans, she assumes she isn’t invited. And now Veronica is determined to wreck the party – and steal one of The Saddle Club’s boyfriends! Will Carole’s birthday be ruined?

Saddle Club 31: Hay Ride

It’s springtime at Pine Hollow Stables, and that means it’s time for That Saddle Club to take another trip on the MTO – the Mountain Trail Overnight. For Stevie, this year’s overnight trail ride promises to be particularly special because her boyfriend, Phil, is coming along. But as soon as the trip begins, there’s trouble between Stevie and Phil. Are these two good riders and close friends about to break up for good?

Saddle Club 33: High Horse

Stevie has always longed for a horse of her own, and this summer she finally has the chance to get one. When she and the rest of The Saddle Club head West to the Bar None Ranch to visit their friend Kate Devine, Kate’s dad agrees to sell Stewball, Stevie’s favourite ranch horse. But as the day to bring Stewball back home draws nearer, Stevie begins to have second thoughts. Does a ranch horse really belong at Pine Hollow Stables?

Saddle Club 35: Horse Tale

Lisa Atwood has joined a community theatre and landed the lead in a forthcoming production of Annie. It’s fun rehearsing the part with other members of the cast, especially Hollie, who’s been coaching Lisa backstage. Then rehearsals become more frequent and demanding, and Lisa is too busy for anything, including getting a Pine Hollow thoroughbred, Prancer, ready for the forthcoming Pony Club rally. 
Can the rest of The Saddle Club – along with Lisa’s ‘stage coach’ – help her to choose between horses and the theatre?

Saddle Club 37: Stage Coach

When Carole Hanson and her father travel to Minnesota to visit relatives, Carole has the perfect opportunity to work on a school assignment to create a family tree. Ever since her mother died, Carole has been curious about that side of the family, especially about an ancestor who journeyed North along the Underground Railroad. 
Then Carole discovers a secret lurking in her family tree, and she begins to question where she’s come from. Do bloodlines matter as much with people as they do with horses? Carole discovers the answer when a dangerous horseback ride threatens the life of one of her relatives.

Saddle Club 39: Pure Bred

Stevie Lake is ecstatic. After years of wanting a horse of her own, her parents have given her “No-Name”, a beautiful Arabian-Saddlebred. And everyone can see that the frisky, sassy mare is the perfect match for a fun-loving rider like Stevie. Now all she has to do to make “No-Name” hers is come up with a fitting name. 
But before Stevie can find a name for the beautiful mare, her happiness is abruptly shattered. During a Pony Club exhibition, another girl claims that No-Name was stolen from her family’s barn. Could Stevie’s new mount really be the horse the other girl calls “Punk”? Is Stevie about to lose her dream horse forever?

Saddle Club 40: Gift Horse

Carole Hanson has always wanted a brother or sister. So she should be delighted when her father tells her that thirteen-year-old Marie Dana will be staying with them for two weeks while Mrs. Dana is out of town. But instead of being happy about her “temporary sister”, Carole can barely contain her jealousy. Colonel Hanson is making a big fuss over Marie; and Stevie and Lisa are planning a big party for Marie in the hay loft at Pine Hollow. 
Will Carole manage to put aside her jealousy before Marie’s visit is over? Not until she discovers some common ground in the stables at Pine Hollow…

Saddle Club 36: Riding Lesson

When Veronica diAngelo, a rider at Pine Hollow Stables, discovers that her stirrup leathers have been cut before a hunter jumping exhibition, everyone assumes that practical joker Stevie Lake had something to do with it. After all, Stevie recently served her friends pancakes made out of plaster of Paris, and it’s a well-known fact that Stevie and the rest of The Saddle Club can’t stand Veronica. 
 
But would Stevie try to sabotage another rider – and risk injuring her valuable Arabian? If Stevie didn’t cut Veronica’s leathers, then who did? Is it the work of a ‘witch’ at the stable who’s trying to jinx Veronica? And will The Saddle Club ever manage to clear Stevie’s name?

Saddle Club 41 - Stable Witch

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Cynthia LOVES Christmas. So much so that her flockmates send her off to the North Pole to help Father Christmas. 
 
But it turns out that there isn’t much an enthusiastic sheep can do to help with Christmas – until one crucial moment…

The Sheep that Saved Christmas

A Eweltide Tale

School is out for the summer, and The Saddle Club has big plans. Lisa, Carole and Stevie have all been invited to Wyoming to work on a ranch and help run a Western riding camp. The girls are looking forward to a great summer of fun and riding until Lisa’s parents break the terrible news: they want Lisa to go with them to Europe for a month. Lisa’s upset and she’ll be missing the chance to work as a ranch hand – how will she survive for four whole weeks without her best friends Stevie and Carole, and horses to ride? And how will Stevie and Carole get on in Wyoming without Lisa?

Saddle Club 29: Ranch Hands

Phil Marsten, Stevie’s boyfriend and an out-of-town member of The Saddle Club, is boarding an Arab mare at his family’s stable. When Phil offers to let Stevie ride the horse, she eagerly accepts. In exchange, Stevie has promised to give the horse all the care and exercise she needs. As Stevie begins working with the horse and preparing her for a forthcoming dressage exhibition, she quickly comes to love and respect her beautiful new mount. But the mare also has a mysterious allergy that won’t go away. Can Stevie find the cause, and live up to her side of the bargain to take the very best care of the horse?

Saddle Club 38: Horse Trade

The Horse Wise Pony Club riders have been working hard on a precision horseback drill. They’ll perform it on Founders’ Day to raise money for the needy animals at a nearby shelter. But Lisa, Stevie and Carole want to do even more. 
Then Lisa gets the bright idea to set up a tent and read people’s fortunes before the drill. The Saddle Club’s wildest dreams are fulfilled when nasty Veronica diAngelo enters the tent to learn whether there’s romance in her cards. But someone else wants to know the future too. What can the girls predict for a lonely junior rider?

Saddle Club 44 - Horse Shoe

Stevie, Carole and Lisa are ecstatic that stable owner Max Regnery III is about to marry. They can’t resist being part of things, so they plan a surprise ‘bridle’ shower for the groom-to-be. 
Some serious business also needs their attention. The girls want stablehand Red to become a certified riding counselor. Maybe that way, he can be in charge of Pine Hollow while Max is honeymooning and he’ll get some respect from bossy Veronica diAngelo. 
Then it looks as if disaster will strike when both plans are marred by a mix-up that only The Saddle Club could cause!

Saddle Club 45 - Stable Groom

Phil Marston isn’t just Stevie Lake’s boyfriend. He’s a fellow rider and Phil knows how to push all Stevie’s buttons. When he issues a riding challenge that she can’t turn down, Stevie starts training Belle intensely. In fact, her workouts threaten to make even good-natured Belle balk at going into the ring. 
Mrs. Reg, the manager of Pine Hollow Stables, thinks Stevie and Belle need a break, so she brings The Saddle Club to Assateague Island. She hopes that seeing the wild ponies will remind Stevie of what riding is all about. But it turns out that even Mrs. Reg is in for a surprise!

Saddle Club 46 - Flying Horse

It’s Halloween and Pine Hollow Stables is getting some special visitors – a group of city kids. The Saddle Club girls are planning a treasure hunt and trick-or-treating for the children. Best of all, Stevie Lake’s old school friend, Dinah, has come to help. Stevie can’t wait to pull some pranks on her friend! 
Things go awry when it becomes clear that Dinah and Saddle Club member Lisa Atwood don’t like each other. Lisa suspects Dinah of flirting with Stevie’s boyfriend. Even worse, Stevie’s beginning to think the stable is haunted. Who’s playing tricks at Pine Hollow?

Saddle Club 47 - Horse Magic

A mystery weekend has been planned at Pine Hollow Stables. The Saddle Club will spend their days uncovering clues during long trail rides. At night the girls will have slumber parties in the hay loft. What a perfect adventure! 
Then they learn there’s a tack thief in their town. Carole, Lisa and Stevie start uncovering clues that might not be part of the mystery weekend. Are they on the trail of a real criminal?

Saddle Club 48 - Mystery Ride

Spoilt brat Veronica diAngelo was given an expensive Thoroughbred for Christmas. She hasn’t given a backward glance to her other horse, Garnet, since. 
The Saddle Club is determined to find a loving new home for the unloved horse. But the people who come to look at Garnet make the girls fear that she will go to a terrible home. 
Carole must also say a special farewell. Her friend Cam is moving. It looks as if The Saddle Club is going to learn some hard new lessons about what it means to say good-bye.

Saddle Club 49 - Stable Farewell

Lisa Atwood’s visitor, Merrill, loves horses almost as much as The Saddle Club does. Lisa, Stevie and Carole are happy to give Merrill a few pointers on her form over fences during their rides at Pine Hollow Stables. 
Then Merrill becomes convinced that she can only ride one horse. When The Saddle Club learns that she wants to take a Pine Hollow horse home to Maine, they know they have to do something. The girls have already planned a special surprise birthday party – a Yankee Swap – for Merrill. Will a Yankee Swap of another kind persuade Merrill that she can ride any horse well, or is one of The Saddle Club’s beloved horses leaving Pine Hollow for good?

Saddle Club 50 - Yankee Swap

The Saddle Club girls have been training Samson since he was born. Now the frisky young horse is ready to be ridden, and the girls hope that one of them will get to sit in the saddle first. 
Then Stevie Lake has to go to Pennsylvania for her cousin’s Sweet Sixteen party. Yuck! Who wants to think about boys, bands and dresses when there’s a horse to be trained? 
Samson needs all the girls in The Saddle Club if he’s going to become the best pleasure horse ever.. doesn’t he?

Saddle Club 51: Pleasure Horse

Emily has cerebral palsy, but she and her specially trained horse get around just fine. The Saddle Club girls make friends with Emily and even take her on her first trail ride. 
 
Unfortunately, Emily’s wonderful outing at Pine Hollow Stables is marred by someone who doesn’t think disabled people belong there. Veronica diAngelo is the most unbearable snob ever! The Saddle Club and Emily cook up a plan to show Veronica what real riding class is.

Saddle Club 52: Riding Class

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