Anthony Horowitz is responsible for creating and writing some of the UK’s most loved and successful TV series, including Midsomer Murders and Foyle’s War. He is the author of the teen spy series, Alex Rider, which has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide. 
 
He has been widely praised for his murder mysteries which began with two highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels and continued with the bestselling Hawthorne series in which he appears as the former detective’s hapless sidekick. In January 2022 he was awarded a CBE for his services to literature. 
 
His novel, Magpie Murders, was made into a BBC drama starring Lesley Manville as editor Susan Ryeland. The sequel, Moonflower Murders, also starring Lesley Manville, was a BBC drama in 2024. Marble Hall Murders continues the story…

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Anthony King is Millenium Professor of British Government at the University of Essex. He broadcasts frequently on politics and elections for the BBC and writes on the same subjects for the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph and the Observer. He is the co-author of the bestselling The Blunders of Our Governments, which Andrew Marr called 'an astonishing achievement'.

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In 1987, Wayne Anthony and two friends established the legendary Genesis raves that were attended by the wide-eyed, loved-up youth of the late Eighties and early Nineties. Wayne and the Genesis team took Acid House to the masses and changed the face of British rave culture. Wayne then promoted a series of events around Europe, released a series of infamous compilation albums under the banner ‘Havin' It’. Since then Wayne has been involved in Internet start-ups and tech companies. He spent the last ten years at the helm of LSD Magazine, one of Europe's biggest street art graffiti networks. He is currently in the process of launching the world’s first dedicated street art graffiti channel from Los Angeles.

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Anthony Price (1928-2019) was born in Hertfordshire. He had a long career in journalism, beginning as a crime reviewer on the Oxford Mail and ending as editor of the Oxford Times. He won the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger for his first novel The Labyrinth Makers, and the Gold Dagger for Other Paths to Glory, which was later shortlisted for the Dagger of Daggers Award for the best crime novel of the last 50 years. Both feature as their hero Dr David Audley, historian and spy.

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Anthony Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1964. From 1998 to 2013 he was the film critic for the Independent. He is the author of six novels: The Rescue Man, which won the 2009 Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award; Half of the Human Race; The Streets, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Walter Scott Prize; Curtain Call, which was chosen for Waterstones and Mail on Sunday book clubs; Freya, a Radio 2 Book Club choice, and Eureka.

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Anthony Marra's first novel was A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (2013), which won an array of prizes including the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, the Barnes and Noble Fiction Discover Award, the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle and the Athens Prize for Literature, and appeared on more than twenty Books of the Year lists. This was followed by The Tsar of Love and Techno. A Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2017, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop,a Guggenheim Fellow and Whiting Award recipient, Marra lives in Oakland, California, and teaches at Stanford University. Visit http://anthonymarra.net/.

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Nathan Anthony is the Number 1 bestselling author and creator of hit food platform Bored of Lunch. Nathan is a Northern Irish cook who set up his account during lockdown - sharing quick, easy and healthy air fryer and slow cooker recipes that soon went viral. Since 2023, Bored of Lunch has dominated the book charts with five instant no.1 bestselling cookbooks. Bored of Lunch has now amassed over 5 million followers across all platforms.

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From the global bestselling author of Moonflower Murders and Close to Death comes an unputdownable new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series. 
 
 
‘Easily the greatest of our crime writers’ Sunday Times 
'Nobody does this crime fiction better than Anthony Horowitz’ Crime Time FM 
'Anthony Horowitz is a national treasure' Ragnar Jónasson 
 
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The Word is Murder, the first book in the Hawthorne series, is about to be made into a major feature film. 
 
The actors have been cast, the script written, and filming has already started in Hastings. 
 
But when Hawthorne and Anthony visit the set, they find a far from happy family. 
 
The director’s pretentious, the screenwriter’s an eco-warrior, the two stars hate each other, and the producer has run out of money. 
 
And things are about to get much, much worse. 
 
In the middle of shooting, the actor playing Hawthorne is stabbed – which leaves the real Hawthorne with no choice. He has to step in and investigate his own murder. 
 
Because the killer may not have got the right man. Was it Hawthorne himself who was meant to be the target? 
 
A Deadly Episode is a wild ride through a world that the author knows only too well, and the most personal case Hawthorne has had to deal with so far.

A Deadly Episode

A murder. A world in crisis. Britain's greatest spy . . . 
 
'BRILLIANT' Richard Osman 
 
It is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M's murder - James Bond. 
 
Behind the Iron Curtain, a group of former Smersh agents want to use Bond on a perilous mission that will change the balance of world power. He is smuggled into the lion's den - but whose orders is Bond following, and will he obey them when the moment to strike arrives? 
 
Discover the latest chapter in the world of 007, brought thrillingly to life by Sunday Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz. 
 
PRAISE FOR ANTHONY HOROWITZ'S JAMES BOND TRILOGY: 
 
'Daring, exciting . . . superbly plotted' Sunday Express 
 
'Gripping . . . and with non-stop action' i 
 
'Fast-paced, skilfully written . . . leaves you wanting more' The Times 
 
'Ian Fleming would be proud' Guardian 
 
'Horowitz excels at action sequences' Sunday Times 
 
'Exciting high drama . . . Horowitz stays loyal to the fabulous Fleming formula' Daily Express 
 
 
Richard and Judy Book Club Pick, Spring 2023

With a Mind to Kill

'Our deal is over.' 
 
This is what reluctant author Anthony Horowitz tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne in an awkward encounter. The truth is that Anthony has other things on his mind. 
 
His new play 'Mindgame' is about to open at London's Vaudeville theatre, and on opening night, Sunday Times critic Harriet Throsby gives the play a savage review. 
 
The next morning she is found dead, stabbed in the heart with an ornamental dagger that has only one set of finger prints on it. Anthony's. 
 
Anthony is arrested, charged with Throsby's murder, and thrown into prison. 
 
Alone and increasingly desperate, he realises only one man can help him. 
 
But will Hawthorne take his call? 
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'EASILY THE GREATEST OF OUR CRIME WRITERS' SUNDAY TIMES 
 
'Funny, addictive and clever, and the crime fighting duo of Hawthorne and Horowitz are as entertaining as ever. Brilliant. I can't wait for more.' ADAM HANDY 
 
''There's a lovely Hitchcockian feel to TWIST. The clock is ticking. It's a lot of fun.' IAN RANKIN 
 
'The Twist of a Knife is a beautifully turned locked-room whodunit' THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 
 
'A total joy. Anthony is a master entertainer, the genius twists and turns of his writing and plot keep me on the edge of my seat.' RORY KINNEAR

The Twist of a Knife

A gripping locked-room mystery from the bestselling crime writer

On a small island, everyone's a suspect ... 
 
Private Investigator, Daniel Hawthorne, and Anthony Horowitz have been invited to a literary festival on Alderney to talk about their new book. 
 
They find the island in turmoil over a planned power line that is turning neighbour against neighbour. And the visiting authors seem to be harbouring any number of personal secrets. 
 
When the festival's wealthy sponsor is brutally murdered, Alderney goes into lock-down. 
 
With no one allowed on or off the island, Hawthorne knows he doesn't have to look too far for suspects. 
 
But the killer is still on the island. And there's about to be a second death ... 
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'EASILY THE GREATEST OF OUR CRIME WRITERS' Sunday Times 
 
'Witty, wry, clever, a fabulous detective story and perfect summer reading' KATE MOSSE 
 
'Funny, intriguing, thrilling and thought-provoking: a marvellous mystery' ADAM HAMDY 
 
'My favourite literary hero at the moment is Anthony Horowitz' SHARI LAPENA

A Line to Kill

a locked room mystery from the Sunday Times bestselling author

A woman is strangled six hours after organising her own funeral. 
 
Did she know she was going to die? Did she recognise her killer? 
 
Enter Daniel Hawthorne, a detective with a genius for solving crimes and an ability to hold secrets very close. 
 
With him is his writing partner, Anthony Horowitz. Together they will set out to solve his most puzzling of mysteries. 
 
What neither of them know is that they are about to embark on a dark and dangerous journey whether the twists and turns are as unexpected as they are bloody. 
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'EASILY THE GREATEST OF OUR CRIME WRITERS' Sunday Times 
 
'Raises the game-playing to Olympic level' Guardian Books of the Year 
 
'A real page-turner. I loved it!' Aled Jones 
 
'Horowitz blurs the line between fact and fiction' Financial Times 
 
'Splendidly entertaining, absorbing and difficult to put down. Hawthorne is an intriguing character' Daily Express 
 
'Sharp-witted readers who think they've solved the puzzle early on can rest assured that they've opened only one of many dazzling Christmas packages Horowitz has left beautifully wrapped under the tree' Kirkus Reviews 
 
'Deduction and wit are well-balanced, and fans of Peter Lovesey and other modern channelers of the spirit of the golden age of detection will clamor for more' Publishers Weekly

The Word Is Murder

Secrets can kill. 
 
Smooth-tongued divorce lawyer Richard Price is bludgeoned to death at his London home. 
 
Scrawled on the wall beside the body: the number 182. 
 
What does it mean? And who was at his front door just minutes before he died and while he was still talking on the phone? 
 
Confronted with this most baffling of mysteries, the police are forced to turn to private investigator Daniel Hawthorne. 
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'EASILY THE GREATEST OF OUR CRIME WRITERS'Sunday Times 
 
'My favourite literary hero at the moment is Anthony Horowitz' Shari Lapena 
 
'Pure pleasure for readers ... A must-read delight.' WALL STREET JOURNAL 
 
'Sheer genius ... A joy from start to finish' INDEPENDENT

The Sentence is Death

A mind-bending murder mystery from the bestselling author of THE WORD IS MURDER

*THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* 
 
James Bond is back in this explosive thriller. 
 
A spy is dead. A legend is born. 
 
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 A British agent floats in the waters of the French Riviera, murdered by an unknown hand. 
 
 Determined to uncover the truth, James Bond enters a world of fast cars, grand casinos and luxury yachts. But beneath the glamour, he soon encounters a dangerous network of organised crime. 
 
 It's time for Bond to earn his licence to kill. He must find those responsible and unravel their devastating plan - before he becomes their next victim... 
 
Discover the exhilarating prequel to Casino Royale 
 
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 'Exciting... 007 is back' Daily Express 
 
 'Evil villains, fast cars...and the story rips along' Guardian 
 
 'Tremendous fun... A first-class action writer' Sunday Express 
 
 'Horowitz excels at action sequences' Sunday Times

Forever and a Day

the explosive number one bestselling new James Bond thriller (James Bond 007)

Susan Ryeland has had enough of murder. 
 
She’s edited two novels about the famous detective, Atticus Pünd, and both times she’s come close to being killed. Now she’s back in England and she’s been persuaded to work on a third. 
 
The new ‘continuation’ novel is by Eliot Crace, grandson of Miriam Crace who was the biggest selling children’s author in the world until her death exactly twenty years ago. 
 
Eliot believes that Miriam was deliberately poisoned. And when he tells Susan that he has hidden the identity of Miriam’s killer inside his book, Susan knows she’s in trouble once again. 
 
As Susan works on Pünd’s Last Case, a story set in an exotic villa in the South of France, she finds more and more parallels between the past and the present, the fictional and the real world - until suddenly she finds that she has become a target. 
 
Someone in Eliot’s family doesn’t want the book to be written. And they will do anything to prevent it. 
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Praise for the Magpie Murders series . . . 
 
'A beautiful puzzle: fiendishly clever and hugely entertaining. A masterpiece.' Lucy Foley 
'Ingenious' Sunday Times 
'Thrilling and compelling with a stunning twist' Daily Mail

Marble Hall Murders

The quiet, gated community of Riverview Close offers its inhabitants the perfect life within one of the most desirable areas of London. 
 
That is, until Giles Kenworthy moves in with his wife and noisy children, his gas-guzzling cars, loud parties and outrageous plans for a new swimming pool. 
 
His neighbours all have a reason to hate him. 
 
So when Kenworthy is shot dead with a crossbow bolt through his neck, they all come under suspicion. 
 
Only former Detective Daniel Hawthorne has a chance at solving the case, but he’s stuck on one part of the puzzle: 
 
How do you solve a murder when everyone has the same motive?

Close to Death

How do you solve a murder … when everyone has the same motive? (Hawthorne, 5)

'A beautiful puzzle: fiendishly clever and hugely entertaining. A masterpiece.' Lucy Foley, author of The Hunting Party 
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Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend. But life isn't as idyllic as it should be: exhausted by the responsibility of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does, Susan is beginning to miss her literary life in London - even though her publishing career once entangled her in a lethal literary murder plot. 
 
So when an English couple come to visit with tales of a murder that took place in a hotel the same day their daughter Cecily was married there, Susan can't help but find herself fascinated. 
 
And when they tell her that Cecily has gone missing a few short hours after reading Atticus Pund Takes The Case, a crime novel Susan edited some years previously, Susan knows she must return to London to find out what has happened. 
 
The clues to the murder and to Cecily's disappearance must lie within the pages of this novel. 
 
But to save Cecily, Susan must place her own life in mortal danger...

Moonflower Murders

Meg and Mog

Ebb and Flo

Lucy and Tom

Ink and Iron

Topsy and Tim

Tuck and Tina

And Other Lies

Sarah and Duck

Emma and James

Pizza and Taco

Jack and Millie

The Lost and Found

Chaos and Flame

Anders Knutas

Lizzie and Lucky

From the bestselling novel I'm Travelling Alone, two dynamic characters are born. 
Police investigators Holger Munch and Mia Krüger work together to solve the most complex crimes in Oslo, catching serial killers before they strike again but their personal lives are not simple either. As people, they could not be more different but as they battle their own demons their unlikely pairing make Munch and Krüger the best kind of classic detective duo.

Munch and Krüger

Charlie and Lola

George and Flora

Gods and Warriors

Faith, Hope and Glory

Wizards and Robots

Noughts and Crosses

Malorie Blackman's ground-breaking, award winning series charts the lives and loves of generations as it takes on race and equality with breathtaking drama and heart wrenching sadness. Set in an alternate reality, where the inferior Noughts live as second class citizens in a world run by Crosses, the four books explore the violent politics of a unstable world, and the ordinary lives caught up in in its terror. Beginning with Noughts and Crosses - and the romance of Seph and Callum - and ending with Double Cross, it is a gripping sequence, and an important, relevant story for our time.

Noughts And Crosses

Key Words with Peter and Jane

Swallows And Amazons

The Knight and Her Emperor

Harry and the Dinosaurs

The Snowman flies again . . . In the middle of winter, a little boy's Snowman and Snowdog come to life and take him on a breathtaking and magical adventure.

The Snowman and the Snowdog

Peter Rabbit Slide-and-Seek

Demigods and Magicians

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