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A Deadly Episode
Anthony Horowitz
The Word Is Murder, the first book in the Hawthorne series, is being 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?
Unapologetic Love Story
Elle McNicoll
Raina Lewis is dazzling London with her smash-hit podcast The Disability Track, which celebrates neurodiverse women.
Tom Branimir, a cynical investigative journalist known as the ‘King of Cancel Culture’, is seeking his next story.
When a chance encounter brings them together, Tom is fascinated by Raina’s wit and intelligence and she reluctantly agrees to let him profile her for his next book. Though if he betrays her or her community, she warns, she’ll end his career – with a smile.
What starts as a professional arrangement soon blurs into a sizzling romance. But when Tom’s work comes under scrutiny, he faces a decision: should he save his sought-after career, or the unapologetic love he never thought he’d find?
The Ending Writes Itself
Evelyn Clarke
World-famous author Arthur Fletch is dead. His final novel, the most anticipated book in history, remains unfinished. But the ending won’t write itself.
When six struggling authors are invited to Fletch’s private Scottish island and presented with the opportunity of a lifetime, the plot thickens: whoever writes a worthy ending will receive a game-changing book deal and two million dollars.
Why have they been chosen to attend? Who is behind the invitation? And just how far would they go to secure a place on the bestseller list?
They have just 72 hours, a typewriter and a blank page. All they have to do is write …
Starting is often the hardest part. But getting to the end could be murder.
Yesteryear
Caro Claire Burke
‘My name is Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive.’
Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle – and has the social media accounts to prove it. Her charming farmhouse on her working ranch is artfully cluttered, her husband is a handsome cowboy, her homemade sourdough boules are each more beautiful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers and industrial-grade ovens behind the scenes? What Natalie’s followers don’t know won’t hurt them.
Then, one morning, Natalie wakes up in a strange, horrible version of reality. Her home, her husband, her children – they’re all familiar, but something’s off. Is this a hoax? A reality show? A test from God? Natalie knows just two things for sure: this isn’t her perfect life, and she must escape, by any means possible.
Last One Out
Jane Harper
In a dying town, Ro Crowley waits for her son on the evening of his twenty-first birthday.
Sam never comes home. His footprints in the dust of three abandoned houses offer the only clue to his final movements. One set in. One set out.
Five long years later, Ro returns to Carralon Ridge for the annual memorial of Sam’s disappearance. The skeletal community is now an echo of itself, having fractured under the pressure of the coal mine operating on its outskirts.
But Ro still wants answers. Only a few people remain. If the truth is to be found in that town, does it lie among them?
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Case Study
Graeme Macrae Burnet
London, 1965. An unworldly young woman suspects charismatic psychotherapist Collins Braithwaite of involvement in a death in her family.
Determined to find out more, she becomes a client of his under a false identity. But she soon finds herself drawn into a world in which she can no longer be certain of anything.
In Case Study, Graeme Macrae Burnet presents both sides: the woman’s notes and the life of Collins Braithwaite. The result is a dazzling, page-turning and wickedly humorous meditation on the nature of sanity, identity and truth itself, by one of the most inventive novelists writing today.
Table for One
Emma Gannon
Willow is having quite the year.
One moment she’s checking off life’s milestones – the steady partner, the successful career, the grown-up house – the next she isn’t, questioning where it all went wrong.
With her life transformed beyond recognition, and friends busy ‘moving forwards’, Willow has never felt more alone.
But she’s in good company.
And when inspiration arrives from an unlikely place – opening Willow’s eyes to a new way of living – she rekindles the most important relationship of all: the one with herself …