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October 2008 new titles

Large Print - New Titles November 2008

Fiction

London noir  Maxim Jakubowski.

Paris noir : capital crime fiction  Maxim Jakubowski.

Run  Jeff Abbott.

The love of his brother  Jennifer AlLee.

His pregnant housekeeper  Caroline Anderson.

The affair of the mutilated mink  James Anderson.

Days of hope  Lyn Andrews.

The bride hunter  Amy Appleton.

Meltdown  Martin Baker.

The whole truth  David Baldacci.

No time for goodbye  Linwood Barclay.

Last post  Robert Barnard.

The sisterhood  Emily Barr.

Agatha Raisin and the witch of Wyckhadden  M.C. Beaton.

Death of a gentle lady  M.C. Beaton.

The ghost agent  Alex Berenson.

In The Faithful Spy, John Wells became the only American CIA agent ever to penetrate al-Qaeda, but his handlers became distrustful of him, and he of them. He had to stop a devastating terrorist attack nearly alone. Now Wells is back in Washington. His wounds have healed, but his mind is far from clear. He is restless, uneasy in his skin, and careless with his safety. When the CIA finds evidence of a surge in Taliban activity, backed by an unknown foreign power, it takes little to convince Wells to return to Afghanistan to investigate. But what he discovers there is far from what he expected. A deadly power play in China, a mission to North Korea gone terribly wrong, an Iran determined to go nuclear, a mole within the ranks of the CIA who is about to light a fuse, the consequences of which he cannot possibly understand-the world is hurtling toward confrontation. And, this time, there may be nothing John Wells can do to stop it.

Scapegallows  Carol Birch.

Blue horizons  Jessica Blake.

Dollars of death  Jim Bowden.

The secrets of the cave  Philippa Bowers.

The dream lover  William Boyd.

The twilight time  Karen Campbell.

Disputed love  Margaret Carr.

The final days  Alex Chance.

The wrong sort of wife?  Elise Chidley.

Frill kill  Laura Childs.

O' bonnie lass  Joan Christie.

It only takes a moment  Mary Jane Clark.

Folly du jour  Barbara Cleverly.

The accidental wife  Rowan Coleman.

The well-tempered clavier  William Coles.

Her royal wedding wish  Cara Colter.

City of dark hearts  James Conan.

A poisoned mind  Natasha Cooper.

A mother's courage  Dilly Court.

Songbird  Josehpine Cox.

Typhoon  Charles Cumming.

Hong Kong, 1997, a few months before the handover. Against this backdrop, as the CIA and MI6 jostle for position in a post-colonial world, a young British spy, Joe Lennox, code-name RUN, is living a charmed life. Highly regarded by his superiors, mixing with the right crowd and in love with beautiful Izzy. When a mysterious stranger, claiming to have information about a defection, is arrested by a border patrol, Lennox, first to interrogate him, sees a chance to make his reputation. But the stakes are higher than Joe Lennox could ever imagine. And soon the brutal realities of the secret world begin to make themselves felt. Like Le Carre's "The Constant Gardener", "Typhoon" is both urgent contemporary spy thriller and powerful, doomed love story from an author whose time has come.

Quick triggers  Eugene Cunningham.

Still waters  Judith Cutler.

His other lover  Lucy Dawson.

A partisan's daughter  Louis de Bernieres.

The sleeper  Eileen Dewhurst.

The lords' day  Michael Dobbs.

Being Emily  Anne Donovan.

None faster  Jake Douglas.

Another woman's husband  Sarah Duncan.

Last nocturne  Marjorie Eccles.

The keep  Jennifer Egan.

Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank whose devastating consequences changed both their lives, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe, a castle steeped in blood lore and family pride. Built over a secret system of caves and tunnels, the castle and its violent history invoke and subvert all the elements of a gothic past: twins, a pool, an old baroness, a fearsome tower. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story--a story about two cousins who unite to renovate a castle--that brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation. Egan's relentlessly gripping page-turner plays with rich forms--ghost story, love story, gothic--and transfixing themes: the undertow of history, the fate of imagination in the cacophony of modern life, the uncanny likeness between communications technology and the supernatural. In a narrative that shifts seamlessly from an ancient European castle to a maximum security prison, Egan conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep--the last stand, the final holdout, the place you run to when the walls are breached--is both everything worth protectingand the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive.

Sadie  Jane Elliott.

Taking pictures  Anne Enright.

Mystery raider  Leslie Ernenwein.

Ride the wild trail  Cliff Farrell.

The heroines  Eileen Favorite.

The murdered schoolgirl  John Russell Fearn.

The forgotten war  David Fiddimore.

Carrot cake murder : a Hannah Swensen mystery with recipes  Joanne Fluke.

Sunshine and shadows  Katie Flynn.

Her every pleasure  Gaelen Foley.

Man of honour  Iain Gale.

Notes from an exhibition  Patrick Gale.

The last gospel  David Gibbins.

A death in Tuscany  Michele Giuttari ; translated by Howard Curtis.

A murderous glaze  Melissa Glazer.

The Italian's Cinderella bride  Lucy Gordon.

The Italian's passionate revenge  Lucy Gordon.

Her sheikh boss  Carol Grace.

Pitch black  Alex Gray.

Max  Sam Green.

A bone of contention  Susanna Gregory.

Chance adventure  Kelly Eileen Hake.

A rational romance  Melinda Hammond.

Saying yes to the millionaire  Fiona Harper.

The black pearl  Cynthia Harrod-Eagles.

The history book  Humphrey Hawksley.

Just a family affair  Veronica Henry.

Reconstruction  Mick Herron.

Can't let go  Jane Hill.

The vows of silence : a Simon Serrailler crime novel  Susan Hill.

Heart & soul  Valerie Holmes.

Whatever next!  Billy Hopkins.

The price of darkness  Graham Hurley.

Rolling thunder  Owen G. Irons.

The mesmerist's apprentice  L. M. Jackson.

Kirsty's vineyard  Anna Jacobs.

Dead man's footsteps  Peter James.

Angel of Brooklyn  Janette Jenkins.

The oxblood effect  Annabel Johnson.

The birds and the bees  Milly Johnson.

The sheikh's blackmailed mistress  Penny Jordan.

The brutal art  Jesse Kellerman.

Ethan Muller is struggling to establish his reputation as a dealer in the cut-throat world of contemporary art when he is alerted to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: in a decaying New York slum, an elderly tenant has disappeared, leaving behind a staggeringly large trove of original drawings and paintings. Nobody can tell Ethan much about the old man, except that he came and went in solitude for nearly forty years, his genius hidden and unacknowledged. Despite the fact that, strictly speaking, the artwork doesn't belong to him, Ethan takes the challenge and makes a name for the old man - and himself. Soon Ethan has to congratulate himself on his own genius: for storytelling and salesmanship. But suddenly the police are interested in talking to him. It seems that the missing artist had a nasty past, and the drawings hanging in the Muller Gallery have begun to look a lot less like art and a lot more like evidence. Sucked into an investigation four decades cold, Ethan will uncover a secret legacy of shame and death, one that will touch horrifyingly close to home - and leave him fearing for his own life.

The keepsake  Sheelagh Kelly.

The Greek tycoon's baby bargain  Sharon Kendrick.

Fiddler on the make  Peter Kerr.

Duma Key  Stephen King.

Remember me?  Sophie Kinsella.

The ice princess  Camilla Lackberg ; translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray.

Devil's bride  Stephanie Laurens.

The payback  Mike Lawson.

The millionaire's inexperienced love-slave  Miranda Lee.

Shoot-out at Big King  Lee Lejeune.

Step in the dark  Elizabeth Lemarchand.

Swansea terminal  Robert Lewis.

Dexter in the dark  Jeff Lindsay.

Soul song  Marjorie M. Liu.

Massacre at Empire Fastness  P. McCormac.

My dearest Nancy  Marlene E. McFadden.

The secret agent  Rafe McGregor.

Monkshood  Hugh McLeave.

Cheated hearts  Jane McLoughlin.

The pregnancy promise  Barbara McMahon.

Lord Thurston's challenge  Fenella-Jane Miller.

Family matters  Sue Moorcroft.

Perfect match  Jane Moore.

Come, Catherine  Nina Louise Moore.

An accomplished woman  Jude Morgan.

Bought: the Greek's innocent virgin  Sarah Morgan.

Night music  Jojo Moyes.

The Spanish House is a hotch-potch of designs, Georgian, Gothic and Moorish, as if whoever started it had simply got bored. It has long been known as an architectural folly to locals, and is now nearly derelict to boot. When its reclusive owner dies intestate, the Spanish House is left to his city-dwelling niece. For Isabel, recently widowed, the house is a potential lifeline -- the only hope she has of providing for her two children without having to sell her most treasured possession. But for neighbour Matt McCarthy, the house is revenge -- on the family who ruined his father. For his wife it's the key to the perfect family life, while a struggling property developer sees in it a whole new future. As desires clash and intertwine, lives and loves are demolished -- and the Spanish House becomes a true folly indeed.

Will you be there?  Guillaume Musso ; translated by George Holoch.

Matter of chance  Betty Neels.

Not once but twice  Betty Neels.

The course of true love  Betty Neels.

Winter wedding  Betty Neels.

Rat run  Frederick Nolan.

Wanted: white wedding  Natasha Oakley.

Misfit Lil fights back  Chap O'Keefe.

A mother's sin  Lynda Page.

Bleeding Kansas  Sara Paretsky.

7th heaven  James Patterson with Maxine Paetro.

A dead man in Tangier  Michael Pearce.

Daphne  Justine Picardie.

Killing Rommel  Steven Pressfield.

The Third Circle  Amanda Quick.

Duet in low key  Doris Rae.

Lizard Wells  Caleb Rand.

Luck be a lady, don't die  Robert J. Randisi.

Return to Thrush Green  Miss Read ; illustrated by J.S. Goodall.

The Saladin murders : an Omar Yussef novel  Matt Rees.

The Markonos bride  Michelle Reid.

Constable on view  Nicholas Rhea.

The darkness inside  John Rickards.

The perfect neighbour  Nora Roberts.

Die for me  Karen Rose.

Everyman  Philip Roth.

Empire of sand  Robert Ryan.

The gap year for grown-ups  Annie Sanders.

The crystal skull  Manda Scott.

Di Cesare's pregnant mistress  Chantelle Shaw.

House of serenity  Susan Shaw.

Stephen Morris  Nevil Shute.

Hell's fire  Chris Simms.

Fractured  Karin Slaughter.

When Abigail Campano comes home unexpectedly one afternoon, she walks into a nightmare. A broken window, a bloody footprint on the stairs and, most devastating of all, the horrifying sight of her teenage daughter lying dead on the landing, a man standing over her with a bloody knife. The struggle which follows changes Abigail's life forever.

The visible world  Mark Slouka.

633 Squadron. Operation Safeguard  Frederick E. Smith.

Child 44  Tom Rob Smith.

The price of freedom  Mary Jane Staples.

Rogue  Danielle Steel.

Last words  Mariah Stewart.

Mortal mischief  Frank Tallis.

The price of freedom  E.C. Tubb.

Send yourself roses : my life, loves and leading roles  Kathleen Turner and Gloria Feldt.

Dearest rivals  Jane Elizabeth Varley.

Pavel & I  Dan Vyleta.

Pavel, an American soldier who stays on after the war, and Anders, a German orphan, paths cross when an ailing Pavel seeks medicine on the black market for his failing kidneys. Anders follows Pavel home with thoughts of stealing from him, but ultimately stays on to help nurse him back to health. A friendship of mutual need develops.

Bruno, chief of police  Martin Walker.

Murder by the slice  L.J. Washburn.

The Lady Elizabeth : a novel  Alison Weir.

The Medici secret  Michael White.

Temptations of the moon  Hilary Wilde.

The way we were  Marcia Willett.

Brannigan  Bill Williams.

Bedded at the billionaire's convenience  Cathy Williams.

Mister Jacks  Tom Wilson.

The secret hero  Beverley Winter.

The Italian playboy's secret son  Rebecca Winters.

Non-Fiction

Michael Schumacher : the edge of greatness  James Allen.

The sum of our days  Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.

A brilliant memoir from the celebrated Chilean novelist on friends, family and life in California, her adopted home. Isabel Allende has sold more than 50 million copies of her books worldwide. The most beloved and successful of her books, 'The House of the Spirits', was based on her Chilean childhood, and other autobiographical works include the deeply moving 'Paula' -- a family history written at the bedside of her daughter while she lay in a coma -- and the fascinating 'My Invented Country', which explored the events of her native Chile where she lived until Pinochet's military coup. Now, in 'The Sum of the Days', we have Isabel describe in an exceptionally vivid, human and deeply personal way her life in California where she has lived for more than 25 years. The first page picks up from where Paula ends -- her daughter never did wake up from her coma and died in 1992 -- when Allende recounts spreading Paula's ashes in her favourite part of the woods by their home. It is fair to say that Isabel has never recovered from losing her daughter but has managed to survive by keeping her husband, son, grandchildren as well as close friends -- kindred spirits -- central to her life.The book is particularly illuminating and revealing about her working life -- she must begin every new book she writes on January 8th or else abandon it for a year.'The Sum of the Days', based on Allende's own journals and daily correspondence with her mother in Chile, reveals the author to be a dazzling, generous, warm and hysterically funny matriarch within her swirl of family and friends.

Mother's ruin  Nicola Barry.

Venetian masters : under the skin of the city of love  Bidisha.

3 Para  Patrick Bishop.

War stories  Jeremy Bowen.

My Manchester United years : the autobiography  Sir Bobby Charlton with James Lawton.

Clarissa Eden : a memoir : from Churchill to Eden  Cate Haste.

Dawdling by the Danube : with journeys in Bavaria and Poland  Edward Enfield.

A dog abroad  Bruce Fogle.

A friend like Henry  Nuala Gardner.

Brothers in battle, best of friends : two WWII paratroopers from the original Band of brothers tell their story  William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron with Robyn Post ; foreword by Tom Hanks.

In God we doubt : confessions of a failed atheist  John Humphrys.

Tackles the big question through the author's own personal journey and argues that doubt is the only credible belief.

The year of living biblically : one man's humble quest to follow the Bible as literally as possible  A.J. Jacobs.

Don't tell mummy : a true story of the ultimate betrayal  Toni Maguire.

When daddy comes home  Toni Maguire.

She finally thought she was safe... Toni Maguire, author of Don't Tell Mummy, takes up the story of her tragic childhood where she left off, revealing the awful truth about what happened when her father, sent to jail for abusing her, was released, and came home!

New Europe  Michael Palin ; photographs by Basil Po [sic].

Bomber boys  Mel Rolfe.

Fatty batter : how cricket saved my life (then ruined it)  Michael Simkins.

Not quite world's end : a traveller's tales  John Simpson.

My life with George : what I learned about joy from one neurotic (and very expensive) dog  Judith Summers.

Wogan's twelve  Terry Wogan.

A year in the life of Britain's most popular entertainer, and George Clooney look alike, Sir Terry Wogan ...

Ronnie  Ronnie Wood.