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by Ann Cleeves (Macmillan) ISBN: 9781447278214 Cold Earth is the seventh in Ann Cleeves’s acclaimed Shetland series, now a major BBC drama. She has published 25 novels and has a large and faithful following. On a cold and wet winter’s day, villagers in the north-eastern archipelago of Shetland gather at a graveside to bid farewell to an […]

by Danielle Steel (Bantam Press) ISBN: 9780593069158 In Danielle Steel’s new release, a hurricane slams into New York and changes the lives of a group of individuals caught up in the chaos and the heartbreak– an interior designer and her mother, an investment banker, a young ER doctor, and two varsity students. As NYU students, sensing

by Virginia Reeves (Scribner) ISBN: 9781471152221 Work like any other tells the story of Roscoe T. Martin, an electrician by trade, but married to Marie, a farmer’s daughter. Roscoe is forced to make the most of what he has, and make farming – which he hates – work. He tries, but nothing cooperates, and everything

by Danielle Steel (Delacorte Press) ISBN: 9780593069110 Magic is a thrilling story of three couples brought together by the magic of an all-white, invitation-only dinner held in the remotest of places in Paris. The novel follows the ups and downs of Jean-Philippe and Valerie Dumas’s relationship. It is tested when he moves to China for an

by Martin Stewart (Penguin) ISBN: 9780141362038 With his sixteenth birthday fast approaching, the last thing Wulliam wants is to take up his family’s mantle of Riverkeep, burdened with the lonely task of taming an uncontrollable force. Yet his chance at a stable future capsizes when his father is pulled into the depths and possessed by a dark spirit. With

by Dianne Stewart. Illustrated by Joan Rankin (Jacana) ISBN 9781431424139 What’s a crocodile with toothache to do, when he can’t get an appointment with a dentist? His friends take him to see Dr Molar, the lion, after hours – but Lyle doesn’t like the look of the equipment, and leaves with only a caution to clean

by Kate Eberlen (Mantle) ISBN: 9781509819942 “Tess and Gus are meant to be. They just haven’t met properly yet. And perhaps they never will…” A set-up like that tells you it’s a love story. What you get is actually three love stories, interwoven like a complex braid. There’s Tess, who had to give up her dreams

by Stephen Leather (Hodder & Stoughton) ISBN: 9781473604599 I haven’t read Stephen Leather before, but I expected more from an author labelled “the Sunday Times bestselling author”. This so-called thriller got off to a slow start and failed to pick up the pace. At all. It wasn’t helped by the plethora of characters – I lost

by Hollie Overton (Century) ISBN: 9781780895079 Baby Doll tells the story of Lily, kidnapped at the age of sixteen, who has managed to escape from her captor eight years later. The story begins the night of her escape when we are taken on a spiralling journey as she returns home and tries to pick up