On a bright morning in the London suburbs, a family moves into the house they`ve just bought on Trinity Avenue. Nothing strange about that. Except it`s your house. & you didn`t sell it. ` If 2018 brings a better book than Our House I will eat my hat. Addictive, twisty & oh so terrifyingly possible` Clare Mackintosh, author of I See You ` Property-porn looks set to become a staple of crime fiction & Our House is an excellent example of this burgeoning subgenre. Husband & wife pass the narrative baton between them in this masterfully plotted, compulsive page-turner` Laura Wilson, Guardian `I loved the wonderful hook of Our House, which plays with our modern obsession with property
- & the vulnerability that exposes. Louise Candlish is a great writer; she inhaled me into her nightmarish world where everything we think we know is ripped from under our feet` Fiona Barton, author of The Widow & The Child FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE. When Fi Lawson arrives home to find strangers moving into her house, she is plunged into terror & confusion. She & her husband Bram have owned their home on Trinity Avenue for years & have no intention of selling. How can this other family possibly think the house is theirs? & why has Bram disappeared when she needs him most? FOR RICHER, FOR POORER. Bram has made a catastrophic mistake & now he is paying. Unable to see his wife, his children or his home, he has nothing left but to settle scores. As the nightmare takes grip, both Bram & Fi try to make sense of the events that led to a devastating crime. What has he hidden from her
- & what has she hidden from him? & will either survive the chilling truth
- that there are far worse things you can lose than your house? TILL DEATH US DO PART. `I raced through it this weekend. Such a smart idea. Twisty, warped, credible. Brilliantly plotted & compelling. Deserves to be such a hit` Sarah Vaughan, author of Anatomy of a Scandal` Our House is one of the best books I have ever read.. . FACT` Isabelle Broom, author of My Map of You ` Gripping & heartbreaking with an undercurrent of unease running through it` Louise Jensen, author of The Gift ` Heart-stopping, toe-curling, breath-taking! Half can`t bear to read/half can`t bear to put it down. It`s marvellous
- so tautly plotted & don`t see the twists coming! Will be a smash hit! Veronica Henry, author of The Forever House ` Finished in two days. Absolutely brilliant. It has bestseller written all over it` Kate Furnivall, author of The Betrayal ` What a book! Fast, edge-of-your-seat stuff. Each time I set the book down I had to remind myself to breathe` broadbeanbooks ` What a sensational book this is, with a plot that unrolls like clockwork, & simmering tension that never lets up. Betrayal, double-crossing & the most delicious sting in the tail... I couldn`t put it down` Lucy Diamond, bestselling author of The House of New Beginnings `A great read
- lots of surprises & an excellent ending` Cesca Major, author of The Silent Hours ` Jaw-droppingly brilliant` Catherine Isaac, author of You Me Everything ` Oh Louise Candlish, you are a genius! Our House is just brilliant. Scarily believable with the BEST ending I have read in a long time. I devoured it!` Claire Frost, Fabulous magazine `A high-stakes domestic thriller that is utterly absorbing. Twists & turns abound, & Our House will have you locking your doors & checking your windows. Candlish delivers a frightening portrait of one woman`s worst nightmare. Trust no one!` Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author




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On a bright morning in the London suburbs, a family moves into the house they`ve just bought on Trinity Avenue. Nothing strange about that. Except it`s your house. & you didn`t sell it. ` If 2018 brings a better book than Our House I will eat my hat. Addictive, twisty & oh so terrifyingly possible` Clare Mackintosh, author of I See You `I raced through it this weekend. Such a smart idea. Twisty, warped, credible. Brilliantly plotted & compelling. Deserves to be such a hit` Sarah Vaughan, author of Anatomy of a Scandal `I loved the wonderful hook of Our House, which plays with our modern obsession with property
- & the vulnerability that exposes. Louise Candlish is a great writer; she inhaled me into her nightmarish world where everything we think we know is ripped from under our feet` Fiona Barton, author of The Widow & The Child FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE. When Fi Lawson arrives home to find strangers moving into her house, she is plunged into terror & confusion. She & her husband Bram have owned their home on Trinity Avenue for years & have no intention of selling. How can this other family possibly think the house is theirs? & why has Bram disappeared when she needs him most?FOR RICHER, FOR POORER. Bram has made a catastrophic mistake & now he is paying. Unable to see his wife, his children or his home, he has nothing left but to settle scores. As the nightmare takes grip, both Bram & Fi try to make sense of the events that led to a devastating crime. What has he hidden from her
- & what has she hidden from him? & will either survive the chilling truth
- that there are far worse things you can lose than your house? TILL DEATH US DO PART.` Our House is one of the best books I have ever read.. . FACT` Isabelle Broom, author of My Map of You ` Gripping & heartbreaking with an undercurrent of unease running through it` Louise Jensen, author of The Gift ` Heart-stopping, toe-curling, breath-taking! Half can`t bear to read/half can`t bear to put it down. It`s marvellous
- so tautly plotted & don`t see the twists coming! Will be a smash hit! Veronica Henry, author of The Forever House ` Finished in two days. Absolutely brilliant. It has bestseller written all over it` Kate Furnivall, author of The Betrayal ` What a book! Fast, edge-of-your-seat stuff. Each time I set the book down I had to remind myself to breathe` broadbeanbooks ` What a sensational book this is, with a plot that unrolls like clockwork, & simmering tension that never lets up. Betrayal, double-crossing & the most delicious sting in the tail... I couldn`t put it down` Lucy Diamond, bestselling author of The House of New Beginnings `A great read
- lots of surprises & an excellent ending` Cesca Major, author of The Silent Hours ` Jaw-droppingly brilliant` Catherine Isaac, author of You Me Everything ` Oh Louise Candlish, you are a genius! Our House is just brilliant. Scarily believable with the BEST ending I have read in a long time. I devoured it!` Claire Frost, Fabulous magazine `A high-stakes domestic thriller that is utterly absorbing. Twists & turns abound, & Our House will have you locking your doors & checking your windows. Candlish delivers a frightening portrait of one woman`s worst nightmare. Trust no one!` Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author




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” Go straightly to school, Our Kid, ” said Dad. But unless a fish-driven submarine, dinopirates & an elephant ride are the quickest way to school, Our Kid is not doing too well. This tour-de-force of invention from the legendary Tony Ross takes you on a journey to school like no other, & shows that sometimes the oddballs (especially of the goat variety) win the day! ...

In John le Carre`s electrifying novel Our Kind of Traitor, innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial world. Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic & his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula & a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, & wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London & its unholy alliance with Britain`s Intelligence Establishment. ” If you want to know about the state of Britain today, forget the Booker shortlist. Just read John le Carre`s latest thriller”. (Evening Standard). ” Few recent plays have had dialogue as good, & few recent literary novels can boast a set of characters so vividly imagined. Our Kind of Traitor is a teasing, beguiling, masterly performance”. (Sunday Times). John le Carre was born in 1931 & attended the universities of Bern & Oxford. He taught at Eton & served briefly in British Intelligence during the Cold War. For the last fifty years he has lived by his pen. His most recent novel, A Delicate Truth, is also published by Penguin. He divides his time between London & Cornwall. ...

An English couple, Perry & Gail, are taking an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula & a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, & wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London & its unholy alliance with Britain`s Intelligence Establishment. ...

The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments in Karachi are looking for a miracle. Junior nurse, ex-prisoner & part-time healer Alice Bhatti is looking for a job. With guidance from the working nurse`s manual, & some tricks she picked up in prison, Alice starts work at the crowded hospital bringing help to the thousands of patients littering the corridors. But her new life isn`t easy & on top of everything else Alice impulsively falls for optimist & loveable good Teddy Butt
- a ragtag law enforcement officer by night & a bodybuilder by day. Can Alice & Teddy live happily ever after? Will the hospital accept her unorthodox ways? It all seems unlikely, but then Alice Bhatti is no ordinary nurse & this is downtown Karachi where the unusual is ordinary.
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A rich account of the impact of the Second World War on the lives of people living in the farms & villages of Britain. On the outbreak of war, the countryside was invaded by service personnel & evacuee children by the thousand; land was taken arbitrarily for airfields, training grounds & firing ranges, & whole communities were evicted. Prisoner-of-war camps brought captured enemy soldiers to close quarters, & as horses gave way to tractors & combines farmers were burdened with aggressive new restrictions on what they could & could not grow. Land Girls & Lumber Jills worked in fields & forests. Food
- or the lack of it
- was a major preoccupation & rationing strictly enforced. & although rabbits were poached, apples scrumped & mushrooms gathered, there was still not enough to eat. Drawing from diaries, letters, books, official records & interviews, Duff Hart Davis revisits rural Britain to describe how ordinary people survived the war years. He tells of houses turned over to military use such as Bletchley & RAF Medmenham as well as those that became schools, notably Chatsworth in Derbyshire. Combining both hardship & farce, the book examines the profound changes war brought to Britain`s countryside: from the Home Guard, struggling with the provision of ludicrous equipment, to the role of the XII Corps Observation Unit. whose task was to enlarge rabbit warrens & badger setts into bunkers for harassing the enemy in the event of a German invasion; to the unexpected tenderness shown by many to German & Italian prisoners-of-war at work on the l&. Fascinating, sad & at times hilarious, this warm-hearted book tells great stories
- & casts new light on Britain during the war.


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The First World War was a human catastrophe but it also saw a dynamic development of new weapons & a new kind of war; between the lions & the donkeys came the managers
- & the workers
- who transformed a nation into a war machine in 48 months. This book takes you on a journey to the key places that witnessed this war effort & those at all levels of society who brought about the change. The war created a new world of vast hutted camps & a new kind of transport system which even involved a lighted barrage across the Channel. From Aldershot
- the home of the British Army, to the War Office in Whitehall, from Aberdeen to Yarmouth, this is Britain`s war mapped for the first time. This book uncovers where this national revolution took place & shows how you can find the hidden world of the First World War at the end of your road.


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The long-term consequences & the personal stories of people around the world going green make up the focus of this beautiful new book for children. The scientific & technical advances of the last century have had major effects on the earth. How can humans, in todays world, continue to respect nature & avoid doing irreparable damage to the planet? From pollution to carbon dioxide emissions & endangered plants, from disappearing languages to glaciers, this book details the ways in which people affect their environment & how a more stable balance can be achieved, comprehensively informing readers about the reality of the earth`s ecosystem & inspiring them to do what they can to help save the planet. ...

One of Graham Greene’s most popular books, Our Man in Havana has all the usual trademarks of a Greene novel (foreign locale, one man, a higher power & the perversion thereof), except instead of being a taught thriller, Greene’s wit shines through & proves to be as blackly comic as one could imagine. Wormold, a vacuum salesman living in Havana, is short of money, at a time when being short of money was the worst possible time for Wormold: his daughter has reached an expensive age & Wormold’s impetuous need to deliver gets the better of him
- so he accepts Hawthorne`s offer of $300-plus a month & becomes Agent 59200/5, MI6`s man in Havana. To keep the job, Wormold pretends to recruit sub-agents & sends fake stories. Then the stories start coming disturbingly true... In August 1941, Graham Greene joined the SIS (Secret Intelligence Service or MI6), & became fascinated with the story of Garcia, a double agent stationed in Lisbon who fed the Nazis disinformation throughout the war, inventing maps, armed forces movements & even operation guides for military reference. Garcia was the most likely inspiration for Wormold & knowing this somehow makes the book even more enjoyable, that one man`s imagination could get the better of even the highest powers. Our Man in Havana offers a different flavour of Greene, & a Havana from decades past.
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