EVERY LIGHT CASTS A SHADOW Gavin Guile is the Prism the most powerful man in the world. His strength wit & charm are all that preserve a tenuous peace. But Prisms never last & Guile knows exactly how long he has left to live. When Guile discovers he has a son born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power he must decide how much hes willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear his world apart. ...

The ' Black Queen' is what Billy calls his shadowy next-door neighbour. She always wears a black cloak & a wide-brimmed black hat. She lurks about her garden alone except for her black cat. Scarily for Billy the Black Queen befriends him & asks him to look after her cat while she's away. Billy can't resist the opportunity to peek inside her house. There are chessboards scattered everywhere. Who is the Black Queen & what sort of game is she playing? Billy thinks he knows... ...

Black Rabbit Summer" is an intense page-turner from award-winning young adult writer Kevin Brooks. A group of old friends affected by drugs alcohol & memories find themselves in the middle of a crime scene. Pete Boland was busy doing nothing that summer. Long stiflingly hot lazy days stretched ahead of him. Then she called. It was Nicole. ' Listen Pete.. .you know that funfair up at the recreation ground...I thought we could all meet up.. .you know for old times sake.' But where there are old times there are old tensions. & as secrets bitterness & jealousies resurface five old friends are plunged into the worst night of their lives..."A masterly writer & this book would put many authors of 'grown up' detective fiction to shame". (" Mail on Sunday"). "A compulsive atmospheric mystery". (" Sunday Times"). " Gripping disturbing.. .brilliant". (" Sunday Express"). Kevin Brooks is the award-winning author of nine gripping teenage novels usually with a thrilling detective twist. His novels " Being" "i Boy" " Killing God" (published as Dawn in the USA) & " Naked" are also available from Penguin. Kevin's brand new novel " The Bunker Diary" will be published in 2013. If you enjoyed " Black Rabbit Summer" & want to get inside more of your favourite books then check out website for exclusive author interviews competitions & much more." ...

Roz Harper is a woman who has lived life on her own terms. She had dearly loved her first husb&. After his death she had thrown herself into raising their boys & then into making a business out of her passion for gardening. Roz likes her life just as it is & it would take a very special man to convince her to take that leap of faith into love again. A man like Dr. Mitchell Carnegie the genealogist she's hired to research the origins of the family ghost known as the Harper Bride. Mitch & Roz are drawn together from the start. But the Harper Bride is enraged by the sight of love & though she may have brought Mitch & Roz together she will stop at nothing to tear them apart. ...

A beautiful young woman a member of the Florentine jet set is found dead
- choked to death
- in her apartment. She has been

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Berlin 1933. Warning bells ring across Europe as Hitler comes to power. Clara Vine an attractive young Anglo-German actress arrives in Berlin to find work at the famous Ufa studios. Through a chance meeting she is unwillingly drawn into a circle of Nazi wives among them Magda Goebbels Anneliese von Ribbentrop & Goering's girlfriend Emmy Sonnemann. As part of his plan to create a new pure German race Hitler wants to make sweeping changes to the lives of women starting with the formation of a Reich Fashion Bureau instructing women on what to wear & how to behave. Clara is invited to model the dowdy unflattering clothes. Then she meets Leo Quinn who is working for British intelligence & who sees in Clara the perfect recruit to spy on her new elite friends using her acting skills to win their confidence. But when Magda Goebbels reveals to Clara a dramatic secret & entrusts her with an extraordinary mission Clara feels threatened compromised desperately caught between her duty towards
- & growing affection for
- Leo & the impossibly dangerous task Magda has forced upon her.

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Ida a good-natured happy girl is looking forward to her tenth birthday when she gets on her brand new bike & sets off to buy sweets. She should be back within half an hour but she never returns. Her mother frantic with worry calls the shop friends & family but no one has seen her daughter. As the relatives reach breaking point & the media circus begins Inspector Sejer is calm & reassuring but inside he is worried: missing children are normally found within forty-eight hours. Ida seems to have vanished without a trace. ...

Miss Abigail Wendover's efforts to detach her spirited niece Fanny from a plausible fortune-hunter are complicated by the arrival in Bath of Miles Caverleigh. The black sheep of his family a cynical outrageous care-for-naught with a scandalous past
- that would be a connection more shocking even than Fanny's unwise liaison with his nephew! But Abby adept at managing her sweet silly sister Selina her lively niece & the host of her admirers among Bath's circumscribed society has less success in managing her own unruly heart. The Black Sheep is a sweeping spiritual novel that shows how Geogette Heyer became the most successful & popular writer of her generation & configures to be loved by a huge readership today.
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It is 1925 & the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple her husband Alec Fletcher & their recent twins move to a new large house on the outskirts of London. Set in a small circle of houses with a communal garden it seems like the idyllic setting
- that is until a murder victim turns up under the bushes of the communal garden. Now rumours of bootleggers American gangsters & an international liquor smuggling operation via black ships turn everything upside down. Alec in his role as Scotland Yard detective has been assigned to ferret out the truth behind the murder
- but it is up to Daisy to find out who the dead man is what his relationship with her new neighbours was why he was murdered
- & who it was who did him in! Praise for Carola Dunns Daisy Dalrymple Series": Cunning...appropriate historical detail & witty dialogue are the finishing touches on this engaging 1920s period piece
- Publishers Weekly. As always Dunn evokes the life & times of 1920s England while providing a plot that is a cut above the average British cosy. This will delight readers who love country-house mysteries
- " Booklist For fans of Dorothy L. Sayers novels Library Journal"."




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Frances Lincoln is proud to reintroduce Rosemary Sutcliffs Black Ships Before Troy now in an exciting new format. Here is Homers epic poem The Iliad brought to life by Rosemary Sutcliff with all the skill of a master storyteller. Alan Lees dramatic cover image hauntingly recreates the age of heroes in this spellbinding introduction to the Greek classics
- a book that should become part of every childhood.
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