A Fire Upon the Deep

Andrew Barrow (Author)

The Tap Dancer

'My favourite novel and one I wish I'd written.' ALAN BENNETT Winner of the McKitterick Prize for best first novel by an author aged over 40, and the Hawthornden Prize for imaginative literature. Everyone craves retirement from the Civil Service, don't they? That time for an ageing patriarch to enjoy the fruits of a well-earned pension and the respect of his family; maybe even to indulge in a love of music halls and metropolitan life. If only people would listen and do as they were told... His fourth son William, the long-suffering narrator, is the constant butt of his father's jokes and victim of his brothers' indifference. But as death, divorce and other darker dramas follow, father and son slowly establish a strange harmony.

Brown, Dan

Inferno - 2013

#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER - Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented and with no recollection of the past thirty-six hours, including the origin of the macabre object hidden in his belongings. "One hell of a good read.... As close as a book can come to a summertime cinematic blockbuster." -- USA Today "A diverting thriller." -- Entertainment Weekly With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to flee. Embarking on a harrowing journey, they must unravel a series of codes, which are the work of a brilliant scientist whose obsession with the end of the world is matched only by his passion for one of the most influential masterpieces ever written, Dante Alighieri's The Inferno . Dan Brown has raised the bar yet again, combining classical Italian art, history, and literature with cutting-edge science in this captivating thriller.

Cressida McLaughlin (Author)

From Cornwall with Love

Warm and escapist fiction from the bestselling author of the Cornish Cream Tea series 'Stuffed with Cornish sunshine and hope and loveliness' Milly Johnson Praise for Cressida McLaughlin: 'Gorgeous!' Phillipa Ashley'Perfect' Cathy Bramley'A wonderful ray of reading sunshine' Heidi Swain Sunshine awaits in the beautiful Cornish coastal town of Port Karadow where a romance and a Cornish cream tea are always on the menu ... There's no place like home. There's no place like Cornwall... Maisie Winters has everything she could ever want. She lives in the idyllic Cornish town of Port Karadow, has a jammy job in her dad's shop, adores her rescue mutt, and has time to take the landscape photos she loves.While her best friend and sister left the town to chase big dreams in London and New York, Maisie stayed - she wouldn't leave her favourite place for anything ... or anyone.When her long-time crush, Colm Caffrey, returns from a decade abroad, old feelings start to resurface. Maisie begins to ask herself if there might be one big thing missing after all? ...