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A Long Shadow
A Raindrop in the Ocean
A Right Royal Face-Off
A Summerstoke Affair
A Tangled Summer
Above the Law
Aftershock
All Will Be Well
All the Beautiful Liars
An English Library Journey
An Isolated Incident
Anyone for Edmund?
Appius and Virginia
Ask an Adventurer
At the Deep End
Baghdad Business School
Banana Devil Cake
Behind the Veil
Beneath the Streets
Charging Around
Charity
Chasing Hornbills
Christmas in Cockleberry Bay
Cold Hands, Warm Heart
Colin’s Repurposed Dictionary
Crapper Cycle Lanes
Cry from the Highest Mountain
Don’t Blame the Yeti
Elites
Eye Classics Bundle
First Contact
Fishing for Tigers
Frigid Women
Future Fish
Good Morning Afghanistan
Good Riddance
Green Oranges on Lion Mountain
Huxley Sparks and the Book of Secrets
In the Beginning
Jasmine and Arnica
Junkie Buddha
Landsliding
Let Love Win
Let Me Be Frank
Lightning Antipodean Bundle
Lightning Comic Fiction Bundle
Long Melford Colouring Book
Love Me Tinder
MBA
Mansfield and Me
Marrow Jam
Meet Me in Cockleberry Bay
Melford Memories
Mission Possible
Moods of Future Joys
News of the World?
Newton’s 21st Century Entanglement
Noise Damage
On Turpentine Lane
Orisons
Orisons 2
Please Do Not Ask for Mercy...
Rachel to the Rescue
Riding the Outlaw Trail
Riding with Ghosts
Sea Defences
Self & I
Six of the Best: Lightning Fiction Debuts
Smoke in the Room
Soft Courage
Son of Shadow
Sour Grapes
Spring Mischief
Squirting Milk at Chameleons
Staggering Hubris
Stone Heart Deep
Ten Lessons From the Road
The Aladdin Trial
The Ambassador’s Wife’s Tale
The Ambrosia Project
The Antipodeans
The Arcadian Incident
The Atomics
The Bad Mother Series
The Bad Mother’s Christmas
The Bad Mother’s Detox
The Bad Mother’s Diary
The Bad Mother’s Holiday
The Beat of the Pendulum
The Boy Who Biked the World 1
The Boy Who Biked the World 2
The Boy Who Biked the World 3
The Boy Who Biked the World Trilogy
The Burton & Lamb series
The Cinderella Plan
The Cockleberry Bay Collection
The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay
The Darlings
The Drover’s Wives
The End of Where We Begin
Abi Silver
Adam Macqueen
Adrian Bleese
Alastair Humphreys
Andrew Stickland
Angela Jackson
Antony Johnston
Ash Dykes
Caroline Kington
Catherine Chidgey
Clive Wilkinson
Colin Nugent
Conor Sneyd
Dan Rhodes
Diane Esguerra
Dorian Amos
Douglas Board
Elinor Lipman
Emily Joy
Emily Maguire
Ernest Ambrose
G.E. Trevelyan
Ghillie James & Julia Parker
Greg McGee
Heyrick Bond Gunning
Hilary Taylor
James Corbett
James Hall
James Kennedy
John Bevis
John Lenahan
John Pakenham
Jonathan Crane
Jonathan Stone
Josh Berry
Jules Mountain
Julia Miles
K.A. Hayton
Kenny Boyle
Laurence Cane-Honeysett
Madeline Dewhurst
Mandy Jameson
Maria Katsonis
Martin Henwood
Matthew De Abaitua
Michael Dobbs-Higginson
Michael Meegan
Molly Gartland
Morgan Tsvangirai
Neil Gibb
Nicola May
Nicola Naylor
Niema Ash
Noel Hodson
Palle Rosenkrantz
Pamela Windo
Paul Bassett Davies
Paul Maunder
Peter Burden
Ray Robinson
Richard Fenning
Rosalind Russell
Ryan O'Neill
S.V. Bekvalac
Sarah Laing
Scott Pack
Simon Casson
Simon Edge
Simon Fenton
Sophie Bristow
Stein Riverton
Sue & Victoria Riches
Susan A. King
Suzy K. Quinn
Sylvia Petter
Tess Burrows
Tim Ewins
Tina Makereti
Tünde Farrand
Waseem Mahmood
Zoë Duncan

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A Long Shadow
Caroline Kington
Rural noir from the author of the acclaimed Summerstoke trilogy
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£8.99
A Raindrop in the Ocean
Michael Dobbs-Higginson
The life of a global adventurer
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£16.99
A Right Royal Face-Off
Simon Edge
A quirky time-slip comedy featuring 18th century portrait artists Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds and their rivalry for the affections of the Royal Family
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£8.99
A Summerstoke Affair
Caroline Kington
A tale of passion, power and dirty parsnips
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£1.99
A Tangled Summer
Caroline Kington
A tale of barley, blackberries and some very bad behaviour
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£0.00
Above the Law
Adrian Bleese
The most difficult, emotionally charged, funny and baffling episodes in a 12-year career flying on police helicopters
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£9.99
Aftershock
Jules Mountain
Jules Mountain has reached Everest Base Camp, within reach of fulfilling his life’s ambition, when the earthquake sets off the avalanche. Something sets him apart from the other surviving climbers: is it that he has already cheated death once before? Does his gung-ho attitude show him to be brave, fatalistic or irresponsible? Will he finally have picked a fight he cannot win?
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£9.99
All Will Be Well
Michael Meegan
Based on his own travels through Africa, Michael Meegan shares his unique and inspiring insights into love, hope, compassion and happiness
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£9.99
All the Beautiful Liars
Sylvia Petter
A powerful, pacy tale set in post-war Central Europe about making peace with the past, shortlisted for the Yeovil Prize
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£8.99
An English Library Journey
John Bevis
A writer and book-lover’s eccentric quest: to obtain a membership card from every library authority in England
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£14.99
An Isolated Incident
Emily Maguire
When 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community is stunned and a media storm descends.
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£8.99
Anyone for Edmund?
Simon Edge
A canonical comedy about the life and legacy of England's lost patron saint, St Edmund, whose body is rediscovered under a Suffolk tennis court, and the hapless Westminster spin doctor who attempts to exploit the find for his boss's political gain
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£9.99
Appius and Virginia
G.E. Trevelyan
A rediscovered work by one of the most exciting novelists of the 1930s, exploring the ongoing conflict between nature and nurture
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£15
Ask an Adventurer
Alastair Humphreys
How to make a living from doing what you love
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£9.99
At the Deep End
Morgan Tsvangirai
As a founding member and leader of Zimbabwe’s main opposition party,Morgan Tsvangirai was harassed, tortured, charged with treason and labelled a traitor. His autobiography charts his rise from teenage mine worker, to trade union leader, to Prime Minister of Zimbabwe in a fragile coalition government with President Robert Mugabe, the beacon of hope for a beleaguered nation
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£20.00
Baghdad Business School
Heyrick Bond Gunning
The challenges, the characters and the comedy of trying to do business in a war zone
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£9.99
Banana Devil Cake
Susan A. King
A tale of tea, cake and riotous goings-on from the author of Marrow Jam
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£2.99
Behind the Veil
Lydia Laube
Lydia Laube set off in search of adventure, to work as a nurse in Saudi Arabia
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£9.99
Beneath the Streets
Adam Macqueen
When Jeremy Thorpe hired thugs to kill his ex-lover, they botched it. What if they had succeeded?
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£8.99
Charging Around
Clive Wilkinson
A retired teacher approaching his eightieth birthday attempts to drive around the edges of England by electric car, despite the alarming lack of charging points. With endless patience and good humour, this unlikely pioneer is a wise and witty guide to the country’s left-behind periphery
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£9.99
Charity
Madeline Dewhurst
Set in contemporary London and 1950s Kenya in the midst of the Mau Mau rebellion, Madeline Dewhurst’s captivating debut, longlisted for the Bath Novel Award, spins a web of secrets and deceit
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£8.99
Chasing Hornbills
Simon Fenton
Now a father of two and juggling multiple businesses, Simon Fenton continues to face the everyday frustrations and exhilarations of life in Senegal that made Squirting Milk at Chameleons such a compelling and entertaining read.
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£8.99
Christmas in Cockleberry Bay
Nicola May
A bonus instalment from the author of the super-selling Cockleberry Bay trilogy
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£9.99
Cold Hands, Warm Heart
Tess Burrows
Cold hands, warm heart Tess and Pete joined the historic South Pole Race, to compete with the likes of Olympic champion James Cracknell and Ben Fogle in the first race to the South Pole since Scott and Amundsen
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£9.99
Colin’s Repurposed Dictionary
Colin Nugent
The hilarious new dictionary for the lockdown age
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£1.99
Crapper Cycle Lanes
David Whelan
Pokes fun at some of the more ridiculous examples of the UK's cycle lanes, while raising awareness of some important issues of safety and convenience 
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£7.99
Cry from the Highest Mountain
Tess Burrows
‘An enthralling journey of courage and endurance’ Joanna Lumley
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£9.99
Don’t Blame the Yeti
Tess Burrows
A hair-raising Himalayan hike
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£9.99
Elites
Douglas Board
Can you rise to the top without losing your soul? An authoritative, ground-breaking guide.
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£12.99
Eye Classics Bundle
Eye Authors
Buy eight brilliant books in our travel/adventure imprint
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£50.00
First Contact
Mark Anstice
First Contact is a true story of modern day exploration and the discovery of cannibal tribes in the 21st century
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£9.99
Fishing for Tigers
Emily Maguire
‘An emotionally gripping and page-turning read’
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£1.99
Frigid Women
Sue & Victoria Riches
In 1997, a group of twenty women set out to become the world’s first all female expedition to the North Pole. Sue and Victoria were surprised to find themselves amongst them
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£7.99
Future Fish
Conor Sneyd
A deliciously daft comic caper about skulduggery and suspicion at Ireland's second-biggest cat-food manufacturer
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£9.99
Good Morning Afghanistan
Waseem Mahmood
After the fall of the Taliban came a radio station with a mission...
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£9.99
Good Riddance
Elinor Lipman
‘A vastly entertaining screwball comedy’ – Washington Post
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£8.99
Green Oranges on Lion Mountain
Emily Joy
Emily Joy puts on her rose-tinted specs, leaves behind her comfortable middle class life as a doctor in York and heads off for two years voluntary work at a remote hospital in Sierra Leone
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£7.99
Huxley Sparks and the Book of Secrets
Suzy K. Quinn
The first in a magical new series for children aged 9–12, set in the fairytale world of the Black Forest
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£9.99
In the Beginning
Simon Edge
A satirical novel inspired by two iconic real-life court cases – one in Tennessee in the 1920s, the second in London in 2022 – which takes aim at modern crank beliefs and herd behaviour
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£9.99
Jasmine and Arnica
Nicola Naylor
Nicola Naylor had always been enthralled by India, but her travel fantasies dissolved when she lost her sight
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£7.99
Junkie Buddha
Diane Esguerra
A journey of discovery in Peru
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£8.99
Landsliding
Mandy Jameson
We all have secrets, but some of our secrets are darker than others
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£2.99
Let Love Win
Nicola May
In this charming sequel to Working It Out, will Ruby Matthews let love win or allow her past to haunt her?
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£7.99
Let Me Be Frank
Sarah Laing
Comics 2010–2019
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£19.99
Lightning Antipodean Bundle
Lightning Authors
Eight of the best from Down Under
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£50.00
Lightning Comic Fiction Bundle
Three Lightning Authors
Four glittering comic novels
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£20.00
Long Melford Colouring Book
Simon Edge
A colouring book for adults and children alike based on the 15th-century gentry immortalised in stained glass in the windows of Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford in Suffolk
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£6.99
Love Me Tinder
Nicola May
The queen of ladette lit turns her attention to the world of online dating in a another wild and witty tale
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£9.99
MBA
Douglas Board
Why is so much of the world managed by arseholes?
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£8.99
Mansfield and Me
Sarah Laing
The acclaimed graphic biography of Katherine Mansfield
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£19.99
Marrow Jam
Susan A. King
Murder, mystery...and marrows
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£8.99
Meet Me in Cockleberry Bay
Nicola May
The sequel to the number one bestseller
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£7.99
Melford Memories
Ernest Ambrose
A classic East Anglian memoir describing a vanished world of rural customs and culture with wit, intelligence and freshness of observation, now in a 50th anniversary edition with a new foreword by Ashley Cooper
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£9.99
Mission Possible
Ash Dykes
A decade of living dangerously
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£9.99
Moods of Future Joys
Alastair Humphreys
Mood of Future Joys follows round-the-world cyclist Alastair Humphreys on the first leg of his epic journey, starting in Yorkshire, then going down through Europe and travelling the whole length of Africa, including Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya
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£7.99
News of the World?
Peter Burden
"...that is what we do - we go out and destroy other people's lives." Former news editor on the News of the World
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£7.99
Newton’s 21st Century Entanglement
Noel Hodson
A time-travelling caper
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£8.99
Noise Damage
James Kennedy
‘Easily one of the greatest books I’ve ever read about music and being in a band’ Eric Alper
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£9.99
On Turpentine Lane
Elinor Lipman
On Turpentine Lane
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£8.99
Orisons
Martin Henwood
A new set of 104 photographic cards and linked commentaries, biblical verses and prayers to add depth and insight to your understanding of life
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£19.99
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