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A Necessary Fiction
When the wife of a wealthy hedge fund manager goes missing while on holiday in Madeira, DS Pritchard is asked to liaise with the Portuguese authorities. Suspicion falls upon the husband, Mr Tristram Parker, who is suspected of conspiring to murder her. DS Pritchard's own enquiries reveal financial malpractices at Mr Parker's hedge fund on an unprecedented scale, but he struggles to link these startling discoveries to Mrs Parker's disappearance.Meanwhile, a curious combination of circumstances combine to present DS Pritchard with an opportunity to seek revenge on his most hated adversary.
From Black to Blue
It is February 1985 in east London and probationary Police Constable Chris Pritchard steals five thousand pounds at the scene of an old lady's death. Delighted at first to be out of his dire financial situation, it soon dawns on the young officer that he has committed an act of dreadful dishonesty and he sets out to make amends. Within hours however his complicated private life draws him ever deeper into the epidemic of police corruption engulfing Stoke Newington police station.Suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, convinced his own arrest is imminent and racked with guilt, PC Pritchard fears his world is about to come crashing in. An unexpected turn of events however puts his true character to the test.The author was a police officer who served with the Met for over thirty years.
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Ridgeline
‘An exciting, vividly-imagined reconstruction of an extraordinary moment in the history of the American West’ Ian McGuire, bestselling author of THE NORTH WATER and INCREDIBLE BODIES ‘A highly compelling page turner; you won’t be able to put it down’ Philipp Meyer, author of THE SON and AMERICAN RUST
The Feast
"Kennedy is not only a romantic but an anarchist." —Anita Brookner Summer, 1947. A bizarre catastrophe rocks a seaside village in Cornwall when a cliff tumbles down on the Pendizack Manor Hotel. The hotel is obliterated, and seven guests are killed in the disaster. Everyone else makes a narrow escape. As the survivors tell their stories, the events of the previous week are revealed, and a parade of sins exposed. Gluttony, Lecherousness, Sloth, Pride, Covetousness, Envy and Wrath: all are in residence at Pendizack Manor, and as the day of the disaster creeps closer, it becomes clear that who’s spared and who’s lost might not be as arbitrary as first assumed. A modern upstairs-downstairs comedy with an old-fashioned morality play tucked away inside, The Feast is sly, kaleidoscopic, and utterly ingenious, a novel that only Margaret Kennedy could have written.
The Treasure of Captain Claw
When Oscar and Lily find a secret treasure map, they set sail in search of adventure. But the dastardly Captain Claw wants that treasure too, and his pirate submarine is on their trail . . . This fast-paced pirate adventure from a bestselling creative team is guaranteed to delight young children. The fantastic four-page fold-out pirate submarine cross-section will entertain and fascinate for hours.
Pigs Might Fly
A fast-paced adventure, inspired by the traditional story of The Three Little Pigs, in which the brave trio attempt to outwit the Big Bad Wolf for the second time, this time by winning the 'Pie in the Sky Air Race'. Each pig builds a plane, out of straw, sticks and . . . not bricks, but metal. In a fit of frustration, the wolf leaps out of his plane and onto the back of the pigs' plane, just at the moment that the cleverest pig is testing out the rocket booster. The wolf shoots off into the great blue yonder and the pigs shoot over the finishing line.
We Don't Call Them Raids
It is 2003 and Christopher Pritchard is a Detective Sergeant on Scotland Yard's world famous murder squad.A drugs raid on a Bethnal Green council flat triggers a sequence of events that put the seasoned detective's investigative abilities to the most challenging of tests.Unless he can solve the perplexing murder of a drug dealer, DS Pritchard must admit his own wrongdoing or watch the prosecution of an innocent colleague. Meanwhile, his complicated private life starts to unravel, as his troubled past catches up with him.We don't call them raids is the fifth book from the author and follows on from the critically acclaimed Blue Trilogy and When you wear the blue; cult reads for serving and former law enforcement officers. Jonathan Cox was a police officer for over thirty years during which time he investigated dozens of London murders.
The Poison Artist
'I haven't read anything so terrifying since Red Dragon' Stephen King Imagine an updated Vertigo: darker, more scary but just as hypnotically seductive. A dark psychological crime thriller for fans of Dennis Lehane's Shutter Island. Selected for BBC Radio 2 Book Club with Simon Mayo. Toxicologist Caleb Maddox has two puzzles to solve. What connects the series of dead bodies found floating in San Francisco Bay? And why is Emmeline, the strange and beautiful woman he met in a secluded bar, so secretive about her past? One thing is certain: finding the the answers could be the last thing Caleb ever does. Everyone is talking about The Poison Artist - a gripping psychological thriller: 'Incredibly suspenseful' Lee Child 'A magnificent, thoroughly unnerving psychological thriller' Justin Cronin 'I haven't read anything so terrifying since Red Dragon' Stephen King 'As dark and intoxicating as the bars where the mystery begins' Sunday Mirror 'As satisfying as it is deeply unsettling...highly recommended' Guardian Don't miss Jonathan Moore's latest thriller The Dark Room. Out Now
Putting the Rabbit in the Hat
The long-awaited memoir by movie and theatre legend, Brian Cox. A Guardian, Times, Sunday Times and Independent Book of the Year *Featuring a foreword by the executive producer of Succession, Frank Rich, an executive producer of HBO's Succession, a former chief drama critic of The New York Times, and the author of the memoir Ghost Light.* 'One of the best showbiz memoirs ever written... it's as funny as it is furious... Brian Cox has done everything and with this book he leaves everyone else standing' - Mail on Sunday 'Absolute heaven' - Sunday Times 'A hugely readable memoir from a giant of stage and screen' - Mark Kermode 'A life well lived and a story well told. From first page to last Br...
