Sophie Aldred
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In the tradition of Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Ruth Rendell, this compelling and clever psychological thriller spins the harrowing tale of a mother's obsessive search for her missing daughter.
Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon.
But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, Jenny's seemingly ideal life begins
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The No.1 football series - over 1 million copies sold!
Born into a footballing family, Leah Williamson followed in the footsteps of her mother who cut her hair short so she could play with the boys. Williamson began playing at Scot Youth, a boys' team in Bletchley, quickly becoming their star striker.
Williamson went on to join Rushden & Diamonds Centre of Excellence, before joining Arsenal at the age of nine, where she has remained, making her...
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A spellbinding slice of Cornish Gothic — a Daphne du Maurier for the 21st century! Piers Torday
Zed and her family move unwillingly from London to Cornwall, in an attempt to support her mother's mental health.
Gradually the family fall apart, and it is only when Zed realises that the local cormorants are playing a part in the disasters that consume them, in revenge for an ancient wrong, that she and her sister, Amy, start working together to find...
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Short stories that make a novel. Set in Cornwall, coastal erosion and flooding take on a near mythical power as the short stories in this collection weave in and out of the recent past and near future, as lives and relationships ebb and flow with the tide.
From one maritime tragedy to another, the community, and three generations of women from the same family, struggle with their over-close affinity for the sea.
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In the age of Trump and Brexit, every crisis is instantly overridden by the next. The turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century generates anxiety and makes it difficult to know how to react. Olivia Laing makes a brilliant, inspiring case for why art matters more than ever, as a force of both resistance and repair. Art, she argues, changes how we see the world. It gives us X-ray vision. It reveals inequalities and offers fertile new ways...
6) Beth Mead
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The No.1 football series - over 1 million copies sold!
As an energetic six-year-old, Beth Mead was taken to a weekly local football session by her mum. Finding a passion for the game, Beth often found herself as the only girl on the team. Despite being laughed at for this, she let her natural talent do the talking.
At 16, Mead was signed to Sunderland where she made a name for herself as a top goalscorer. Putting off offers from Arsenal until she...
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A warm, funny adventure about sticking up for your friends, and the adventures that can be had along the way
When the McIntyre family moves in next door, Eva is intrigued - it is the first interesting thing to happen for ages. But her ever protective Dad - even more protective since Eva's mum died - does not agree. Eva gets to know Jamie McIntyre a bit better, and when he is accused of vandalising the local park, Eva is sure he didn't do it — but...
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The Fantastic Race is a tale of fast cars, incredible racing and amazing challenges. Two schoolfriends drive across Europe in the car of their dreams. To make it better, no adults allowed. The story takes place in Europe's most famous cities, and shows how intuition, passion and practice go a long way. Fasten your seatbelt and get ready for the ride.
10) Dust Breeding
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The Doctor's diary indicates that Edvard Munch's The Scream is about to be destroyed in 'mysterious circumstances', and when he and Ace arrive on the barren dust world Duchamp 331, those circumstances are well underway...
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George travels to the future in the epic conclusion of the George's Secret Key series from Lucy Hawking.
When George finds a way to escape the spacecraft Artemis, where he has been trapped, he is overjoyed. Surely now he can return to Earth.
But when George touches down, he knows immediately that something is wrong. There's a barren wasteland where his home town used to be, intelligent robots roam the streets, and no one will talk to George about...
12) The Dark Flame
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A thousand years ago, the evil Cult of the Dark Flame infiltrated every star system in the galaxy. But for some the Dark Flame still burns. For some, its horrifying power remains the ultimate goal...
14) Colditz
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October 1944: a Nazi defeat in WW2 seems almost inevitable. Two intruders are captured in Colditz Castle. At first, the guards think they're dealing with British spies. But with the TARDIS in their hands, the Third Reich might triumph after all...
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We've given the planet a hard time over the last couple of centuries, and she's showing the wear and tear of her least considerate offspring.
We asked our authors: Where are the signs of renewal? Are there signs of regrowth? Have we pushed nature too far? What if it's already too late?
Poems and stories from the brink... a tipping point: responding to the floods and droughts and fires all around the globe with tenderness, compassion, fear, grief...
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George and Annie are off on another cosmic adventure inspired by the Mars Expedition in the fifth book of the George's Secret Key series from Stephen and Lucy Hawking.
George and his best friend, Annie, have been selected as junior astronauts for a program that trains young people for a future trip to Mars. This is everything they've ever wanted-and now they get to be a part of up-to-the minute space discoveries and meet a bunch of new friends who...
19) Earth Aid
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Welcome aboard the space vessel Vancouver. Its mission: to guard a vast shipment of grain from Earth to the planet Safenesthome. Its Captain is called Ace. She seems a little unsure of herself. In fact, some might almost think she was new to the job...
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George and Annie are off on another cosmic adventure to figure out why strange things are happening on Earth in the fourth book of the George's Secret Key series from Stephen and Lucy Hawking. George and his best friend Annie haven't had any space adventures for a while and they're missing the excitement. But not for long, because seriously strange things have started happening. Banks are handing out free money, supermarkets aren't able to charge...