Title: Coraline
Genre: Paranormal Thriller - Suspense
Format: Leather Bound Limited Edition Printed at the Request of Neil
(Very, Very, Very Rare)
Postage & Packaging: FREE
Bids Accepted: Global

*Bonus: The book at the moment is unsigned.
Neil will sign and dedicate his book once he knows who the successful bidder for his book is.
He will also be adding a unique drawing of a rat to his signature and dedication *

Website: https://www.neilgaiman.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/neilhimself

The Book;
Coraline is a dark fantasy horror children's novel by British author Neil Gaiman. Gaiman started writing Coraline in 1990, and it was published in 2002 by Bloomsbury and HarperCollins. It was awarded the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella, the 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers. The Guardian ranked Coraline #82 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. It was adapted as a 2009 stop-motion animated film, directed by Henry Selick under the same name.

Plot
Coraline Jones moves into a new apartment with her parents. As a curious and adventurous 9-year-old girl, Coraline quickly becomes bored of her new surroundings even though she has some eccentric neighbors to keep her company.

One rainy day, Coraline becomes interested in a strange door that opens up to a brick wall. Mysteriously, the brick wall vanishes the next day and the door leads to an eerie corridor. When Coraline explores it, she finds that on the other side is a parallel universe that is a mirror image of the one she just left behind. She finds an alternate version of her new home, inhabited by versions of her parents who call themselves her "Other Mother" and "Other Father".

When Coraline returns home from the parallel universe, she finds that her real parents have gone missing. She decides to go back to the parallel universe and look for them. Coraline undertakes several brave adventures in the Other universe as she battles the evil Other Mother. She ends up discovering the incredible strength within herself through these adventures.

The Author:
Neil Gaiman's work has been honoured with many awards internationally, including the Newbery and Carnegie Medals. His books and stories have also been honoured with Hugos, Nebulas, the World Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Awards, Locus Awards, British SF Awards, British Fantasy Awards, Geffens, Mythopoeic Awards, and numerous others. He is a Professor in the Arts at Bard College.

Bumper Bundle!

Title 1: The Lost Girl
Genre: Historical Fiction - Suspense
Format: Audio CD pack - (Narrated by Carol herself)

Title 2: An Act of Love
Genre: Historical Fiction - Suspense - Romance
Format: Paperback

Title 3: The Illustrated Olive Farm
Genre: Travel - Biographical
Format: Hardback Coffee Table Edition

Dedications Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: Global

Website: http://www.caroldrinkwater.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Carol4OliveFarm

Book 1 Blurb: The Lost Girl
Since her teenage daughter went missing four years ago, Kurtiz Ross has blamed and isolated herself. Until, out of the blue, Lizzie is sighted in Paris.

But within hours of her arrival, Kurtiz sees the City of Light plunged into terror.

Amid the fear and chaos, a hand reaches out. A sympathetic stranger offers to help a terrified mother find her daughter.

The other woman's kindness - and her stories of her own love and loss in post-war Provence - shine unexpected light into the shadows.

The night may hold the answers to a mystery - but dare Kurtiz believe it could also bring a miracle?

Book 2 Blurb: An Act of Love
France, 1943.

Forced to flee war ravaged Poland, Sara and her parents are offered refuge in a beautiful but dilapidated house in the French Alps. It seems the perfect hideaway, despite haunting traces of the previous occupants who left in haste.

But shadows soon fall over Sara's blissful summer, and her blossoming romance with local villager Alain. As the Nazis close in, the family is forced to make a harrowing choice that could drive them apart forever, while Sara's own bid for freedom risks several lives . . .

Will her family make it through the summer together?
And can she hold onto the love she has found with Alain?

Book 3 Blurb:
THE OLIVE TRILOGY is the story of the love affair between actress Carol Drinkwater and television producer Michel Noll and a Provencal olive farm, Appassionata, which they fall in love with, buy and with little money and many tribulations restore with the aim of producing the finest olive oil.

In this book Carol and Michel have documented their life on the olive farm: the highs and lows of harvesting and pressing, the constant concern about water, the adoption of animals, and the anxious search for ways to diversify. Local food and wine, customs, markets and fairs, friends and characterful neighbours, the whole Provencal way of life, are richly recounted and illustrated.

Author Bio:
Anglo-Irish actress Carol Drinkwater is perhaps still most familiar to audiences for her award-winning portrayal of Helen Herriot in the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small. A popular and acclaimed author and film-maker as well, Carol has published nineteen books, and one Kindle Single, for both the adult and young adult markets. She is currently at work on her twenty-first title.

When she purchased a rundown property overlooking the Bay of Cannes in France, she discovered on the grounds sixty-eight, 400-year-old olive trees. Once the land was reclaimed and the olives pressed, Carol along with her French husband, Michel, became the producers of top-quality olive oil. Her series of memoirs, love stories, recounting her experiences on her farm (The Olive Farm, The Olive Season, The Olive Harvest and Return to the Olive Farm) have become international bestsellers. Carol's fascination with the olive tree extended to a seventeenth-month, solo Mediterranean journey in search of the tree's mythical secrets. The resulting travel books, The Olive Route and The Olive Tree, have inspired a five-part documentary films series entitled The Olive Route.

Carol has also been invited to work with UNESCO to help fund an Olive Heritage Trail around the Mediterranean with the dual goals of creating peace in the region and honouring the ancient heritage of the olive tree.
Carol has recently become an ambassador for Children in Read.

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*45 Minute Astrology and Tarot Zoom Reading.
*A birthday greeting for you on The Astrology Show Podcast for your special week.
*A birthday mention in Jessica Adams' Daily Horoscope at jessicaadams.com, the website seen by 2 million people every year.
*A dedicated bottle of champagne from Fortnum & Mason.
*A written lifetime horoscope
*Your choice of a signed astrology book: Astrology for Women (HarperCollins), Handbag Horoscope (Penguin) or Modern Astrology 2050.

Title: Modern Astrology 2050
Genre: Non-Fiction, Astrology
Format: Signed, numbered, Limited-Edition Hardback Copy of the Bestselling Ebook
Includes 45 Minute Zoom Astrology and Tarot Reading With Jessica Adams
Postage included worldwide (covered by author)

Website: https://www.jessicaadams.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessicacadams

The Book:
Modern Astrology 2050 is the follow-up to the number one Amazon bestseller, 2020 Astrology. This new book for the rest of your life, covers your personality and future, based on your unique birth horoscope.
Suitable for family and friends and perfect as a gift.

Find out more about compatibility and chemistry with friends, partners or family. Explore what life until 2050 holds for all of us. Learn the truth about modern astrology discoveries like Salacia and the asteroids.

Modern Astrology 2050 is for every fan of jessicaadams.com which attracts 29 million hits, or page views a year.

The Author:
Jessica Adams is the author of Essential Astrology for Women (Harper Collins) and Handbag Horoscopes (Penquin).
Her astrology appears around the world in Vogue, Marie Claire. The Express, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and on ITV This Morning, also Channel 10 Studio Ten,
In 2023 Jessica launches The Leo Moon Mysteries with Rachel Wells on Audible UK,
Her Latest book, launched in November 2022, is Modern Astrology 2050

Author Photograph Credit: Tess Adams
Cover Photograph: James Williams

RACHEL WELLS with JESSICA ADAMS - from bestselling author Rachel Wells we have a signed copy of one of her ALFIE books plus other cat goodies but the most amazing thing is we can offer a unique PAWREADING for your cat! Paw reading gives an insight into your cats’ character and famous international astrologer Jessica Adams (as seen on TV’s This Morning) will do a zoom reading along with Rachel for you! This is not available anywhere else, it’s exclusively available for this auction!

Title: A FRIEND CALLED ALFIE
Genre: Children
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: https://rachelwells.co
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FaithBleasdale

Website: https://www.jessicaadams.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessicacadams

Book Blurb:
The Sunday Times bestseller returns for a sixth book! Alfie and his mischievous kitten George are back for more adventures – this time with a puppy in tow…

At Christmas time we all need a friend…

Alfie and his kitten, George, have always known that a human is for life and not just for Christmas. So when George learns that one of the residents of Edgar Road has been taken into hospital, he realises it’s up to him to provide some comfort at this difficult time of year.

The only problem is that they now have a little puppy in tow – Pickles the Pug, who is convinced he can be a cat if only he sticks with his new found friends.

As George tries to do everything he can to make the world – and its humans – happier, Alfie struggles to keep Pickles in check and out of trouble. Because even the best laid plans can be destroyed by a well-meaning – but mischievous – little puppy…

Join Alfie, George – and now Pickles – as they come to the rescue of some lonely souls. The perfect read for fans of James Bowen from the Sunday Times bestseller.

Author Bio:
Rachel Wells is a mother, writer and cat lover who lives in North Devon with her son, Xavier and her cat Lady A. She grew up in Devon but lived in London for a number of years, working in Marketing and living in a tiny flat with an elderly rescued cat, who she called Albert.

After having a child she moved back home and is currently juggling writing full time and being a single mum.

She has always had cats as pets, ever since she was a young child, and she has always loved writing. Delighted to have been able to combine her two main passions, ALFIE THE DOORSTEP CAT was her first cat novel. She has continued with A CAT CALLED ALFIE, ALFIE & GEORGE, ALFIE THE HOLIDAY CAT, ALFIE IN THE SNOW, A FRIEND CALLED ALFIE and ALFIE THE CHRISTMAS CAT. Delighted to be able to continue to bring Alfie’s adventures to life, Alfie has become a part of the family. She has also written two books for children about Alfie; ALFIE – CAT IN TROUBLE and ALFIE – FAR FROM HOME.

Astrologer Bio:
Jessica Adams is the author of Essential Astrology for Women (Harper Collins) and Handbag Horoscopes (Penquin).
Her astrology appears around the world in Vogue, Marie Claire. The Express, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and on ITV This Morning, also Channel 10 Studio Ten,
In 2023 Jessica launches The Leo Moon Mysteries with Rachel Wells on Audible UK,
Her Latest book, launched in November 2022, is Modern Astrology 2050

Title: Cook. Eat, Repeat
Genre: Food & Drink
Format: Hardback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: FREE
Bids Accepted: Global

Website: https://www.nigella.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nigella_Lawson

The Book:
COOK EAT REPEAT is a delicious and delightful combination of recipes intertwined with narrative essays about food, all written in Nigella’s engaging and insightful prose. Whether talking about the evolution and meaning of the recipe in 'What is a Recipe?' – 'a recipe, much like a novel, is a living collaboration between writer and reader. And in both cases, it is the reader who keeps it alive' – or exploring the heinous notion of the guilty pleasure in 'Death to the Guilty Pleasure', Nigella is by turns characteristically informative, intelligent, thought-provoking and amusing.

'The recipes I write come from my life, my home', says Nigella, and in this book Nigella shares the rhythms and rituals of her kitchen through over fifty new recipes that make the most of her favourite ingredients. Dedicated chapters include 'A is for Anchovy' (a celebration of the bacon of the sea), 'Beetroot and Me', 'A Vegan Feast', a shout out for 'Brown Food', a very relatable 'How To Invite People for Dinner Without Hating Them (or Yourself)', plus new ideas for Christmas. Within these chapters are recipes for all seasons and tastes: Burnt Onion and Aubergine Dip; Butternut with Chilli, Ginger and Beetroot Yoghurt Sauce; Brown Butter Colcannon; Spaghetti with Chard and Anchovies; Beef Cheeks with Port and Chestnuts; Oxtail Bourguignon; and Wide Noodles with Lamb in Aromatic Broth, to name a few. Those with a sweet tooth will delight in Rhubarb and Custard Trifle; Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake; Rice Pudding Cake; and Cherry and Almond Crumble.

The Author:
Nigella Lawson is an English broadcaster, journalist television personality and food writer. She began work as a book reviewer and restaurant critic, and then embarked upon a career as a freelance journalist, writing for a number of newspapers and magazines. Her first cook book ‘How to Eat’ sold 300,000 copies and became a best-seller while her second book, ‘How to be a Domestic Goddess’, won her the British Book Award for Author of the Year. She hosted her own cooking show series, Nigella Bites, on Channel 4, accompanied by another best-selling cook book ‘Nigella Bites’. She hosted the Food Network's ‘Nigella Feasts’ in the United States, followed by a three-part BBC Two series, Nigella's Christmas Kitchen, in the UK, which led to the commissioning of Nigella Express on BBC Two.
Her book Cook, Eat, Repeat, was made into a massively popular 7 part T.V. Series for B.B.C Television, and can still be binged watched on B.B.C. I-Player.

Her dishes are known for their simplicity and do not require an elaborate preparation. Her warm and honest demeanour as well as her stunning beauty enables her to engage both male and female viewers. Described as the sexiest television chef ever to grace an apron, she continues to inspire men and women to cook.

Title: Let's Eat Meat
Genre: Food and Drink
Format: Hardback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: FREE
Bids Accepted: Global

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomparkerbowles

The Book: Let's Eat Meat
Eat meat, but eat less and eat better – that, if any, is this book’s philosophy. That's not to say we should stint on great hunks of beef, cut paper-thin and served with glistening gravy, charred steaks, or golden deep-fried chicken. Nor should we forgo slow-cooked lamb, roast Chinese duck, Keralan pork curry or rich jambalayas, cassoulets and daubes – you’ll find recipes for all of these here. But read on and things get a little less carnivorous.

In the Less Meat chapter, meat shares the limelight with other ingredients, and in Meat as Seasoning, scraps of beef, lamb, pork and chicken are eked out to give depth to a range of dishes. There are 120 recipes in total, ranging from meat feasts such as roast beef through to game stock and everything in between.

Let's Eat Meat shows us how to enjoy meat, whether it is a prime cut or a scrap of meat used in a way that is thrifty but never mean. With an eye on welfare, it encourages us to spend money on eating less but better meat. But this is no revolution: here are recipes for dishes rooted in cultures where meat is a luxury, and so delicious you will return to cook them again and again.

The Author:
From 1997 until 2000, Parker Bowles was a junior publicist for Dennis Davidson Associates public relations firm. In 2001, he was one of the founders of the Quintessentially Group, a high end concierge service, which his cousin Ben Elliot co-founded and the same year became Tatler's food columnist.

From 2002 to date he has been a food writer, critic and broadcaster. He is a restaurant critic of The Mail on Sunday and food editor of Esquire. He is also a contributing editor to Conde Nast Traveller (UK and US), and Departures (US), as well as a regular contributor to Country Life, Harpers Bazaar and Town and Country. He was a contributor to Gordon Ramsay's The F Word.

From 2007 to 2010 he co-presented Market Kitchen on Good Food Channel, alongside Matthew Fort and Matt Tebbutt, and presented LBC Radio's Food and Drink Programme for a year. He was a judge on the ITV Food series Food Glorious Food and Channel nine Australian cooking series The Hot Plate. In 2017, he was judge, alongside Matt Moran and Anna Polyviou on Series 1 of Family Food Fight (Channel nine Australia) and filmed series two of Family Food Fight, which was broadcast in late 2018. He is also one of the regular critics on MasterChef (BBC 1). In 2014, Parker Bowles was named as one of the Top 10 most followed UK restaurant critics on Twitter.
Tom is the son of Queen Camilla , and Andrew Parker Bowles.
His stepfather and godfather is King Charles III.
He has one younger sister, Laura Lopes.

Title 1: A Most Intriguing Lady
Genre: Historical Fiction - Romance
Format: Hardback

Title 2: Her Heart for a Compass
Genre: Historical Fiction - Romance
Format: Paperback

Dedications Available: NO
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Added Bonus: Signed Children in Read Poster

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SarahTheDuchess

Book 1 Blurb::
Wallflower Lady Mary Montagu Douglas Scott has a secret. Moving effortlessly unnoticed amongst the ballrooms and palaces of Queen Victoria, her sharp intelligence and keen powers of observation allow her to quietly solve society crimes – coming to the rescue of those whose pride and fortune is at stake.

Overlooked and underestimated, Mary finds missing money, recovers stolen jewellery and saves reputations. When she meets Colonel Walter Trefusis, an unlikely and spirited alliance is formed. But Mary has more than met her match in her sleuthing partner. As she battles the expectations of society and her family, Mary must follow her heart – whatever the cost…

Book 2 Blurb:
From one of the most famous former members of the British royal family, Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York —a mesmerizing novel of a young noblewoman’s coming-of-age that richly details both high society and low in Victorian England.

Queen Victoria’s close friend, the Scottish Duke of Buccleuch, Lady Margaret Montagu Scott is expected to make an advantageous marriage. But Margaret is an impulsive and outspoken girl in a repressive society where women are, quite literally, caged in corsets and required to conform.

When Lady Margaret’s parents arrange a society marriage for her, she tries to reconcile herself to the match. But shortly before her betrothal is announced, Margaret flees, leaving her parents to explain her sudden absence to an opulent ballroom stuffed with two hundred distinguished guests.

Banished from polite society, Margaret throws herself into charitable work and finds strength in a circle of female friends like herself—women intent on breaking the mold, including Queen Victoria’s daughter Princess Louise. Margaret resolves to follow her heart—a journey of self-discovery that will take her to Ireland, America, and then back to Britain where she finds the life she was always meant to lead.

A bold and thoughtful story about a rebellious woman finding herself and her voice in an age of astounding technological change and great social unrest, Her Heart for a Compass is a delicious costume drama rich in atmosphere, and colour.

Author Bio::
Sarah, Duchess of York, is a British writer, charity patron, public speaker, film producer and television personality. She is the former wife of Prince Andrew, Duke of York. Sarah has two daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie of York.

250 copies of this first edition of The Decorations were printed letterpress from hand set Joanna types on dampened Johannot, a French mouldmade paper, by Chad Oness at his Sutton Hoo Press in Stockton, Minnesota for Alpenhouse Apparitions, a new imprint co-edited with James Boyd White and dedicated primarily to publishing the best supernatural & other genre fiction in hand made fine press editions. Each copy is signed by both the author and the artist, and numbered at the press.

The Decorations features 11 original engravings by Ladislav Hanka.

Title: The Decorations
Genre: Supernatural
Format: Hardback (First Edition)
Dedication Available: YES (Ramsey will happily add a dedication)
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: Global

Website: https://knibbworld.com/campbell

Website: http://suttonhoopress.com/Alpenhouse/Titles.html

Website: https://ladislavhanka.com/Ladislav_Hanka_Etchings

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ramseycampbell1

Book Blurb:
Octavo, eleven engravings by Ladislav Hanka, black cloth with three quarter marble board front, fore and bottom edge uncut. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Campbell and artist Ladislav Hanka. A short ghost story specifically written for this publisher. David, a young boy, tries to navigate family tensions during a visit to his grandparents for the Christmas holidays. David's mother has recently been abandoned by her husband, and David's grandmother, who is struggling with dementia, obsesses over a plastic Santa Claus decoration coming loose from the roof of her house. The narrative slowly builds to a terrifying, ambiguous climax. THE DECORATIONS was later selected as the lead story by editor Stephen Jones for The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (2006). A fine copy. A lovely example of hand letter pressed book in a fine binding.

Author Bio:
Ramsey Campbell has been writing for well over fifty years. Two of his novels have been filmed, both for non-English-speaking markets.

Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", and Robert Hadji has described him as "perhaps the finest living exponent of the British weird fiction tradition", while S. T. Joshi stated, "future generations will regard him as the leading horror writer of our generation, every bit the equal of Lovecraft or Blackwood."

Illustrator:
Ladislav Hanka currently resides in Kalamazoo, MI. He was born in 1952 in an ethnic enclave of Cedar Rapids, Iowa as the son of recent exiles of Stalinist Czechoslovakia. He describes himself as a printmaker, draftsman and book artist. Ladislav has a long standing interest in the natural world and he received a BA in Biology and Liberal Arts and an MS in Zoology. In 1979 Ladislav had a private apprenticeship with Jindra Schmidt, a master engraver of Stamps and Currency in Prague. This pivotal experience was followed by an MFA in printmaking from Western Michigan University in 1981.

Ladislav has exhibited nationally and internationally. His work appears in over 60 public collections including but not limited to: the National Park Service - Isle Royale National Park Headquarters, the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard, The New York Public Library, the Library of Congress in Washington DC, The National Museum in Prague.

Title: Stop Them Dead
Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Hardback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: https://www.peterjames.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/peterjamesuk

Book Blurb:
Discover the darkness that lurks around every corner in the latest instalment of the award-winning Grace series, now a major ITV series.

A ruthless crime. A race against time.

When a young farmer confronts intruders in the middle of the night he has no idea that just minutes later he will be left dying in a pool of blood. What’s more chilling is what the perpetrators were willing to kill for.

At the scene of the crime, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace soon realises this is no isolated robbery gone wrong but the tip of the iceberg of a nationwide crime wave, in which ruthless organised gangs are making more money from the illegal trade in dogs than drugs. A trade which pits him against some ruthless people who will kill anyone who gets in their way, because where there is greed, there is murder.

Author Bio:
Peter James is a UK No.1 bestselling author, best known for his Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series, now a hit ITV drama starring John Simm as the troubled Brighton copper.

Much loved by crime and thriller fans for his fast-paced page-turners full of unexpected plot twists, sinister characters, and accurate portrayal of modern day policing, he has won over 40 awards for his work including the WHSmith Best Crime Author of All Time Award and Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Dagger.

To date, Peter has written an impressive total of 19 Sunday Times No. 1s, sold over 21 million copies worldwide and been translated into 38 languages. His books are also often adapted for the stage

Title: Broken Light
Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Hardback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: http://www.joanne-harris.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Joannechocolat

Book Blurb:
Bernie Ingram is forty-nine, menopausal, lonely. Married since the age of eighteen, with no close friends and few family ties, she feels as if the past thirty years of her life have been sacrificed to others: to her husband, Martin, who still carries a torch for a one-night stand at University; to her son, Dante, whose affection seems largely directed towards his maternal grandmother; to her boss, Salena, who runs a struggling bookshop in London’s East Finchley. Bernie’s own ambitions and dreams have been forgotten by everyone – including Bernie herself, who feels herself growing less visible, less surprising, less lovable, with every passing day. Until the murder of a woman in a local park unlocks a series of childhood memories, and with them, a power that she has suppressed for all her adult life.

Author Bio:
Joanne Harris (OBE, FRSL) was born in Barnsley in 1964, of a French mother and an English father. She studied Modern and Mediaeval Languages at Cambridge and was a teacher for fifteen years, during which time she published three novels, including Chocolat (1999), which was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche .

Since then, she has written 19 more novels, plus novellas, short stories, game scripts, the libretti for two short operas, several screenplays, a stage musical (with Howard Goodall) and three cookbooks. Her books are now published in over 50 countries and have won a number of British and international awards. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, has honorary doctorates in literature from the universities of Sheffield and Huddersfield, and has been a judge for the Whitbread Prize, the Orange Prize, the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Betty Trask Award, the Prima Donna Prize and the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science, as well as for the Fragrance Foundation awards for perfume and perfume journalism (for which she also received an award in 2017). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.

She is a passionate advocate for authors’ rights, and is currently the Chair of the Society of Authors (SOA), and member of the Board of the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS).

Her hobbies are listed in Who’s Who as: “mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet subversion of the system”, although she also enjoys obfuscation, sleaze, rebellion, witchcraft, armed robbery, tea and biscuits. She is not above bribery and would not necessarily refuse an offer involving perfume, diamonds, foreign travel or pink champagne. She works from a shed in her garden, plays in the band she first joined when she was 16, and lives with her husband in a little wood in Yorkshire.

Title: The Happiest Ever After
Genre: Rom Com
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids: UK Only

Website: https://millyjohnson.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/millyjohnson

Book Blurb:
What if you could write your own perfect storyline…?

Polly Potter is surviving, not thriving. She used to love her job – until her mentor died and her new boss decided to make her life hell. She used to love her partner Chris – until he cheated on her, and now she can’t forget. The only place where her life is working is on the pages of the novel she is writing – there she can create a feistier, bolder, more successful version of herself – as the ­fictional Sabrina Anderson.

But what if it was possible to start over again? To leave everything behind, forget all that went before, and live the life you’d always dreamed of?

After a set of unforeseen circumstances, Polly ends up believing she really IS Sabrina, living at the heart of a noisy Italian family restaurant by the sea. Run by Teddy, the son of her new landlady Marielle, it’s a much-loved place, facing threat of closure as a rival restaurant moves in next door. Sabrina can’t remember her life as Polly, but she knows she is living a different life from the one she used to have.

But what if this new life could belong to her after all?

Author Bio:
Milly Johnson was born, raised and still lives in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. She is the author of 20 novels, 4 short story ebooks, a book of poetry and a Quick Reads Novella ('The Little Dreams of Lara Cliffe') and was an erstwhile leading copywriter for the greetings card industry. She is also a poem and joke-writer, a newspaper columnist and a seasoned after dinner speaker.

She won the RoNA for Best Romantic Comedy Novel of 2014 and 2016, the Yorkshire Society award for Arts and Culture 2015, the Romantic Novelist Association Outstanding Achievement award in 2020, the Goldsboro Books Contemporary Romantic Novel Award in 2021 and the Richard Whiteley Award for Inspiration to the County of Yorkshire in 2022.

She writes about love, life, friendships and the importance of community spirit. Her books champion women, their strength and resilience and celebrate her beloved Yorkshire.

Her 20th novel 'Together, Again' was published in paperback on 2nd March 2023 and is about three estranged sisters convening after the death of their mother in order to arrange her funeral. Freed from the shadow of the overbearing Eleanor Vamplew, the three women come to realise that they have more in common than they could ever have realised.

Title: I Wish it Could be Christmas Every Day
Genre: Contemporary Fiction - Christmas
Format: Hardback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

*Bonus: A 'Milly Parcel'
Quote from Milly:
I will be adding a Milly Parcel with a hardback of my Christmas book ‘I Wish it Could be Christmas Every Day’. With a Yorkshire mug, a Yorkshire candle, a Yorkshire tea-towel, a Yorkshire passport notepad, Yorkshire tea, some coffee, some whipped soap and a lucky black cat. There will also be some little surprises to make it a treat. Obvs chocolate will be added in!

Website: https://millyjohnson.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/millyjohnson

Book Blurb:
*** A FESTIVE TREAT FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ***
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It’s nearly Christmas and it’s snowing, hard. Deep in the Yorkshire Moors nestles a tiny hamlet, with a pub at its heart. As the snow falls, the inn will become an unexpected haven for six people forced to seek shelter there…

Mary has been trying to get her boss Jack to notice her for four years, but he can only see the efficient PA she is at work. Will being holed up with him finally give her the chance she has been waiting for?

Bridge and Luke were meeting for five minutes to set their divorce in motion. But will getting trapped with each other reignite too many fond memories – and love?

Charlie and Robin were on their way to a luxury hotel in Scotland for a very special Christmas. But will the inn give them everything they were hoping to find – and much more besides?

A story of knowing when to hold on and when to let go, of pushing limits and acceptance, of friendship, love, laughter, mince pies and the magic of Christmas.

Gorgeous, warm and full of heartfelt emotion, I Wish it Could be Christmas Every Day is the perfect read this winter!

Author Bio:
Milly Johnson was born, raised and still lives in Barnsley, South Yorkshire. She is the author of 20 novels, 4 short story ebooks, a book of poetry and a Quick Reads Novella ('The Little Dreams of Lara Cliffe') and was an erstwhile leading copywriter for the greetings card industry. She is also a poem and joke-writer, a newspaper columnist and a seasoned after dinner speaker.

She won the RoNA for Best Romantic Comedy Novel of 2014 and 2016, the Yorkshire Society award for Arts and Culture 2015, the Romantic Novelist Association Outstanding Achievement award in 2020, the Goldsboro Books Contemporary Romantic Novel Award in 2021 and the Richard Whiteley Award for Inspiration to the County of Yorkshire in 2022.

She writes about love, life, friendships and the importance of community spirit. Her books champion women, their strength and resilience and celebrate her beloved Yorkshire.

Her 20th novel 'Together, Again' was published in paperback on 2nd March 2023 and is about three estranged sisters convening after the death of their mother in order to arrange her funeral. Freed from the shadow of the overbearing Eleanor Vamplew, the three women come to realise that they have more in common than they could ever have realised.

The Wedding Dress Repair Shop lot includes
A signed copy of the hardback
A rare uncorrected proof,
A custom one off embroidered book bag,
Embroidered Museum of Bridal Misfortune plush,
Embroidered keyring,
Mug,
Bookmarks & other little gifts, all made by Trisha's costumier son Robin.

Title: The Wedding Dress Repair Shop
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Format: Hardback & Unedited Proof
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/237180/trisha-ashley
Twitter: https://twitter.com/trishaashley

Website: https://www.kisbetbespoke.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kerravondarrow

Book Blurb:
Can her heart be mended too?

After losing her fiancé and her dream job in the same week, Garland Fairford's life is turned upside down.

Having recently met a long-lost relative - Honey Fairford - through her work as a historical costumier, Garland is intrigued when Honey reveals she is opening a Wedding Dress museum in Lancashire. With nothing to lose, Garland accepts the offer of a job there.

What she doesn't expect is to come face-to-face with a ghost from her past - her old friend, Thom, who mysteriously disappeared years ago.

As Garland begins reading the stories behind each of the beautiful wedding dresses, and sets about repairing both them and her relationship with Thom, could this finally be the chance for her own happy-ever-after?

Author Bio:
Trisha Ashley has written nineteen romantic comedies and her latest novel, The Garden of Forgotten Wishes, which is published by Transworld, is a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. Her novels have twice been shortlisted for the Melissa Nathan award for Romantic Comedy and Every Woman for Herself was nominated by magazine readers as one of the top three romantic novels of the last fifty years.

She is from St Helens in West Lancashire, and believes that her typically dark Lancashire sense of humour in adversity, crossed with a good dose of Celtic creativity from her Welsh grandmother, has made her what she is today...whatever that is. Several of her novels are set in rural West Lancashire, West Yorkshire and Wales. They frequently explore aspects of the three F's that are a constant in her own life: Food, Flowers and Friendship and include delicious recipes at the back.

Nowadays she lives in North Wales

The Magic of Christmas lot includes
A signed copy of the new edition of the book,
A custom one off embroidered Christmas stocking,
Embroidered keyring,
Mug,
Bookmarks and other little gifts, all made by Trisha's costumier son Robin.

Title: The Magic of Christmas
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/237180/trisha-ashley
Twitter: https://twitter.com/trishaashley

Website: https://www.kisbetbespoke.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kerravondarrow

Book Blurb:
A deliciously seasonal and heart-warming tale from the Sunday Times bestseller
In the pretty Lancashire village of Middlemoss, Lizzy is on the verge of leaving her cheating husband, Tom, when tragedy strikes. Luckily she has welcome distraction in the Christmas Pudding Circle, a group of friends swapping seasonal recipes – as well as a rivalry with local cookery writer Nick over who will win Best Mince Pie at the village show…

Meanwhile, the whole village is gearing up for the annual Boxing Day Mystery Play. But who will play Adam to Lizzy’s Eve? Could it be the handsome and charismatic soap actor Ritch, or could someone closer to home win her heart? Whatever happens, it promises to be a Christmas to remember!

Previously published as Sweet Nothings, but now with fabulous new extra material.

Author Bio:
Trisha Ashley has written nineteen romantic comedies and her latest novel, The Garden of Forgotten Wishes, which is published by Transworld, is a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. Her novels have twice been shortlisted for the Melissa Nathan award for Romantic Comedy and Every Woman for Herself was nominated by magazine readers as one of the top three romantic novels of the last fifty years.

She is from St Helens in West Lancashire, and believes that her typically dark Lancashire sense of humour in adversity, crossed with a good dose of Celtic creativity from her Welsh grandmother, has made her what she is today...whatever that is. Several of her novels are set in rural West Lancashire, West Yorkshire and Wales. They frequently explore aspects of the three F's that are a constant in her own life: Food, Flowers and Friendship and include delicious recipes at the back.

Nowadays she lives in North Wales

Title: Cielo
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: Global

Twitter: https://twitter.com/markland_jane

Book Blurb:
Who do you trust when you can't trust yourself?

Following his release from Prison, Nathan arrives at Cielo determined to change his life for the better.

After prison, and beating addiction, he has a vision, and he’s discovered a talent, a gift with plants.

Max Harrison wants him to create a special garden, The White Terrace, full of scent and white petals, Max wants to die there, his addiction to vodka and grief consuming everything.

Slowly Nathan begins to falls under his spell, Max is full of insight, kindness. His affinity to music,and playing Rachmaninov on the piano reduce Nathan to tears of joy.

Only underneath the surface, and the seductive surroundings of Cielo, Nathan discovers the other gardeners disappeared.

Never to be heard of again.

As he begins to uncover disturbing clues, Nathan must ask himself, just who is Max Harrison?

Can he trust him?
Can he love him?

Author Bio:
Jane started writing at school, where one English teacher told her she'd one day write a novel. It's only taken most of her life to achieve this. Cielo was formed as a spark of an idea one sunny afternoon while Jane rode her bike past a country house in North Norfolk. She wondered, just who could live there? Then came Nathan, and Max.

Jane is a medical secretary at her local hospital, she has two children and two granddaughters. Her other interests are nature, football, gardening and reading. Jane can always be found with her head in a book, her nose inside a rose, or with her family. She lives in Norwich, Norfolk, her home city.

Title: The Cassandra Complex
Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Science Fiction
Format: Hardback
Dedication is Available
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: https://www.hollysmale.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/HolSmale

Book Blurb::
The sparkling debut adult novel from the author of the much-loved Geek Girl series finds a woman unlucky in both love and career suddenly blessed with the ability to travel back in time.

Cassandra Penelope Dankworth has always had more than her name to contend with. But today is a new low...

This morning, Cassie's boyfriend breaks up with her. By lunchtime, she is fired from her PR job for not being a 'People Person'. This evening, her ex turns up as if nothing happened and Cassie is too relieved to ask questions. She's just glad her longest ever romantic relationship (4 months) is back on track.

Tomorrow, Cassie finds herself being dumped again. By lunchtime, she's being fired. When Cassie realises she is gifted - or perhaps cursed - with the power to travel back in time, she has a chance to do things differently. But will things keep going wrong for her when she has infinite chances to get them right?

Author Bio:
Holly Smale has been writing stories since she was four years old: constructing her own books from cereal boxes and a lot of sticky-tape, then forcing family readers to give her glowing reviews by standing in front of the television.

Her path to publication included teen-modelling, factory-work, PR, teaching in Japan and a chaotic stint as the world's worst waitress, along with a BA in English Literature and an MA in Shakespeare from Bristol University. She uses neither of these qualifications on a daily basis, but still brings them up at parties.

Her debut children's novel, GEEK GIRL, became the No.1 Young Adult title in the UK and won the Waterstones YA Book Prize, selling 3.4 million books in 30 languages. It is currently in development with Netflix.

At the age of 39, Holly was diagnosed as both autistic and dyspraxic. She writes and speaks passionately about neurodiversity and a lot of random topics she's not really qualified to talk about yet does anyway.

Her debut adult novel, THE CASSANDRA COMPLEX (UK)/ CASSANDRA IN REVERSE (US) will be published in Spring/Summer '23 and has already been picked as a BBC Radio2 Book Club selection.
She lives in Hove, England.

Title: Blood, Fire & Gold
Genre: History - Biography
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available:
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: https://www.estelleparanque.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrEstellePrnq

Book Blurb:
In sixteenth-century Europe, two women came to hold all the power, against all the odds. They were Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici.

One a Virgin Queen who ruled her kingdom alone, and the other a clandestine leader who used her children to shape the dynasties of Europe, much has been written about these iconic women. But nothing has been said of their complicated relationship: thirty years of friendship, competition and conflict that changed the face of Europe.

This is a story of two remarkable visionaries: a story of blood, fire and gold. It is also a tale of ceaseless calculation, of love and rivalry, of war and wisdom - and of female power in a male world. Shining new light on their legendary kingdoms Blood, Fire and Gold provides a new way of looking at two of history's most powerful women, and how they shaped each other as profoundly as they shaped the course of history. Drawing on their letters and brand new research, Estelle Paranque writes an entirely new chapter in the well-worn story of the sixteenth century.

Author Bio:
Estelle is a historian and an Assistant Professor in History. She is the author and editor of five books. Her latest book, Blood, Fire, and Gold has been named "Best History Books of 2022" in History Today, "10 Best History Books of 2022" Smithsonian Magazine, Amazon's Editor Pick for "Best History Books of the Month" (December), Best Books Summer 2022 (The Times), Book of The Week (18 June 2022, The Times).

She completed her PhD in Early Modern History at University College London in 2016. She turned her PhD into a monograph that was published in November 2018 by Palgrave Macmillan Elizabeth I of England Through Valois Eyes: Power, Representation, and Diplomacy in the Reign of the Queen, 1558-1588.

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and she is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in January 2019. She is also a co-convenor of the Tudor and Stuart Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research in London. She has been teaching at university level for the last twelve years and is dedicated to share her passion for history with the next generation. Her research interests are royal, diplomatic, women studies.

She is also very interested in public engagement and has participated in BBC 2 / PBS The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family and Secrets d'Histoire on France 2, BBC Radio 4, and numerous podcasts (BBC History, Viral History, Not Just The Tudors, HistoryHit).

Title 1: The Only Suspect
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Format: Hardback

Title 1: Our House
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Format: Paperback

Dedications Available: NO
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Twitter: https://twitter.com/louise_candlish

Book 1 Blurb:
Wrong time. Wrong place. Wrong man.

Alex lives a comfortable life with his wife Beth in the leafy suburb of Silver Vale. Fine, so he’s not the most sociable guy on the street, he prefers to keep himself to himself, but he’s a good husband and an easy-going neighbour.

That’s until Beth announces the creation of a nature trail on a local site that’s been disused for decades and suddenly Alex is a changed man. Now he’s always watching. Questioning. Struggling to hide his dread . . .

As the landscapers get to work, a secret threatens to surface from years ago, back in Alex’s twenties when he got entangled with a seductive young woman called Marina, who threw both their lives into turmoil.

And who sparked a police hunt for a murder suspect that was never quite what it seemed. It still isn’t.

No one else could have done it. Could they?

Book 2 Blurb:
Nothing strange about that. Except it is your house. And you didn’t sell it.

When Fiona Lawson comes home to find strangers moving into her house, she's sure there's been a mistake. She and her estranged husband, Bram, have a modern co-parenting arrangement: bird's nest custody, where each parent spends a few nights a week with their two sons at the prized family home to maintain stability for their children. But the system built to protect their family ends up putting them in terrible jeopardy. In a domino effect of crimes and misdemeanors, the nest comes tumbling down.

Now Bram has disappeared and so have Fiona's children. As events spiral well beyond her control, Fiona will discover just how many lies her husband was weaving and how little they truly knew each other. But Bram's not the only one with things to hide, and some secrets are best kept to oneself, safe as houses.

Author Bio:

Title: Seven Summers
Genre: Contemporary - Love Story Commercial Fiction
Format: Paperback (Rare Editor's Proof)
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: FREE
Bids Accepted: Global

Website: https://www.paigetoon.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PaigeToonAuthor

The Book;
Six summers ago

Liv and Finn meet working in a bar on the rugged Cornish coastline, their futures full of promise. When a night of passion ends in devastating tragedy they are bound together inextricably. But Finn's life is in LA with his band, and Liv's is in Cornwall with her family - so they make a promise. Finn will return every year, and if they are single they will spend the summer together.

This summer

Liv crosses paths with Tom - a mysterious new arrival in her hometown. As the wildflowers and heather come into bloom, they find themselves falling for one another. For the first time Liv can imagine a world where her heart isn't broken every year.

Now Liv must make an impossible choice. And when she discovers the shocking reason that Tom has left home, she'll need to trust her heart even more . . .

The Author:
Paige Toon grew up between England, Australia and America and has been writing books set in sun-drenched locations around the world since 2007. She has written eighteen women's fiction novels, a three-part spin-off series for young adults and a collection of short stories. Her novels have sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide.

Title: Over Sharing
Genre: Contemporary Fiction - Humour
Format: Hardback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: Global

Website: http://janefallonauthor.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaneFallon

Book Blurb:
Can you live a lie without spilling the truth? . . .

Once, Iris was happy. She had the home, the husband, the promise of a family. Now she's divorced and renting out her spare room to make ends meet. Life could be worse. But could have been better - if it hadn't been for Maddy: the woman who ruined her life . . .

Social influencer Maddy's brand is happy families. She preaches about loyalty and the sanctity of marriage, and is quickly becoming famous for her wholesome videos of life with her husband and adorable twin girls.

Iris doesn't believe a word of it. And she's going to prove it's all false.

Because if there's one thing that will bring back Iris's happiness, it's taking away Maddy's . . .

Jane Fallon's whip-smart new novel explores the murky truths behind the versions of ourselves we project online, the lengths we go to when we feel we've been wronged, and the often unlikely places we find true friendship.

Author Bio:
I was born in Harrow in North London and later moved out to Buckinghamshire where I attended St Bernard's Convent School in Slough before moving back up to London to read history at University College.

My first real job was working as a 'Girl Friday' in a small Theatrical and Literary Agency - (the same job that Rebecca has in 'Foursome'). As soon as I walked through the door I fell in love with the idea of working in drama in some capacity.

After three years I left to pursue a career in TV, starting as a freelance script reader and then working as a script editor on various shows including EastEnders where I was made a producer in 1994. The following year I started work producing a new low budget show for BBC2 - 'This Life'.

3 Book Special

Title 1: Kay's Anatomy
Title 2: Kay's Marvellous Medicine
Title 3: Kay's Brilliant Brains

Genre: Children - Comedy - Biological Sciences Teaching Aids
Format: Paperbacks
Dedications Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK ONLY

Website: https://www.adamkay.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amateuradam

Book 1 Blurb:
THE RECORD-BREAKING NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER FROM THE UK'S BESTSELLING NON-FICTION AUTHOR.

Discover all the weird and wonderful things that go on inside your body with Adam Kay. Covers key stage 2 / 3 human biology syllabus (in a slightly repulsive way).

Do you ever think about your body and how it all works? Like really properly think about it? The human body is extraordinary and fascinating and, well . . . pretty weird. Yours is weird, mine is weird, your maths teacher's is even weirder.

This book is going to tell you what's actually going on in there, and answer the really important questions, like:

Are bogeys safe to eat? Look, if your nose is going to all that effort of creating a snack, the least we can do is check out its nutritional value. (Yes, they're safe. Chew away!)

And how much of your life will you spend on the toilet? About a year - so bring a good book. (I recommend this one.)

So sit back, relax, put on some rubber gloves, and let a doctor take you on a poo (and puke) filled tour of your insides. Welcome to Kay's Anatomy*.

*a fancy word for your body. See, you're learning already.

Book 2 Blurb:
'Read this book and you're virtually a qualified doctor! Educational and entertaining - it should be on the national curriculum!'- Harry Hill

The olden days were pretty fun if you liked wearing chainmail or chopping people's heads off but there was one TINY LITTLE problem back then . . . doctors didn't have the slightest clue about how our bodies worked.

It's time to find out why Ancient Egyptians thought the brain was just a useless load of old stuffing that might as well be chucked in the bin, why teachers forced their pupils to smoke cigarettes, why hairdressers would cut off their customers' legs, and why people used to get paid for farting. (Unfortunately that's no longer a thing - sorry.)

You'll get answers to questions like:
Why did patients gargle with wee?
How did a doctor save people's lives using a washing machine, a can of beans and some old sausages?
What was the great stink? (No, it's not what doctors call your bum.)

If you're sure you're ready, then pop a peg on your nose (there was a lot of stinky pus back then), pull on your wellies (there was a lot of poo there too), wash your hands (because they certainly didn't) and explore this gross and gruesome history of the human body!

'An enjoyably gross look at the human body. Hours of gruesome fun guaranteed'
'Like listening to a teacher who makes pupils fall about' Sunday Times


Book 3 Blurb:
KAY'S BRILLIANT BRAINS is a mini book written and illustrated for World Book Day 2023 by the record-breaking Adam Kay and Henry Paker. It's a hilarious celebration of the world's most ingenious geniuses and all that their
brilliant brains achieved.

One hundred billion people have lived on earth. Unfortunately, this book would be too heavy if it talked about them all, so it's about ten of them.

You'll meet Amelia Earhart, who flew across a huge ocean in a tiny plane, back in the days when planes were basically made out of old bits of wood (and worst of all, they didn't have in-flight movies) and Thomas Edison, who invented light bulbs and movie cameras (but only went to school until he was twelve). Plus a whole bunch more other brilliant people with brilliant brains who woke up one day and thought 'Oh, I've got an idea . . . !' and changed the world forever.

'Very funny - this exciting book is bound to inspire the next generation of medics' Sunday Express

Author Bio:
Adam Kay is a BAFTA-winning author, TV writer, comedian and former junior doctor. His first book, This is Going to Hurt, spent over a year at number one in the Sunday Times bestseller list, was translated into 37 languages, won ten national awards, and sold over three million copies. His subsequent adult nonfiction books, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas and Undoctored were also Sunday Times number one bestsellers. He edited Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You, raising over £400,000 for charity. He is also one of the country's bestselling children's authors, with books including Kay's Anatomy (the fastest selling kids' non-fiction book of the decade), Kay's Marvellous Medicine, Kay's Brilliant Brains and picture book Amy Gets Eaten.

As a live performer, Adam has sold-out several West End seasons and UK tours. His tour of This is Going to Hurt was attended by over 250,000 people.

Title: Amy Gets Eaten
Genre: Children's Books on Visiting the Doctor - Comedy - Educational
Format: Picture Book
Dedication Available:
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: https://www.adamkay.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amateuradam

Book Blurb:
The first-ever picture book from Adam Kay and Henry Paker.

This is the hilarious (and admittedly a tiny bit gross) tale of Amy, a small piece of sweetcorn who is eaten by Noah, a medium-sized boy. The story follows Amy on her funny, gooey and anatomically-accurate adventure through the human body as she discovers lots of facts about digestion. (It's fair to say that parents might learn a little bit too.)

Author Bio:
Adam Kay is a BAFTA-winning author, TV writer, comedian and former junior doctor. His first book, This is Going to Hurt, spent over a year at number one in the Sunday Times bestseller list, was translated into 37 languages, won ten national awards, and sold over three million copies. His subsequent adult nonfiction books, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas and Undoctored were also Sunday Times number one bestsellers. He edited Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You, raising over £400,000 for charity. He is also one of the country's bestselling children's authors, with books including Kay's Anatomy (the fastest selling kids' non-fiction book of the decade), Kay's Marvellous Medicine, Kay's Brilliant Brains and picture book Amy Gets Eaten.

As a live performer, Adam has sold-out several West End seasons and UK tours. His tour of This is Going to Hurt was attended by over 250,000 people.

Title: Nightshade Revenge
Genre: Children - Action & Adventure
Format: Hardback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: https://anthonyhorowitz.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnthonyHorowitz

Book Blurb:
When his best friend Tom is abducted, Alex Rider is given an ultimatum by Nightshade – a sinister cult of assassins with a score to settle. But what twisted evil are they planning, and how is it connected to a revolutionary new gaming system?
With no idea who to trust, Alex finds himself dragged into a nightmare world – where nothing is real but the game could kill you.
The clock is ticking and Nightshade is closing in…

The world’s bestselling teenage spy takes on a new and daring mission.
This much-awaited new book in the bestselling Alex Rider series continues Alex’s fight against the deadly assassins encountered in the last book, Nightshade. Alex still has unfinished business with this sinister group made up of brainwashed children, not least trying to reunite MI6 chief Mrs Jones, along with her long lost son and daughter. The adventure takes us deep into the life-changing world of augmented reality, where even Alex will struggle to succeed against the technology. A thrilling new challenge for the world’s best-loved teen superspy.

Author Bio:
One of Britain’s bestselling novelists, Anthony Horowitz is the author adult and children’s fiction, films, plays and journalism. His best-known work for children and teens includes the Alex Rider spy series and the Diamond Brothers series. His adult fiction includes the new Sherlock Holmes novels House of Silk and Moriarty, the new James Bond series novel Trigger Mortis and Forever and a Day, and standalone novels The Word is Murder, The Magpie Murders and The Twist of a Knife

Title: Bad Men
Genre: Feminist Thriller
Format: Hardback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: https://julie-cohen.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/julie_cohen

Book Blurb:
It's a tough job, but someone's got to kill them . . .
Saffy has a secret. A secret that she is deeply ashamed of. It's not the fact that she's a serial killer in her free time. In fact, she's quite proud of that. After all she's only killing the bad men. She is making the world a better place.

No, her secret is far worse than that. Saffy has a messy, inexplicable, uncontrollable crush. So while she's busy plotting her next murder, she also has the much harder task of figuring out how to get a boyfriend.

But if there's one thing Saffy knows, it's how to get her man . . .

Author Bio:
Julie Cohen grew up in Maine and studied English at Brown University, Cambridge University and the University of Reading. Her award-winning novels have sold over a million copies worldwide, and she has twice been selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club in the UK. Julie is an Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Reading, and runs an online school, Novel Gazing. She is a Vice President of the Romantic Novelists’ Association, a founder of the RNA Rainbow Chapter for LGBTQ+ writers, and a Patron of literacy charity ABC To Read. She won the 2020 Romantic Novelists’ Association Inclusion Award. Her bestselling novel TOGETHER has been translated into eleven languages and optioned for television; THE TWO LIVES OF LOUIS & LOUISE was long-listed for the Polari Prize and has been optioned by Enderby Entertainment as a feature film. Her first historical novel, SPIRITED, was published in July 2020 and her latest novel is SUMMER PEOPLE (Orion, 2022). Under the name Julie Mae Cohen, her first thriller, BAD MEN, will be published by Bonnier in July 2023. She lives in Berkshire, UK with her teenager and a terrier of dubious origin.

Title: The Octopus, Dadu and Me
Genre: Children Age 9-12 contemporary fiction
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES! And an octopus stamp!
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: Global

Website: http://lucyannunwin.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LucyAnnUnwin

Book Blurb:
FACT: Octopuses have three hearts.
FACT: Octopuses have BEAKS, like BIRDS.
FACT: The octopus at the aquarium is psychic!

Sashi feels like she has three hearts and they’re all breaking. She’s losing her beloved Dadu to dementia, and her parents don’t even want her to visit him any more.

She hides from her grief in the aquarium, and that’s where she meets Ian.
Like her Dadu, Ian is trapped.
Like her Dadu, Ian should be at home with his family.
And then Ian tells her he’s in danger and only she can help him escape.

Except Ian just happens to be an octopus...

Author Bio:
Lucy’s professional background is in journalism; she was a music journalist at BBC 6 Music for 10 years. Brought up in Birmingham, Lucy has lived all around the UK, from Newcastle to Brixton, Worcester to Chesterfield. She also lived for a year in the Chilean city of Valparaiso, and for three years in San Francisco, where she tutored children and young adults in creative writing as part of the 826 Valencia writing programme, set up by Dave Eggers. She has now settled on the Sussex clifftops with her husband, two daughters, and tortoise.

Title: Not So Long Ago, You... a Yoga Adventure where you choose what happens!
Genre: Picture book
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: Yes
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK only

Website: http://boxmooryoga.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/boxmooryoga


Book Blurb:
Where do you want to fly next? The Golden Eagle, Flying Foal and Dragon need your help again!
Another adventure where you use yoga poses and choose what happens!
The enchanting sequel to Once Upon a Time, You…
“A lovely book for engaging children with yoga… Ideal for children’s yoga classes or for parents to practise with their children at home.” Christiane Kerr, Course Director, Calm for Kids.
“Beautiful, engaging and interactive. My daughter (6) was obsessed with the first book and is going to love this one!” Rosie Andrews, Sunday Times Bestselling Author of The Leviathan
“I would bring this book into therapeutic yoga sessions time and time again. Thank you, Maria, for your storytelling innovation and sensitivity in bringing well-being stories and practices to all children.” Nicole Zimbler, Founder, Yotism.
“The most exciting book yet” Zac, Year 3.

Author Bio:
Maria Oliver is a Hertfordshire based yoga teacher and member of the British Wheel of Yoga. She started teaching yoga in 2015, much to her children’s disgust, and spent the next few years trying to work out how to interest them in what she did. This changed when she started her children’s yoga teacher training with Calm for Kids, and she learnt how to spark children’s imaginations through yoga.

Maria is married with two children and two cats.

Book Title: Tiger Skin Rug
Genre: Middle-grade adventure/magical realism
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: FREE
Bids accepted: Global

Website: http://joanhaigbooks.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/joanhaigbooks
LinkTree: https://t.co/Ds5OiLJ4Gb

Book blurb:
An old promise. A mysterious tiger. A magical adventure.

Lal and his brother Dilip miss home. They don’t like drizzle, midges, or the tiger skin rug in their creepy new house. All they want is to leave Scotland and go back to India. But that’s before they make friends with Jenny, and before the tiger comes back to life…

The tiger tells them it will take them home in return for their help: it cannot rest until it fulfills an old promise. Can Lal, Dilip and Jenny help it on its quest? Will they get back home? And who is following them?

Silver Winner, ForeWord Indies Book Awards USA. Nominated for the Carnegie Medal.

‘With its sensitivity, sincerity and touches of humor, Tiger Skin Rug is an excellent option for both independent readers and family read alouds.’ – The Wall Street Journal

Author bio:
Joan Haig is an award-winning writer of novels and nonfiction, and a university lecturer in travel writing. She has appeared at major literary festivals, held an author residency with the Scottish Book Trust, and featured in a Publishing Scotland documentary on children’s literature. She lives in the Scottish Borders with her cats and other family.

Title: Great Minds: 2500 Years of Thinkers and Philosophy
Genre: Children's Nonfiction (10+)
Format: Hardback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: FREE
Bids Accepted: Global

Website: http://joanhaigbooks.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/joanhaigbooks
LinkTree: https://t.co/Ds5OiLJ4Gb

Book blurb:
Discover 19 brilliant thinkers and their unique ideas that changed the world over 3000 years! Aristotle’s ideas shaped our understanding of the natural world for hundreds of years. Yacob’s Hatata laid the grounds for equality long before our time. Gandhi’s philosophy inspired non-violent protest movements all over the world, and Langer shook up our understanding of what art is and can be. The brilliant ideas from each of these amazing thinkers have stayed with humans for centuries, teaching us new ways of uncovering our world and understanding each other. Covering ideas from the last 2500 years, explore the time periods that shaped each thinker’s ideas, unpack the theories in accessible, easy to digest text and discover the impact they had for the years to come. Presented in graphic novel style, this is a book to inspire a new generation of thinkers and philosophers. Written by Joan Haig and Joan Lennon, and illustrated by André Ducci. Templar Publishing.

Author bio:
Joan Haig is an award-winning writer of novels and nonfiction, and a university lecturer in travel writing. She has appeared at major literary festivals, held an author residency with the Scottish Book Trust, and featured in a Publishing Scotland documentary on children’s literature. She lives in the Scottish Borders with her cats and other family.

Title: The Evil Within and Evil Never Dies (two book bundle)
Genre: Supernatural Crime
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: Yes
Postage free: Yes
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: http://smhardy.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SueTingey

Book Blurb:
The Evil Within
Two years after the death of his fiancée, Jim Hawkes quits his high-powered job in the City to rent a cottage in the Devon seeking some well-needed rest. But Slyford St James is far from a peaceful haven.Almost immediately he is plagued by strange noises in the attic and the figure of a little girl always just out of sight. His new village friends are convinced Jim has found his way to the village to solve the mystery surrounding the suspicious death of a child. But as Jim is haunted by the ghosts of his past and endangered by a real-world threat in the present, it soon becomes apparent that true evil never dies.

Evil Never Dies
When Jed receives a letter from an old friend, he is intrigued. Though he and Simon were like brothers during their army days, they have lost touch over the years. However, the invitation to the Pomeroy family estate isn't quite the reunion he was hoping for - Simon's eldest brother has been brutally murdered, and he wants Jed to use his connection to the dead to help solve the crime.When they arrive at the estate, Jed is shocked by how fragile and fearful his friend has become. As Jed calls upon the spirit world, the results are dramatic, and a gruesome warning reveals dark and dangerous family secrets that threaten the safety of them all

Bio: S. M. Hardy grew up in South East London and worked in banking for many years before turning her attention to arboricultural management. She has now given up the day job to allegedly spend more time with her husband; he, however, has noticed that an awful lot more writing appears to be going on. She currently lives in Devon.

Title: The Secret Shore
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Twitter: https://twitter.com/liz_fenwick

Book Blurb:
As one of the Navy’s most skilled mapmakers, Merry knows the very lives of men far away depend on her work in the War Office.

But when a family crisis draws her back to her beloved Cornwall, Merry finds herself working alongside an enigmatic American officer on secret operations spanning the rugged coasts of Cornwall and Brittany which she knows so well.

But not everything is as clear as the maps she draws. As rumours and suspicion swirl around her family, Merry is increasingly drawn to Jake, despite the defences she’s built around her heart. It’s a dangerous time to fall in love when there is everything to lose as the tides of war are rising…

Author Bio:
Novelist, wife, mother of three, slave to two cats and dreamer turned doer....

Award winning author of The Cornish House, A Cornish Affair, A Cornish Stranger, Under A Cornish Sky, The Returning Tide, One Cornish Summer, The Path to the Sea, The River Between Us and the novella A Cornish Christmas Carol. She lives in Cornwall with her husband and spends her time wrangling two mad cats, plot walking, reading and procrastinating on social media.

The Secret Shore was released 11 May 2023 and she’s now writing the next book.
Her books are available in Dutch, Germany, Portuguese, French, Estonia, Norwegian, Danish, Turkish, Swedish, Latvian, Serbian, Czech, Hungarian, Italian and Finnish.

Title: The Attic Child
Genre: Historical Fiction - Black British
Format: Hardback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: https://www.lolajaye.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LolaJaye

Book Blurb:
Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2023.

‘An incredibly important book . . . a beautifully crafted, compelling story . . . which will undoubtedly break your heart but also make it sing’ - Mike Gayle

Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a secret.

1907: Twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of his time locked in an attic room of a large house by the sea. Taken from his homeland and treated as an unpaid servant, he dreams of his family in Africa even if, as the years pass, he struggles to remember his mother’s face, and sometimes his real name . . .

Decades later, Lowra, a young orphan girl born into wealth and privilege, will find herself banished to the same attic. Lying under the floorboards of the room is an old porcelain doll, an unusual beaded claw necklace and, most curiously, a sentence etched on the wall behind an old cupboard, written in an unidentifiable language. Artefacts that will offer her a strange kind of comfort, and lead her to believe that she was not the first child to be imprisoned there . . .

Lola Jaye has created a hauntingly powerful, emotionally charged and unique dual-narrative novel about family secrets, love and loss, identity and belonging, seen through the lens of Black British History in The Attic Child.

Author Bio:
Lola Jaye is an author, registered psychotherapist and speaker who has penned six novels and a self-help book.

She was born and raised in London, England and has lived in Nigeria and the United States. She currently works as a psychotherapist. She has written for, CNN, HuffPost, Essence and the BBC and also speaks on issues of mental health and racism. She has also appeared on national television, most recently discussing Covid 19 and mental wellbeing. Lola once gave a presentation on imposter syndrome – a subject close to her heart, because at times she’s unable to believe she’s an actual writer!

The Attic Child (Macmillan) is her first epic historical novel.

Title: Totally Deceased
Genre: YA humour/murder mystery
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Twitter: https://twitter.com/susywrites

Blurb:
Seventeen-year-old Jess wakes from an emergency heart transplant to discover she’s being haunted by the disgruntled ghost of her donor - teenage socialite, Tilly. And she won’t leave Jess in peace until they unravel the mystery surrounding her death.
Their investigations take them deep into Tilly’s luxurious heiress life – from private schools to Swiss banks and high-end hotels. But the clues lead somewhere darker than either of the girls could have imagined. And if Jess can’t solve the murder in time, her own life may be at risk...
A hilarious, high-stakes murder mystery like no other.
Perfect for fans of Holly Jackson, Benjamin Dean and Netflix's Inventing Anna. An ambitious, tightly-plotted, laugh-out-loud read that will keep you on the edge of your seat. This charming friendship will remind readers of Only Murders in the Building and 90s Ghost. Perfect for BookTok and Bookstagram.

Author bio:
Sue H Cunningham writes young adult fiction with humour and a hint of magic. She has won a number of awards for writing, including the Write Mentor Children’s Novel Award 2020, and featured in the SCBWI Undiscovered Voices 2022 Anthology. She has also had more than fifty short stories for adults published in the UK and worldwide. Her debut YA murder mystery, TOTALLY DECEASED, will be published 12th October 2023.
Sue lives in Manchester with her husband and teen sons. When she’s not writing, or tripping over electric guitar cables, she works for the NHS.

Title: Dandy the Highway Lion
Genre: Historical, Adventure, Animal Stories
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: Yes
Bids Accepted: UK Only
Website: https://chickenhousebooks.com/books/dandy-the-highway-lion/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sophistopheles

Book blurb:
'Lonely after their family moves to London, Ben and Hattie are delighted to find a new friend in the park. But Mr Dandy Paws is a highway lion – and with a P.I. on his tail, his latest scheme could get Ben and Hattie into far more trouble than they bargained for …

• A delightfully old-fashioned debut adventure for modern children aged 7-11, full of friendship, daring and fun.
• Set in an off-the-wall 1920s London complete with talking animals.
• Strong animal welfare and ecological themes with a funny and fantastical twist.
• Illustrated by Roxana de Rond with a classic nostalgic feel.'

Author bio:
'Stephanie Sorrell’s debut children’s novel, DANDY THE HIGHWAY LION, was shortlisted for the Times/Chicken House Competition in 2020, before going on to be published by Chicken House in Spring 2023. After studying English Literature with Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, she stumbled, semi-intentionally, into life aboard a boat, where she now lives with her husband, two spoilt cats (rescued while sailing in Spain), and several visiting swans.'

Three book package

Title 1: Ring of Lies
Genre: Crime - Romance
Format: Paperback

Title 2: The House on the Shore
Genre: Crime - Romance
Format: Paperback

Title 3: Three Weeks Last Spring
Genre: Crime - Romance
Format: Paperback

Dedications Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Bonus: Victoria will be adding a few secret extras

Website: https://www.victoriahoward.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/VictoriaHoward_

Book 1 Blurb:
When English accountant Daniel Elliott dies in a car accident one rainy night, his widow, Grace, is overcome with grief…and panic. Daniel was controlling and their marriage loveless, but he always took care of the sheltered Grace.

Or so she thought.

She soon discovers Daniel kept secrets: an alias, mob ties, a list of numbers, a mysterious beach house in Florida… and a girlfriend who looks like Grace.

Swallowing her fear, she flies to Miami to claim the house Daniel left her. But the price of her curiosity is peril. Underworld figures stalk her. The other woman has left a damning trail of evidence pointing her way. And handsome, troubled FBI agent Jack West has crossed precarious paths with Grace before. He could be her savior or her damnation. All she knows for certain is that she longs to be in his arms.

With little to go on and danger at every turn, Grace must depend on Jack to help her navigate the criminal world of south Florida, and find the truth behind the Ring of Lies.

Book 2 Blurb:
When Anna MacDonald leaves Edinburgh to find peace in the Scottish Highlands, she gets a twofold surprise: a lost sailor teaches her to love again…while a mysterious stranger has plans to kill her.
Passed over for promotion by her boss—and boyfriend, Anna walks off the job in anger. But being reactionary has its price. Now she can no longer afford the rent on her Edinburgh apartment. So she retreats to the only place she has ever felt happy – her grandmother’s croft on the edge of a Highland loch. With no phone or neighbours, and only two border collies for company, Anna sets out to finally achieve her lifelong dream; to write—and sell—the novel that has burned within her for years.
Luke Tallantyre, a renowned Cape Cod artist, has sailed across the Atlantic to escape an artistic dry spell—and come to terms with his dangerous past. When his yacht develops a problem he drops anchor in Loch Hourn. He rows ashore, and knocking on the door of the croft, asks to use the telephone, but the reception he receives is less than welcoming – in fact it’s downright frosty.

Anna resents the cranky American’s intrusion to her seemingly idyllic life. Luke thinks she’s an ill-mannered hermit. But an unseen assassin is after one of them. So they unwillingly join forces and embark on an adventure neither ever imagined…including a chance at true love.

Book 3 Blurb:
Skye Dunbar needs to get away from London to put a disastrous affair behind her. When she rents a small cabin in Washington State’s San Juan Islands, the last thing she expects is to be accused of computer hacking.

Marine biologist Jedediah Walker is called in to investigate the large number of dead marine life being washed up on the islands beaches. And he has another problem – an unexpected, beautiful and suspicious new tenant renting his cabin. When Walker discovers that the fish contain a high concentration of toxic chemicals, he suspects that the chemicals are being deliberately dumped in Puget Sound. And later, when someone hacks into his computer, he realises it is no coincidence and sets out to find out more about his mysterious new tenant.However, Skye doesn’t like Walker from the moment she lays eyes on him. He feels the same. But that’s about to change.

Author Bio:
Victoria Howard is the author of three romantic suspense novels; The House on the Shore, (a 2009 Joan Hessayon Award finalist), Three Weeks Last Spring, and Ring of Lies. She is also the author of several short stories, including the Kindle short, A Little Protection.

Victoria trained as a medical secretary, and subsequently worked for the National Health Service. She spent twenty years living on a croft in the Highlands of Scotland, managing a company involved in the offshore oil and gas industry.

During those rare times when she isn't writing, Victoria can be found curled up with a book, gardening, designing knitwear, walking her Border collie, Rosie, or travelling the world.

Victoria is a member of Romantic Novelists' Association.

Title: A Winter Grave
Genre: Crime/Thriller
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: Global

Website: http://petermay.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/authorpetermay

Book Blurb:
A young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station discovers the body of a man entombed in ice. The dead man is investigative reporter, George Younger, missing for three months after vanishing during what he claimed was a hill-walking holiday. Cameron Brodie, a veteran Glasgow detective, volunteers to be flown north to investigate Younger’s death, but he has more than a murder enquiry on his agenda. He knows the time has come to face his estranged daughter who has made her home in the remote Highland village. Arriving during an ice storm, Brodie and pathologist Dr. Sita Roy, find themselves the sole guests at the International Hotel, where Younger’s body has been kept refrigerated. But evidence uncovered during his autopsy places the lives of both Brodie and Roy in extreme jeopardy.

Author Bio:
PETER MAY was born and raised in Scotland. He was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BBC, he
quit journalism and, during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland’s most successful television dramatists. He has won several literary awards in France, received the USA’s Barry Award for The Blackhouse – the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 Entry Island was awarded the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year, as well as the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year. May now lives in South-West France with his wife, writer Janice Hally.

Title: My Heart Was a Tree
Genre: Children - Environment - Education
Format: Hardback
Dedication Available: NO
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: https://www.littletoller.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LittleToller

Book Blurb:
Discover the beauty and wonder of trees in this stunningly illustrated collection of poetry and stories celebrating trees and what they mean to the world around us . . .

Inspired by the woods around his home, the mighty forests that support our life on Earth, and the Ted Hughes poem which gives this book its title, My Heart Was a Tree is a celebration, and Sir Michael Morpurgo's love letter to trees.

There are stories from an ancient olive remembering Odysseus and Penelope, and from a eucalyptus that gave shelter to a koala; from a piece of driftwood that was made into a chair, and from a tiny sapling carried by a refugee as a reminder of home – these are poems and stories that will amuse, move and energise families and readers of all ages to appreciate the beauty and wonder of trees.

Yuval Zommer's beautiful, detailed illustrations bring the natural world to life, and make My Heart Was a Tree a book to pore over for hours and hours, discovering something new each time.

Author Bio:
Michael Morpurgo is one of Britain’s best-loved writers for children. He has written over 130 books including War Horse, which was adapted for a hugely successful stage production by the National Theatre and then, in 2011, for a film directed by Steven Spielberg. Michael was Children’s Laureate from 2003 to 2005. The charity Farms for City Children, which he founded thirty years ago with his wife Clare, has now enabled over 70,000 children to spend a week living and working down on the farm. His enormous success has continued with his most recent novels Flamingo Boy and The Snowman, inspired by the classic story by Raymond Briggs. He was knighted in 2018 for services to literature and charity.

Yuval Zommer graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Illustration. He is an award-winning author and illustrator whose work has been translated into twenty-five languages. His bestselling ‘Big Book Of…’ series teaches children about our planet and the creatures on it. Zommer is an environmentalist.

Title: All Around The Year
Genre: Agriculture & Farming
Format: Hardback
Dedication Available: NO
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

* Along with Michael, Katherine Rundell has kindly added her signature to the book *

Website: https://www.littletoller.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LittleToller

Book Blurb:
Originally published in 1979, All Around the Year is a diary following a year at Parsonage Farm, a mixed farm in Devon, close to Dartmoor. The book documented a way of life unchanged for centuries, but which was already remote to most people. In All Around the Year, Morpurgo revealed the daily hardships and rewards of such a life.
The accompanying poems were written by Ted Hughes about life on his own nearby farm. The book is illustrated with the
photographs of James Ravilious from the Beaford Archive.
The book has a new introduction by the prize-winning author Katherine Rundell, and is published for Michael Morpurgo’seightieth birthday.

Author Bio:
Michael Morpurgo is a prize-winning author of books for children, including War Horse and Private Peaceful.From 2003-2005 he was the Children’s Laureate, a role he conceived with Ted Hughes. With his wife, Clare, he founded
the charity Farms for City Children.

Title: Into the Dark
Genre: Mystery
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: NO
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: https://cwagency.co.uk/client/fiona-cummins
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FionaAnnCummins

Book Blurb:
'Complex. Inventive. Twisting. Unsettling.' - Sarah Vaughan, bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal

THE PLACE: Seawings, a beautiful Art Deco home overlooking the sweep of the bay in Midtown-on-Sea.

THE CRIME: The gilded Holden family - Piper and Gray and their two teenage children, Riva and Artie - has vanished from the house without a trace.

THE DETECTIVE: DS Saul Anguish, brilliant but with a dark past, treads the narrow line between light and shade.

One late autumn morning, Piper’s best friend arrives at Seawings to discover an eerie scene – the kettle is still warm, all the family’s phones are charging on the worktop, the cars are in the garage. But the house is deserted.

In fifteen-year-old Riva Holden’s bedroom, scrawled across the mirror in blood, are three words:

Make
Them
Stop.

What happens next?

Author Bio:
FIONA CUMMINS is a graduate of the prestigious Faber Academy in London and an award‑winning journalist. She spent twelve years at Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper as its chief showbiz reporter, interviewing celebrities from Michael Jackson to George Clooney. She was named Showbusiness Reporter of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2007, and has been nominated four times. Now freelance, her work has appeared in numerous UK publications, as well as appearing on several national TV programs. She lives in Essex with her husband and two children.

Title: Ghost Ship
Genre: Romance - Adventure
Format: Hardback - First Addition
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: https://www.katemosse.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/katemosse

Book Blurb:
Piracy. Romance. Revenge. Across the seas of the seventeenth century, two seafarers are forced to fight for their love and their lives. The sequel to The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship is the third novel in The Joubert Family Chronicles from bestselling author Kate Mosse.

The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water. It is known only as the Ghost Ship. For months, its captain - Louise Reydon-Joubert - and her courageous crew has hunted pirates to liberate those enslaved during the course of their merciless raids.

But now the Ghost Ship is under attack – its hull splintered, its sails tattered and burnt, and the crew at risk of capture. But the bravest among them are not who they seem. Louise is fleeing a miscarriage of justice; her lover, Gilles Barenton, is at risk of being exposed - she is forced to masquerade as her brother. The stakes could not be higher: if arrested, they will be hanged for their crimes. Can they survive the journey and escape their fate?

A sweeping and epic queer love story, ranging from France in 1610 to Amsterdam and the Canary Islands in the 1620s, The Ghost Ship is a thrilling novel of adventure and buccaneering, love and revenge, stolen fortunes and hidden secrets on the High Seas. Most of all, it is a tale of defiant women in a man's world.


Author Bio:
Kate Mosse is the author of ten novels & short story collections, including the No 1 bestselling The Joubert Family Chronicles – The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears and The Ghost Ship – as well as the multimillion selling Languedoc Trilogy - Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel - and No 1 bestselling Gothic fiction including The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist's Daughter. Her books have been translated into 38 languages and published in more than 40 countries. She has also written four works of non-fiction – including her memoir about caring An Extra Pair of Hands and Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World, which inspired her first one-woman show and theatre tour. She has also written four plays, contributed essays and introductions to classic novels and collections. Her novel for Quick Reads, The Black Mountain, was published in 2022 and she contributed a story to the international bestselling Miss Marple Collection of Short Stories, Marple.

A champion of women's creativity, Kate is the Founder Director of the Women's Prizes - the largest annual celebration of women's writing in the world - and is the Founder of the global campaign #WomanInHistory launched in January 2021 to honour, celebrate and promote women’s achievements throughout history. She was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to literature and women, was named Woman of the Year for her service to the arts in the Everywoman Awards and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. A regular guest on book & arts shows on radio and television, shealso writes and presents documentaries. To celebrate her 60th birthday, she launched her own YouTube book channel – Kate-Mosse-on-Books – with a monthly show ‘Mosse on a Monday’.

Kate hosts the pre performance interview series at Chichester Festival Theatre in Sussex, chairs Platform Events for the National Theatre in London, as well as interviewing writers, directors, campaigners and actors at literary and theatre festivals in the UK and beyond. Kate was awarded a Fellowship at the Writer's House in Amsterdam in 2019. She is a visiting Professor of Creative Writing & Contemporary Fiction at the University of Chichester, a Patron of the Chichester Festival of Dance, Music and Speech and President of the Festival of Chichester.

In 2019, Kate was honoured to be presented with a medal for services to culture by the City of Carcassonne. It is because of buying a tiny house in the shadow of the medieval city walls of Carcassonne in 1989 - and becoming inspired by the landscape, the beauty and the history of the region - that Kate became the writer she is.

Two Book Special

Title 1: Dead Lucky
Genre: Young Adult thriller
Format: Paperback

Title 2: The Girl Who...
Genre: Young Adult psychological thriller
Format: Paperback

Dedications available: Yes
Postage: FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: http://andreinacordani.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndreinaCordani

Book 1 Blurb:
Ed, Maxine, Leni, Xav.

They are the influencers, the lucky ones. Gifted, gilded people who have everything - fame, respect, adulation, more freebies than they can ever unbox. Their lives, loves and feuds are shared with millions of fans on the streaming platform PlayMii, and they are living the dream.

But it's broken Ed's heart.

It's crushing Maxine.

It's destroying Leni's friendships.

And it's gone to Xav's head.

Then, a masked figure walks into Xav's apartment and murders him on camera.

As the world reels with shock, Maxine discovers Xav was sitting on a file of secrets about his fellow creators - career-destroying secrets that they'd do anything to keep hidden. And if she doesn't find the file, she could be next . . .

'I loved Dead Lucky. It was gripping, refreshing and wonderfully told: Andreina is brilliant at misdirection, so I had no idea what was ahead . . . I hugely recommend this book to anyone who likes a twisty thriller' Emily Barr, author of The One Memory of Flora Banks

Book 2 Blurb:
The girl who... survived
The girl who... inspires
The girl who... has something to hide

People can't bring themselves to say what happened to her. They just describe her as 'the girl who... you know...'. But nobody really knows, no one sees the real Leah

Leah is the perfect survivor. She was seven years old when she saw her mother and sister killed by a troubled gang member. Her case hit the headlines and her bravery made her a national sweetheart: strong, courageous and forgiving.

But Leah is hiding a secret about their deaths. And now, ten years later, all she can think of is revenge.

When Leah's dad meets a new partner, stepsister Ellie moves in. Sensing Leah isn't quite the sweet girl she pretends to be, Ellie discovers that Leah has a plan, one she has been putting together ever since that fateful day. Now that the killer - and the only one who knows the truth - is being released from prison, time is running out for Ellie to discover how far Leah will go to silence her anger . . .

Author bio
Before writing her first novel, Andreina Cordani was a senior editor and writer for women's magazines including Good Housekeeping and Cosmopolitan, where her assignments included interviewing gun-toting moms on the school run, ordering illegal DIY Botox online and learning to do the splits in eight weeks.

She lives on the Dorset coast with her family where she reads voraciously, occasionally makes TikTok videos and swims in the sea. She is the author of two dark thrillers for young adults, The Girl Who... and Dead Lucky and is currently working on an adult crime story.

Title: The Anne Boleyn Bible
Genre: History - Biography
Format: Hardback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: http://www.mickeymayhew.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mickey_Mayhew

Book Blurb:
Anne Boleyn sells, but she sells in segments; a biography here, a study over there on her guilt and something else yonder concerned with where she lived or what she liked to wear. This book, covering not just her life but her life onscreen, in theatre, on TV and also the impact of the first black actress to play her, is the definitive, all-encompassing story of Anne Boleyn from 1501 (or thereabouts) to 2023. Having examined the ardent fandom of Anne Boleyn for his doctorate, Dr Mickey Mayhew is in a unique position to offer something new to say on this much-discussed 'tragic' Tudor queen and is not afraid to tackle some of the less palatable aspects of her life. Also, this book is the first to examine with authenticity the reality of Anne's relationship with the most important man in her life, the man whose name she repeated in comfort whilst facing the Swordsman of Calais on the scaffold, having spent her life promulgating his doctrine; Jesus Christ himself. As for the aforementioned executioner, Dr Mayhew's research in Calais and Saint-Omer can now lift a lid on a few of the particulars of this elusive and yet essential figure of Anne Boleyn mythos; and yes, now he even has a name as well. The Anne Boleyn Bible also offers a straightforward retelling of Anne's actual historical life, albeit one that outlines an entirely fresh and empowering perspective on her rise to prominence; this is followed by a series of considered arguments on the 'for' and 'against' in regard to her guilt & execution; then her entry into popular culture, firstly in plays and masques, before she went on to headline movies, TV series, cosplay, and now, with the first black woman to portray her, model and actress Jodie Turner-Smith. This book is simply what it says on the cover - The Anne Boleyn Bible - leaving no depiction, no religious aspect, no appearance in popular culture, from The Simpsons to the West End musical 'Six', overlooked; likewise, Dr Mayhew also turns his trademark brand of rather wry commentary toward the vast plethora of Anne Boleyn merchandising, tourist spots, rubber ducks, beanies and the wrangling question of who was the ultimate onscreen Anne; Genevieve Bujold or Natalie Dormer?!

Author Bio:
Lifelong Londoner Mickey Mayhew has a PhD concerning the online cult surrounding tragic queens; Anne Boleyn and Mary Queen of Scots. He was co-author on three books relating to Jack the Ripper, published by The History Press; The Little Book of Mary Queen of Scots was also published by The History Press in January 2015. I Love the Tudors, by Pavilion Books, was released in 2016. He has a semi-regular column in the journal of The Whitechapel Society, and was previously a film and theatre reviewer for several London lifestyle magazines. He has also worked as an assistant researcher on several projects for London South Bank University. His first book for Pen & Sword - House of Tudor: A Grisly History - was published in early 2022. Imprisoning Mary Queen of Scots: The men who kept the Stuart Queen was released in the autumn of 2022; proving that being a polymath isn't at all problematic, Rasputin and his Russian Queen: The True Story of Grigory and Alexandra was released in early 2023.

Title: Rasputin
Genre: History - Biography
Format: Hardback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: http://www.mickeymayhew.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mickey_Mayhew

Book Blurb:
RASPUTIN’S RELATIONSHIP with Russia’s last Tsarina, Alexandra, notorious from the famous Boney M song, has never been adequately addressed; biographies are always for one or the other, or simply Alexandra and her husband Nicholas. In this new work, Mickey Mayhew reimagines Alexandra for the #MeToo generation; ‘neurotic’; ‘hysterical’; ‘credulous’ and ‘fanatical’ are shunted aside in favour of a sympathetic reimagining of a reserved and pious woman tossed into the heart of Russian aristocracy, with the sole purpose of providing their patriarchal monarchy with an heir. When her longed-for son then developed haemophilia, she turned to the one man capable of curing the child’s agonising pain – Grigory Rasputin. Some say that between them, Grigory and Alexandra brought down 300 years of Romanov rule and ushered in the Russian Revolution, but theirs was simply the story of a mother fighting for the health of her son against a backdrop of bigotry, sexism and increasing secularism. She liked to pray and he liked to party, but when they found themselves steering Russia through the First World War, her gender and his class gave society no option but to destroy them. Bubbling with his trademark bon mots, Mickey Mayhew’s latest book breathes fresh life into two of history’s most fascinating – and polarising – figures. This is the real story of Rasputin and his Russian Queen.

Author Bio:
Lifelong Londoner Mickey Mayhew has a PhD concerning the online cult surrounding tragic queens; Anne Boleyn and Mary Queen of Scots. He was co-author on three books relating to Jack the Ripper, published by The History Press; The Little Book of Mary Queen of Scots was also published by The History Press in January 2015. I Love the Tudors, by Pavilion Books, was released in 2016. He has a semi-regular column in the journal of The Whitechapel Society, and was previously a film and theatre reviewer for several London lifestyle magazines. He has also worked as an assistant researcher on several projects for London South Bank University. His first book for Pen & Sword - House of Tudor: A Grisly History - was published in early 2022. Imprisoning Mary Queen of Scots: The men who kept the Stuart Queen was released in the autumn of 2022; proving that being a polymath isn't at all problematic, Rasputin and his Russian Queen: The True Story of Grigory and Alexandra was released in early 2023.

Title: The Memory of You
Genre: Contemporary - Women's Fiction
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: FREE
Bids Accepted UK Only

*Bonus: Samantha is adding a bumper size Peppermint Aero for her successful bidder

Website: http://samanthatonge.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamTongeWriter

Book Blurb:
Alex would like to believe she’s a woman who has it all. Or that’s what she tells everyone, including herself. But this is far from true. Actually she’s on the cusp of losing her home, her dream career as a writer is in tatters, her ex won’t speak to her, and her mother’s gone forever.

But then a chance meeting with a stranger named Hope gives her the opportunity of a lifetime, when Hope jokes that perhaps Alex should take over her job in a café while she goes travelling.

Just at that moment, it sounds like the answer to all her problems. So Alex persuades Hope to let her step into her shoes for a month. She brushes away Hope’s attempts to explain about the café, instead demanding to know more about the owner Tom.

But she should have asked for more details. Because the ‘Wrong Order Café’ isn’t like anywhere she’s ever been before. And Alex’s life is about to change forever…

Author Bio:
Award-winning and bestselling author, Samantha Tonge, lives in Manchester UK with her family and writes uplifting, emotional women's fiction. The Memory of You is her 18th published book.

Have you written a novel? Helena Fairfax is offering a full developmental edit and helpful feedback on your manuscript. Helena is a freelance editor of fiction, a member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading, the Society of Authors and the Romantic Novelists' Association, for whom she's a reader for their New Writers' Scheme. She has several years' experience providing in-depth and supportive feedback – and is looking forward to reading your novel! (You can find out more about Helena at http://helenafairfax.com)'

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Title: The Wonder Brothers
Genre: Children - Fantasy - Adventure
Format: Hardback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: https://www.fantasticfiction.com/c/frank-cottrell-boyce
Twitter: https://twitter.com/frankcottrell_b

Book Blurb:
'A writer of comic genius - he has something of Roald Dahl's magic, but more heart' - Sunday Telegraph

No matter how big the show, family, friendship and adventure shine through in The Wonder Brothers by multi-award-winning author Frank Cottrell-Boyce, illustrated throughout by Steven Lenton.

‘Maybe you don’t believe me. Maybe you don’t believe in magic. I bet you will by the time you’ve heard what happened to us.’

Cousins Middy and Nathan love magic. The on-stage, cape-swirling, bunny-out-of-a-hat kind.

For Middy, it’s all about patience and practice. She uses magic skills to help her out of tricky situations.

Nathan is a show-off and a total danger magnet, he is drawn to the sensation, spectacle and audience.

So when the famous Blackpool Tower dramatically vanishes the night of the Grand Lights Switch-On, showman Nathan announces live on TV that they will magic it back home.

With a stick of rock, a spangly cape, and a bit of misdirection, they end up lost in Las Vegas, home to the grand master of illusion, Perplexion, ‘Legend of Magic’.

Full of tricks, twists and deceptions, the delightful Nathan and Middy will keep you guessing until the very end.

Author Bio:
Frank Cottrell-Boyce is an award-winning author and screenwriter. Millions, his debut children's novel, won the CILIP Carnegie Medal. He is also the author of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again, Cosmic, Framed, The Astounding Broccoli Boy and Runaway Robot. His books have been shortlisted for a multitude of prizes, including the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Whitbread Children's Fiction Award (now the Costa Book Award) and the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth was shortlisted for the 2017 CILIP Carnegie Medal and selected for the inaugural WHSmith Tom Fletcher Book Club.

Frank is a judge for the 500 Words competition and the BBC's One Show As You Write It competition. Along with Danny Boyle, he devised the Opening Ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics. He has written for the hit TV series Dr Who and was the screenwriter for the hit film Goodbye Christopher Robin.

The Wrens Series : Three Book Special!

Title1: A New Start for the Wrens,
Genre: Historical Fiction - WW2 Saga
Format: Paperback

Title 2: A Wrens’ Wartime Christmas
Genre: Historical Fiction- WW2 Saga
Format: Paperback

Title 3: Hopeful Hearts for the Wrens
Genre: Historical Fiction WW2 Saga
Format: Paperback

Dedications available: Yes
Bids accepted: UK only

Website: https://vickibeeby.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/VickiBeeby

Book 1 Blurb: A New Start for the Wrens

Winner of the Romantic Novelists’ Association Romantic Saga of the Year award, 2023

Following a humiliating experience involving the man she thought she’d marry, Iris Tredwick signs up to the Wrens in order to escape and find ‘the right sort’ of man to please her mother. After a bumpy start, Iris manages to befriend outspoken Mary and dreamer Sally as they are sent to their first posting – in Orkney.

There she meets mechanic Rob, whose flirtatious nature both charms and confounds straight-laced Iris. Much more appropriate for her is local doctor Stewart, if only she felt the same spark for him as she does for Rob…

As Iris, Mary and Sally work to interpret signals from incoming ships, they realise the enemy is somehow one step ahead of their manoeuvres, dropping sea mines under the cover of darkness. Could there be a spy on the island? And can the Wrens prevent disaster striking before it’s too late?

A thrilling and lively Second World War saga for fans of Kate Thompson and Daisy Styles.

Book 2 Blurb: A Wrens’ Wartime Christmas

After her fiancé died in the sinking of the Royal Oak, Mary finds herself stationed in Orkney, still battling her grief. With Iris and Sally by her side, she is gradually overcoming her loss and is surprised to be helped by the irascible Joe.

Joe is a signalman aboard the Kelpie and his cheeky Morse code signals to Mary while she's on shift bring her cheer and exasperation in equal measure. With Christmas round the corner, Mary is opening herself back up to the festive spirit – and to love.

But the Germans keep slipping through Scapa Flow’s defences, somehow without triggering any of the Navy’s alarms. Could someone on land be guiding them? If so, can Mary, Iris and Sally figure out who and stop them before more lives are lost?

Book 3 Blurb: Hopeful Hearts for the Wrens

During war, nothing is ever at it seems...

Sally Hartley is a hopeless romantic. Her father died when she was a baby but she has lived off stories from her mother of what a wonderful man he was. Now, all she wants is a love like theirs. And she thinks she’s found it in Adam, the brother of a friend from home. When Adam is posted to Orkney, it’s like Sally’s dreams have all come true.

After Italy changes sides in the war, the Italian POWs are granted more freedom on the islands, meaning Sally can spend more time with her friend, Aldo, and the two grow ever closer. But when a family secret is revealed, Sally's trust might be forever broken.

Sally, Iris and Mary must continue their duties even as life changes drastically around them, including an attack on one of their fellow Wrens from an unknown assailant. Now the friends face danger not just from the enemy, but also someone much closer to home.

Author Bio:
Vicki Beeby is a saga author who writes about the friendships and loves of service women brought together by the Second World War.

Her first job was as a civil engineer on a sewage treatment project, so things could only improve from there. Since then, she has worked as a maths teacher, an education consultant before she turned freelance to give herself more time to write.

She is published by Canelo and represented by Lina Langlee of The North Literary Agency. She was a finalist for the RNA Romantic Saga award in 2021 and won it in 2023.

Title: The Thing About Lemons
Genre: Y/A - Rom Com
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available:
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted:

Twitter: @DotDashTash

Book Blurb:
Ori Reynolds has just made the biggest mistake of her life. One that’s resulted in:

1) losing all but one of her friends,
2) feeling like the World’s Most Terrible Person,
and
3) having all her fun summer plans cancelled.

And, as if things couldn’t get any worse, she now has no choice but to go on a road trip with her estranged grandad Claude to his home in the French countryside.

Talk about life giving you lemons!

However, while Ori scoffs at her mum’s suggestion to “make lemonade”, her sour situation is about to turn significantly sweeter than she could ever have imagined…

Author Bio:
Tasha Harrison is the author of middle grade comedy Clementine Florentine and YA romcom The Thing About Lemons. A former sub-editor and copywriter, she has an incurable weakness for puns, rhymes and alliteration. She lives in Brighton with her family and food-obsessed Labrador.

Two Book Bundle!

Title 1: She's Mine
Genre: Crime Thriller - Suspense
Format: Paperback

Title 2: The Loyal Friend
Genre: Crime Thriller - Suspense
Format: Paperback

Dedications Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: FREE

Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: https://aachaudhuri.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AAChaudhuri

Book 1 Blurb:
'Beautifully written, immaculately plotted, very clever and deliciously dark. Loved it.' Catherine Cooper, author of The Chalet and The Chateau

Her missing daughter was just the start of the nightmare

Twenty years ago, Christine Donovan took a call she should have ignored while shopping. In those few seconds while her back was turned,

her toddler, Heidi, was kidnapped. She’s never been seen again.

Despite having two other children with husband Greg, Christine remains guilt-stricken that her neglect caused her child to be stolen, while haunted by a secret that consumes her.

Just as she takes measures to finally heal, a note is posted through her door, with the words she has always longed to hear: Heidi isn’t dead.

Christine might finally get the answers she craves - but what she doesn’t know is that finding her daughter will uncover dark secrets close to home.

In seeking the truth, Christine might destroy everything that she loves … so how far is she willing to go to find Heidi?

With a truly jaw-dropping end twist, She’s Mine is a dark, scandalous, and gripping read from a major new talent in psychological thriller writing.

Book 2 Blurb:
'A dark, twisty tale of toxic friendship where no one can be trusted – a great read.' Catherine Cooper, author of The Chateau

She has your back.

And may stab you in it.

Wealthy, pampered Susan is living the perfect life in leafy Kingston. She’ll never let anyone see the darkness she’s concealing behind the diamonds and rosé.

Grace is new to the group, seemingly the perfect wife and mum. Yet no one knows the truth of what’s happening behind closed doors.

Loner Natalie hides the pain of her childhood behind a carefully ordered life. But how long can the past stay hidden?

Three unlikely friends, brought together for a weekly class run by beautiful, friendly, instructor, Jade.

But when Jade goes missing in mysterious circumstances, the group starts to unravel. And as their darkest secrets come to light, it seems that no one can be trusted. Even their closest friends…

A heart-in-your-mouth thriller that builds twist after twist, culminating in an unforgettable ending.


The Author:
A.A. Chaudhuri is a former City lawyer. Born and raised on the south coast, she now lives in Surrey with her family.

Once a highly ranked British junior tennis player, she toured the women’s professional satellite circuit as a teenager, and achieved a world ranking of 650. After returning to full-time education, she gained three As in A-Level History, English Literature and Theology, a BA Honours 2:1 in History at University College London, and a commendation in both the Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course at the London College of Law.

She trained as a solicitor at City firm Norton Rose, before going on to practise as a commercial litigator at two other City firms, Kendall Freeman and Travers Smith. She left law in 2008 to pursue her passion for writing. She also passed the NCTJ fast-track newspaper journalism course in 2010, in respect of which she was awarded The Oxford University Press Public Affairs Award for the most outstanding public affairs central government paper.

The Scribe and The Abduction were published by Lume Books (formerly Endeavour Media) in July and December 2019. Both books have hit the bestsellers lists in the UK, Australia and Canada, with bestseller tags in Australia and Canada. They were also published as audio books by Isis Audio in January and March 2021, read by David Thorpe.

In February 2021, Alex signed a two-book contract for two standalone psychological thrillers with HERA BOOKS, the first entitled SHE’S MINE was published on 18th August 2021 in ebook and 26th August in paperback. THE LOYAL FRIEND was published by Hera Books on 23rdJune 2022 in paperback and ebook and on 26th June in audio with Saga Egmont. In June 2022 Alex signed a deal with Hera Books for three more psychological thrillers.

Besides being an avid reader, she enjoys fitness, films, anything Italian and a good margarita!

Title 1: The Final Party
Genre: Psychological Thriller/Mystery
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: Free
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: https://aachaudhuri.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AAChaudhuri

Book Blurb:
SIX FRIENDS.

In a luxury villa set high in the hills above the glamorous town of Sorrento, southern Italy, three couples gather for the perfect 40th birthday celebration.

ONE BODY.

Before the week is out, one of them is dead.

COUNTLESS LIES.

Their perfect reunion quickly becomes the holiday from hell when one of the group starts receiving anonymous messages, threatening to expose a dark secret from their university days.

As old friendships are tested to the limit, it’s clear that what happens in the dark past won’t stay buried…

A heart-racing psychological thriller that will hook you from the very first page, with twist after twist that will make your jaw drop. Fans of B.A. Paris, My Husband's Killer and Lucy Foley won’t be able to put this down. If you were hooked by The White Lotus or The Watcher, you'll love this.

The Author:
A.A. Chaudhuri is a former City lawyer. Born and raised on the south coast, she now lives in Surrey with her family.

Once a highly ranked British junior tennis player, she toured the women’s professional satellite circuit as a teenager, and achieved a world ranking of 650. After returning to full-time education, she gained three As in A-Level History, English Literature and Theology, a BA Honours 2:1 in History at University College London, and a commendation in both the Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course at the London College of Law.

She trained as a solicitor at City firm Norton Rose, before going on to practise as a commercial litigator at two other City firms, Kendall Freeman and Travers Smith. She left law in 2008 to pursue her passion for writing. She also passed the NCTJ fast-track newspaper journalism course in 2010, in respect of which she was awarded The Oxford University Press Public Affairs Award for the most outstanding public affairs central government paper.

The Scribe and The Abduction were published by Lume Books (formerly Endeavour Media) in July and December 2019. Both books have hit the bestsellers lists in the UK, Australia and Canada, with bestseller tags in Australia and Canada. They were also published as audio books by Isis Audio in January and March 2021, read by David Thorpe.

In February 2021, Alex signed a two-book contract for two standalone psychological thrillers with HERA BOOKS, the first entitled SHE’S MINE was published on 18th August 2021 in ebook and 26th August in paperback. THE LOYAL FRIEND was published by Hera Books on 23rdJune 2022 in paperback and ebook and on 26th June in audio with Saga Egmont. In June 2022 Alex signed a deal with Hera Books for three more psychological thrillers, the first to be published in June 2023.

Besides being an avid reader, she enjoys fitness, films, anything Italian and a good margarita!

Title: A Fire at the Exhibition
Genre: Cosy Historical Crime Fiction
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: Yes
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: Global

Website: https://tekinsey.uk
Threads: https://threads.net/@tekinseymysteries
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TEKinsey

Book Blurb:
May 1912. After the previous year’s deadly heatwave, it’s been an uneventful spring in Littleton Cotterell. Though for Lady Hardcastle and her fiercely loyal lady’s maid Flo, at least there are the provincial delights of the village’s inaugural art exhibition—and bicycle race—to look forward to.
But at the exhibition opening, there’s a panicked shout of ‘Fire!’ In the confusion, the main attraction—an extremely expensive book—is stolen from under everyone’s nose, as is a valuable painting lent by Sir Hector Farley-Stroud. Then the race, which starts as a charming day out, ends in a shocking death. And to top it all off, the Farley-Strouds reveal they’re in debt and might lose their house.
The sleuthing duo soon find themselves torn between a murder investigation, an art theft mystery, and trying to help their pals. All with a suspicious figure from Flo’s past, a supercilious insurance investigator, and a pair of rather bizarre treasure hunters on the loose…

Author Bio:
T E Kinsey (Tim) was born in the 1960s. He grew up in London in the 1970s and went to university in Bristol in the 1980s. He worked in magazines in the 1990s, and for IMDb in the 2000s. He still lives near Bristol. He’s responsible for the popular historical cosy series The Lady Hardcastle Mysteries and The Dizzy Heights Mysteries (Thomas & Mercer) but he does occasionally play the drums.

Title: The Smallest Man
Genre: Historical
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: Yes
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Twitter: @franquinn

Book Blurb:
My name is Nat Davy. Perhaps you’ve heard of me? There was a time when people up and down the land knew my name, though they only ever knew half the story.
The year of 1625, it was, when a single shilling changed my life. That shilling got me taken off to London, where they hid me in a pie, of all things, so I could be given as a gift to the new queen of England.
They called me the queen’s dwarf, but I was more than that. I was her friend, when she had no one else, and later on, when the people of England turned against their king, it was me who saved her life. When they turned the world upside down, I was there, right at the heart of it, and this is my story.

Inspired by a true story, and spanning two decades that changed England for ever, The Smallest Man is a heartwarming tale about being different, but not letting it hold you back. About being brave enough to take a chance, even if the odds aren’t good. And about how, when everything else is falling apart, true friendship holds people together.

Author Bio:
Frances Quinn is the author of two historical novels, The Smallest Man and That Bonesetter Woman.

Title: A Very Modern Family
Genre: Education : Parenting Hyperactive Children & Children with Disabilities
Format: Hardback
Dedication Available: NO
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: https://carrieanddavidgrant.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CarrieGrant1
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidGrantSays

Book Blurb:
'So much more than a parenting manual - the Grants have thrown out a lifeline' THE TIMES

'The most extraordinary parenting guide of our time' DAILY MAIL

A breakout book on the ever-expanding concept of family

Carrie and David Grant have an extraordinary family story to tell. They have four children, one of whom is adopted, and all have come with a curveball: mental health challenges, neurodivergence, trans non-binary identities, various sexualities, and they are a mixed-race family, too.

It is a reflection of the fact that society is changing faster than most of us can keep up with. The wider concepts of family and community are being deconstructed. There are those who are desperately clinging to the old and those who are desperate for the new to be accepted. How do we hold our families and communities together in unity? How do we create a society where all are included and none are oppressed?

In A Very Modern Family, Carrie and David share their challenges and discoveries of growing and shapeshifting to create an incredible, diverse family and community. With their multi-intersectional family, they share their own mindset changes and insights into how to construct a new, accepting and unified space, while providing a deep dive into real life, frequently encountered situations and pertinent, applicable advice.

A Very Modern Family is an important guide for our times - full of pain, change and hope.

Author Bio:
Carrie and David Grant are BAFTA award-winning broadcasters, vocal coaches, leadership coaches and campaigners. Their TV and music career has spanned over 35 years and they have been awarded a MOBO award and a BASCA for their lifetime services to the music industry.

David has had 14 hit records and been nominated for 2 Brit Awards. David was awarded an MBE in 2019 for his lifetime services to music.

Carrie is a reporter for BBC 1’s The One Show and together with David hosts the Saturday Breakfast Show on BBC Radio London. In 2018 Carrie was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Bedfordshire and in 2020 an MBE for services to Music, Media and Charity.

Three Book Special

Title 1: Her Daughter’s Secret
Genre: Contemporary Fiction - Family Drama
Format:Paperback

Title 2: Her Mother’s Lies
Genre: Contemporary Fiction - Family Drama
Format: Paperback

Title 3: His Secret Wife
Genre: Contemporary Fiction - Family Drama
Format: Paperback

Dedications Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: https://lisatimoneywrites.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LTimoneyWrites

Book 1 Blurb:
Will her daughter’s secret tear her family apart?

When troubled teenager Immy disappears, she leaves her widowed mother Bea completely devastated. Bea pours her love into her six-year-old niece Phoebe, even taking her in when her single father Ewan takes a job abroad.

Then Immy returns, in desperate need of her mother’s help and love. But Ewan is clear: he will never let Bea see Phoebe again if she welcomes her daughter back.

As Bea grapples with this impossible choice between two girls who sorely need her, a long-buried secret comes out that changes everything – and Bea must fight harder for her family than she ever thought she could.

Book 2 Blurb:
Bonnie has been running from her tragic past for far too long. Now, years after the events that changed her life for ever, the time has come to face it. Her search for answers takes her to the idyllic town of Hamblin, where she is determined to start over.

Alice’s perfect life is slipping through her fingers. Drowning in debt, she struggles on, working long days alongside her daughter Laura, ever more desperate to hold on to what little remains.

Laura had her future as an artist snatched from her when she had to return home to care for her sickly father. Whilst she tries hard to be content with her life, each day her resentment grows.

When their worlds collide, Laura and Bonnie form an instant bond. But as they grow closer, Alice begins to grow suspicious of Bonnie’s intentions. Why is she so interested in Alice’s daughter? And what devastating truth is she hiding?

Book 3 Blurb:
What happens when his secret wife is the only one who can save your child?

Elle has the perfect life. A hard-working husband, a clever little boy, and a gorgeous home in a quaint neighbourhood.

Jen also has the perfect life. A passionate relationship with a doting husband, a creative little girl, and an exciting career.

When a strange coincidence throws them together, they become close friends. But then they uncover a shocking truth: they share the same husband.

As they both grapple with this devastating revelation, Elle receives worrying news about her son’s health. When things go from bad to worse and Elle has no one else to turn to, will Jen help the woman who shattered her world? And can Elle trust the other woman with her child’s life?

An emotional and powerful novel about motherhood, friendship and a shocking secret that will tear life as they know it apart

Author Bio:
Originally from Yorkshire, Lisa now lives in the London suburbs. She started her career teaching English and Drama and now writes novels about family drama.

Title: The Siege of Loyalty House
Genre: History
Format: Hardback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: https://jessiechilds.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/childs_jessie

Book Blurb:
It was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war.

A greater proportion of the British population died in the civil wars of the seventeenth century than in the world wars of the twentieth. Jessie Childs recovers the shock of this conflict by plunging us into one of its most extraordinary episodes: the siege of Basing House. To the parliamentarians, the royalist stronghold was the devil’s seat. Its defenders called it Loyalty House.

We follow artists, apothecaries, merchants and their families from the revolutionary streets of London to the Marquess of Winchester’s mist-shrouded mansion. Over two years, they are battered, bombarded, starved and gassed. From within they face smallpox, spies and mutiny. Their resistance becomes legendary, but in October 1645, Oliver Cromwell rolls in the heavy guns and they prepare for a last stand.

Drawing on unpublished manuscripts and the voices of dozens of men, women and children caught in the crossfire, Childs weaves a thrilling tale of war and peace, terror and faith, savagery and civilisation.

The Siege of Loyalty House is an immersive and electrifying account of a defining episode in a war that would turn Britain – and the world – upside down.

Author Bio:
Jessie Childs is an award-winning author, historian and broadcaster. Her first book Henry VIII’s Last Victim won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, and her second, God’s Traitors, won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History in 2015. It was also longlisted for the Samuel Johnson (now Baillie Gifford) Prize for Non-Fiction and selected as a Book of the Year in the Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Observer and BBC History Magazine.



Jessie’s latest book The Siege of Loyalty House (Bodley Head, 2022) tells the story of the totemic resistance of a royalist mansion in the English Civil War. It was a Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Economist, Spectator, Prospect, Critic, New European, Daily Express and Mail on Sunday Book of the Year.

Described by Hilary Mantel as ‘a brilliant speaker as well as writer’, Jessie has performed at the major national and international literary festivals and frequently appears on television and radio. TV credits include the RTS Award-winning and BAFTA-nominated Elizabeth I’s Secret Agents (BBC 2 & PBS), and BBC Four’s two recent series on Charles I: Downfall of a King and Killing a King.

She has written and reviewed for many publications, including The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Financial Times, Literary Review, TLS and LRB. She was one of the judges of the 2016 PEN Hessell-Tiltman History Prize and the 2021 HWA Non-Fiction Crown.

Jessie is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and lives with her husband and two daughters in Hammersmith

Book Title: The Lost Bookshop
Genre: Magical Realism
Format: Paperback
Dedication available: YES
Postage & Packaging: FREE
Bids accepted: Eire & UK Only

Twitter: https://twitter.com/evgaughan

Book Blurb:
The Keeper of Stories meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets.
‘The thing about books,’ she said ‘is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of.’
On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found…
For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives.
But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books. And by unlocking the secrets of the shelves, they find themselves transported to a world of wonder… where nothing is as it seems.

Author Bio:
Evie Woods is the pseudonym of Evie Gaughan, bestselling author of The Story Collector, The Heirloom and The Mysterious Bakery On Rue De Paris. Living on the West Coast of Ireland, Evie escapes the inclement weather by writing her stories in a converted attic, where she dreams of underfloor heating. Her books tread the intriguing line between the everyday and the otherworldly, revealing the magic that exists in our ordinary lives.

Title: Snow Bunny's Christmas Show
Genre: Children - Christmas
Format: Picture Book
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: https://www.rebeccaharry.com/new-products
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BekHarry1

Book Blurb:
A touching tale about a little bunny with a big heart, featuring sparkly silver foil on every page!

Snow Bunny and her friends are putting on a Christmas show. Finally, the stage is set and Snow Bunny has helped Bear, Mouse and Fox with their acts, but – oh dear! – there’s no time left for her to prepare her own perfomance.
But as the performers take their final bows, it’s time to shine the spotlight on the helpful friend whose hard work and brilliant ideas made it all possible: Snow Bunny – the true star of the show.

The perfect book for sharing on cold winter’s nights in the run-up to Christmas!"
Publication date Nov 2023

Author Bio:
Rebecca has illustrated nearly 50 children's books that have been translated into over 20 languages. She lives in Cardiff and is thrilled to be part of Children in Read again this year.

Title: Perfect Lie
Genre: Crime Thriller - Police Procedural
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packing: FREE
Bids Accepted: UK only

* Claire is happy to name a character in her next book in the 'Lisa Carter' series after her successful bidder*

Website: https://csheldonblog.wordpress.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ClaireEESheldon

The Book;
What is ‘perfect’ trying to hide?
Jen Garner tries her best to be ‘wife and mother of the year’. She helps organise school plays and accompanies her husband to company dinners, all with a big smile on her face.
But Jen has started to receive strange gifts in the post ... first flowers, then a sympathy card.
It could just be a joke; that’s what she tells herself. But then the final ‘gift’ arrives, and Jen has to question why somebody is so intent on shattering her life into pieces ...

The Author:
Claire lives in Nottingham with her family, a cat called Whiskers and a dog called Podrick.
She suffers from Multiple Sclerosis and as a result of the disease had to reduce her hours working in insurance for an Insolvency Insurer. This spare time enabled her to study a creative writing course which inspired her to write her debut, Perfect Lie and later A Silent Child.
When Claire isn't working she enjoys reading crime novels and listening to music - the band Jimmy Eat World is her biggest muse! Claire is also an avid reader and book blogger. The inspiration for her novels comes from the hours spent watching The Bill with her grandparents and auntie; then later, Spooks and other detective programmes like Morse, A Touch of Frost and Midsummer Murders.

Title: The Worst Journey in the World: The Graphic Novel (Vol.1)
Genre: History, Adventure
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES with Signature & drawing
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: Global

Website: http://worstjourney.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/WorstJourneyGN

Book Blurb:
It’s June 1910, and Cherry, inexperienced and unqualified, has just joined Captain Scott’s new expedition to the South Pole. Simply getting to Antarctica turns out to be an adventure in itself. As they sail the Terra Nova through one trial after another, the scientists and Navy men learn to work as a team – but are they a match for the fury of the Southern Ocean, which threatens to sink the expedition before it even begins?

Author Bio:
Sarah trained as an animator in Canada and worked in Vancouver, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, and London. A radio dramatisation of The Worst Journey in the World led her to quit her Hollywood career and move to England to make the graphic novel. She went to Antarctica in 2019 with the NSF’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, and is currently an Institute Associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge.

Two Book Package

Title 1: GONE
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Format: Paperback

Title 2: A Mother Like You
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Format: Paperback

Dedications Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/rubyspeechley
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rubyspeechley

Book 1 Blurb:
My son is missing, and everyone is lying to me.

Last night my son, Shay, sneaked out of the house and didn’t come home. He promised not to go to the illegal party in the woods. But someone’s been attacked and Shay has gone missing. The police want to know if he saw what happened. I’m worried he could be involved.

After all the trouble he’s been in lately, mixing with the wrong crowd, coming home beaten up and scared, I thought we’d put it all behind us. Trouble is, Shay resents me moving my new boyfriend into the family home. I found all sorts on his laptop, including a half-written email warning me not to trust David. What does he know that I don’t?

I’m beginning to fear for his safety. What is David hiding from me? Who have I let into our lives?

I don’t know who I can trust. Will I ever see my son alive again?

Book 2 Blurb:
An unexpected pregnancy and a blackmailing ex shake up a woman’s seemingly perfect life in this domestic thriller by the author of Every Little Secret.

Kate Marshall lives an enviable life. Married to handsome, charming, James, owner of a successful company, she seems to have it all.

But falling pregnant at forty-five was never part of the plan. Especially as Kate’s hiding a devastating secret—one that she’s been running from for twenty years.

So when ex-boyfriend Paul comes back into her life, threatening to expose the truth about what Kate did, the clock is ticking. Can she keep her secrets and finally be the mother she always dreamed of—or will her past lies destroy her perfect life?

Author Bio:
Ruby Speechley is a bestselling psychological thriller writer, whose titles include Someone Else’s Baby. Previously published by Hera, she lives in Cheshire with her husband and two of her three children and two Springer spaniels. She has an older son and two grandsons. Her latest novel, Missing, is published on 27 September 2023 with Boldwood Books.

Title: The Girl from the Hermitage
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: https://www.mollygartland.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/molbobolly

Book Blurb:
Galina was born into a world of horrors. So why does she mourn its passing?

Shortlisted for the Impress Prize, longlisted for the Bath Novel Award and the Grindstone Novel Award

It is December 1941, and eight-year-old Galina and her friend Vera are caught in the siege of Leningrad, eating wallpaper soup and dead rats. Galina s artist father Mikhail has been kept away from the front to help save the treasures of the Hermitage. Its cellars could provide a safe haven, as long as Mikhail can survive the perils of a commission from one of Stalin s colonels.

Three decades on, Galina is a teacher at the Leningrad Art Institute. What ought to be a celebratory weekend at her forest dacha turns sour when she makes an unwelcome discovery. The painting she starts that day will hold a grim significance for the rest of her life, as the old Soviet Union makes way for the new Russia and her world changes out of all recognition.

Warm, wise and utterly enthralling, Molly Gartland s debut novel guides us from the old communist era, with its obvious terrors and its more surprising comforts, into the bling of 21st-century St Petersburg. Galina s story is an insightful meditation on ageing and nostalgia as well as a compelling page-turner.

Author Bio:
Originally from Michigan, Molly Gartland worked in Moscow from 1994 to 2000 and has been fascinated by Russian culture ever since.

She has an MA in Creative Writing from St Mary’s University, Twickenham and lives in London.

The manuscript for her debut novel The Girl from the Hermitage was shortlisted for the Impress Prize and longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition, the Bath Novel Award and Grindstone Novel Award.

Title: Finding Floss
Genre: picture book
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

*Added Bonus: Cara is kindly adding some chocs, with a Cockapoo toy, for her successful bidder*

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cara_writer

Book Blurb: When your pet can change colour, finding them is no easy job, but what happens when it's their owner who needs finding?

Floss, the colour-changing cockapoo finds mischief at every turn, but when things go wrong, she uses her skills to save the day! Includes advice on what to do if you get lost and how to stay safe.

Author Bio: Cara is a children's writer and former magazine journalist. She loves writing funny picture books, with a touch of the absurd. Two of her stories have been shortlisted for the WriteMentor Awards.
She lives in Greenwich, London, with her husband, daughters and registered therapy cockapoo, Scout (with whom she volunteers in schools as part of the Read2Dogs scheme).

Title: A Child's Goodbye
Genre: Contemporary Women's fiction
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available. YES
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Website: http://alimercerwriter.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlisonLMercer

Blurb:
All I remember is the screeching of brakes and the sound of tyres swerving on tarmac. The last thing that crossed my mind was of my beautiful boy Billy, waiting alone at the school gates…

The cold ground. The flashing blue lights. Strong hands lifting me… I open my eyes, and the memories rush into focus. As if emerging from deep water, I blink in the bright, white light of what, I realise slowly, must be a hospital ward.

The low hum of the monitor next to the bed should be reassuring. The soft, thick blanket a kindly nurse has tucked around me should feel comforting. But all I can think about is my darling son. And the secret I have kept from him for all these years.

I have never – could never – tell anyone who Billy’s father was. I was hiding the truth to protect us.

I’ve never allowed myself to think about what would happen to my precious child if something terrible happened to me. If I had to say goodbye… And now it might be too late.

That man, his dad, who once meant everything to me, could be our only hope. But telling the truth is the one thing I have been afraid of. Will my secret tear us apart forever, or be the thing that finally saves us?

Author Bio:
Ali decided she wanted to be a writer early on and wrote her first novel when she was at primary school. She did an English degree and spent her early twenties working in various jobs in journalism, including as a reporter for the showbusiness newspaper The Stage. She started writing fiction in earnest after getting married, moving out of London to the Oxfordshire market town of Abingdon and starting a family. She has two children, a daughter and a son who is autistic and was diagnosed when he was four years old.

Title: Inside Threat
Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK only.

Website: http://rogerapriceauthor.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RAPriceAuthor

Book Blurb::
Meet DS Martin Draker from the North West’s Regional Organised Crime Unit.
A top informant tells Martin that a corrupt police official who is passing sensitive intelligence to criminal Dan Manning, is importing heroin from India.

The informant goes missing.

Field analyst Cath is investigating an upsurge in deaths caused by a new drug – Sky White.
Manning leaves a body in a burnt-out car. The missing informant? He also leaves a note threatening more deaths unless the cops back away.

Cath launches a TV appeal warning of the dangers of Sky White. Manning is incensed; she could kill the new drug’s market before it gets going. He must stop her.

The story flows between Preston, Blackpool, Manchester and India: the cops are in a race to catch Manning before the body count increases. Manning is in a race to kill Cath and anyone else who gets in his way; cop or otherwise.

These races crash together in a denouement which will shock you: followed by a final twist that will stun you even further.

Author Bio:
I was born in Bury, raised in Whitley Bay, and have lived in Lancashire since I was thirteen. Currently living in Preston, I served for over thirty-one years with the Lancashire Constabulary, the Regional Crime Squad and the National Crime Squad.

I retired in the rank of detective inspector in charge of a covert unit, which received local and national acclaim for its successes in engaging those who openly sold Class A drugs, such as heroin and crack cocaine.
Prior to this I led the C.I.D. in Preston for a short while and before that I was in charge of a dedicated informant unit. Previous experiences include work on many murder investigations and other serious crimes, as well as time spent on drug squads.
I have served around the region, country, and overseas. My work on the National Crime Squad took me across Europe and to the Far East. I have been commended on four occasions.
I now write fiction based in-part on my experiences, and in-part from my fevered imagination.
I write full time, and in addition to my crime novels I am developing a TV crime drama titled 'BRISTOL FIVE-0' featuring a crime duo who are trouble-shooters with a difference.

Title: The Village Hall vendetta
Genre: Cosy Crime
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JDWhitelaw13

Book Blurb:
Hal Mulberry has long dreamt of owning the iconic painting, Buttermere at Dawn. And now the entrepreneur has got his hands on it, he’s determined to bring it back to the Lakes where it belongs and put it on show, turning Penrith Village Hall into a cultural hotspot – with the painting at its heart.

Journalist Jason Brazel is delighted to get the exclusive. Even if his mother in law, Amita, thinks he’s making a fuss about an ugly piece of modern art. But when Amita uncovers a theory that the painting is cursed, she wonders just what Hal is bringing to their door: hex, hoax or dirty-deal?

While the great and the good gather for the unveiling, someone’s got murder on their mind. And it’s up to Jason and Amita to find who is trying to put people out of the picture … permanently.

Author Biog:
Jonathan Whitelaw is a writer, award-winning journalist and broadcaster. After working on the frontline of Scottish politics, he moved into journalism, covering everything from sports to music to radioactive waste – and everything in between. He's also a regular reviewer, podcaster, panellist and commentator.

John Tyler Trilogy

Title 1: Anthrax Island
Genre: Thriller Espionage
Format: Paperback

Title 2: Black Run
Genre: Thriller Espionage
Format: Paperback

Title 3: 77 North
Genre: Thriller Espionage
Format: Paperback

Dedication sAvailable: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

*Bonus: Danny will be adding posters, postcards, coasters , and lots of other goodies for his successful bidder*

Website: https://www.canelo.co/authors/d-l-marshall
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DLMWrites

Book 1 Blurb:
FACT: In 1942, in growing desperation at the progress of the war and fearing invasion by the Nazis, the UK government approved biological weapons tests on British soil. Their aim: to perfect an anthrax weapon destined for Germany. They succeeded.

FACT: Though the attack was never launched, the testing ground, Gruinard Island, was left lethally contaminated. It became known as Anthrax Island.

Now government scientists have returned to the island. They become stranded by an equipment failure and so John Tyler is flown in to fix the problem. He quickly discovers there’s more than research going on. When one of the scientists is found impossibly murdered inside a sealed room, Tyler realises he’s trapped with a killer...

Book 2 Blurb:
John Tyler has a new mission: capture a heavily protected target from the Alps and smuggle him back into the UK – alive.

La Rochelle in the dead of night: Tyler boards the Tiburon, a rusting freighter crewed by smugglers and mercenaries, for the last leg of his journey. But he is short on time. His mark’s security team has pursued him across France, determined to retrieve their boss, and they won’t be deterred by an ocean. The race is on.

Tyler heads into the Bay of Biscay in a storm, with a pursuing boat snapping at his heels. But when his prisoner is found murdered inside a sealed hold on the ship, everyone on board becomes a suspect. In the flickering light of the Tiburon’s passageways there’s nowhere to run, but everywhere to hide.

Some might think the situation is spiralling out of control, but they don’t know John Tyler…

Book 3 Blurb:
An agent the world thinks is dead can be useful. John Tyler has gone rogue, pursuing an international vendetta against those responsible for killing his brother.

But he’s lured back by the CIA for one final mission to wipe the slate clean. Simple, for a man like Tyler: journey to an old Soviet-era hotel on an ice-locked island in the frozen wastes of Siberia to obtain information from a Russian scientist about a double agent within NATO. But strange things are afoot, events related to the hotel’s grisly past and the KGB’s Cold war experiments into psychic phenomena...

Unexplained deaths revolve around the scientist, and with enemies from Tyler’s own past emerging from the rotting woodwork, he must fight to keep the man alive against the odds. But a killer stalks the hotel’s dilapidated corridors, able, apparently, to kill through concrete walls and sealed doors. As Tyler homes in on the NATO double agent, he quickly realises nothing is as it seems, no-one can be trusted, and his own past is coming back to haunt him...

Author Bio:
D. L. Marshall was born and raised in Halifax, West Yorkshire. Influenced by the dark industrial architecture, steep wooded valleys, and bleak Pennine moors, he writes thrillers tinged with horror, exploring the impact of geography and isolation. In 2016 he pitched at Bloody Scotland. In 2018 he won a Northern Writers’ Award for his thriller novel Anthrax Island.