Title: Kindness Rocks
Genre: Children
Format: Hardback - (First Edition)
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Bids Accepted: UK Only

The Book;
A heartwarming self-discovery journey where a rock star learns that the path to true fulfillment is paved with acts of compassion and connection.

Meet Jonny Heart, a rock star whose melodies bring happiness to all who hear them. When offered stardom by the charismatic Fat Cat, Jonny dives into a whirlwind of fame, glitter, and music. Yet, amidst the glitz, Jonny begins to miss the simple joys of life. An unexpected encounter with Busky Soul, a homeless bear, sets Jonny on an extraordinary journey, as he bridges his passion for music with the power of compassion.

Author Sheryl Webster and illustrator Robert García beautifully unfold a heartwarming tale that inspires readers of all ages to spread joy through acts of kindness. Join Jonny on his quest of self-discovery, and let this enchanting story remind you that sometimes, the smallest gestures can create the most significant impact.

The Author:
Sheryl is a children's author from Liverpool, where she lives, not far from the River Mersey, with her husband and four children.
She writes books that are dynamic, witty and heartwarming, and that will empower, inspire and make a difference - by informing and creating awareness of important issues.
Before becoming a children’s author, she gained a degree in Psychology and English, then taught in elementary/primary schools for several years.
During a career break to have her first child, her first picture book was published. She now has over 30+ titles published and translated worldwide.
A big highlight for her was having her picture book, 'Kindness Rocks,' featured on a billboard in Times Square, NYC.
​Now that her small brood of children are not so small, Sheryl writes full time, and is enjoying writing more than ever!
She finds inspiration for her stories in lots of things, but especially through music, which she feels is the universal language of us all.
Just like a good book, music can be a source of inspiration and expression!

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*THREE BOOK BONANZA
Book 1: Tell Me A Secret
Book 2: Faking Friends
Book 3: Worst Idea Ever

Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Format: Paperbacks
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Bids Accepted: Global

Book 1: Tell Me A Secret
Best friends Holly and Roz tell each other everything.

So when Holly gets a shot at her dream job she assumes Roz will be waiting to pop the champagne.

But is she just imagining things or is Roz not quite as happy as she should be?

And now she thinks about it, a few things don't quite add up...

Perhaps it was a mistake to tell Roz all her secrets.

Because it takes two to tango. But only one to start a war...

Book 2: Faking Friends
Amy thought she knew everything there was to know about her best friend Melissa. Then again, Amy also thought she was on the verge of the wedding of her dreams to her long-distance fiancé.

Until she pays a surprise trip home to London. Jack is out, but it's clear another woman has been making herself at home in their flat.

There's something about her stuff that feels oddly familiar . . . and then it hits Amy. The Other Woman is Melissa.

Amy has lost her home, her fiancé and her best friend in one disastrous weekend - but instead of falling apart, she's determined to get her own back.

Piecing her life back together won't be half as fun as dismantling theirs, after all.

Book 3: Worst Idea Ever
Best friends tell each other everything. Or do they?

Georgia and Lydia are so close, they're practically sisters.

So when Lydia starts an online business that struggles, Georgia wants to help her - but Lydia's not the kind to accept a handout. Setting up a fake Twitter account, Georgia hopes to give her friend some anonymous moral support by posing as a potential customer.

But then Lydia starts confiding in her new internet buddy and Georgia discovers she doesn't know her quite as well as she thought. Georgia knows she should reveal the truth - especially when Lydia starts talking about her - but she just can't help herself.

Until Lydia reveals a secret that could not only end their friendship, but also blow-up Georgia's marriage . . .

Georgia's in too deep.

But what can she save?

Her marriage, her friendship - or just herself?

The Author:
Jane Fallon is an English producer and novelist, most famous for her work on popular series Teachers, 20 Things To Do Before You're 30, Eastenders and This Life. She is author of thirteen novels on the Sunday Times Bestseller List — Getting Rid of Matthew, Got You Back, Foursome, The Ugly Sister, Skeletons, Strictly Between Us, My Sweet Revenge, Faking Friends, Tell Me A Secret, and Queen Bee, Worst Idea Ever, Just Got Real, and Over Sharing. In 2011, Foursome was nominated for the Melissa Nathan Award for Romantic Comedy Fiction, and in 2018, Faking Friends was nominated in the popular fiction category of the National Book Awards and in 2019 was long listed for the Comedy Women In Print prize.

Fallon has been in a relationship with popular comedian Ricky Gervais since 1982, after they met while studying together at the University College London. The couple has lived together since 1984 and are based in North London.

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Book Title: A Very Private School
Genre: Royal Historical Biography
Format: Hardback
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The Book:
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

"A tour de force." --The Washington Post

In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend boarding school.

A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Charles Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt at aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness and the appalling inescapability of it all. Exploring the long-lasting impact of his experiences, Spencer presents a candid reckoning with his past and a reclamation of his childhood. And now, in a new afterword, Spencer reflects on the aftermath of his memoir's publication, including the outpouring of support and solidarity from fellow abuse survivors.

The Author:
Charles Spencer is an author, historian, public speaker, broadcaster and journalist. He is also the 9th Earl Spencer.

Charles Spencer is the author of seven non-fiction books, including three Sunday Times bestsellers: Blenheim, Battle for Europe, which was shortlisted for Historical Book of the Year at the 2005 National Book Awards; Killers of the King – which was the second highest selling History book in the UK in 2014; and The White Ship, the No. 1 bestseller on Amazon.

He has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of events in the UK, India, USA, South Africa, France, Australia, Canada, Spain, Portugal and New Zealand.

As a broadcaster, Charles Spencer worked for NBC News as an on-air correspondent from 1986 to 1995. He has been a reporter for Granada Television, has presented for the History Channel, and has appeared on many occasions as an expert on the BBC.

As a print journalist he has written in the UK for The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday, The Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph, and others. In the United States he has written for Vanity Fair, Veranda, and Nest magazines.

Charles Spencer was educated at Eton, and at Oxford University, where he earned his MA in Modern History.

Most recently, Charles Spencer has enjoyed success with ‘The Rabbit Hole Detectives’, – his new podcast presented alongside Dr Cat Jarman, and the Rev. Richard Coles – which takes listeners on a fascinating dive into the origins of real and symbolic historical objects.

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Title: The Marble Hall Murders
Genre: Crime
Format: Hardback
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Bids Accepted: Global

The Book;
Susan Ryeland has had enough of murder.

She’s edited two novels about the famous detective, Atticus Pünd, and both times she’s come close to being killed. Now she’s back in England and she’s been persuaded to work on a third.

The new ‘continuation’ novel is by Eliot Crace, grandson of Miriam Crace who was the biggest selling children’s author in the world until her death exactly twenty years ago.

Eliot believes that Miriam was deliberately poisoned. And when he tells Susan that he has hidden the identity of Miriam’s killer inside his book, Susan knows she’s in trouble once again.

As Susan works on Pünd’s Last Case, a story set in an exotic villa in the South of France, she uncovers more and more parallels between the past and the present, the fictional and the real world – until suddenly she finds that she has become a target herself.

It seems that someone in Eliot’s family doesn’t want the book to be written. And they will do anything to prevent it.

The Author:
Anthony John Horowitz is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His works for children and young adult readers include the Alex Rider series featuring a 14-year-old British boy who spies for MI6, The Power of Five series (known as The Gatekeepers in the US), and The Diamond Brothers series.

Horowitz's works for adults include: the play Mindgame (2001); two Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk (2011) and Moriarty (2014); three novels featuring his own detectives Atticus Pünd and Susan Ryeland, Magpie Murders (2016), Moonflower Murders (2020), and Marble Hall Murders (2025); five novels featuring a fictionalised version of himself as a companion and chronicler to private investigator Daniel Hawthorne: The Word Is Murder (2017), The Sentence Is Death (2018), A Line to Kill (2021), The Twist of a Knife (2022), and Close to Death (2024).

The estate of James Bond creator Ian Fleming chose Horowitz to write Bond novels utilising unpublished material by Fleming, starting with Trigger Mortis in 2015, followed by Forever and a Day in 2018, and a third and final novel With a Mind to Kill in May 2022.

Horowitz has also written for television, contributing scripts to ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot and adapting six early episodes of Midsomer Murders from the novels of Caroline Graham, including the first three episodes. He was the creator and writer of the ITV series Foyle's War, Collision and Injustice, and the BBC series Crime Traveller and New Blood.

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Title: Emperor of Rome
Genre: History
Format: Hardback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

The Book:
In her customary lively yet scholarly style, the eminent historian and author of SPQR presents an authoritative account of the role of Roman Emperor and the colourful personalities who occupied that position over the centuries.

In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome.

Now, she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled the Roman empire, from Julius Caesar (assassinated 44 BCE) to Alexander Severus (assassinated 235 CE). Emperor of Rome is not your usual chronological account of Roman rulers, one after another: the mad Caligula, the monster Nero, the philosopher Marcus Aurelius.

Beard asks bigger questions: What power did emperors actually have? Was the Roman palace really so bloodstained? Emperor of Rome goes directly to the heart of Roman (and our own) fantasies about what it was to be Roman, offering an account of Roman history as it has never been presented before.


The Author:
Dame Winifred Mary Beard, DBE, FSA, FBA (born 1 January 1955) is an English scholar of Ancient Roman civilisation. The New Yorker characterises her as "learned but accessible".

Dame Mary is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, a fellow of Newnham College, and Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature. She is the Classics editor of The Times Literary Supplement, where she also writes a regular blog, "A Don's Life". Her frequent media appearances and sometimes controversial public statements have led to her being described as "Britain's best-known classicist."

Dame Mary was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours and a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to the study of classical civilisations.

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Book Title: The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It
Genre: History; Non-Fiction
Format: Hardback (First Edition)
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Bids Accepted: Worldwide

The Book :
For centuries, men have been writing histories of antiquity filled with warlords, emperors and kings. But when it comes to incorporating women aside from Cleopatra and Boudica, writers have been more comfortable describing mythical heroines than real ones. While Penelope and Helen of Troy live on in the imagination, their real-life counterparts have been relegated to the margins. In The Missing Thread, Daisy Dunn inverts this tradition and puts the women of history at the centre of the narrative.

These pages present Enheduanna, the earliest named author, the poet Sappho and Telesilla, who defended her city from attack. Here is Artemisia, sole female commander in the Graeco-Persian Wars, and Cynisca, the first female victor at the Olympic Games. Cleopatra may be the more famous, but Fulvia, Mark Antony's wife, fought a war on his behalf. Many other women remain nameless but integral. Through new examination of the sources combined with vivid storytelling Daisy Dunn shows us the ancient world through fresh eyes, and introduces us to an incredible cast of ancient women, weavers of an entire world.

The Author:
Daisy Dunn is an award-winning classicist and author of seven books. She read Classics at Oxford and received her PhD from UCL.

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Title: One Summer in Provence
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Format: Paperback
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Bids Accepted: Global

The Book;
A season of secrets…
Celia Grey appears to have the perfect life: married to Dominic, the man of her dreams, and living on a glorious, thriving vineyard in the south of France. To celebrate their good fortune, she decides to throw a huge party.
When she is contacted by a stranger who claims to be her long-lost son, David, the newborn she gave up at twenty and has never spoken of since, Celia impulsively invites him for the weekend of celebrations – without mentioning it to her husband.
Despite his surprise, Dominic graciously welcomes David and his unexpected companion – but secretly he harbours doubts. Is David really Celia’s son? And who is the mysterious young woman travelling with him?
Only Celia can decide how far she will go to hold everything together, to keep her perfect life from unravelling…
One Summer in Provence is a story of betrayal and belonging, and of discovering love in unexpected places.

The Author:
Carol Drinkwater is probably best known for her role as Helen Herriot in the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small. Also an accomplished novelist, she has achieved bestselling status with her much-loved memoirs of life on an olive farm in Provence.

Carol has been invited to work with UNESCO to help found an Olive Heritage Trail around the Mediterranean Basin. The aim is to create peace within the region and honour the heritage of this sacred tree.

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*Clare is adding a signed book for her successful bidder
Title: Agent Zo
Genre: History - Biography
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo, told here for the very first time. Agent Zo was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw during the Second World War as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command, and then in Britain she became the only woman to join the Polish elite Special Forces, known as the 'Silent Unseen'. She was secretly trained in the British countryside, and then the only female member of these SOE affiliated forces to be parachuted back behind enemy lines to Nazi-occupied Poland. There, whilst being hunted by the Gestapo who arrested her entire family, she took a leading role in the Warsaw Uprising and the liberation of Poland.

After the war she was demobbed as one of the most highly decorated women in Polish history. Yet the Soviet-backed post-war Communist regime not only imprisoned her, but also ensured that her remarkable story remained hidden for over forty years. Now, through new archival research and exclusive interviews with people who knew and fought alongside Zo, Clare Mulley brings this forgotten heroine back to life, and also transforms how we see the history of women's agency in the Second World War.

The Author:
CLARE MULLEY is the award-winning author of 'The Woman Who Saved the Children', which won the Daily Mail Biographers' Club Prize, and 'The Spy Who Loved', now optioned by Universal Studios.

Clare's third book, 'The Women Who Flew for Hitler', long-listed for the Historical Writers Association prize, is a dual biography of two extraordinary women at the heart of the Third Reich, but who ended their lives on opposite sides of history.

A regular contributor to TV and radio, Clare recently gave a TEDx talk at Stormont, and lectures in London and Paris on wartime female special agents. She also reviews non-fiction for the Telegraph, Spectator and History Today.

Clare is very nosy, which is helpful for a biographer seeking the truth - or many truths - of people in the dusty files of public archives and between the lines of once private letters. She also loves long walks, chocolate, and her naughty dog, Lola the lurcher.

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Title: Secrets of the Starlit Sea
Genre: Romance/ Time Travel
Format: Hardback
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Bids Accepted: Global

The Book;
ONE FATEFUL NIGHT.
ONE FINAL PROMISE...

The moment psychic detective Pixie Tate steps inside the opulent Aldershoff Hotel in Manhattan, one of the last relics of New York's Gilded Age, she senses instantly that a dark spirit is wreaking havoc within its elegant walls.

Pixie knows that she must use her unique gift to travel back in time in order to discover the secrets of the past, and as she slips back over a hundred years, she's shocked to find herself in the midst of one of the most famous events in history.

As the stars twinkle overhead, Pixie realises that time is running out. But when she comes face-to-face with a man she thought she'd lost forever, will she keep her promise to save only the souls she should - or is it too late, and has she already changed the future?


The Author:
Santa Montefiore is the number one bestselling author of over thirty novels and has sold over six million copies worldwide. Her books have been translated into twenty-five languages and she won an RNA Award for The Temptation of Gracie in 2019, which is currently in development for film. Born in England in 1970, she grew up in Hampshire and now lives in London with her husband, writer Simon Sebag-Montefiore, their daughter Lilochka, son Sasha, and dog Simba.

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Title: Cook. Eat, Repeat
Genre: Food & Drink
Format: Hardback
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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.

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Title: In a Land Far, Far Away, You... a partner yoga adventure where you choose what happens!
Genre: Children
Format: Picture book
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The Book;
What is more fun than a yoga story book? A partner yoga story book!
The third book in the Once Upon a Time, You... series, where you choose what happens with the Flying Horse and its Foal, the Golden Eagle and its Fledgling, or the Dragon.
A different way to practice yoga together, with a grown-up, a friend, a sibling, or even in a group!

The Author:
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.

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TITLE: Secret Lives of the Dead
GENRE: Horror
FORMAT: Trade paperback
Dedication available: Yes
Postage: Global

The Book
A dark folk horror tale of a deadly family curse, crime and murder that is sure to turn your blood cold, from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Netflix's The Silence.

When Jodi, BB and Matt decide to burgle a derelict country home as a thrilling dare, they become embroiled in a twisted legacy of supernatural terror. There are rumours of a bizarre curse hanging over the hoard of antiques and jewellery within the house. And unbeknownst to the others, one member of the trio has darker motives for breaking into the property.

Lem is a brutal man obsessed with a gruesome family legend. He is determined to right the wrongs of the past and lift the curse placed on his bloodline. By completing the work of his father and bringing a bizarre selection of scattered relics back together, he hopes to be free of the malign influence that has hounded every generation of his family for two centuries.

Across a single day a deadly pursuit will culminate on the desolate, storm-swept Crow Island, and those involved are given cause to wonder… can believing in a curse deeply enough bring its own bad luck?

The Author
Tim Lebbon is a British horror and dark fantasy writer.
Lebbon's short story ″Reconstructing Amy″ won the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction in 2001, his novel Dusk won the 2007 August Derleth Award from the British Fantasy Society for best novel of the year.
His novelization of the film 30 Days of Night became a New York Times bestseller and won a Scribe Award in 2008.

The film Pay the Ghost (2015) directed by Uli Edel and starring Nicolas Cage is based on Lebbon's short story of the same name.
The Silence was made into a film by John R. Leonetti and was released 10 April 2019 on Netflix.
Lebbon also made a cameo as a corpse in the film.

His Firefly novel Generations (fourth in series) won the 2021 Dragon Award for Best Media Tie-In Novel.

Book Title: Warrior Princess, Errant Page
Book Genre: YA Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: Yes
Free Postage: Global

The Book:
Warrior Princess, Errant Page is a fantastic YA historical novel and is
set in the days when Good King Wenceslas ruled Bohemia. The story of Emma, the warrior princess, and Podevin, the errant page, is told against a background of tenth-century court intrigue, personality clashes, and warfare.

Can a 22-year-old page and bodyguard avenge the death of his assassinated king, while being hunted as an outlaw?

Can an Anglo-Saxon princess, stuck hundreds of miles from home in a foreign court, follow her heart when her husband does not want her?

Will Emma and Podevin be able to find a secure future in such a deadly, dangerous world?

The Author:
Nigel was originally a Shropshire lad, being born and raised in Shrewsbury. Having gained a BSc from Loughborough University and a PGCE from Bath, his teaching career took him from the south-west of England to Teesside via Botswana, Africa. Following his PhD in Durham, he published his non-fiction book ‘Engaging Politics?’ in 2007 (as Nigel W. Oakley) and served as World Development Officer for the Diocese of Durham for five years.

Since moving back to the Midlands, he has concentrated on writing fiction. ‘Warrior Princess, Errant Page’, the first novel in the Premyslid Chronicles, will be published with Resolute Books in the Spring of 2025. Warrior Princess, Errant Page is about Good King Wenceslas’s page and sprung from a conversation with his son after the school Christmas Concert; having sung about God King Wenceslas, he wanted to know “who the page was” in that carol. Nigel’s research led him to a name: Podevin, and a story about an assassination, a connection with the warrior grand-daughter of King Alfred the Great, and a life in exile …

To ensure he keeps his creative muscles in trim, Nigel also produces a short story every month and regularly puts them on his website, where readers can also hear him read those stories.


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Title: Spring at Taigh Fallon
Genre: Contemporary romance/dual time line
Format: Paperback
Dedication is Available
Bids Accepted: UK only

The Book:
Escape to the Scottish Highlands for page-turning romance, secrets and sunshine this summer.

When designer Angel Tempest agrees to help her friend Zac inspect his surprise inheritance, she expects a peaceful break in the Scottish Highlands. Instead, she finds a crumbling estate and Kyle Fallon, Zac’s brooding, bossy Canadian cousin.

Angel is frustrated by Kyle’s attitude — and the way his rugged looks and intense eyes distract her.

Kyle isn’t thrilled to be back in Scotland. He’s only here to settle family business, not clash with a beautiful but sharp-tongued designer who has wild ideas for the house he’s half-inherited.

As they navigate conflicting visions for the estate, tensions rise between Angel and Kyle — and so does the chemistry.

And when long-kept secrets of the house emerge, what started as a reluctant partnership turns into something neither of them saw coming.

This spellbinding slow burn, enemies-to-lovers Scottish romance is perfect for fans of Sarah Morgan, Donna Ashcroft, Sarah Bennett or Ellie Henderson.

The Author:

Kirsty is from the North East of England and won the English Heritage/Belsay Hall National Creative Writing competition in 2009 with the ghostly tale 'Enchantment'.

Her timeslip novel, 'Some Veil Did Fall', a paranormal romance set in Whitby, was published by Choc Lit in Autumn 2014, and her books are now published by Joffe Books, winners of the IPG Trade Publisher of the Year in 2023. The experience of signing 'Some Veil Did Fall' in a quirky bookshop in the midst of Goth Weekend in Whitby, dressed as a recently undead person was one of the highlights of her writing career so far!

Kirsty's first timeslip novel 'The Memory of Snow', was commended in the Northern Writers' Awards, and she also writes Gothic Fiction under the pen name Cathryn Ramsay.

Kirsty has had articles and short stories published in various magazines and graduated from Northumbria University in December 2016, having achieved a Masters with Distinction in Creative Writing.

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Title: Thirst
Genre: Young Adult/Paranormal
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Nobody talks about the strange happenings in Maimsbury. No one speaks of the hooded figures glimpsed in the woods, nor the children's game that went so horribly wrong. But most of all, nobody dares whisper their doubts about the river they have worshipped for centuries.

Like everyone in Maimsbury, Gorse is used to the sacrifices made every spring to the River Yeelde. The life of a farm animal - in return for a year of plenty - seems a fair trade. That is, until a tragedy leads Gorse to a blood-curdling discovery.

Because this year is a Brim Year, and after giving so much, the river needs more than an animal's life to sate its thirst...

The Author:
I’m Darren Simpson and I write vivid, unruly fiction for older children and teens. I’m also a Literacy Champion for the National Literacy Trust, and love visiting schools to nurture passion for reading and writing.

My debut novel, Scavengers, was a Guardian Best Book of the Year, and was selected for the national Summer Reading Challenge. The Memory Thieves was an Observer Book of the Month and a World Book Day Summer Read. My latest book, Furthermoor, was Blackwell’s Children’s Book of the Month and a Waterstones Best Book of the Year. I’ve been lucky enough to see my stories win awards and get translated into several languages, and have been nominated twice for the prestigious Carnegie Medal.

My latest novel, Thirst, was published in September.

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Book Title: Dancing In The Moonlight
Book Genre: Romance
Format: Paperback
Dedication available: Yes
Postage: Global

Book Blurb:

When dancer Nell Avery auditions for Speakeasy, a new West End musical, she is shocked to discover that the choreographer is Finn Harris, a man she never expected to see again.

Ten years ago, Nell and Finn had a casual, no-strings fling. He left London to work abroad. Nell found herself pregnant.

Having made the decision to raise her child alone, Nell didn’t tell Finn that he was the father, a secret easy for her to keep while he was hundreds of miles away. But now Finn is back – and he offers Nell a role in Speakeasy’s cast.

Nell knows if she takes the job she risks Finn finding out her secret, with unimaginable consequences for the life she has made for herself and her daughter, Savannah. But Speakeasy could be Nell’s only chance of dancing on a West End stage – the dream she’s had ever since she first put on a pair of tap shoes. How can she give up her dream?

Nell accepts the role, telling herself that all she has to do is keep away from Finn . . .

Author bio

Lynne Shelby writes contemporary and dual-timeline women’s fiction/romance. Her debut novel, ‘Meet Me In Paris,' (originally titled French Kissing), won the Accent Press and Woman magazine Writing Competition, and her fifth novel, Love On Location, was shortlisted for a Romantic Novelists' Award. When not writing or reading, Lynne can usually be found at the theatre or exploring a foreign city, writer's notebook and sketchbook in hand.

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* Anne is offering a named character in the final Hannah Weybridge story for her successful bidder*

Title: Murder in the Lady Chapel
Genre: Crime Thriller - Mystery
Format: Paperback
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Bids Accepted: UK Only

The Book;
“All that is now hidden will some day come to light. If you have ears, listen! And be sure to put into practice what you hear.” Mark 4, verse 22


A chorister is found dying in the Lady Chapel when the Reverend Peter Savage is about to begin morning prayers. It’s a suspicious death and no one seems to know much about the victim. The vicar implores Hannah Weybridge to find out what she can.

Little did the journalist know that this investigation would have her joining the choir in preparation for the Christmas services or that her daughter, Elizabeth, would be so enchanted by the church.

Hannah soon discovers that the deceased, Daniel Lyons, seems to be a man without a history and that’s suspicious in itself. Apparently, an insurance fraud investigator, he leaves no records: even his landlady knows little about him.

But, as Hannah discovers, someone does know him – and he was definitely not who he seemed to be…

And while she investigates, someone is trying to intimidate Hannah in a series of seemingly unconnected ways. The past as well as the present haunts her. Will she be able to solve the mystery before Christmas is ruined?

The Author:
As I am writing the seventh and final book I realise how fortunate I am to be doing something I love. Authors often go through periods when they feel like giving up but the thought of not writing spurs them on. Writing and creating Hannah Weybridge's world in 1990s London has been a fabulous experience for me especially when characters, who have become my imaginary friends, take me on so many unexpected journeys. And then there are those precious moments when a reader tells you how much they enjoyed your last book or a friend says how much they are looking forward to your next book and any doubts evaporate – for the time being!

Writing short stories was my way into fiction and I had those published in major women's magazines as I continued as a freelance journalist, working on national newspapers, magazines and in-house publications, as as an editor for Reader's Digest abridging fiction and narrative non-fiction. My journalism and editing have both inspired ideas for for my crime thrillers as well as my seven non-fiction books with various publishers.

I live in SE London where I sing in a church choir and am a trustee for the Dulwich Festival. I enjoy theatre and cinema and socialising with family and friends

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Title: The Woman in Ward 9
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Format: Paperback
Dedicated is Available
Bids Accepted: Global

The Book:
Laura Winters doesn't know why she has lost her memory, or why she was found alone, soaked in someone else's blood.

The only thing she is certain of is that I am the only psychologist she can - or will - talk to.

I have six days to help Laura unlock her memories and find out the truth.

But what has she forgotten - and what is she hiding?

And how does she know so much about me?

With tension you could cut with a knife and twists that will have your head spinning, The Woman in Ward 9 is sure to keep you reading late into the night.

The Author:
Naomi is originally from Yorkshire, but now live in the London suburbs. she started her career teaching English and Drama and now writes full time. The Woman in Ward 9 is her first psychological thriller, and if you enjoy it, look out for The Eye Witness, which is out in 2026.

Naomi also write family dramas under the name Lisa Timoney and uplifting book club novels as Kate Storey.

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* Alex is adding some spooky extras to her lot*

Title: Spooksmiths Investigate: Circus of Shadows
Genre: Children-Middle Grade
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Roll up, roll up to be terrified out of your wits at the Circus of Shadows!
Run in horror from the phantom clown...
Meet a man made of flies on a real ghost train...
But scariest of all, hide from Hell Mary and her rings made of teeth. Because she has a deadly deal for you...

Spooksmiths Indigo and Rusty can speak to the dead and know how to fight dangerous ghosts. But now powerful spirit Hell Mary has kidnapped their parents - and if they don't agree to track down her cursed crystal ball by sunrise, she'll trap them all in her haunted circus for ever. Will their Spooksmith skills be enough to beat her?

The Author:
Alex Atkinson loves scary books filled with oddball characters. She blames her idyllic North Yorkshire childhood spent playing murder-in-the-dark and listening to her dad’s blood-curdling bedtime stories.

After studying English and Politics at Newcastle University, she worked as a website content editor. She lives in a village in Hertfordshire with her husband, kids and dogs, but dreams of abandoned buildings, ghosts and zombies.

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Title: Blood Whir & Blue
Genre: Political Thriller - Espionage
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
In this gripping spy thriller, post-Brexit tensions are high across the UK, and the fate of the nation is in the hands of a desperate agent.

Britain is a hotbed of racial discord and economic uncertainty. Only Sir Geoffrey Hartnell, an ageing but hugely respected Member of Parliament, can ease tensions. But as tenuous talks begin, a ghost from the past threatens to bring the UK to its knees.

Lucie Musilova is a young woman running out of places to hide. Half-British, half-Czech and rejected by both countries in the aftermath of Brexit, she has no choice but to accept an assignment with a secret branch of intelligence services. As the Hartnel case—and her mysterious role in it—spiral out of control, one false move could cost future of the nation . . . not to mention Lucie’s life.

The Author:
I'm an author of Political/Spy Thrillers and SciFi, influenced by my passion for the history and culture of Slovakia and the Czech Republic, and my love of the Cold War stories of John le Carre, Ian Fleming et al.

My first two novels, 'Escape to Perdition' and 'The Prague Ultimatum', make up the 'Prague Thrillers' series, which I followed with the 'Lucie Musilova' Thrillers - 'Blood, White and Blue' and 'Sealed with a Death'. All books are published by those lovely folk at Bloodhound Books.

Away from Thrillers, I'm a short story author and contributing editor of unofficial SciFi fan-fiction collections, written to raise money for a variety of charitable causes, and am an unashamedly woke, Brexit hating Lefty.

I was born, raised and live today in God's own city of Manchester.

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Title: The Cure
Genre: Speculative Thriller
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Living forever can be lethal…

Ruth is a law-abiding elder, working out her national service, but she has secrets.

Her tireless research into the disease that killed her young daughter had an unexpected outcome: the discovery of a vaccine against old age. Just one jab a year reverses your biological clock, guaranteeing a long, healthy life.

But Ruth's cure was hijacked by her colleague, Erik Grundleger, who hungers for immortality, and the SuperJuve – a premium upgrade – was created, driving human lifespan to a new high. The wealthy elite who take it are dubbed Supers, and the population begins to skyrocket.

Then, a perilous side-effect of the SuperJuve emerges, with catastrophic consequences, and as the planet is threatened, the population rebels, and laws are passed to restore order: life ends at 120. Supers are tracked down by Omnicide investigators like Mara, and executed…

Mara has her own reasons for hunting Supers, and she forms an unlikely alliance with Ruth to find Grundleger.

But Grundleger has been working on something even more radical and is one step ahead, with a deadly surprise in store for them both…

The Author:
Eve Smith writes speculative fiction, mainly about the things that scare her.

In this world of questionable facts and news, she believes storytelling can be a powerful way to engage people in real life issues.

Longlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize and described by British bookshop chain Waterstones as: "an exciting new voice in crime fiction", Eve's debut novel The Waiting Rooms, set during an antibiotic crisis, was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize First Novel Award and selected as a Guardian book of the month.

Her second thriller, Off Target, imagines a world where genetic engineering of children has become the norm.

It was a Times book of the month who described it as "an astute, well-researched and convincing novel of ideas".

Her third thriller, ONE, longlisted for Best Novel in the British Science Fiction Association Awards was described as "pleasingly terrifying" by New Scientist. It is set in a one-child policy Britain that has been ravaged by the climate crisis.

Her latest novel, THE CURE, out in April, explores the catastrophic consequences of a cure for ageing which is hijacked by immortalist obsessives.

Eve’s previous job as COO of an environmental charity took her to research projects across Asia, Africa and the Americas, and she has an ongoing passion for wild creatures, wild science and far-flung places.

When she’s not writing, she’s chasing across fields after her dog, attempting to organise herself and her family or off exploring somewhere new.

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Title: Victoria & Abdul
Genre: History/Biography
Format: Paperback
Signed: Yes, dedication is available
Bids Accepted: UK Only

The Book;
The tall, handsome Abdul Karim was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables during Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. An assistant clerk at Agra Central Jail, he suddenly found himself a personal attendant to the Empress of India herself. Within a year, he was established as a powerful figure at court, becoming the queen's teacher, or Munshi, and instructing her in Urdu and Indian affairs. Devastated by the death of John Brown, her Scottish gillie, the queen had at last found his replacement. But her intense and controversial relationship with the Munshi led to a near-revolt in the royal household. Victoria & Abdul examines how a young Indian Muslim came to play a central role at the heart of the Empire, and his influence over the queen at a time when independence movements in the sub-continent were growing in force. Yet, at its heart, it is a tender love story between an ordinary Indian and his elderly queen, a relationship that survived the best attempts to destroy it.


The Author:
Shrabani Basu is an author and a journalist. She was born in Kolkata and grew up in Dhaka, Kathmandu and Delhi. Her books include Victoria & Abdul: The Extraordinary True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant, now a major motion picture, Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan and For King and Another Country: Indian Soldiers on the Western Front, 1914-18. In 2010, she set up the Noor Inayat Khan Memorial Trust and campaigned for a memorial for the Second World War heroine, which was unveiled by Princess Anne in London in November 2012.

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*David is also offering his successful bidder a critique of opening 3 chapters

Title: Pax & The Secret Swarm
Genre: Middle grade dystopian adventure
Format: Paperback
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Bids Accepted: UK Only

The Book;
As New London edges closer to war, Pax must decide what he is prepared to sacrifice to achieve the impossible – a united kingdom.

Pax and his friends head back to Scholastic Parliament for their third and final year, their focus shifting to their plans for the future. Meanwhile, the mayor’s renewed plans in his fight against the Countryside Alliance demand even greater sacrifices from the citizens of New London.

Stumbling upon secrets that could change the fate of New London forever, Pax finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy that threatens him, his friends, and everyone in the city. Can he bear to risk everything he holds dear for the thing he’s always wanted?

A high-stakes sci-fi thriller set in a fractured, futuristic London.

The Author:
Author of the London Falling trilogy (published by Tiny Tree, book one releases in Oct 2023) and the Gold trilogy (Bloodhound Books). A boardgame-loving economist. Can sometimes be found on a surfboard, a tennis court or a golf course but not often on the same day. One third of Radio Berkshire's monthly book club show. Member of the Society of Authors and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

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Title: First nine titles in Scottish Escapes series
Genre: Feel-good romance
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: Yes
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

The Books:
Nine books so far in the feel-good romance Scottish Escapes series, from HarperCollins imprint One More Chapter. All standalone, but come under the Scottish Escapes umbrella title.
A Secret Scottish Escape (2021)
A Scottish Highland Surprise (2022)
The Cottage in the Highlands (2022)
A Scottish Country Escape (2023)
The Highland Lodge Getaway (2023)
The Bookshop by the Loch (2024)
A Scottish Highland Hideaway (2024)
A Scottish Island Summer (2025)
A Scottish Coastal Escape (2025)






Author Bio:
Julie Shackman is a former journalist from Scotland, who has always wanted to write feel-good romance. As well as being an author, Julie also writes verses and captions for greetings card companies. Julie admits to having an obsession with stationery and handbags. She is married, has two sons and adopted a Romanian rescue puppy, Cooper.

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Book Title: Siggy Loves Sausages
Genre: Complex Picture Book
Format: Paperback
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Bids Accepted: UK Only

The Book;
Siggy Loves Sausages
Can Siggy Keep His Word? Will this sweet little sausage dog be able to resist his favourite tasty temptations, stay true to his pledge, and save a Big Birthday Surprise?

Join Siggy, as he learns about the happiness that comes from keeping promises, during his romp through a fast and fabulous adventure that takes him into the deep dark woods, where magic sometimes happens...

The Author;
Brian’s background includes being a “bit of a lawyer,” but prefers writing stories rather than writing writs. His philosophy is that a great book is one that shares the beauty in everyday life. His relatability to children is evident, even if it involves fairies, as is in Siggy and The Phlower Phaeries. Brian’s hope is that his stories provide happiness and enjoyment to his young readers.

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* Claire is offering a named character in her next book*

Title 1: Perfect Lie
Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Paperbacks
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Bids Accepted: UK Only

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, and a dog called Podrick.

Claire suffers from Multiple Sclerosis but that doesn’t stop her writing, releasing her Perfect Lie in 2020 with A Silent Child and A Burning Lie later following.

When Claire isn't working, she enjoys reading crime novels and listening to music - the band Jimmy Eat World is her biggest muse! But she’s really Swiftie at heart.

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.

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* Two Book Special with added bookmarks and stickers
Title 1: Hugg 'n' Bugg: The Race
Title 2: Albert & Christmas
Genre: Children
Format: Picture books
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Bids Accepted: Global

Title 1: Hugg 'n' Bugg: The Race
One day, some leopards are frustrated with the amount of attention Hugg has been receiving. Hoping to take Hugg down a peg or two, the leopards challenge him to a race. Hugg realises he needs Bugg's support more than ever if he wants to beat the competitive leopards to the finish line.

Title 2: Albert & Christmas
Albert the tortoise has never experienced Christmas. He’s always asleep for the winter. When he dreams offestive fun, his garden friends decide to create a special summer ‘not Christmas’ for all to enjoy. The gang get busy making a not very traditional Christmas tree, decorations, gifts, greetings – and even snow. All doesn’t go to plan. Can they pull it off?

The Author:
Ian Brown is a London-based writer and producer for television and former Fleet Street journalist. His TV credits include Top Gear with Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond, The South Bank Show, This Is Your Life with host Michael Aspel, Comic Relief, Take Your Pick with Des O’Connor, Petrolheads with Chris Barrie, Neil Morrissey and Richard Hammond, and the feature documentary Born to Royalty narrated by Hugh Bonneville. He has written or produced for the likes of Pierce Brosnan, Harrison Ford, Simon Cowell, The Simpsons, Tom Jones, Floella Benjamin, George Lucas, Liam Neeson, Martin Scorsese, Bob Monkhouse, Paul Whitehouse, Trevor McDonald, Michael Caine and Bruce Forsyth, among many others. Ian is also the creator and writer of grown-up cartoon series The Bruvs which was animated by Eoin. The Albert series are Ian’s first book titles for children. The Hugg ‘n’ Bugg books have been worked on for years.

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Two Book Special

Title 1: Baby Goz
Genre: Children
Format: Picture Book

Title 2: Count on Goz
Genre: Children
Format: Picture Book

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

Website: https://babygoz.webflow.io
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SteveWeatherill\

Book 1 :
Baby Goz the gosling has just hatched and goes looking for his mother. He sees parts of other animals, such as a long green leg or a wagging brown tail and the reader lifts the flap to see whether the animal is his mum or not. Then he finds her, and it is time for a swim. A very welcome re-issue of the delightful Baby Goz stories, which are perfect for Nursery and Reception age children.'

Book 2 :
Goz goes for his first swim and gets lost. He sets out to find his family and meets other animal families on the way. How many does he meet?

Author Bio:
Steve Weatherill is an author/illustrator and cartoonist. He studied fine art and film-making at Hornsey and the Royal College of Art.

He is best known for the Baby Goz and Lucy Goose books first published by Frances Lincoln and Pan Macmillan and also the History Activity books written with his wife, Susan for b small publishing.

He has visited over a 1000 schools and libraries with his early learning interactive storyplays.

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Title: The Book of Guilt
Genre: Sci-Fi - Dystopian
Format: Paperback
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Bids Accepted: Global

The Book;
After a very different outcome to WWII than the one history recorded, 1979 England is a country ruled by a government whose aims have sinister underpinnings and alliances. In the Hampshire countryside, 13-year-old triplets Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents at the Captain Scott Home for Boys, where every day they must take medicine to protect themselves from a mysterious illness to which many of their friends have succumbed. The lucky ones who recover are allowed to move to Margate, a seaside resort of mythical proportions.

In nearby Exeter, 13-year-old Nancy lives a secluded life with her parents, who dote on her but never let her leave the house. As the triplets’ lives begin to intersect with Nancy’s, bringing to light a horrifying truth about their origins and their likely fate, the children must unite to escape – and survive.

The Author:
Catherine Chidgey is a novelist and short story writer whose work has been published to international acclaim. In a Fishbone Church won Best First Book at the New Zealand Book Awards and at the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in her region. In the UK it won the Betty Trask Award and was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Golden Deeds was Time Out’s book of the year, a Notable Book of the Year in The New York Times and a Best Book in the LA Times. She has won the Prize in Modern Letters, the Katherine Mansfield Award, the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, the Janet Frame Fiction Prize, and the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize for The Wish Child. Remote Sympathy was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, and was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. The Axeman's Carnival won the Acorn at the New Zealand Book Awards - the country's biggest literary prize.

Raised in Wellington, New Zealand, Chidgey was educated at Victoria University and in Berlin, where she held a DAAD scholarship for post-graduate study in German literature. She lives in Cambridge and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Waikato.

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Title: The Lightfingered Lass
Genre: Historical Saga
Format: Paperback
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Bids Accepted: UK Only

The Book;
A new resident has fetched up at the House of Help for Friendless Girls and she’s about to set the cat amongst the pigeons…
Nineteen-year old Nan Turpin is in trouble again, accused of stealing. She’s guilty. Cast out by her family, she turns to the House of Help for Friendless Girls, which promises Nan a fresh start – it's the House or gaol.

She and warden Hetty immediately clash, but Hetty has her own secrets to keep her busy. With her sister Amelia drawing ever closer to their dark family past, will Hetty find the courage to reveal the truth before it's too late?

As romance blossoms for Nan outside of the House, can resist her lightfingered ways to forge a future for herself?

The Author:
Joanne Clague is the author of historical saga fiction set in nineteenth century Yorkshire. Born and raised in Sheffield, Joanne rediscovered her passion for the city, for its past and its people, during research for her debut novel The Ragged Valley. Two sequels followed – The Girl at Change Alley and The Watchman’s Widow.

The first novel in Joanne’s next series – The House of Hope – is out now. Look out for two more books in The House of Help for Friendless Girls series coming in March and November 2025.

She lives in the Isle of Man with her family and Labrador dogs in the beautiful coastal village of Laxey. She had a career in print, radio and broadcast journalism before turning to novel writing. When she’s not writing, Joanne enjoys walking Piper and Mini in the Manx countryside, playing with her grand-daughter and chasing wild billy goats out of the garden.

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Book Title: She Wants You Gone
Book Genre: Psychological Thriller/Crime
Format: Paperback
Dedication available: Yes
Postage: UK only.
The Book :
Beth is excited to move to a remote hamlet in Suffolk with her new husband and stepdaughter, Dolly – but she quickly finds that all is not what it seems. The hamlet has a dark history and there is something odd about its tiny population.

Beth tries hard to build a bond with her new stepdaughter but although Dolly is lovely to everyone else, when the two of them are alone, she is a very different child. Beth soon realises that Dolly wants her gone. For good. How far will she go to get what she wants?

'A rollicking rollercoaster of a plot, replete with twists and turns, thrills and spills. Her plotting is immaculate and her prose deft and engaging...Highly recommended.' Mystery People

The Author:
Joanna is fascinated by toxic friendship and family groups, and the long shadows cast by old secrets. She lives in London, where she enjoys acting in plays, running very slowly, and spending time with her (lovely and not at all toxic) family and friends.
She’s wanted to be a crime writer since she became addicted to Murder She Wrote as a teenager (although her real-life sleuthing skills are probably not quite as honed as Jessica Fletcher’s).
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* Two Book Bonanza

Title 1: The Sea of Discovery
Title 2: The Adventurers and the Highland Hideaway
Genre: Children Middle Grade
Format: Paperbacks
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Bids Accepted: Global

Book 1:
A secret hidden deep under the sea is about to surface…

Arriving in Greece on the trail of a missing friend, The Adventurers land themselves in a mystery filled with suspense. An ancient map has been discovered, but where does it lead? Who are the menacing figures pursuing them at every turn?

Join Lara, Rufus and the gang as they set sail for an island-hopping escapade!

Book 2;
For generations, treasure hunters have targeted a rundown mansion in the Scottish Highlands, intent on plundering its hidden riches.
When the Adventurers arrive for Uncle Logan’s surprise wedding just days away, the clock is ticking to unravel Hideaway’s ancient secrets and save the estate from ruin.

The Author:
Hello! My name is Jemma, and I write stories for the young and the young at heart!

Over the years I’ve lived and worked in London, Exeter, New York and Delaware, and am now living close to where I grew up in Sevenoaks, Kent.

I’m best known for The Adventurers Series, featuring a group of children and their Border collie as they travel everywhere from Cornwall to Cairo in search of treasure, adventure and fun! The series has been translated into Estonian, Finnish, Polish and Spanish to date, and won the inaugural Children’s Selfies Award in 2020.

In 2023 Secrets at No.6 was released: the first book in my new mystery series set in Edwardian London.

Previously in 2021 my first non-Adventurers book, The Treasure of Tea Towers, was published by Klett Sprachen in Germany.

Reading has always been one of my favourite things to do; during reading hour at primary school I would become so absorbed in imaginary worlds that at the end my name would have to be called several times before I’d notice! One teacher even arranged a hearing test for me! (My hearing was fine – my listening skills, not so much!)

A good book becomes like an old friend, being revisited again and again. I hope to entertain young readers with adventures and laughs to enjoy alongside the characters.

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Title: Inside F1
Genre: Sport - Formula 1
Format: Paperback
Dedication Available: YES
Postage & Packaging: FREE
Bids Accepted: Worldwide

The Book:
On the frontline of one of the most watched sports on the planet and gaining the respect of F1 world champions with her tough but fair interview approach, Lee has shared experiences, hire cars, parties and friendships with a host of drivers from Michael Schumacher to Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel to Jenson Button.
Inside F1 tells the stories of the careers of seven stars of the sport using her personal contact and interviews throughout the years. Lee's unique perspective takes us through the highs and lows, the controversies and crashes that led to some of the biggest and most memorable interviews in recent years. Lee's close relationship with the drivers makes Inside F1 an enthralling behind-the- scenes account of one of the biggest sports in the world.

The Author:
From an early age, Lee McKenzie had access to a motorsport world that most are rarely allowed into. From spending time in the paddock as a teen to becoming a highly respected Formula One journalist and presenter, Lee has been at the heart of motorsport for almost twenty years.

Lee is a highly respected broadcast journalist and presenter who has covered some of the biggest news and sports events of recent times. She is best known for her work in Formula One, presenting and interviewing the drivers for Channel 4 and previously for the BBC. Lee has covered almost every series of motorsport around the world from sports cars to single-seaters.

Lee also presents international rugby and is part of ITV's 2023 Rugby World team.
She hosted the European Champions Cup for Channel 4 as well as the Paralympics.
For the BBC she presents on both the men's and women's Six Nations, the Olympics, Wimbledon and her own personal passion, equestrianism.

Lee has competed as a co-driver in rallying up to world championship level, became the first female to be the lead presenter on an F1 show in the UK and was the first female recipient of the prestigious Jim Clark Award.

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Title: The Windsor Love Pact
Genre: Romance
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
When Maya, a talented designer with a penchant for order has a chance encounter with Noah Benedict, a handsome movie star with a flair for spontaneity, destiny takes an unexpected turn. Two strangers with wildly different lives find themselves thrust together and Maya’s quiet existence suddenly becomes a thing of the past.

With Noah pressured by his family to settle down and Maya recovering from a challenging breakup, they strike an unconventional deal – a fake relationship. For Noah, it is a chance to prevent his toxic ex from selling further untrue stories about him. For Maya, a chance to heal her broken heart.

Little do Maya and Noah know that their pretend romance will lead to a whirlwind of emotions and unwanted press interest, testing the boundaries of their agreement. As the charade unfolds, sizzling stolen glances and staged kisses ignite real sparks of passion as the lines between fake and real begin to blur. But, just as they start to believe in the possibility of something genuine, a secret emerges about one of them that threatens to unravel the delicate threads of their budding relationship.

With familial expectations, media interest and troublesome ex partners, Maya and Noah must confront the truth of their feelings. Will their love survive the storm of fame and deception, or will the truth tear them apart?

The Author:
International bestselling author and award-winning inventor, Lizzie Chantree, has been featured on television and radio. She discovered her love of writing fiction when her children were little and now writes books full of friendship and laughter, that are about women who are far stronger than they realise. She lives with her family on the coast in Essex.

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*Three Book Package*

Title 1: The Midnight House
Title 2: Black Gables
Title 3: Welcome to Dead Town Raven McKay
Genre: Children (Middle - Grade) - Ghosts
Format: Paperbacks
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Bids Accepted: UK & Eire Only

Title 1: The Midnight House
Clarabelle Graves knows there’s something special about The Midnight House the moment she sees it in the vintage shop window. Unhappy living in a run-down flat, and having no money, Clarabelle dreams of the kind of life she might have if only she owned the doll’s house. But sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for.

Title 2: Black Gables:
You’re about to enter the world’s creepiest school

Welcome to Black Gables the world’s creepiest school with the creepiest headmaster. Even the pets are eerie.

Rosella’s mother has lost her memory and her family have returned to Black Gables where she grew up in thrldwidee hope something will stir her memory. But all is not right at Black Gables-in fact everything is wrong.

The headmaster, Mr Edge is beyond sinister and he seems to be communicating with the lake ghouls.

Title 3: Welcome to Dead Town Raven McKay
Eibhlís Carcione’s debut novel is a stunning, lyrical tale of loss that’s also a gripping thriller and ghost story. When her parents disappear, 12 -year-old Raven McKay is put into foster care in the town of Grave’s Pass. But this is no ordinary town. It’s a place where the living and the dead live side by side…

The Author:
I am a children’s author and teacher.

I’m also a bilingual poet who writes in Irish and English.

I have published three poetry books in Irish and have won many prestigious prizes. I have written hundreds of poems, often about the power of nature, mermaids, myths, magic, and the occasional ghost.

I live in Cork city with my husband, daughter and two faithful canine companions.

I am represented by the wonderful Silvia Molteni of Peters Fraser and Dunlop.

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*Cockleberry Bay series (4 books)*

Title 1: The Corner Shop In Cockleberry Bay
Title 1: Christmas in Cockleberry Bay
Title 3: The Gift of Cockleberry Bay
Title 4: Meet Me in Cockleberry Bay

Genre: Romantic Comedys
Format: Paperbacks
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Book 1: The Corner Shop In Cockleberry Bay
Rosa Larkin is down on her luck in London, so when she inherits a near-derelict corner shop in a quaint Devon village, her first thought is to sell it for cash and sort out her life. But nothing is straightforward about this legacy. While the identity of her benefactor remains a mystery, he – or she – has left one important legal proviso: that the shop cannot be sold, only passed on to somebody who really deserves it.

Rosa makes up her mind to give it a go: to put everything she has into getting the shop up and running again in the small seaside community of Cockleberry Bay. But can she do it all on her own? And if not, who will help her succeed – and who among the following will work secretly to see her fail?

With surprising and heartfelt results, Rosa, accompanied at all times by her little sausage dog Hot, will slowly unravel the shadowy secrets of the inheritance, and also bring her own, long-hidden heritage into the light.

The Book 2;Christmas in Cockleberry Bay
Meet old and new characters in the Bay for Christmas fun and frolics.

With both the Corner Shop and Cockleberry Cafe in safe hands, Rosa turns her attention to Ned's Gift, the charity set up in memory of the great-grandfather who turned her life around. Over at the Ship Hotel, Lucas has his work cut out with his devious new girlfriend and the mystery poisoning of an anonymous hotel inspector.

Will the hotel still get its 3-star Seaside Rosette? Will Mary find true love at last? Can Titch cope with the demands of the shop and being heavily pregnant. And can Rosa, with a baby of her own, pull off the Cockleberry Bay Charity Christmas Concert in time?

Christmas in Cockleberry Bay is a festive delight for fans of Rosa and her cheeky mini dachshund Hot, delivering a feast of unpredictable events and surprises.

Book 3: The Gift of Cockleberry Bay
All of our favourite characters from Cockleberry Bay are back in this final, heart warming story in the series. Including Hot, Rosa Smith's adorable dachshund and his new-born puppies.

Now successfully running the Cockleberry Café and wishing to start a family herself, Rosa feels the time is right to let her inherited Corner Shop go. However, her benefactor left one important legal proviso: that the shop cannot be sold, only passed on to somebody who really deserves it.

Rosa is torn. How can she make such a huge decision? And will it be the right one? Once the news gets out and goes public, untrustworthy newcomers appear in the Bay . . . their motives uncertain. With the revelation of more secrets from Rosa's family heritage, a new journey of unpredictable and life-changing events begins to unfold.

The Gift of Cockleberry Bay concludes this phenomenally successful series in typically brisk and bolshy style and will delight the many thousands of Rosa's fans.

Book 4: Meet Me in Cockleberry Bay
The cast of the runaway bestseller, The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay, are back – including Rosa, Josh, Mary, Jacob, Sheila, new mum Titch and, last but by no means least, Hot, the adorable dachshund.

Newly wed, and with her inherited corner shop successfully up and running, Rosa Smith seems to have all that anyone could wish for. But the course of true love never did run smooth and Rosa’s suspicions that her husband is having an affair have dire consequences.

Reaching rock bottom before she can climb back up to the top, fragile Rosa is forced to face her fears, addiction and jealousy head on.

With a selection of meddling locals still at large, a mystery fire and Titch’s frantic search for the real father of her sick baby, the second book in this enchanting series will take you on a further unpredictable journey of self-discovery.


The Author:
Nicola May is a bestselling author renowned for her heartwarming and humorous romantic comedies. With eighteen books to her name, her work has captured readers' hearts around the world, has been translated into fifteen languages and consistently ranks in the top 100 of Amazon's Kindle bestseller charts. As a self-published author, she achieved the remarkable feat of reaching number one on Amazon twice, and has been a strong advocate for indie authors, pushing for a dedicated chart for them in The Bookseller magazine. Now signed to Storm Publishing, Nicola continues to write heartfelt rom-coms with her signature blend of warmth and wit.

When she’s not writing, she enjoys cream teas in her beloved Devon, hikes through nature, and occasionally places a bet on the horses.

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Title: Bonjour, Sophie
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Can she escape the darkness of her past in the City of Light?

It’s 1959 and time for eighteen-year-old Sophie’s real life to start. Her existence in the village of Poynsdean, Sussex, with her austere foster-father, the Reverend Osbert Knox, and his frustrated wife Alice, is stultifying. She finds diversion and excitement in a love affair, but soon realizes that if she wants to live life on a bigger canvas she must take matters into her own hands.

She dreams of escape to Paris, the wartime home her French mother fled before her birth. Getting there will take spirit and ingenuity, but it will be her chance to discover more about her family background, and, perhaps, to find a place where she can finally belong.

When Sophie eventually arrives in the Paris arising from the ashes of the war, it’s both everything she imagined, and not at all what she expected…

The Author:
Elizabeth Buchan began her career as a blurb writer at Penguin Books after graduating from the University of Kent with a double degree in English and History. She moved on to become a fiction editor at Random House before leaving to write full time. Her novels include the prizewinning Consider the Lily – reviewed in the Independent as ‘a gorgeously well written tale: funny, sad and sophisticated’. A subsequent novel, Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman became an international bestseller and was made into a CBS Primetime Drama. Later novels included The Second Wife, Separate Beds and Daughters. Her latest, I Can’t Begin to Tell You, a story of resistance in wartime Denmark, was published by Penguin in August 2014.

Elizabeth Buchan’s short stories are broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in magazines. She reviews for the Sunday Times and the Daily Mail, and has chaired the Betty Trask and Desmond Elliot literary prizes, and also been a judge for the Whitbread First Novel Award and for 2014 Costa Novel Award. She is a patron of the Guildford Book Festival and of The National Academy of Writing, and sits on the author committee for The Reading Agency.

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A bundle of THREE ghost stories in one lot, from multi-award-winning children's author Lucy Strange!

Title 1: The Ghost of Gosswater
Title 2: The Boy at the Window
Title 3: Lockett & Wilde: The Ghosts of the Manor
Genre: Children Middle Grade
Format: Paperbacks
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Title 1: The Ghost of Gosswater (9+):
A thrilling gothic tale! "Family secrets, a ghost girl and a forbidding manor house that goes up in smoke ... You can't help rooting for Agatha in this spooky, addictive tale of friendship and family." The Times

Title 2:
The Boy at the Window (9+):
A classic ghost story with a spine-chilling twist! “A ghost-story masterclass” – Jennifer Killick

Title 3: Lockett & Wilde: The Ghosts of the Manor (8+):
A cosy, spooky mystery! “This book has more shadowy mysteries than twelve graveyards and more delicious twists than my favourite pretzel. All hail Lockett & Wilde!” Lemony Snicket

The Author:
Lucy Strange is an award-winning children’s author who lives in the heart of the Kent countryside with her partner and their young son.

Lucy’s books capture elements of classic children’s literature in a style that is engaging and accessible for today’s younger readers. Often inspired by folklore and fairy tales, Lucy combines historical settings with touches of magic and fantasy to create utterly convincing worlds in which anything might happen…

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Title: Strangers
Genre: Horror
Format: Hardback
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The Book;
A spate of brutal murders occur in and around the small town of Thussock. The bodies of the dead – savagely mutilated, unspeakably defiled – are piling up with terrifying speed. There are no apparent motives and no obvious connections between the victims, but the killings only began when Scott Griffiths and his family arrived in Thussock...

“In his evocation of fear and unease and the speed with which he grips you, he brings to mind old Brit horror writer James Herbert. And that is some recommendation.” —London Lite

The Author:
David Moody was born and grew up in Birmingham on a diet of trashy horror and pulp science fiction books and movies. He worked as a bank manager and as operations manager for a number of financial institutions before giving up the day job to write about the end of the world for a living. He has written a number of horror novels, including Autumn, which has been downloaded more than half a million times since publication in 2001 and has spawned a series of sequels and a movie starring Dexter Fletcher and David Carradine. Film rights to Hater have been bought by Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth) and Mark Johnson (producer of the Chronicles of Narnia films). Moody lives outside Birmingham with his wife and a houseful of daughters and stepdaughters, which may explain his pre-occupation with Armageddon.

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*Three Book Bonanza*

Title 1: The Silly Sausage Saga and Other Silly Rhymes
Title 2: Lucy the Tooth Fairy's Last Chance and Some Pretty Witty Ditties
Title 3: Really Random Rhymes
Genre: Children
Format: Paperbacks
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Title 1: The Silly Sausage Saga and Other Silly Rhymes
The Silly Sausage Saga and Other Silly Rhymes hopes to put a smile on a face, a thought in a mind and a laugh in the airThe story of Silly Sausage, who is trying to escape being eaten, is told throughout the book along with poems about the possibility that aliens can play football, the dangers of growing up too quickly, the annoyance caused by salad and other, as the title suggests, silly rhymesEnjoy the silliness!

Title 2: Lucy the Tooth Fairy's Last Chance and Some Pretty Witty Ditties
Lucy the Tooth Fairy’s Last Chance and Some Pretty, Witty Ditties is an illustrated children's book containing oodles of rhymes and poems about all kinds of things. Great for all ages with more than enough to get kids thinking, smiling, laughing and, ultimately interested in and entertained by rhymes and poems

Title 3: Really Random Rhymes
..is an illustrated collection of poetry for kids of all ages

Discover verses for real laughter
Find rhymes for wide smiles
Pick out poems for positive feelings

...because…

Random Reading Rules

The Author:
Ray Douglas is a children's author, poet and illustrator from the north west of England in the UK. He started publishing his work in 2018 and continues to create funny, illustrated poems and stories for the young and the young the young at heart alike.

His books include - The Silly Sausage Saga and Other Silly Rhymes, Lucy the Tooth Fairy's Last Chance and Some Pretty, Witty Ditties and Gold Medal Hunters

Ray loves visiting schools and other locations to share the joy of creating and sharing stories with children everywhere

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*Two Book Special*
Title 1: A Beautiful Rival
Title 2: Scandalous Women
Genre: Historical Fiction
Format: Paperbacks
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Title 1: A Beautiful Rival
Who would have guessed that the business of making women beautiful was so cutthroat?

They could have been allies: two self-made millionaires who invented a global industry, in an era when wife and mother were supposed to be the highest goals for their sex. Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein each founded empires built on grit and determination…and yet they became locked in a feud spanning three continents, two world wars, and the Great Depression.

Brought up in poverty, Canadian-born Elizabeth Arden changed popular opinion, persuading women from all walks of life ­to buy skincare products that promised them youth and beauty. Helena Rubinstein left her native Poland, and launched her company with scientific claims about her miracle creams made with anti-ageing herbs.

And when it came to business, nothing was off-limits: poaching each other’s employees, copying each other’s products, planting spies, hiring ex-husbands, and one-upping each other every chance they had. This was a rivalry from which there was no surrender! And through it all were two women, bold, brazen, and determined to succeed—no matter the personal cost.

In this sweeping novel from the bestselling author of Jackie and Maria and The Manhattan Girls, two larger-than life fashion icons come alive with all their passion, bitterness, and ambition as they each try to live the American dream.

Title 2:
Mad Men meets the world of publishing in international bestselling author Gill Paul’s new novel about Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann, two dynamic, groundbreaking writers renowned for their scandalous and controversial novels, and the beleaguered young editorial assistant who introduces them.

1966, NYC: Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls hits the bookstores and she is desperate for a bestseller. It’s steamy, it’s a page-turner, but will it make the big money she needs? In London, Jackie Collins’s racy The World Is Full of Married Men launches her career. But neither author is prepared for the price they will pay for being women who dare to write about sex.

Jacqueline and Jackie are lambasted by the literary establishment, deluged with hate mail, and even condemned by feminists. In public, both women shoulder the outcry with dignity; in private, they are crumbling—particularly since they have secrets they don’t want splashed across the front pages.

1965, NYC: College graduate Nancy White is excited to take up her dream job at a Manhattan publishing house, but she could never be prepared for the rampant sexism she will encounter. While working on Valley of the Dolls, she becomes friends with Jacqueline Susann, and, after reaching out to Jackie Collins about a US deal, she is responsible for the two authors meeting.

Will the two Jackies clash as they race to top the charts? Will Nancy achieve her ambition of becoming an editor, despite all the men determined to hold her back? Three women struggle to succeed in a man’s world, while desperately trying to protect those they love the most.

The Author:
Gill Paul is the bestselling author of twelve historical novels, many of them about real women from the past whom she thinks have been marginalized or misjudged by historians. Her novels have reached the top of the USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Toronto Globe & Mail charts, and have been translated into twenty-two languages.

Gill also writes historical non-fiction, including A History of Medicine in 50 Objects and series of Love Stories. Published around the world, this series includes Royal Love Stories, World War I Love Stories and Titanic Love Stories.

Gill was born in Scotland and grew up there, apart from an eventful year at school in the US when she was ten. She studied Medicine at Glasgow University, then English Literature and History (she was a student for a long time), before moving to London to work in publishing. Her first novel was written at weekends, but she has now given up the ‘day job’ to write fiction full-time. She also writes short stories for magazines and speaks at libraries and literary festivals about subjects ranging from Dorothy Parker to the Romanovs, and about writing itself.

Gill swims daily, year-round in a wild pond and loves vintage clothes, old movies, and poking around in bookshops.

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*Two Book Bonanza*

Title 1: The Silent Killer
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Format: Hardback

Title 2: The Inside Man
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Format: Hardback

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Title 1: The Silent Killer
The first in a Newcastle-set police procedural series with a twist. DCI Jack Parker has a secret. He has Early Onset Dementia and he will do anything and everything to keep it hidden from his peers and the criminals he's investigating.

THE CLOCK IS TICKING. THERE'S NO ESCAPE.

DCI Jack Parker has faced down hardened villains and raving, drug-addled lunatics. He's disarmed a machete-wielding psychopath and broken devastating news of a loved one's death more times than he can remember.

With a serial killer stalking the Newcastle streets and one of his closest colleagues lying in the mortuary following a hit and run he thinks things are about as tough as they've ever been. But he should know that trouble always comes in threes.

Jack is about to face the biggest challenge of his life, one that will end his career and destroy his family: Early Onset Dementia.

As he does everything he can to hide his deteriorating condition from his family and colleagues, Jack believes that the serial killer is haunted by his childhood while his own memories are built on increasingly shifting sands.

The race against time to save lives, including his own, has begun.

Whilst staying within the realms of the police procedural genre, this cracking thriller will explore character in depth and with sensitivity, as well as with the author's trademark dark humour.

Title 2: The Inside Man
The second Newcastle-set police thriller with a twist. DCI Jack Parker fights to hide his Early Onset Dementia while he continues to do the job he loves - investigating crimes and bringing villains to justice. Still haunted by the death of a colleague in a hit and run for which he blames himself, he pursues the case with a determination bordering on recklessness when he encourages her replacement, DS Emma Steel, to get close to a local gangster who knows more than he's letting on, thereby endangering Emma and causing dissent among his team. Jack is called in to investigate the disappearance of a young woman, Maria, and her son who appear to have vanished off the face of the earth. His boss tells him to focus on her ex-husband, but though the evidence points in his direction, Jack has his doubts. The woman has form with toxic men and the husband is just the latest in a long line. As Jack's plans to hide his condition become more challenging, he begins to wonder if Maria is really the innocent victim she's been portrayed as - until a body turns up. As he starts to discover the truth in both these investigations, Jack comes to understand that nothing in this world is as black and white as it seems.

The Author:
Trevor Wood has lived in Newcastle for 30 years and considers himself an adopted Geordie, though he still can’t speak the language. He's a successful playwright who has also worked as a journalist and spin-doctor for the City Council. Prior to that he served in the Royal Navy for 16 years joining, presciently, as a Writer. Trevor holds an MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) from UEA. His first novel, The Man on the Street, won the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger, the Crimefest Specsavers Best Crime Debut Award and was shortlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. He is represented by Oli Munson at AM Heath. Trevor is a founder member of the Northern Crime Syndicate and a volunteer cook at the People's Kitchen in Newcastle, which feeds more than 200 members of the homeless community every day.

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Book Title: Pandora and the Story Forge
Genre: Picture Book
Format: Hardback (First Edition)
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Bids Accepted: UK only

The Book :
Discover the magical world of Pandora, storyteller and forger of tales.
Pandora gathers beautiful words to forge into magical stories. Friend to all the story-starved children, Pandora knows a secret: once read, a story unfurls in your heart.
‘Pandora’s a wordsmith. She forges with fire.
Elf armies gather and dragons fly higher.
SHIVERS and TINGLES, ADVENTURE and QUEST.
She hammers the words into shapes that fit best.’
* Included in the lot is a bookmark and handmade puppy key ring.
With its poetic narrative and stunning artwork, Pandora and the Story Forge is a celebration of imagination and creativity. Perfect for young readers and storytellers of all ages. Books for Keeps
... a dreamy book that feels like a modern classic... A real visual treat and a lovely story to share. The Scotsman

The Author:
Gaynor Andrews is the author of children’s stories and poems. Her debut rhyming picture book, Pandora and the Story Forge, illustrated by the award-winning French artist Marie-Alice Harel, celebrates the power of words and the magic of stories. Activity sheets and teaching resources to accompany the book are available here: https://gaynorandrews.online/activities-resources

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The Illustrator: Marie-Alice Harel won the Folio Illustration Competition in 2019 and has illustrated many books for The Folio Society. Her ethereal watercolours capture the imagination. The illustrations for Pandora and the Story Forge are in watercolor, ink, gouache, pastel and pencils and can be seen here: https://maharel.com/#/pandora-and-the-story-forge-1/

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Title: Identity Crisis
Genre: Contemporary - Humour - Uplit
Format: Paperback
Dedication available: yes
Postage: UK only

The Book;
Be yourself, people say. But the last person Clare Palmer wants to be is herself – she’s lost everything she once had and now can barely get through a bus ride without wanting to thump someone. (People who don’t wear headphones, sniffers, fried chicken guzzlers.)

So when she discovers her resemblance to beloved reality TV presenter Jenna Cox, Clare jumps at the chance to become a lookalike, earn some cash and get her life back together.

But it’s all too easy to cross the line between celebrity lookalike and pretending to be the real Jenna – and becoming someone else is about to take Clare’s life down a track that’s even rockier than the one she’s on…

The Author:
Nicola Gill lives in London. At the age of five, when all of the other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, she decided she wanted to be an author. Her ballet teacher was very relieved. When she’s not at her desk, you can usually find Nicola reading, cooking up vast vats of food for friends and family or watching box sets. Occasionally she even leaves the house…

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Title - A Christmas Romance in the Scottish Highlands
Genre - Romance
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Escape to Holly Berry Lodge in the Scottish Highlands, curl up next to a cosy fireplace with a warm mug of hot chocolate, and join Mairi Fraser as she’s forced to spend the festive season with the one that got away…

Thirty-three-year-old Mairi is spending Christmas at her Aunt Effie’s ski lodge. It’s her favourite place, where she spent every childhood holiday, and the comforting view of the mountain tops is just what she needs after a rollercoaster year. But Mairi finds herself unexpectedly snowed in, along with her handsome ex Jed Murray…

As the snowflakes fall heavily outside, she closes her eyes to block out the sight of Jed’s dark hair and broad shoulders, his muscles flexing as he stacks the logs he’s gathered to build them a fire. But even though they’re united in their goal of getting Effie’s lodge ready for Christmas, Mairi is determined not to fall for Jed again.

Except moving on from him is easier said than done when they’re in such close quarters. Their time together draping tinsel around the Christmas tree and baking gingerbread cookies in the kitchen makes the memories of how good they were together all come rushing back. But will Jed reveal the real reason he left and earn Mairi’s trust once more?

Will the avalanche of complicated feelings they have for each other keep them apart? Or when the snow starts to melt, can the magic of Christmas bring them back together?

The Author:
I wanted to be an author from the age of twelve when reading and writing were my first loves. In 2018 my first book, Summer at the Castle Cafe was published and my dream came true.

I've had fifteen books published. Seven of those have been in the Amazon top 100 (a cause for immense celebrations in my house), one made it to number seven in the UK and US Kindle charts and Summer in the Scottish Highlands made it to number 1 in the UK, US and AU free ebook charts. My books have been published in six territories from the Czech Republic to Slovakia and the Netherlands. I was also shortlisted for the RNA Debut Romantic Novel of the Year in 2019.

I live in Hertfordshire, with my own romantic hero, two grown up kids (who pop in and out) and two very grumpy cats. I love a happy ending and I'm never happier than when I'm escaping into a romance novel or movie. Oh, and I have a love hate relationship with running. Mostly hate.

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Title: The Second Chance Supper Club
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
When Cath moves to a rural Northumberland village to escape her husband’s betrayal and a life that no longer feels her own, she’s determined to embrace a fresh start. But the quiet charm of her new surroundings seems only to magnify the loneliness of being on her own for the first time.

On a whim, Cath suggests starting a supper club, transforming her garden shed into a cosy, twinkling haven where neighbours can gather. What begins as an effort to ease her solitude becomes something far greater – a circle of friends, each bringing their own stories, struggles, and laughter.

As bonds deepen over shared meals and mishaps, can Cath discover the healing power of community…and dare to believe in love again?

The Author:
Family, friends, food, a glass of bubbly and, of course, a good book make me smile. I love writing emotional stories about love, loss, betrayal, and family, that explore how complex and yet beautiful love can be. I also like to write romantic comedy, letting the characters have a bit of flirty fun too! I believe in following your dreams and working hard towards them, which led me to Harper Impulse (Harper Collins) and a publishing deal (woop!) after many years of writing. Stunning Northumberland is my home – sandy beaches, castles and gorgeous countryside that have inspired my writing.

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Title: Mistletoe and Mulled Wine at the Christmas Campervan
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
The Christmas Cocktail Campervan – bringing love, laughter and friendship from coast to coast . . .
The gorgeously romantic new novel in the ‘Cosy Campervan series’ – next stop: Christmas markets, mince pies and kisses under the mistletoe!

Christmas feels like a real gift for Lucy this year. Her cosy coastal cottage is starting to feel like home, her new pizza business is getting the locals ‘All Fired Up’, and she can’t wait to spend it with her new flame Jack, the charismatic owner of the Cocktail Campervan.

Winding along the snow-dusted Northumberland coast for a whirlwind of Christmas markets and celebrations, Lucy and Jack can’t resist stealing a few kisses under the mistletoe. But there’s a twist in their romantic tale when Lucy’s ex turns up in the village. As her past closes in, Jack becomes increasingly distant. And Lucy worries he’s holding back a few secrets of his own . . .

Will Christmas bring a cold spell for Lucy and Jack? Or could it really be the most wonderful time of the year?

The Author:
Family, friends, food, a glass of bubbly and, of course, a good book make me smile. I love writing emotional stories about love, loss, betrayal, and family, that explore how complex and yet beautiful love can be. I also like to write romantic comedy, letting the characters have a bit of flirty fun too! I believe in following your dreams and working hard towards them, which led me to Harper Impulse (Harper Collins) and a publishing deal (woop!) after many years of writing. Stunning Northumberland is my home – sandy beaches, castles and gorgeous countryside that have inspired my writing.

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Title: Midnight And Blue
Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
JOHN REBUS SPENT HIS LIFE AS A DETECTIVE PUTTING EDINBURGH'S MOST DEADLY CRIMINALS BEHIND BARS.

NOW, HE'S JOINED THEM.

As new allies and old enemies circle, and the days and nights bleed into each other, even the legendary detective struggles to keep his head.

That is, until a murder at midnight in a locked cell presents a new mystery. They say old habits die hard...

However, this is a case where the prisoners and the guards are all suspects, and everyone has something to hide.

With no badge, no authority and no safety net, Rebus walks a tightrope - with his life on the line.

But how do you find a killer in a place full of them?

The Author:
Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature.

After university and before his success with his Rebus novels, Ian had a number of jobs including working as a grape-picker, a swineherd, a journalist for a hi-fi magazine, and a taxman. Following his marriage in 1986, he lived briefly in London where he worked at the National Folktale Centre, followed by a short time living in France, before returning to Edinburgh.

Ian’s first novel Summer Rites remains in his bottom drawer, but his second novel, The Flood, was published in 1986, while his first Rebus novel, Knots & Crosses, was published in 1987. The Rebus series is now translated into twenty-two languages and the books are bestsellers on several continents. In addition to his Rebus and Malcolm Fox novels, he has also written standalone novels including Doors Open, which was televised in 2012, short stories, a graphic novel – Dark Entries – and a play (with Mark Thomson, the Royal Lyceum Theatre’s Artistic Director) Dark Road, which premiered at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, in September 2013. A second play, Long Shadows, starring John Rebus, was co-written with Rona Munro and staged in 2018. There are also a number of novels under the pseudonym ‘Jack Harvey’ and in 2005 he collaborated with singer Jackie Leven on a CD. His non-fiction book Rebus’s Scotland was published in 2005.

Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He is the recipient of four Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Awards including the prestigious Diamond Dagger in 2005. In 2004, Ian won America’s celebrated Edgar Award for Resurrection Men. He has also been shortlisted for the Edgar and Anthony Awards in the USA, and won Denmark’s Palle Rosenkrantz prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and Germany’s Deutscher Krimipreis.

Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Hull, Abertay, St Andrews and Edinburgh as well as The Open University. In 2019, he donated his archive of over 50 boxes of manuscripts, letters and paperwork to the National Library of Scotland.

A regular contributor to BBC2’s Newsnight Review, he also presented his own TV series, Ian Rankin’s Evil Thoughts on Channel 4 in 2002 and Rankin on the Staircase for BBC Four in 2005. In 2007, Rankin appeared in Ian Rankin’s Hidden Edinburgh and Ian Rankin Investigates Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde also for BBC Four. Ian has been the subject of ITV’s South Bank Show and BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs where his choice of music included Joy Division, The Rolling Stones and Van Morrison.

Ian has received an OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his wife and two sons.

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Book Title: Starting Again
Book Genre: Regency Romance (closed door)
Format: paperback
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The Book:
A heart-warming romance set in Regency Bath...

Marianne Pembroke has been sent to Bath by her parents to stay with her aunt, the formidable Lady Barrington, for one purpose only – to find a new husband. Widowed tragically young, Marianne’s circumstances mean that she must be successful in the marriage market or suffer the indignity of becoming a governess. But Marianne is determined to remain unwed, for she fears her heart bears so many scars she will never be able to love again.

Edmund Templeton is the heir to his father’s title and fortune. His parents think it is high time he settled down and made a suitable marriage, but he is in no hurry to give up his life of leisure. For where would be the fun in that?

Once Marianne and Edmund discover what they have in common – a wish not to marry – they become firm friends, a situation they are both sure they are perfectly content with. Then events take a dramatic turn with a sudden illness, a duel and the re-emergence of an old enemy of the Templeton family who is not quite what he seems...

Will love save the day?

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Title: Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal - My Adventures in Neurodiversity
Format: Hardback Signed Independent Bookshop Edition
Genre: Biographical
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The Book;
What if being a bit weird is actually entirely normal? What if sharing our internal struggles wasn’t a sign of weakness, but strength?

For over thirty years, award-winning broadcaster and comedian Robin Ince has entertained thousands in person and on air. But underneath the surface, a whirlwind was at play – a struggle with sadness, concentration, self-doubt and near-constant anxiety. But then he discovered he had all the hallmarks of ADHD and his stumbling blocks became stepping stones.

In Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal, Robin uses his own experiences to explore the neurodivergent experience and to ask what the point of 'being normal' really is. Packed with personal insights, intimate anecdotes and interviews with psychologists, neuroscientists and many neurodivergent people he has met along the way, this is a quirky and witty dive into the world of human behaviour.

The Author:
Robin Ince is many things. A multi award winning comedian, author, broadcaster, bibliomaniac and a populariser of scientific ideas. He is perhaps best known as the co-host and co-creator of the Sony Gold Award winning BBC Radio 4 series The Infinite Monkey Cage with Professor Brian Cox.

As a stand up Robin has toured the world and as an author he has written four acclaimed books, including Bibliomaniac, earned him the prestigious Booksellers Association Author of the Year award. His fifth, Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal is published in May 2025.

He co-created the Cosmic Shambles Network and created the groundbreaking science variety night Nine Lessons and Carols for Curious People which has been adapted worldwide. He has received an Honorary Fellowship of UCL, an honorary doctorate from Royal Holloway College (University of London), and is a fellow of the British Science Association

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Title: The Villa Next Door
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
A dream holiday. A fractured marriage. A dangerous secret. The author of The Perfect Liar takes readers on a nightmare vacation.

When Ryan and Emma Burrows win a luxury holiday to Menorca, it feels like the fresh start their marriage desperately needs. Seventeen nights in a sun-soaked villa with their six-year-old daughter Callie. What could go wrong?

Their neighbors seem friendly enough. Jack and Sheena, with their two young boys, are quick to organize playdates. Max and John, charming and sociable ex-pats, seem eager to make friends. But beneath the surface, tensions simmer. Emma can’t shake the feeling that something is off.

Then Callie disappears. A ransom demand follows, and suddenly, everyone is a suspect. Secrets from the past rise to the surface, exposing lies that threaten to unravel everything. Soon Emma and Ryan must face the truth about their marriage, their neighbors, and the devastating mistake that could cost them everything . . .

Dark, twisty, and utterly addictive The Villa Next Door is a suspenseful page-turner about trust, betrayal, and the consequences of long-buried secrets.

The Author:
Beverley was born in Yorkshire – her spiritual home – and brought up in Kent, where she now lives with her wonderful husband and their gorgeous elderly terrier.

Beverley describes herself as a late bloomer, having turned her hand to fiction in 2015, following an inspiring creative writing course, after many years spent working in advertising and PR.

She’s written five published novels to date: a sixth will launch in July 2025. Her books include The Eden Hill Trilogy, a slice-of-life feel-good adult romance series, perfect for readers of heartwarming and hopeful stories about relatable characters. Fans of mystery and suspense set in exotic locations will love The Perfect Liar, in which three forty-something women meet a charismatic male student during their girls’ trip to Tuscany. Beverley’s second thriller, Close My Eyes, set in southeast London, takes a much darker turn, and centres on one woman’s journey into a forgotten year of her childhood. Her third standalone thriller (coming June 2025) is a fast-paced gripping holiday read set on the island of Menorca.

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Title The Dark Mirror
Format: Hardback Signed First Edition
Genre: Fantasy
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The Book;
Paige Mahoney is outside the Republic of Scion for the first time in more than a decade – but she has no idea how she got to the free world. Half a year has been wiped from her memory.

As she makes her way back to the revolution, her journey takes her to Venice, where she learns a dangerous secret – one that could change the face of the war between humans and immortals. Before she can return to London, she must help the Domino Programme unravel the sinister Operation Ventriloquist.

And it soon becomes clear that the one person who could recover her memories – Arcturus Mesarthim – might also hold the key to saving Italy.

The Author:
Samantha Shannon is an award-winning New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling fantasy author.

Born in London in 1991, Samantha studied English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford from 2010 to 2013.

In 2013, at the age of 21, she published The Bone Season, the internationally bestselling first instalment in a seven-book series of fantasy novels. Her first book outside the series, The Priory of the Orange Tree, has sold over a million copies in English worldwide. Its prequel, A Day of Fallen Night, hit shelves in February 2023, becoming an instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller.
The Dark Mirror is her latest book.

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Title: The Invincibles
Genre: Fantasy - Children(Middle -Grade)
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The Book;
A magical kingdom. Four friends. One terrible mistake...

In the Land of Magic, four friends live a life filled with wonder. But there's one rule they must not break: never set foot on the Island of Darkness. So, when one child does the unthinkable, they must all pay a terrible price - exile to Wasteland, the bleak world where only grown-ups live.

For Grace, this fate is particularly cruel. She wakes up with no memory of her magical home, or how she ended up here - and the only clue to her past is guarded by two hostile and mysteriously invisible children.

As Grace uncovers the Invisibles' secrets, she must work out a way to return home, before Wasteland traps her forever...

The Author:
By the time she hit her teens, Susie Bower had lived in 8 houses and attended 7 schools. This theme continued in her working life: she's been a teacher, a tour-guide, a typist, a workshop facilitator, a PA and a painter. She formerly wrote and directed TV programmes for children at the BBC and Channel 4, and she currently writes audio scripts for use in primary schools. Susie lives in Bristol, UK.

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Title: Goodnight, God Bless
Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
DI Alex Peachey is drawn into a bizarre case. The mutilated body of a man is found in a disused aircraft hangar, and the killer has left a calling card. At the same time, abuse survivor Jean Harrison receives a card through the post, bearing the words ‘Goodnight, God Bless’.

Alison Munroe runs a therapy group helping women who were abused as children to work through their experiences and fears. When former member Jean comes to her for support, Alison finds herself caught up in the middle of a murder inquiry when she realises that the killer is targeting the former abusers of her group members, murdering them in ways that are specific to each of the women’s experiences - experiences that have only ever been disclosed in the group’s sessions.

Alex and his team have to tread carefully to find out not only who is torturing and killing the paedophiles, but also to protect the anonymity of the group. How is the killer getting their information? When one of Alex’s colleagues is implicated, Alex questions whether or not he knows his team as well as he should. Is the killer someone from the group’s past or does the answer lie closer to home?

The Author:
I'm a short, tattooed author, who loves cats, rock music, tea and cardigans. I live in the South West of Scotland with my family, having moved up from the Midlands a few years ago so I could pursue my dreams of becoming a best-selling crime writer (still working on that!). I'm the creator of the D.I. Alex Peachey series, which are contemporary, character-led police procedurals set in and around Wolverhampton. I'm currently working on the third in the series, and am also tinkering with a couple of standalones, one set in Scotland and the other in various places around the UK (and possibly abroad).

When I'm not writing I can usually be found at crime writing festivals, buying yet more books. Former jobs have included working with male strippers and drag artistes, and as an Oompa Loompa in a chocolate factory.

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Title: Hoglets' Birthday Surprise
Genre: Children
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
It's the Summer holidays!

Hoglets, Prickles and Primrose are busy exploring when they stumble across... a witch!

Terrified she'll eat them for breakfast, the hoglets prepare to escape but soon realise the witch isn't scary at all.

Willow the witch is lonely and in need of a friend.

Can the hoglets hep her?

If you love Winnie the Pooh, you'll love the hoglets, Prickles and Primrose of Briar Wood.

The Author:
Lynette was born in London, but raised in Burnley, Lancashire. From the tender age of five she lived with her grandmother who gave her books to keep her quiet. Lynette found she had a passion for reading and started writing once she began school.

Lynette’s inspiration came from childhood books written by Enid Blyton. The Enchanted Wood and The Faraway Tree were her first taste of fantasy. In adulthood, Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight Series captured her own vivid imagination.

Her first novel Sinners of Magic won her acclaim and the story soon turned into a trilogy. With readers begging for more Lynette ended the series with a spin off story featuring a windigo.

Wishing to be a multi-genre author, Lynette turned her pen to romance. Her two novels: Cracks in the Glass and Two Kinds of Truth were a huge hit with readers.

Returning to her love of short story writing, Lynette entered the 2019 SWWJ (Society of Women Writers and Journalists) competition. A Slice of Cake – a light-hearted story about her five year old granddaughter came runner up.

In 2020 Lynette launched a compilation of short stories. Most having won popular writing competitions.

Later this year, Lynette is breaking out of her comfort zone with the release of her new children’s book. Hoglets’ Christmas Magic is a delightful tale starring two adorable hedgehogs. The book is due for publication 28th August by White Rabbit Books.

Lynette lives in North East Lincolnshire with her husband. All her grandchildren are the apple of her eye.

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Title: A Secret Escape
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Sometimes the bravest thing is starting over!

A lifelong friendship

Childhood friends Milly and Nicole had always been more like sisters so Milly never understood why, eighteen months ago, Nicole dropped out of contact completely. Milly buried that hurt and moved on with her life.

A call for help

Now, suddenly, Nicole is begging for Milly’s help. She needs somewhere private to hide, and the only safe place she can think of is Milly's holiday home business in the Lake District. Milly knows she should tell Nicole no, but she can’t ignore the desperation in her old friend’s voice so, despite her misgivings, she agrees to let Nicole stay.

A summer to reconnect

The two women begin to reconnect over the summer, and there’s a potential new romance for Milly too. But then the biggest bombshell of all lands and their delicate friendship is put to the ultimate test …

Can the friends come together in this time of need, or will this summer break their bond forever?

The Author:
USA Today bestselling author Sarah Morgan writes lively, sexy contemporary stories for Harlequin. Romantic Times has described her as 'a magician with words' and nominated her books for their Reviewer's Choice Awards and their 'Top Pick' slot. In 2012 Sarah received the prestigious RITA® Award from the Romance Writers of America. She lives near London with her family. F

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Title 1: Paperboy
Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Hardback

Title 2: Squeaky Clean
Genre: Crime Thriller
Format: Paperback

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Title 1: Paperboy
The dark, rawly comic sequel to the winner of the McIlvanney Prize for best Scottish crime book of the year.

‘A serious talent’ Kevin Bridges

‘Inventive and witty, with a nerve-shredding finale’ Chris Brookmyre

‘An outstanding new writer who is destined to become a very big name’ Peter James

DCI Alison McCoist is back: newly promoted and even less popular.

Chuck Gardner is the proud owner of both a confidential paper-shredding business and a serious betting habit.

When Chuck finds some scandalous paperwork and McCoist investigates a rat-nibbled corpse under a flyover, they are both sucked into a deadly stramash of gangland wars and police corruption.

Can Chuck solve his gambling and gangster problems before some head-banger feeds him into his own shredder? And can McCoist claw herself out of this latest shitemire without her own shady dealings coming to light? It might depend on how far she’s prepared to go…

Title 2: Squeaky Clean
Half the Glasgow copshop think DI Alison McCoist is bent. The other half just think she's a fuck-up.

No one thinks very much at all about carwash employee Davey Burnet, until one day he takes the wrong customer's motor for a ride.

One kidnapping later, he and the carwash are officially part of Glasgow's criminal underworld, working for a psychopath who enjoys playing games like 'Keep Yer Kneecaps' with any poor bastard who crosses him.

Can Davey escape from the gang's clutches with his kneecaps and life intact? Perhaps this polis Ally McCoist who keeps nosing around the carwash could help. If she doesn't get herself killed first.


The Author:
Callum McSorley is an author based in Glasgow. His short stories have appeared in Gutter, Shoreline of Infinity, and New Writing Scotland. His debut novel SQUEAKY CLEAN was published in March 2023 by Pushkin Vertigo and won The McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2023.

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Title: The Leap Year Proposal
Genre: Romance
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Three women. One crazy hen weekend. A life-changing decision.

When three women meet at a mutual friend’s hen weekend on the Scottish island of Arran, they get more than they bargained for when one of them has the genius idea of proposing on 29 February, like the age-old Irish tradition.

High-flying businesswoman Anouska and boyfriend Zach are deliriously happy and madly in love. If only they had more time together. But now she’s pregnant and doesn’t know how to tell him, since having kids hadn’t featured in their plans.

Dog walker Jess lives with her childhood sweetheart, but they’re already like an old married couple, without the romance, or the wedding, or the ring. When Mark doesn’t propose on New Year’s Eve, Jess is gutted and decides to take matters into her own hands.

Ellie and Scott still live apart after six years, and his lack of commitment is a sore point. She’s up for a huge promotion which involves moving country. It’s make-or-break time. She needs to know he’s worth turning down the job for.

The women meet weekly, helping each other with decisions big and small, becoming each other’s support system in the run-up to ‘the big ask’.

Will love conquer all or will their hopes and dreams come crashing down around them?

The Author:
Susan Buchanan lives in South Lanarkshire, Scotland with her husband and their two children. She writes contemporary women's fiction and romantic comedies, Her books are: Sign of the Times, The Dating Game, The Christmas Spirit, Return of the Christmas Spirit, Just One Day - Winter, Just One Day - Spring, Just One Day - Summer, Just One Day - Autumn, A Little Christmas Spirit, The Leap Year Proposal, and You Can't Hurry Love.

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Title: Ship of Thieves.
Genre: Historical Fiction/Crime Thriller
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
Jonas Flynt’s stepmother, Mercy, has been abducted from Edinburgh and carried back to the West Indies by her former owner.

Gideon Flynt his father, has followed in hot pursuit, but Cassie, Jonas's first love, knows he is not the man he once was and appeals to Flynt for help. Naturally, he agrees.

Against Colonel Nathaniel Charters’ wishes, he sails for the Caribbean, where he will unwittingly join forces with the most notorious pirate of all time, Blackbeard.

But this time he may be out of his depth.

An utterly gripping historical crime thriller set on the high seas from the McIlvanney Prize longlisted author of An Honourable Thief.

The Author:
Douglas Skelton has published 12 non fiction books, 12 contemporary crime thrillers and 2 historical thrillers. He has been a bank clerk, tax officer, shelf stacker, meat porter, taxi driver (for two days), wine waiter (for two hours), reporter, investigator and editor.

His first thriller BLOOD CITY was published in 2013.

The gritty thriller was the first in a quartet set on the tough streets of Glasgow from 1980 onwards. It was followed by CROW BAIT, DEVIL'S KNOCK and finally OPEN WOUNDS, which was longlisted for the first McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year in 2016.

His two Dominic Queste thrillers, THE DEAD DON'T BOOGIE and TAG - YOU'RE DEAD lightened the tone but didn't skimp on thrills.

He followed this with his New York-set chase thriller THE JANUS RUN in 2018.

THUNDER BAY, a dark and atmospheric tale of secrets, lies and murder, was published to great acclaim by Polygon in 2019. It was longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for 2019. The series continued with THE BLOOD IS STILL, A RATTLE OF BONES ( longlisted for the McIlvanney in 2022) and WHERE DEMONS HIDE. All four titles have been released on audio by Isis Publishing. Entries in the series are available in the US in print and audio through Arcade CrimeWise, while translation rights have been sold to as Germany, Denmark, Greece and Sweden.

The 5th in the series, CHILDREN OF THE MIST, has now been published.

He also has a new series of historical adventure thrillers featuring gambler, thief and secret agent Jonas Flynt, beginning with AN HONOURABLE THIEF (2022, CANELO, longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize 2023) and A THIEF'S JUSTICE (Canelo 2023).

Douglas is often recruited by documentary makers to contribute to true crime shows on TV and radio and is a regular on the crime writing festival circuit.

He takes part in comedy shows with other crime writers. To date he has written three Carry on Sleuthing plays in which he also appears along with Caro Ramsay, Michael J. Malone, Theresa Talbot, Pat Young and Lucy Cameron, with occasional guests Alex Gray, Lin Anderson and Neil Broadfoot.

He is also one quarter of Four Blokes in search of a Plot, along with Gordon Brown, Mark Leggatt and Neil Broadfoot. This is a fun show in which they invited the audience to give them a murder weapon and a protagonist. They then take it in turns to create a crime story (usually developing into something wild and wacky) while also answering audience queries about the craft.

His one man event, You the Jury, invites audiences to deliver verdicts on real life but heavily disguised cases from around the world. In 2019 the format was extended into a court drama, thanks to the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland, within Stirling Sheriff Court played to three sell-out houses during the Bloody Scotland festival.

He was, with bestselling author Denzil Meyrick, a regular on the SBOOKS podcast.

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Title: Love You From A-Z
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
For the love of letters…

Experience has told Jenna Oakhurst that Happy Ever After may happen in all the best stories, but Happy For Now is the best one ought to expect in real life. Yet lately even that isn’t quite enough, so when a strange set of circumstances leads her to discover a mysterious letter in an abandoned storage unit, she takes the chance to embark on a journey into the unknown…just like the heroines from the storybooks.

Reaching out to the letter’s author, Henry Somners, changes Jenna’s world irrevocably and she starts to realise that the magic she believed in as a child might not be such a fanciful notion after all…

The Author:
Linda Corbett lives in South Oxfordshire with her husband and three permanently hungry guinea pigs. She is proud to be a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and was the recipient of the Katie Fforde Bursary in 2020.

In her spare time, Linda can be found papercrafting, cross stitching, or cuddling guinea pigs. She is also a member of Shine - a charity that supports individuals and families living with spina bifida and/or hydrocephalus. For many years she also wrote a regular column for Link, a disability magazine, illustrating the humorous aspects of life with a complex disability.

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Title: Secret Princess for the Warrior
Genre: Historical romance (Viking era)
Format: Paperback
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The Book;
A dramatic, enemies-to-lovers Viking tale between a princess and a brooding warrior!

Born to be enemies

Sworn to become lovers?

When Viking Karn finds himself shipwrecked on enemy territory, even his razor-sharp, battle-hardened instincts could never have foreseen being rescued by tantalizing maiden Maer…

Maer is stunned to learn that Karn hails from the kingdom that was once her home. And that his father was responsible for the brutal end to her family’s reign, forcing Maer to become a princess-in-hiding! She should hate Karn but instead finds herself irresistibly drawn to the brooding warrior. He could be the key to her return, but can she trust him with her feelings—and her royal secret?

The Author:
Michelle Styles writes warm, witty and intimate historical romance in a wide range of time periods including Viking, Regency, early Victorian, and the Roman world. Born and raised near San Francisco Califorinia, Michelle currently lives a few miles south of Hadrian's Wall with her husband, three children and menagerie of pets. An avid reader, she became hooked on historical romance when she discovered Georgette Heyer, Anya Seton and Victoria Holt in her school's library.

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Title: More Tales from Shakespeare
Genre: Children
Format: Hardback
Signed - Dedication is Available
Bids Accepted: UK Only

The Book;
A beautiful second volume of Shakespeare retellings, from the master storyteller.

Featuring re-tellings of a further eight of Shakespeare’s plays, and beautifully written with Michael Morpurgo’s warm, accessible and inimitable style, this is the much-anticipated follow up to Michael Morpurgo's highly-acclaimed Tales from Shakespeare, with a brand new collection of re-tellings with stunning artwork from eight different illustrators.

This wonderful collection offers a new generation of readers the chance to discover even more of the magic of Shakespeare – the perfect introduction to the Bard and an unmissable book for children.

Stunningly illustrated throughout with contributions from eight different artists, and published in a beautiful hardback edition, More Tales from Shakespeare is a glorious tribute to both Shakespeare and Michael Morpurgo, making this a wonderful gift.

Featuring:

Julius Caesar, illustrated by Dapo Adeola

Much Ado About Nothing, illustrated by Axel Scheffler

Antony and Cleopatra, illustrated by Ed Vere

As You Like It, illustrated by Emily Gravett

Othello, illustrated by Moera

Timon of Athens, illustrated by Tom de Freston

The Merchant of Venice, illustrated by Alona Millgram

Cymbeline, illustrated by Michael Foreman

The Author:
Michael Morpurgo is one of Britain's best-loved children's book writers. He has written more than 100 books and has won the Smarties Prize, the Whitbread Award, and most recently the Blue Peter Book Award for PRIVATE PEACEFUL. He is also the author of WAR HORSE, which has been made into a Tony Award-winning Broadway play and a Golden Globe-nominated film. Michael was Writer in Residence at The Savoy Hotel from January to March 2007, and previously he was Children's Laureate from 2003-2005, a role that took him across Britain to inspire a love of reading in children.

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Title: Serial Chillers: The Witch In The Woods.
Genre: Children (Middle Grade) Horror/Comedy
Format: Paperback
Signed: Dedication is Available
Postage & Packaging; FREE
Bids Accepted: UK Only

The Book :
"Jennifer Killick has become the go-to horror writer for readers aged nine and over … readers are as likely to howl with laughter as with terror.”

– The Sunday Times

Welcome to Hazard. An ordinary town where strangeness is a way of life. A town where sink holes appear with no warning, where people go missing way too often and where things really DO go bump in the night …

To Travis and his classmates, Hazard is home. But when they’re set a school project to investigate the history of the town, they soon realise that something strange and alien lies beneath Hazard. What can they learn from their investigations into the mysterious witch in the woods? And – if the witch really does exist – will they make it home to tell the tale …?

Jennifer Killick's book 'Creepy Creations' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2024-02-26.

The Author:
Jennifer Killick is the author of the award winning Dread Wood series, the Crater Lake series, and the Alex Sparrow series. Jennifer regularly visits schools and festivals, and loves taking inspiration from the young people she meets on her travels, and the weird and wonderful situations she find herself in. Her favourite stories to write are horror-comedies, often with a science-fiction twist, and she is heavily influenced by anime and manga, and creepy TV shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Stranger Things. When Jennifer isn't writing, she loves spending time with her family and dogs, and preparing herself for the zombie apocalypse.

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*Two Book Bonanza*

Title 1: Shadows in the Ashes
Title 2: Shadows in the Spring
Genre: Dual time romance (set partly in Roman times)
Format: Paperbacks
Signed: Yes Dedication is Available
Bids Accepted: Worldwide

Title 1: Shadows in the Ashes
The sunlight caught her gold bracelet, sending a flash that almost blinded her.
She closed her eyes, but jumped when the earth started shaking and there was an almighty boom behind her.

Present Day
Finally escaping an abusive marriage, Caterina Rossi takes her three-year-old daughter and flees to Italy. There she's drawn to research scientist Connor, who needs her translation help for his work on volcanology. Together they visit the ruins of Pompeii and, standing where Mount Vesuvius unleashed its fire on the city centuries before, Cat begins to see startling visions. Visions that appear to come from the antique bracelet handed down through her family's generations...

AD 79
Sold by his half-brother and enslaved as a gladiator in Roman Pompeii, Raedwald dreams only of surviving each fight, making the coin needed to return to his homeland and taking his revenge. That is, until he is hired to guard beautiful Aemilia. As their forbidden love grows, Raedwald's dreams shift like the ever more violent tremors of the earth beneath his feet.

The present starts eerily to mirror the past as Cat must fight to protect her safety, and to forge a new path from the ashes of her old life...

Title 2: Shadows in the Spring
Her head buzzed with long-forgotten memories,
fleeting images that flickered in and out of her mind.
Nothing tangible, and not a single one fully formed, but teasing and tantalising,
as if they wanted to surface but didn't know how.

AD 80
Duro of the Iceni tribe escaped life as an enslaved gladiator and is now finally home in Britannia with one thing on his mind: vengeance. For 20 years he has sought the Roman legionary who destroyed his family. What he didn't expect was Gisel: a fierce Germanic woman with long white-blonde hair, forced into slavery by the Romans. Hypnotised by her spirit and her beauty, Duro frees Gisel and slowly tries to win her trust as they work together to complete his quest.

Present Day
Mackenna Jackson returns to Bath with a broken heart, thanks to rockstar Blue Daniels. Luckily she can still count on Blue's former bandmate Jonah Miller as a listening ear. But Jonah has secretly been fighting stronger feelings, drawn to Mac's quiet confidence and gorgeous white-blonde hair. As they explore the area, memories they can't quite explain flood them both.

Is the spark between Mac and Jonah in fact a sign of something much deeper - a love enduring through millennia - or can it all be an illusion?

The Author:
Christina Courtenay lives in Herefordshire in the UK and is married with two children. Although born in England she has a Swedish mother and was brought up in Sweden. In her teens, the family moved to Japan where she had the opportunity to travel extensively in the Far East.

Christina is a Vice President and former chairman and of the UK’s Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA). She won their Elizabeth Goudge Trophy for a historical short story in 2001 and the Katie Fforde Bursary for a promising new writer in 2006.

Her novels have been shortlisted for and won several awards - 'Trade Winds' (Sept 2010) was short listed in 2011 for the RNA's Award for Best Historical Fiction, 'The Scarlet Kimono' won the Big Red Reads Best Historical Fiction Award the same year, 'Highland Storms' won the Best Historical Romantic Novel of the year award (RoNA) in 2012, 'The Silent Touch of Shadows' was shortlisted for the 2013 RoNAs (Historical) and won the Festival of Romance Award for Best Historical. 'The Gilded Fan' won the RoNA for Best Historical 2014. Echoes of the Runes won the RNA Fantasy Romantic Novel of the year 2021 and Hidden in the Mists was shortlisted for the same prize in 2022.

Christina also writes contemporary YA and 'New England Rocks' was shortlisted for the RNA's awards in 2014. The other three books in the series were published under a different name - Pia Fenton.

When she's not writing, she spends her time tracking down elusive ancestors for her family tree, and her other hobbies include archaeology (the armchair variety), listening to loud rock music and collecting things.

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