The year is 1861 and Inspector Faro is heading back to Orkney to enjoy some home comforts. However, his rest is disrupted when he is given a special assignment from…

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An unexpected inheritance is most people’s dream, but not for Paula. Having put bad times behind her, she is now happy and secure in Western Australia with her own business….

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Manchester, 1920. Carrie Jenkins reels from the revelation that her beloved father was shot for desertion during the Great War, not tragically killed in heroic action as she had previously…

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Talk about the internet and inevitably the words “there is just so much out there” will crop up in conversation. It’s a fact – trawling the web can be truly…

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…Each day of the tour will see the book featured on a different blog or Instagram page. Follow along on the tour to hear all about it!   Recommend This:…

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…Room, by Emma Donaghue – a new book out this year with a remarkably similar premise. Both novels are told from the perspective of a young child – in One…

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…an inspiration to Laline Paull in this year’s The Bees, and Sue Monk Kidd’s excellent title (The Secret Life of Bees) intrigued us all the way from page to cinema,…

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…series is often the go-to example – and at A&B we have our own Unstoppable Writing Machine Edward Marston, with whom we publish five series and over 30 books. He’s…

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…our Facebook Page. Game on people. Chiara Priorelli, Publicity & Online Marketing Manager This competition is now closed. Server was back up and running at 4.14pm (1 Nov). Recommend This:…

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…book and a short line to explain what bit in the book happens on Halloween – by commenting here on this post, on our Facebook page or via Twitter (@Allisonandbusby…

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…wannabe art review critics – launched by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in associationg with The Observer. Anthony Burgess, who died in 1993, was (and still is) considered one of…

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…a time as any) I came across this extremely peculiar page of lists… Now, as lists go, I think you’d be hard-pressed to find more random jottings. But there clearly…

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…are braving the cold whilst you stay nice and warm. 3. Choose a real page-turner so there’s no excuse to remove yourself from said book and aforementioned blanket. 4. Get…

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…every year. But I must admit to doing a double-take over the line of the email which read: Talk Like a Pirate Day – 19th September. You may be puzzled…

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The fifth book in the Great Library series from the Number 1 international bestselling author of the Morganville Vampires series  …

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…intruder breaks into the school and later when a child is badly hurt in the playground – only Jane suspects it was not an accident. Are the two incident connected?…

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As they travel by ship to New York for her childhood friend Tabitha’s wedding, Amory Ames is excited by the prospect of being a bridesmaid. Her husband, Milo, however, is…

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…but the prevailing excitement is shattered by a cry for help – someone is missing.   Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are called in to investigate this peculiar occurrence. With…

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…have ended up being owned by Scandinavian designers – like Henriette Staibs of www.defireaarstider.dk, Josephine and Andreas Persson of www.inmyhouse.se and Hanne and Søren Berzant of www.mynord.com (I adore their…

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…which may look pretty on a coffee table but rarely get put to good use, this practical cookbook will in no time be your one-and-only companion in the kitchen –…

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