Book one in a new series to get your pulse pounding. Special Agent Gideon Reynolds has tried hard to put the past behind him. He escaped the violence of his cult upbringing when he was just 13 years old, and since then, routine and discipline have been his way of making sense of the world. But when a petite blonde woman crashes into his life, he begins to realise that a little bit of chaos might not be so bad. Daisy Dawson has had more than her fair share of pain too, but she's had enough of being a victim. She is determined to explore every new experience she can, including getting to know the dark and serious FBI investigator she meets when she fights off a masked attacker one night, and grabs the necklace from around his neck. What she doesn't know then is that she's found the missing link to a cold case that Gideon Reynolds has been tracking for 17 years. With her help, he finally has the opportunity to get closer to the truth than ever before. It soon becomes clear that Daisy's attack was just the beginning. Now the bloodied bodies of young women are showing up all over California and as Gideon tries to track down the killer, it?s clear he has a new target. Daisy is in more danger than they ever could have realised. 'Intense, complex and unforgettable' says James Patterson, this is a high-octane thrill ride. 536pp, paperback.

A magical yet oppressive Moscow is evoked with a young heroine who is foolish, inquisitive and achingly lonely. 'I hear the howling at night. It wakes me sometimes.' Escaping failure as an undergraduate and a daughter, not to mention bleak 1970s England, Martha marries Kit - who is gay. Having a wife could keep him safe in Moscow in his diplomatic post. As Martha tries to understand her new life and makes the wrong friends, she walks straight into an underground world of counter-espionage. Out of her depth, Martha no longer knows who can be trusted. A terrific novel of love and loyalty showing how a place can get inside you and challenge everything you thought you knew about yourself. 294pp.

East Prussia, 1943. 'We entered one at a time. We had waited for hours outside, lined up in the hallway. The room was large, its walls white. In the centre of it, a long wooden table already laid out. They gestured for us to sit. I sat with my hands clasped on my belly. In front of me, a white ceramic plate. I was hungry. The other women had taken their places without a sound. There were ten of us. Some sat up straight and poised, their hair pulled into buns... For years we had lived with this hunger, this fear, and when the smell of cooked food was under our noses, our heartbeats throbbed in our temples, our mouths watered... As though we're not being forced to eat it all, as though we could refuse this food, this meal isn't intended for us... My mother used to say eating was a way of battling death. She said it even before Hitler... When the meal was over, two SS guards stepped forward... 'In an hour's time you'll all be free to go.' 'Or dead' remarked his comrade.' Hitler is hiding away in the Wolfsschanze, his hidden headquarters. The tide is turning in the war and his enemies circle ever closer. Ten women are chosen to taste his food and protect him from being poisoned. 26 year old Rosa has lost everything to this war - her parents are dead, her husband is fighting on the front line. Alone and scared she faces the SS with nothing but the knowledge that every bite might be her last. How far is Rosa willing to go to survive? A disturbing and beautifully written novel based on shockingly real events, this is an international bestseller. 341pp.

Winner of the 1973 Booker Prize, Hilary Mantell said of this novel 'Original and endlessly entertaining, it repays repeated readings.' Krishnapur 1857 - India is on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny. In this remote town on the vast North Indian plain, life for the British is orderly and genteel, but when the sepoys at the nearest military cantonment rise in revolt, the British community retreats with shock into the Residency. They prepare to fight for their lives with what weapons they can muster. As food and ammunition grow short when the British find themselves under actual siege, the true character of their domination - at once brutal, blundering and wistful - is soon revealed. A superb portrayal of the physical horrors and psychological fallout, the novel is wonderfully funny and written with a devastating wit and rambunctious humanity. Inspired, funny it is ultimately a tragic look at colonialism in India. Paperback, 375pp with Afterword.

Isabel is feeling unsettled, adjusting to life as a new mother alongside her work as a philanthropist and as editor of the Review of Applied Ethics. With a desire to create some space in her busy life, she returns to lending a hand at her niece's delicatessen where surely the most taxing duty is the preparation of sandwiches. It is not long before her helpful nature draws Isabel into her customers' problems, specifically that of self-proclaimed matchmaker Bea Shannon. Bea has staged a potentially dangerous liaison involving enigmatic plastic surgeon Tony MacUspaig who may not be quite who he claims to be. Isabel's help is required in getting to the truth of the matter, but not even she is immune to misunderstandings or the neurotic fantasies that arise from keeping secrets. Brimming with discrete charm. 232pp, paperback.

The story is based on four characters, 'Doc' Harvey, Bill Leggett the Doc's foster child, Rob Heath, the squire's son, and Lena an unaccomplished artist and unconventional thinker. The book is set in the 1940s in the village of Howdean in the south of England where Bill and Rob, who were at Cambridge University together, have used some capital to invent a replicating machine. The novel considers the ethics, advantages and dangers of such a device and is narrated by the Doc in a kind of Dr Watson/Sherlock Holmes style. Science is on the verge of a revolution, the cutting-edge new replication process is invented, and any matter can be reproduced - Shakespeare's signature, works of art, even perhaps a human being? When a brilliant scientist believes that this perfect replication process offers the solution to an excruciating love triangle, the limits of the new technology are tested, and impossible questions of identity and originality threaten to tear apart the best-laid plans of paradise. The book is adventurous in that it deals with nakedness, suicide and even skirts on child abuse, which for 1949 when it was published was very brave, and Lena is an unconventional female character. 300 page paperback.

A companion to The Question Mark code 92890, and in the British Library Science Fiction Classics series, with an introduction by Mike Ashley, Muriel Jaeger (1892-1969) was a prolific writer of history books, essays and science fiction and among the first women to receive degrees at Somerville College, Oxford. She later became associated with Leonard and Virginia Woolf who published her first science fiction novels. Extra-sensory perception is a unique gift of nature, or is it an affliction? To Hilda, Michael Bristowe's power to receive forces beyond the limits of the five basic senses offers the promise of some brighter future for humanity, and yet for the bearer himself, dizzied by the threat of sensory bombardment and social exile, the picture is not so clear. First published in 1927, the novel was Muriel Jaeger's second pioneering foray into science fiction, and a thought provoking portrait of the struggle for human connection and relationships tested and transformed under the pressures of supernatural influence. 219pp, paperback.

A forgotten classic here reprinted by the British Library, the book was first published in 1926 by Leonard Woolf of the Hogarth Press and the offer letter is reproduced. Muriel Jaeger helped inaugurate the modern dystopian novel and wanted to know what had happened to real people who had solved some of the 20th century's most pressing problems such as hunger, war and the constant pressure of earning a living in a capitalist society. Add some impressive technological advances, and what new dilemmas will people encounter or create? The hero is Guy Martin who finds himself transported from his dull life as a clerk in 1920s London to a pastoral, socialist 22nd century. Preceding the publication of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World by five years, the novel has extraordinary parallels with the real world today like modern smartphones shown as a device the size of a cigarette case that has become a necessary appendage to life in the 22nd century, although meant for the generation of power. With his cockney accent, Guy doesn't really fit in socially anywhere except for the Socialist Club which he has joined. At first he is entranced by his new world and finds himself living with a doctor who has in some unexplained way brought him to this time and he is introduced to the doctor's nephew who will be his guide to the society. They spend their days on artistic and scientific pursuits and in philosophical debate with their friends, but soon Guy begins to discover that this society is just as divided. The people who either don't have the capacity or the desire for an intellectual life are called normals whose empty lives are filled with childlike emotions and pursuits. The future London is where each citizen is offered free education and a personal 'power-box' granting access to communication, transportation and entertainment. To guide the great challenges facing society seem solved, but its inhabitants tell a different story of fractured life in this supposed utopia. With far more believable characters than her contemporaries wrote there are inevitably parallels with 'The Time Machine'. 205pp, paperback.

First published in 1958 when a significant number of British scientific novels explored the fear and horror of a nuclear holocaust or some other apocalyptic destruction, notably in The Day of the Triffids. In Charles Eric Maine's novel, nuclear tests have resulted in a crack in the Earth's crust into which the seas and oceans start to drain. Out the outset people refuse to accept it, but as the reality becomes inevitable, authorities find they have to act, and act fast. But how does government protect society in a world where there are no oceans, so no rain, no crops and no food? Maine settles on how one human struggles for survival in this disintegrating world and shows that 'fake news' is far from new. When London journalist Philip Wade learns that his article on nuclear weapons testing has been censored by the British government, his interest turns to the attempted cover-up. His investigation leads to a mysterious job offer in a newly-formed government department, and here the truth of the oncoming catastrophe is revealed. It is a pity the author uses 'sardonically' so often, in this otherwise excellent 'forgotten' classic brought back into print by the British Library. 236pp, paperback.

Butchery outside a London brothel leaves Westfield's Men in disarray. While England is brought low by rumours of Queen Elizabeth's declining health, celebrated theatre company Lord Westfield's Men suffer their own bitter blows. A vicious feud between players causes chaos; a rival company launches a new production and a mysterious beauty reduces their leading actor to a lovelorn wreck. And a brutal murder leaves the group of actors reeling. With matters so fraught, even a performing horse becomes a threat. Stage manager Nicholas Bracewell, accustomed to damage control, is the only man with the wit to keep the company afloat. He begins to discern the connections between the company's misfortunes and the larger shadow falling over England. Steeped in authentic detail and language. 318pp in paperback.