A series of shootings brings terror to the streets of San Francisco. A reluctant informant puts her trust in Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, and the tip leads her to disturbing conclusions. Her friends in the Women's Murder Club warn Lindsay against taking the crimes to heart, but with lives at stake the detective cannot stop herself from following the case into ever more terrifying terrain. Lindsay is a decorated officer, loving wife, devoted mother and loyal friend, but she is confronting a killer who is determined to undermine it all. 348pp, paperback.

Welcome paperback reprint of a book first published in 1980 under the title 'The Zoo Quest Expedition: Travels in Guyana, Indonesia and Paraguay.' In 1954 a young David Attenborough had the opportunity of a lifetime, to travel the world finding rare and elusive animals for London Zoo's collection, and to film the expedition for the BBC in a new show called Zoo Quest. This is his story written in his inimitable voice of these travels. Staying with local tribes while searching for giant anteaters, Komodo Dragons in Indonesia and armadillos in Paraguay, he battles with cannibal fish, aggressive tree porcupines and escape-artist wild pigs to record the incredible beauty and biodiversity of these regions. The methods may be outdated now, but the fascination and respect for wildlife, the people and the environment are not. Now we can all travel vicariously with the old-fashioned adventurer and Britain's favourite naturalist who is an elegant and gently funny writer. See also the follow up 90905 Journeys to the Other Side of the World. 398pp in paperback reprint with 90 archive photos, three in colour.

A companion to 90904 Adventures of A Young Naturalist, the book was first published in 1981 under the title 'Journeys to the Past: Travels in New Guinea, Madagascar, and the Northern Territory of Australia', and in paperback in 2018 under the title 'Two Roads'. With some 90 photos, many colour plates and maps, we can travel vicariously with the pioneering naturalist Sir David Attenborough in his early days. Following the success of the original Zoo Quest expeditions in the late 1950s onwards the young David Attenborough embarked on further travels. From the land divers of Pentecost Island and the Sing-Sings of New Guinea to a Royal Kava ceremony on Tonga and the ancient art of the Northern Territory, this is a journey like no other. Alongside these remarkable creatures, Sir David encounters paradise birds, chameleons, Sifakas, pygmies and dancing birds, flamingos, tenrecs and mouse lemurs, the dog-headed man, babakoto, geese and goannas, painted caves and buffaloes, and the hermits of Borroloola. 'Every year for a decade, between 1954 and 1964, it was my great luck to go to the tropics and make natural history films.' 'I have left the accounts of these places and events essentially as I wrote them.' Written with his usual charm and generosity, he allows us to go along for the ride. 413pp, paperback. 90 illus. including colour plates.

'A quietly radical, three-dimensional view of issues such as reproduction, birth, death and disability that has the power, at times, to make you stop mid-sentence and carefully reassess some of your most basic assumptions.' - Scotsman. In a deft mix of the clinical and the lyrical, Francis moves skilfully between the scientific and aesthetic, anatomical fact and emotional consequence in his beautifully written and elegant series of essays. Drawing on his experiences as a doctor, he blends stories from the clinic with reflections on the way the body has been imagined and understood over millennia, offering new perspectives on everything from the ribbed surface of the brain to the unique engineering of the foot. His chapters are headed Brain, Head, Chest, Upper Limb, Abdomen and Pelvis, Lower Limb and cover Neurosurgery of the Soul, Seizures, Sanctity and Psychiatry, The Eye: A Renaissance of Vision, Face: Beautiful Palsy, Inner Ear: Voodoo and Vertigo, Heart: On Seagull Murmurs, Ebb and Flow, Shoulder: Arms and Armour, Wrist and Hand: Punched, Cut and Crucified, Kidney: The Ultimate Gift and Large Bowel and Rectum: A Magnificent Work of Art among them. From the threshold of life and death of the womb, to tips of our feet and toes, this is an extraordinary journey through the most intimate landscape of all - our own bodies. Index, 252pp, illustrated paperback.

The BBC TV series Peaky Blinders was a hit from its first showing in 2013. Transforming our perception of Birmingham of a century ago with swagger, glamour and extreme violence - not to mention a visceral soundtrack - we see the charismatic yet deeply flawed Shelby family prowl the second city's dingy backstreets leaving bloody chaos in their wake as they strive to remain the Birmingham's top gang. But who were the real Peaky Blinders, and how close to the truth is the show? Leading historian Prof. Carl Chinn discovered his own PB heritage back in the 80s and is himself the son of an illegal bookmaker and was thus able to draw on a wealth of totally original photos and interviews with family and friends to write this book. First myth to dispel is that the name was not derived from the practise of fitting razor blades to the specially stiffened peaks of their flat caps to create a fearsome weapon. While some real-life PBs may have done this, the real reason was their fashion for pulling the peak of their cap to one side of their heads, thus covering (or blinding) one eye. Secondly, there was not one gang called the Peaky Blinders. It was a generic term for the city's roughs that came into use in the 1890s and was interchangeable with "slogging gangs", itself a label for any gang member with a predilection for violence. Weapons were belts, stones, knives, coshes and boots and these people were not glamorous - they were brutal and vile, and eventually put to flight by strong police action led by Chief Constable Charles Rafter. Whether you want the truth behind the TV, or have an interest in the history of Birmingham, this is the book for you. Packed with miniscule detail and the kind of insights and information that only come from close association. Many photos, 276pp paperback.

'Work less, create more: how to make your side hustle work for you' this is a Sunday Times bestseller. The world of work is changing, so how do you keep up? The Internet and smartphones give you the ability to make money on your own terms, when and where you want, but where do you start? If you have been itching to convert your craft into a career or your hobby into a start up, award winning blogger Emma Gannon teaches us that it doesn't matter if you are a part time PA with a blog, or a nurse who runs an online store in the evenings, whatever your ratio, your mixture, we can all channel our own entrepreneurial spirit to live more fulfilled and financially healthy lives. The book reflects on how we will all work more intelligently in the future and is written with humour and good sense for total newcomers to freelancing. 280pp. Paperback.

New 2021 glamorous hardback dedicated to a friend of ours in the publishing trade, Sheila Crowley. Top crime writers like Lee Child and Karin Slaughter have described the book as 'Hypnotically good' and 'Propulsive'. The atmosphere on board the first non-stop flight from London to Sydney is electric. Celebrities are rumoured to be among the passengers in Business Class, and the world is watching the landmark journey. Flight attendant Mina is trying to focus on the passengers instead of her troubled five year old daughter back at home or the cataclysmic problems in her marriage, but soon after the plane takes off, she receives a chilling anonymous note. Someone wants to make sure the plane never reaches its destination and they are demanding her cooperation - and they know exactly how to get it. It's 20 hours to landing. Anything can happen in 20 hours. You can save hundreds of lives or the one that matters most. 'Taking the locked room mystery to a new, white-knuckle extreme, this is electrifying.' 389pp.

'The number one bestselling novel by the master of the killer twist.' Here is a dastardly psychological tale of murder, betrayal and revenge by one of the most successful French authors of all time. Jamal loves to run but one morning as he is training on a path winding up a steep cliff he stumbles across a woman in distress. In a matter of seconds suddenly she is falling through the air, crashing on the beach below. Jamal is only an unlucky bystander, or is he? His version of events don't fit with what other eyewitnesses claim to have seen, and how to explain the red scarf carefully arranged around the dead woman's neck? Perhaps this was no accident after all, or perhaps there is something more sinister afoot, a devilish plan decades in the making, masterminded by someone hell-bent on revenge. Clear your diary dear reader and enjoy the myriad enigmas in this inventive plot with characters haunted by long-ago events. 394pp.

A history lesson they'll never forget - and neither will you. Mattie Engel is one of the rising stars at Private Berlin, and believes she's seen the worst of people in her previous life with the Berlin police force. That is until her colleague Chris, until recently her fiancé, is found dead, brutally murdered in an old slaughterhouse outside the city. The slaughterhouse is filled with bodies. But just as Private begin their investigations, the building explodes, wiping out all evidence of the crimes, and nearly killing Mattie and her team. She soon realises that a masked killer is picking off Chris's childhood friends, one by one, and destroying the trail, but who wants the past buried so badly? What is the truth about that slaughterhouse, and will Mattie become the killer's next victim? 485pp, paperback.

P.I. Craig Gisto, head of the latest branch of Private, is enjoying the glamorous launch party with his new team when their celebrations are interrupted by the bloodied arrival of a boy with his eyes gouged out. The boy is the kidnapped son of one of Australia's richest men, but investigating his death isn't their only pressing case. The rock star Micky Stevens is convinced someone's trying to kill him, and believes Private are the only ones who can help. As if that wasn't enough, someone is murdering the wealthy wives of the Eastern Suburbs, in the most brutal way imaginable. If they don't catch the killer soon, the next victim could be someone close to Private. 453pp, paperback.