Laurence Bouvard

Across the world, Second World War-era cases are winding their way through the courts. Survivors have been telling their stories for the better part of a century, and still judges ask for proof. Where do these stories end? What responsibilities attend their transmission, so many generations on? How many ghosts need to be put on trial for us to consider the crime scene of history closed?

In this major non-fiction debut, Linda Kinstler investigates both her family story and the archives of ten nations to examine what it takes to prove history in our uncertain century. Probing and profound, Come to this Court and Cry is about the nature of memory and justice when revisionism, ultra-nationalism and denialism make it feel like history is slipping out from under our feet.

It is 1964: Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening uninvited. When Bert kisses his host's wife, Beverley, he sets in motion the joining of two families. In 1988, Franny Keating, now 24, never dreams that the consequences of this encounter will extend into the lives of her scattered siblings and parents.

In an old New England mansion, 12-year-old orphan Florence is neglected by her guardian uncle. By night, she sleepwalks the corridors like one of the old house's many ghosts and is troubled by a recurrent dream in which a mysterious woman threatens her younger brother. When a new teacher arrives, strange phenomena begin to occur.

In the mid-nineteenth century, a group of remarkable women were employed by Harvard College Observatory as ‘Human Computers’ to interpret the observations made by their male counterparts. Enriched by excerpts from letters, diaries, and memoirs, Dava Sobel shines a light on the hidden history of these extraordinary women, who changed the burgeoning field of astronomy and our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe.

A young woman’s discovery of an ancient book and some ageing letters in her father’s library leads her into a world where the secrets of her father’s past, and her mother’s mysterious fate, are connected to a search for modern-day vampires. Richard & Judy Bookclub

Preacher's Daughter Saves The World

When a town in South Dakota USA disappears only a drunk, an old Indian, and a truck driver notice. Investigators decide all three of them are crazy. Only they aren't, and they all swear that there was a town there that no one remembers.

Then the same thing happens in England. A town is gone but no one in the entire country will even acknowledge that it ever existed. Only one old bishop tries to impress on his local MP that he has missing constituents, and a member of the Black Dragoons-a clandestine military unit dedicated to protecting the country from supernatural threats-investigates.

Soon, the Black Dragoons and Special Unit 77-their American counterparts-are working together to figure out what is exactly happening.

Preacher's Daughter is on the case, and she won't stop until she finds some answers. England Will never be the same again...

Archaeologist Nina Wilde believes she knows how to find the lost civilization of Atlantis, but as she travels round the world in search of clues she is pursued by members of a mysterious and murderous sect. Atlantis has held a secret for 11,000 years that, if it fell into the wrong hands, could destroy civilization. X rated, contains graphic violence.  Book 1 of series.

The Spanish Civil War was the first armed battle in the fight against fascism, and a rallying cry for a generation. Over 35,000 volunteers from sixty-one countries around the world came to defend democracy. Ill-equipped and disorderly, yet fuelled by a shared sense of purpose and potential glory, disparate groups of idealistic young men and women banded together to form a volunteer army of a size and kind unseen since the Crusades, known as the International Brigades.

In this magisterial history, award-winning historian Giles Tremlett tells - for the first time - the story of the Spanish Civil War through the experiences of this remarkable group of people. Drawing on the Brigades' extensive archives in Moscow, Comintern documents and first-hand accounts, Tremlett captures all the human drama of an historic mission to halt fascist expansion in Europe.

It begins with an abduction. Michelle Spivey is snatched as she leaves a shopping mall. The police search for her, her partner pleads for her release, but it’s as if she disappeared into thin air. A month later, the fallout will lead medical examiner Sara Linton and her boyfriend Will Trent, an agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, to the terrible truth about what really happened to Michelle, and to a remote compound where a radical group has murder in mind…  Book 12 of series.

One night at Trieste in 1943, a wounded soldier is found on the quay. Doctor Pietri Friari treats the soldier but when he regains consciousness he has lost his memory and cannot even remember what language he speaks. The doctor, who is originally from Finland, believes him to be a fellow countryman, and dedicates himself to teaching him Finnish, leading him to return to Finland in search of his identity and his past.

This is the story of four sisters and their dog and the adventures they have while on holiday on a beautiful estate called Arundel. There they meet a boy who they become friends with. The boy's mother is mean and does not like children or animals, especially the Penderwick sisters and their dog.

When Baltimore police are called out to Glendale High after gunshots are heard, they find three victims. The version of events given by the one conscious victim is at odds with the information unearthed by the investigating team and there is evidence of a fourth girl – a witness.

When Peter Webster pulls Sheila Arsenault from her wrecked car he falls for her instantly. Soon they are embroiled in an intense affair, marry and have a daughter. Then things start to unravel.

During her research into the roundup of Jews by the French police in Paris 1942 a journalist stumbles across family secrets that connect her to the shameful event in France’s past.

Raised in Canada to Hungarian-Croatian parents, Jennifer Klinec has travelled to many countries in search of ancient recipes. Her quest leads her to Iran where she is introduced to a local woman and her son, Vahid, who will teach her the secrets of the Persian kitchen.

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's Box of revelations, the tape details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment. X rated, explicit sexual content.

Who is JT LeBeau? A best-selling crime writer, whose words have gripped the world. The only mystery greater than his stories is his true identity. One woman thinks she's found him - her husband has millions in the bank and a letter for the enigmatic author. But the truth is far more twisted...

Miss Goering, an eccentric, impulsive New York heiress, resides in her house and tries not to be unhappy. Mrs Copperfield, an anxious, dutiful married woman, has a great fear of drowning, of lifts, of intruders in the night. Two serious ladies, nothing is natural for them and anything is possible.

For Mrs Copperfield - a trip to Panama, where she abandons her husband for love of a local prostitute. For Miss Goering - a move to a squalid little house on an island and a series of sordid encounters with strangers. Both go to pieces - and both realise this is something they've wanted to do for years.

Jean McClellan spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just 100 words a day. Any more, and a thousand volts of electricity will course through her veins. Now the new government is in power, everything has changed. But only if you're a woman, and terrifyingly, young girls are no longer taught to read or write. For herself, for her daughter and for every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice. This is only the beginning....