M.C. Beaton
Agatha Raisin And The Walkers Of Dembley

After six gruelling months back in London, Agatha Raisin returns to her beloved Cotswold village of Carsely - and to the charms of her neighbour, James Lacey. True, James is less than thrilled to see her, but Agatha is soon distracted by a sensational murder. The victim, found in a lonely field, is hiker Jessica Tartinck, who spent her life enraging wealthy landowners by insisting on her walking club's right to hike over their properties. Now she has been found dead....

Sally Beauman
The Landscape Of Love

Summer, 1967, rural Suffolk: Lucas, an artist and friend, is painting a portrait of thirteen year-old Maisie and her sisters. In turn, Maisie embarks on a portrait of her own: telling the story of herself and her sisters and their lovers, and of her friend, Daniel Nunn. Twenty-three years later, Daniel, determined to understand what happened that last summer at the abbey, pursues the answers to the past.

Melissa Bank
The Wonder Spot

Meet Sophie Applebaum - as enchanting a heroine as Jane in The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing. Sophie is an outsider and an inventor of rules. We follow the life cycle of her family, and we follow her to school, through college, to her first job, through to the realisation that work isn't fulfilment, that your parents aren't quite what you thought, and that Mr Right is sometimes . . . only all right.

`This is sure to be in high demand. Recommended to all public libraries'- Tania Barnes, Library JournalL

'Worth the wait. . . authentic, amusing. . . where The Girls' Guide leaves you touched... The Wonder Spot leaves you satisfied'- Time Out New York