Sarah Challis
Jumping To Conclusions

A couple of books bought secondhand from a village jumble sale; in the front, a name - Johnnie Bearsden - scrawled in a childish hand. This is all it takes for old wounds to open and rumours to begin swirling again. Rumours about little Izzy Haddon, whose mother, Jess, has kept the identity of her daughter's father a secret for seven years. Now Johnnie Bearsden is coming back to the village with his American wife and children. Everyone has assumed that he is Izzy's father, but Jess will neither confirm nor deny it.

• Warmth and numour are Sarah Challis's hallmarks, and this is her best novel yet.

Bob Geldof
Geldof In Africa

Bob Geldof reads his bestselling personal and fascinating account of an extraordinary and unique continent. Bob Geldof first visited Africa in 1984. The following year, Live Aid inspired a generation to raise millions for the starving in Africa. More than twenty years on, passion undiminished, Geldof returns to what he calls the Luminous Continent. This is his personal diary, read in his own words. Unflinchingly honest, provocative, informative, poignant and funny, Geldofin Africa paints a unique picture of this stunningly beautiful land. Based on the highlyacclaimed BBC TV series and containing entirely new, additional material, Geldof in Africa is an exciting and breathtaking journey to, quite simply, the most incredible place on earth.

Bob Geldof was the lead singer of The Boomtown Rats and has recorded four solo albums. In 1984, he initiated Band Aid and the following year organised Live Aid. In 2005 he initiated the Live 8 concerts. His work in Africa continues.

Ten years after his phenomenal number-one bestseller, The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans returns with his most powerful novel to date. On a crystalline Montana morning, two back-country skiers find the body of a young woman embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. All through the night police work with floodlights and chainsaws to extract her. Identifying her, however, takes no time at all. Abbie Cooper is wanted for murder and acts of eco-terrorism and her picture is on lawenforcement computers all across America. But how did she die? And what was the trail of events that led this golden child of a loving family so tragically astray?