Asne Seierstad
A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal

For one hundred and one days, from January until April 2003, Asne Seierstad worked as a reporter in Baghdad for the Scandinavian, German, and Dutch media. Through her articles and live television coverage she reported on the events in Iraq before, during and after the attacks by the American and British forces. Always in search of a story far less obvious than the military invasion, Seierstad now brings to life the world behind the headlines in this compelling and heartbreaking account of her time among the people of Iraq. The only woman to cover both the fall of Kabul and the bombings of Baghdad, Seierstad redefines war reporting and puts a human face on a country still caught in a battle for peace.

Harlan Coben
The Innocent

A fight, a friend in trouble, a slippery pavement and the dull crack of someone's skull on the concrete cost Matt Hunter four years in jail. Now he has a job to be proud of and a beautiful girl to marry. But when he receives a strange video message on his mobile phone, his new existence is suddenly under threat. Suddenly Matt can't trust anybody - least of all those he loves...

Josephine Cox
Let Loose The Tigers

Queenie Bedford fled her native Blackburn and the bitter knowledge that she and Rick Marsden, the man she loved, could never marry. But in 1965 she returned north again to stand by her friend Sheila Thorogood, imprisoned for running a brothel with her mother Maisie.Though Rick had vowed to find her, Queenie took care that he should not know of her whereabouts, but he continued a dogged search.