Andrew Taylor
The Raven on the Water

Back in 1964, Peter Redburn and his best friend, Richard, spent a golden summer holiday playing out their special game - a private world of secret rituals and oaths of loyalty sworn for eternity. It was all very innocent - until James and Kate joined in. And then, one night, their childish game turned to tragedy. Now an adult, Peter has never been able to escape his own feelings of guilt about the events of that summer. So when he stumbles across a hoard of childhood memories, he knows he must search out the truth. And with a funeral bringing all the participants together again, bitter rivalries and sordid secrets are about to be unearthed.

Ruth Thomas
Things to Make and Mend

As teenagers, Sally Tuttle and Rowena Cresswell were inseparable until a devastating incident changed their lives and destroyed their friendship. Now in their early forties and estranged, they are both single mothers, still haunted by memories of their lost intimacy. Sally, a needlewoman, works at In Stitches, an alterations shop in East Grinstead. Rowena, against all the odds, has gone on to 'greater things' as a translator travelling the world. When Sally wins an embroidery prize and is invited to a conference in Edinburgh, she has to leave her teenage daughter on her own and step into the new and intimidating role of award-winner and public speaker. And as fate would have it, Rowena happens to be in Edinburgh too. Could their very different lives be about to converge?

The Sory Circle
Classic Tales of Ghosts and Vampires Volume Two

24 chilling tales. Includes (readers in brackets): Lost Hearts by M.R. James (Nigel Lambert); The Wireless Message by Ambrose Bierce (Garrick Hagon); How He Left the Hotel by Louisa Baldwin (Hayward Morse); The Furnished Room by O. Henry (Jeff Harding); The Dead Smile by F. Marion Crawford (Step hen Greif); The Mystery of the Semi-detached by E. Nesbit (Hayward Morse); A Ghost from the Sea by J.E.P. Muddock (Sean Barrett); By Word of Mouth by Rudyard Kipling (Stephen Thorne); The Toll House by W. W. Jacobs (Hayward Morse); A Vine on a House by Ambrose Bierce (Liza Ross); and others.