Katie Flynn
In Time For Christmas

Addy and Prue Fairweather live with Nell, their widowed mother, in a flat above her shop on the Scotland Road. Nell makes no secret of her preference for angelic Prue, making Addy feel jealous and resentful. Giles Frobisher and his twin sister, Gillian, live in a crumbling mansion near the sea in Devon. Giles meets the Fairweather girls briefly on a visit to Liverpool. When they meet again, Addy and Prue are no longer children and Giles realises he is falling in love....

John Francome
Deadly Finish

Young trainer Simon Waterford is soon to marry his beautiful girlfriend. But Mariana has a secret which would wreck her hopes of marriage - and which Geoff has found out. And he has threatened to tell Simon. On their way back from the races, two rough-looking young men pass lewd comments about Mariana. The resulting brawl leaves Mariana in a sea of blood tending to Simon's wounded face, while Geoff lies dead. Mariana can't help but feel relieved. Her secret is safe, for now....

Snipers in the hills overlook the shattered streets of Sarajevo. Kenan faces the agonising dilemma of crossing the city to get water for his family. Dragan does not know whom among his friends he can trust. And Arrow, a young woman enlisted into the forces defending the city as a counter-sniper, finds herself pushed to her limits.

This gripping novel [is] a testimony to the struggle to find meaning, grace, and humanity, even amid the most unimaginable horrors' - Khaled Hosseini