Frank Gardner
Far Horizons

Since his student days, Frank Gardner, the BBC Security Correspondent has travelled to a remarkable number of countries. Drawing on diaries, sketches and photos, his accounts of these often strange, sometimes daring adventures form the backbone of this book. In June 2004, Frank not only survived being shot six times at point-blank range by Islamist gunmen in Riyadh, but against all the odds, has found himself looking towards those far horizons once more – and this is a man who no longer has the use of his legs. Far Horizons is Frank Gardner’s compelling account of the myriad adventures that made him the man he was on that fateful day five years ago.

Lin Anderson
Easy Kill

A young woman – a prostitute – has been brutally slain and left across a grave in Glasgow’s sprawling cemetery, the Necropolis. The removal of the girl’s corpse from the city of the dead reveals another woman recently buried underneath, and the case takes on a disturbing new dimension. This man has killed before – and will kill again.

John Boyne
The House of Special Purpose

Russia, 1915: as bodyguard to Alexei Romanov, the only son of Tsar Nicholas II, Georgy Jachmenev is privy to the secrets of Nicholas and Alexandra, the machinations of Rasputin and the events which will lead to the final collapse of the autocracy. But Georgy finds it impossible to live in the present – and his dying wife is unable to reconcile herself with the past.