Simon King
Wild Life

Even as a young child, Simon King was passionate about the natural world. Being savaged by a rabid cheetah, charged at by rhinos and elephants and defecated upon by a long list of birds and other animals may sound like hell to some. But these experiences have provided him with an enormously rich bank of tales to relive and retell. Through TV projects such as Planet Earth, Blue Planet, Springwatch, Autumnwatch and Big Cat Diary – to name just a few – Simon has travelled to every continent and lived in extreme conditions from remote desert to Arctic and Antarctic wilderness. With characteristic honesty and charm, Simon King weaves his animal stories amongst encounters with extraordinary people, and astonishing places to give us a memoir that will delight readers.

‘King is one of the most engaging of natural history
presenters and the prose in his autobiography,
Wild Life, is every bit as addictive’ – SCOTSMAN

Lyn Andrews
The Leaving of Liverpool

With World War One over, Emily Parkinson goes back into service. Her younger sister, Phoebe-Ann, is lady’s maid to Miss Olivia Mercer and hoping that one day she will be more than just a confidante to Olivia’s badly shell-shocked brother James. But when Emily is brutally attacked, the sisters’ lives come perilously close to ruin. Phoebe-Ann falls into the arms of the notorious Jake Malone – but it seems that Phoebe-Ann might be able to escape the mistakes of the past – even if it does mean leaving Liverpool...

Marian Keyes
The Brightest Star in the Sky

The Brightest Star in the Sky follows seven
neighbours, whose lives become entangled when a spirit pays a visit to their Dublin townhouse with the intent of changing at least one of their lives. But what will this metamorphosis be and who will the sprite choose? There’s Matt and Maeve, the newlyweds struggling to overcome the first obstacle in their storybook romance; Lydia, the brassy but vulnerable cabbie; Katie, the just-turned-forty PR executive; and Jemima, whose son Fionn is in town to star as the hunky gardener in a hot new television show.