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by Anne James
THE BOOK opens with an IRA bomb exploding during the MV Buckingham’s maiden voyage across the Atlantic – but how many passengers lose their lives? Harry Clifton, now President of English PEN, launches a campaign for the release of a fellow author Anatoly Babakor, but in doing so, puts his own life in danger.
by Anne James
OUR FIRST FOUR recommended books this month are all from the Richard and Judy Book Club summer selection. Look out for more September additions to the shelves soon.
by Linwood Barclay
Seven years ago, Cynthia Archer was plunged into a nightmare that almost cost the lives of her family. Today, the past has finally been laid to rest but the memory of that terrible ordeal lingers on and Cynthia is finding it hard to give her daughter the freedom to make her own mistakes.
by Anne James
A NEW JACK REACHER thriller sees our hard-man hero out of the US military police and as his own boss going where the mood takes him. But the army tracks him down because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French President. Only one man could have done it. And Reacher is the one man who can find him.
by Anne James
MAUD IS FORGETFUL. She makes a cup of tea and doesn’t remember to drink it. She goes to the shops and forgets why she went. Sometimes her home is unrecognisable – or her daughter seems a total stranger. But there is one thing Maud is sure of – her friend Elizabeth is missing. The note in her pocket tells her so. And no matter who tells her to stop going on about it, to leave it alone, to shut up, Maud will get to the bottom of it. Because somewhere in her damaged mind lies the answer to an unsolved seventy-year-old mystery. One that everyone has forgotten about. Everyone, except Maud…
by Anne James
RICHARD III WAS KILLED at Bosworth Field 0n August 22, 1485, the last king of England to die in battle. His victorious opponent, Henry Tudor, the future Henry VII, went on to found one of our most famous ruling dynasties. Richard’s body was displayed in undignified fashion for two days in nearby Leicester and then hurriedly interred in the church of the Greyfriars. Fifty years later, at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries, the king’s grave was lost – its contents believed emptied into the River Soar.
Richard’s reputation was buried under a mound of Tudor propaganda, culminating in Shakespeare’s compelling portrayal of a deformed and murderous villain, written over a hundred years after Richard’s death.
In an incredible 21st Century find, his remains were uncovered beneath a Leicester car park. The King’s Grave traces this remarkable story. Philippa Langley, whose years of research and conviction that she would find Richard in the exact place where he was discovered, reveals the inside story of the search for the his grave, and historian Michael Jones tells of Richard’s 15th century life and death.
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