BY THE BOOK
Cath Rathbone Cheker
Prince Bashir Baha Al-Din – aka Bonbon – is about to turn fourteen and become a man. He’s a misfit at the court of Mirazhar: sensitive, kind, fond of animals and architecture, opposed to fighting in any form. He doesn’t expect to have to take the lead – but fate has other ideas for him. Fleeing his responsibilities and his enemies, Bonbon rides out into the desert and discovers what it truly means to be a man.
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With themes of trust and betrayal, resilience and fear, The Boy Who Would Not Be Sultan is a wonderful coming-of-age novel, ideal for readers aged 12+ .
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Published June 2025
ISBN: 9781917625036
Bill Randall
Protection Song is a fast-paced thriller full of emotional compassion and richly satisfying plotting.
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Ian Wren, successful music producer, believes he has found something special in Ellie Beck. But Ellie is on the run from her past and it catches up with them faster than either of them can imagine.
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Bill spent ten years working for the police while playing in a London-based alternative rock band. His experiences in the police and the music industry align with his love of crime fiction in this, his brilliant first novel.​​​
Published April 2025
ISBN: 9781917625012
Lesley Coates Jones
An encounter is no ordinary meeting. It carries the element of surprise – a sort of epiphany. It is not given to everyone; rather, it chooses you, this indefinable cataclysm. It is a gift to cherish.
Lesley Coates Jones is a professional artist. She paints, draws, writes and makes marks. Chance Encounters is a collection of poems accompanied by a series of pen-and-ink drawings, taken from her personal sketchbooks, offering an intimate insight into her vision of the world. This is a beautiful hardback book.
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Published March 2025
ISBN: 9781917625029
Dave Hobart
Blue Eyes is Dave Hobart's debut novel - an edge-of-the-seat thriller with a tender love story at its heart.
A man is released from prison, after serving time for a crime he did not commit. But freedom comes at a price. Now he is on the run, hiding from the police, the law and foreign agents, unable to see his wife and child, unable to resume anything approaching a normal life. Who committed the murder for which Jack Frost was framed, and why is he not safe yet?
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Published December 2024
ISBN: 9781917625005
