Nick Conover goes from being the most admired man in town to the most despised when, as CEO of the Stratton Corporation, one of the biggest companies in Fenwick, Michigan, he presides over massive layoffs. The pressure mounts when his family are stalked by an aggrieved employee, and Nick goes over the edge. Suddenly, he finds himself facing up to the fact that he could be guilty of murder. A terrific new thriller from the other of Paranoia.
Lyndon Stacey, hailed in the press as the writer "closest to taking Dick Francis's crown", has produced her best horse-racing mystery to date. The shocking discovery that the hot favourite for the Cheltenham Gold Cup has been kidnapped should be the scoop of a lifetime for journalist Ben Copperfield. But he's been sworn to secrecy by the horse's owner - a man whose own murky past soon leads to further puzzles for Ben to unravel.
In Days from a Different World, BBC reporter John Simpson interweaves memories from his childhood years with vivid glimpses of what day-to-day life was like for millions of Britons in the forties and fifties. The book is striking in that it manages to be both moving - the author's childhood was shaped by his parents' troubled marriage - and uplifting. A perceptive, beautifully written memoir of one man's childhood and the England in which he grew up.
The writer of the BBC's award-winning series Spooks took the spy novel to a new dimension in his first book, Good New, Bad News. He's back with a mesmerising tale of a group of MI6 trainees who find themselves on the run in South America when their handler deserts them. Their only hope comes from half-remembered rumours of a way out, described in the service as "contact zero". But is it a person, a place ? And how do they reach it ?