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Article  •  15 June 2023

 

Great Winter Reads

Books that are perfect for curling up with this winter!

This winter we've picked some our our favourite new books for you to enjoy, to learn more about them click on the image that interests you the most...

Will it be thrills and spills or a feel goood pick for you?

 

 

 

 

 

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Tangi
The 50th anniversary edition of this award-winning debut novel.
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Cross Down
A thrilling spin-off of the bestselling Alex Cross series, featuring DC Metro Police Detective John Sampson.
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Bad Summer People
Get ready for your next summer obsession: \"a perfect rich-people-behaving-badly beach read\"
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Killing Moon
THE BRAND-NEW DETECTIVE HARRY HOLE THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER.
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Night Will Find You
The Sunday Times bestselling author of BLACK-EYED SUSANS returns with a compelling thriller about a woman who holds the key to a decades-old missing child case
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The Interpreter
Innocent or guilty. It's all a matter of interpretation... Vintage's lead crime thriller debut, for readers of Louise Candlish, Sarah Vaughan, and Harriet Tyce
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Hello Beautiful
Four sisters. Two sides of a fault line. Can love make a broken family whole?
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Empire
Discover the rise and fall of the world's greatest empire in the stunning second novel in THE GOLDEN AGE series, from the nation's finest historical novelist
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The Scarlet Papers
Intense and enthralling thriller, and a secret that will send shockwaves through the corridors of Westminster . . .
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Betrayal
The enthralling new novel from the 10-million-copy, No. 1 bestselling author
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