Eviscerated Panda - Back In Bamboo is a book that meanders around the topics of heavy metal, happiness, sex, morality, love and biscuits. It follows the lives of keen for success metal band Eviscerated Panda and their friends, families and lovers over a four month period. There are chance meetings with old band mates, birthday celebrations and career aspirations. Eviscerated Panda play loud gigs in Camden, in Coventry, in their home town of Reading and in Torquay. They have to cope with the temporary closure of their favourite pub, the Green Man, which is the scene of much of their carousing. Ian has trouble in his life of love while Dean and Lucy are getting started on theirs, if only his Mum would give them a minute of privacy. Suzi does a rude thing in a dressing room suitable only for mature readers. They go to see the inspiring kings of metal, Manowar. They play an April Fool's day joke on their fans. Some of them wake up in a room that smells of onions. The book ends with the Pandas playing on the same bill as Nightshade Milkshake, the band that lead guitarist Phil was in before he made the Pandas happen.

A young Englishman is posted to an infantry battalion in France late in the winter of 1917-1918. After some months in the trenches he is attached to the Royal Flying Corps. He is wounded and falls in love with his nurse. Once fit again he returns to France where he briefly encounters a German pilot - a prisoner. By chance they meet again in the 1920s, at a time of desperate chaos for Germany. In 1940 their paths cross once more. The Battle of Britain is over but the Nazis still entertain hopes of invading and defeating Britain. The Englishman is now a civilian police inspector. He stumbles on a German plan to prepare the way for invasion. Its organisation and execution has been entrusted to his former acquaintance - the prisoner of 1918.

Sixteen residents from the fantasy Caribbean island of St Christopher & the Barracudas describe their lives and preoccupations. Each characterisation, richly drawn in humour and melancholy, is enriched by visionary artwork to depict a place where not everything is quite as it seems.

The pyramids and the magnificent Sphinx built over two thousand years before the birth of Jesus Christ have fascinated people for years. And when information is uncovered suggesting a queen's pyramid deliberately constructed at her wish in a place where the sands of the desert would hide it forever, the search is on. And later the intrepid searchers would turn their attention to the mysterious Sphinx and what could really lay beneath those giant paws.

The mighty silverback gazed through his heavy brow with intelligent eyes. Lips tightly closed with an uncompromising pout. He just looked and breathed purposefully. It seemed clear to both that neither of them could make any further move without showing weakness, stalemate. Oakwood looked on, the King looked back...Follow Dr. Oakwood's team for fifteen years as they help to save a species. Which in turn creates something that none of them could ever have dreamed of...

Teddy certainly was no ordinary bear! A story for younger children illustrated by Howard Barton in which Teddy goes to London and meets the Queen.

Part II - Kat Severn had no choice about growing up rich and privileged. When she did have a choice, she joined the Fleet of the early 22nd century Federation of American, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Her current assignment is more tha dull, but when a suggestion on how to fix an engineering problem puts her ship into dock for a few weeks, Kat is forced to return to the social scene she had grown to hate. Then a friend urgently calls for help from halfway around the world, and with a military heritage pumping through her veins, Kat is quick to come to the rescue, boarding the next available transport to St Petersburg, Russia. Despuite being fully aware she is rushing into a highly elaborate trap, it soon becomes apparent that there is considerably more to this rescue than she initially thought. Unable to escape the city due to the imposing of a travel restricting quarantine, followed by the sudden and suspicious loss of all external communications, Katis subjected to a series of extreme events as unknown enemies strive to acheive their twisted objectives.

When Tanya Illingworth had a desire to visit Norway, she never intended to become involved with Norse Mythology; neither as a matter of fact did she intend to become involved with Gareth Preston, for as far as she was concerned all men now remained in a 'no go' area for her. Perhaps however there was more to Gareth Preston than the plastic troll he insisted on buying her for in future years it was Nadia their daughter who was to entice them on that further voyage in which Garethwas destined to play a key role. But could love survive when there were others seemingly anxious to tear the couple apart? Maybe Gareth still had something to prove but the fact is can one really trust the Trolls?

WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR. THE ROM-COM OF 2021. A BOOKTOK SENSATION.

A wedding in Spain. The most infuriating man. Three days to convince your family you're actually in love. . .

Catalina Martin desperately needs a date to her sister's wedding. Especially when her little white lie about her American boyfriend has spiralled out of control. Now everyone she knows - including her ex-boyfriend and his fiancee - will be there. She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic for her and aid in her deception.

NYC to Spain is no short flight and her family won't be easy to fool. But even then, when Aaron Blackford - the 6'4", blue-eyed pain in the arse - offers to step in, she's not tempted even for a second. Never has there been a more aggravating, blood-boiling and insufferable man. But Catalina is desperate and as the wedding gets closer the more desirable an option Aaron Blackford becomes.

The Spanish Love Deception is an enemies-to-lovers, fake-dating romance. Perfect for those looking for a steamy slow-burn with the promise of a sweet happy-ever-after.

An interest in ancient stone circles keeps James, a financial trader in the City of London, well grounded. When visiting a little-known stone circle in North Wales, on the summer solstice, he is transported back to the time of the circle's construction. James lives amongst the Late Bronze Age villagers, befriending the architect of the stone circle, Barnaby, and a young widow called Eira. James rejoins the present, quickly realising he was far happier in the past than in his current, shallow London life. He returns to the past only to find it under siege by the Hunllef, a warring, wandering tribe. Following a bloody battle he and Eira escape to the present. Beth, a PhD student studying the history of stone circles, befriends James and Eira and becomes entangled in their lives spanning two time zones.

Stepping off the plane from Hong Kong with a head full of schemes and dreams, Len Russell launches into the seventies. It's a world of clever businessmen, conmen, victims, and fools and Len's on a winning streak. New businesses are formed, franchised and sold on at a dizzying pace and if not entirely 'clean', it's all good fun. Things changes as Len and his partner Ray move into the sauna parlour, nightclub and boxing business. the entertaining characters are increasingly replaced by career criminals. A parade of celebrities from Elton John to Joe Frazier pass through the Auckland of the 1970s and they all seem to need assistance of one sort or another from Len and his underworld contacts. However, times are changing with the growth of the international drug trade. Ruthless criminals band together and the rise of the Mr Asia Syndicate begins. Len is given an opportunity to establish a bath house sauna in Sydney and he's on the first available plane to put his skills to use in this bigger, wilder and more dangerous arena. The book ends in 1982 with Len's world a very different place a decade on and the reader eager to get hold of the final book in the trilogy. If you likes A Man Who Cast Two Shadows, you're going to love Dancing in the Shadows.

At once epic and deeply personal, the second novel from prize-winning author Jennifer Makumbi is an intoxicating mix of Ugandan folklore and modern feminism that will linger in the memory long after the final page.

As Kirabo enters her teens, questions begin to gnaw at her – questions which the adults in her life will do anything to ignore. Where is the mother she has never known? And why would she choose to leave her daughter behind? Inquisitive, headstrong, and unwilling to take no for an answer, Kirabo sets out to find the truth for herself.

Her search will take her away from the safety of her prosperous Ugandan family, plunging her into a very different world of magic, tradition, and the haunting legend of 'The First Woman'.

Luzuko Goba, a South African studying at Oxford, navigates the worlds of the undocumented, and the people living on the margins of life in Oxford, England. His father, a former political exile, has just died, and Luzuko is weighing up his father’s life of sacrifice and the price they both paid for freedom back home.

This is a book about wayfarers, out of time, and on the wrong side of the UK’s department of immigration. They are the paperless.

Sweeping and soulful, Buntu Siwisa observes the hidden and exceptional modern lives of migrant Africans in England in this beautiful debut.

Sofia is thirty-five and her husband has left her. Her father died the year before, and her mother is living in the Canary Islands with a new partner. Sofia flees the city with her young son, seeking refuge in her father's house on the southern coast of Spain, where she spent summers as a girl. Her younger sister, with whom she has a close but uneasy relationship, joins her. Living together again, the sisters face their present as well as their childhood and tangled past. A novel from one of Spain's most remarkable authors, Wolfskin is an intimate meditation on ambivalence and motherhood, eroticism and disappointment, family violence and failure, and ultimately, the possibility-or impossibility-of living with those you love.

The third novel in the beloved Regency-set world of Julia Quinn’s charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix. Welcome to Benedict’s story . . .

Sophie Beckett never dreamt she would sneak into Lady Bridgerton’s famed masquerade ball – or that ‘Prince Charming’ would be waiting there for her! Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie had been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother. But that night, spinning in the strong arms of the debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton, she felt like royalty. Yet she knows all enchantments must end.

But Sophie has reckoned without Benedict’s determined heart: he has sworn to find and wed his mystery miss, for he knows this is his only chance for a fairy tale love . . .

Things are running smoothly at Torreston Police Station, especially for DCI Harriet Love, who is beginning to enjoy the company of DI Ed Harrington. But their relationship goes on hold when a woman is found dead in the park and a second murder is deemed to be connected. The Team set about finding the link between the two dead women and turn their investigation to the local comprehensive school, where one was a student and the other a teacher. When a third body is found, no link can be discovered to the first murders and Harry, Ed and DS Charlie Marlow once again find themselves involved in a hunt for a killer.

Only a handful of people knew that the Mona Lisa hanging in the Louvre was a fake. It had hung there since 1913 when the painting was found after the original had been stolen two years before. When twins, Vicky and Josh, find out the truth, they ask their uncle Julius, a time-shifter, to take them back in time to make sure that the original painting is restored to its proper place. Once back in Paris in 1911, they find out what really happened on the night the Mona Lisa was stolen and the part played in the theft by Picasso and his friend, Apollinaire. Along the way they get caught up with The Black Hand, the secret organisation responsible for the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand and the start of the First World War! This fast-paced adventure will interest all those who want to find out more about the greatest theft of the 20th century as well as those who are fans of time-travel. Julius and the Mona Lisa is the second book in the Julius series