The Brothers of Baker Street is an off-beat whodunit with great dollops of old fashioned British charm and humour, soaring surprisingly to a cinematic peak which brings central London to a standstill.
As all readers of Pride and Prejudice will remember, George Wickham was a thoroughly bad egg. Charming, cheating, utterly untrustworthy, but a murderer?
It's never a good sign when a bestselling thriller writer teams up with another author whose name creeps on to the cover in a much smaller font. But Cussler and Brown's Devil's Gate is a ripping read.
In Christopher Paolini's magical world, a poor boy transforms into a warrior, a sapphire blue egg becomes his magnificent dragon, and an army with little reason to hope valiantly battles for freedom.
Anyone who has filled the role of a carer volunteer or paid will identify with the unique and intensely personal relationship that develops between two opposites in Jojo Moyes' latest novel.
81-year-old Halina Wagowska felt compelled to write this "her last testimony before she drops off the twig" and it's remarkable; at once harrowing, thought provoking and surprisingly uplifting.
In the publishing industry there has been a lot of chatter about this debut novel, a lyrical charmer based on a Russian folk tale about a childless couple who conjure a girl made out of snow.
Dedicated to the men and women of the US forces, this is Hannah's twentieth novel, but the one she says she had the most difficulty writing, because of her determination to do the military proud.