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From the No. 1 bestselling author of THE AMERICAN BOY comes a brilliant new historical thriller set during the French Revolution. Selected as Historical Novel of the Year by The Times and Sunday Times, and picked as one of Radio 4's Crime Books of the Year.

 Paris, 1792. The city is gripped by revolution and the gutters run with blood as thousands lose their heads to the guillotine.

 Edward Savill, a London merchant, receives word that his estranged wife has been killed in France. Her ten-year-old son, Charles, has been taken by émigré refugees to Charnwood Court, deep in the English countryside.

 Savill is sent to fetch Charles, only to discover the child is mute. The boy has witnessed unimaginable horrors, but a terrible secret keeps him from saying a word. Locked in a prison of his own mind, his silence is the only thing that will keep him safe.

 Or so he thinks .

The Silent Boy

From the No.1 bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London comes a gothic novella - perfect for fans of The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley.

 Clare and Gerald live a perfect life in the Forest of Dean with their cat, Cannop. Then Gerald's young nephew comes to stay. Jack is from another world - active service in Afghanistan. The experience has left him outwardly untouched, but for a scratch that won't heal. Jack and Cannop don't like each other. Clare and Jack like each other too much. The scratch begins to fester.

The Scratch (A Novella)

Flavour perception

From the No.1 bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London comes a gothic novella - perfect for fans of The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley.

 It's Christmas before the Great War and two lonely schoolboys have been forced into companionship. Left in the care of an elderly teacher, there is little to do but listen to his eerie tales about the nearby Cathedral. The boys concoct a plan to discover if the stories are true. But the Cathedral is filled with hidden dangers, and curiosity can prove fatal.

Broken Voices (A Novella)

Londres, 1819. Thomas Shield devient le professeur particulier d'un jeune Américain, Edgar Poe, et de son meilleur ami, Charles Frant, dont la mère, une femme séduisante et malheureuse, l'attire irrésistiblement. Lorsqu'un homme est retrouvé mort et que tous les indices convergent vers la famille Frant, Thomas est emporté dans une spirale dont les conséquences risquent d'être lourdes pour lui. Il décide alors de trouver le coupable mais le piège se referme au fur et à mesure qu'il cherche à s'en échapper. Quel est le donc le lien entre ces macabres évènements et le jeune Edgar Poe? Thomas devra traverser bien des épreuves avant que la vérité soit enfin dévoilée...Mêlant avec brio fiction et réalité, ce roman à l'intrigue haletante nous plonge dans l'atmosphère de l'Angleterre du XIXe siècle, où Edgar Allan Poe passa quatre années de son adolescence : l'agitation des rues londoniennes, les taudis de St Giles et Seven Dials, l'hypocrisie d'une bourgeoisie avide de pouvoir... Un décor parfait pour un meurtre, des secrets de famille et une galerie de personnages loin d'être aussi respectables qu'ils voudraient le faire croire.

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THREE NO.1 BESTSELLING RICHARD & JUDY BOOKCLUB PICKS IN ONE.

 THE AMERICAN BOY BY ANDREW TAYLOR:England, 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school near London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy's sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. When a brutal crime is committed he finds himself at the heart of a labyrinthine mystery - a tangle of sex, money, murder and lies from which he cannot escape. And what of the strange American boy at the centre of these macabre events - what is the secret of the boy named Edgar Allan Poe?

 THE SAVAGE GARDEN BY MARK MILLS:Italy, 1958. Arriving at the Docci family home, young scholar Adam Strickland finds the family, their house and its unique garden as seductive as each other. But post-War Italy is still a strange, even dangerous place, and the Doccis have some dark skeletons hidden away which Adam finds himself compelled to investigate. Before long, he will uncover two stories of love, revenge and murder, separated by 400 years. but is another tragedy about to be added to the villa's cursed past?

 THE RIGHTEOUS MEN BY SAM BOURNE:A series of killings in every corner of the globe cannot possibly be connected. That's the instinct of Will Monroe, rookie reporter for The New York Times - until his beautiful wife Beth is kidnapped. Desperate, Will follows a trail that leads to a mysterious cult right on his own doorstep. With more murders by the hour, he must now unravel the prophecies buried deep in the Bible until he finds a secret worth killing for, a secret on which the fate of humanity may depend.

Richard and Judy Bookclub - 3 Bestsellers in 1 - The American Boy, The Savage Garden, The Righteous Men

From the No.1 bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London comes a gothic novella - perfect for fans of The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley.

 One stormy night in Suffolk, a man's car breaks down following his sister's funeral. The only source of light comes from a remote cottage by the sea. The mysterious woman who lives there begs him to leave, yet he can't shake the sense that she somehow needs him. He attempts to return the next day but she is nowhere to be seen. And neither is the cottage.

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