Book two in the witty quartet. Anne Wynter's job as governess to three highborn young ladies can be a challenge. In a single week she finds herself hiding in a closet full of tubas, playing an evil queen in a play, and tending to the wounds of the oh-so-dashing Earl of Winstead. After years of dodging unwanted advances, he is the first man who has truly tempted her and it is getting harder and harder to remind herself that a governess has no business flirting with a nobleman. Daniel Smythe-Smith might be in mortal danger but that's not going to stop the young earl from falling in love. When he spies a mysterious woman at his family's annual musicale, he vows to pursue her, but Daniel has an enemy, one who has vowed to see him dead. And when Anne is thrown into peril, Daniel will stop at nothing to ensure their happy ending. 373pp, paperback with line art.

Hugh Prentice has never had patience for dramatic females, and if Lady Sarah Pleinsworth has ever been acquainted with the words shy or retiring, she has long since tossed them out the window. Besides, a reckless duel has left this brilliant mathematician with a ruined leg, and now he could never court a woman like Sarah, much less dream of marrying her. Sarah has never forgiven Hugh for the duel he fought that nearly destroyed her family, but even if she could find a way to forgive him, it wouldn't matter. She doesn't care that his leg is wounded, it's his personality she can't abide. But forced to spend a week in close company, they discover that first impressions are not always reliable, and when one kiss leads to two, three and four, the mathematician may lose count, and the lady may, for the first time, find herself speechless. The third book in the quartet. 373pp, fairly large print and line art. Paperback.

The final book in the Quartet finds Sir Richard Kenworthy with less than a month to find a bride. He knows he can't be too picky, but when he sees Iris Smythe-Smith hiding behind her cello at her family's infamous musicale, he thinks he might have struck gold. She's the type of girl you don't notice until the second or third look, but there's something about her, something simmering under the surface, and he knows she's the one. Iris Smythe-Smith is used to being underestimated. With her pale hair and quiet, sly wit, she tends to blend into the background, and she likes it that way. So when Sir Richard demands an introduction, Iris is suspicious. He flirts and charms her, gives every impression of a man falling in love, but she can't quite believe it's all true. When he proposes, Iris feels certain that he's hiding something, even as her heart tells her to say yes. 378 weak and wobbly kneed romantic pages. Fairly large print and a quick read, line art.

This Sunday Times bestseller is the story of a strange experiment and a journey into the oddest corners of 1960s Britain and the outer edges of science and reason. Premonitions are impossible, but they come true all the time. You think of a forgotten friend and out of the blue they call. But what if you knew that something terrible was going to happen? A sudden flash, the words CHARING CROSS. Four days later, a packed express train comes off the rails outside the station. A fire in a department store or an assassination. What if you could share your vision and prevent a disaster? In 1966 John Barker, a psychiatrist working in an outdated British mental hospital, set out to investigate this very idea and established The Premonitions Bureau. He would find a network of hundreds of correspondents, from bank clerks to ballet teachers. Among them were two unnervingly gifted 'percipients'. Together the pair predicted plane crashes, assassinations and international incidents with uncanny accuracy. And then they informed Barker of their most disturbing premonition - that he was about to die. The book is an enthralling true story of madness and wonder, science and the supernatural, a journey to the most powerful and unsettling reaches of the human mind. 250pp, illustrated paperback.

Adoring fans surrounding the limousine as a young David Bowie with his iconic haircut smoking a cigarette emerging into his newfound fame graces the cover of this gorgeous, celebratory read. The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. What did we see in them? Swagger, recklessness, sexual charisma, self-belief, a certain way of carrying themselves, good hair, interesting shoes, talent? What did we want of them? To be larger than life but also like us. To live out their songs. To stay young forever. No wonder many didn't stay the course. Never a dull moment with 40 enjoyable romps across the years 1955 to 1994 with the rise of the drum machine. Here are bad boys, guitar heroes, rock bands, female rock stars and career suicide from the early days of Elvis Presley and Fats Domino to David Bowie, Morrisey to Madonna, Ozzy Osbourne to Björk, Little Richard, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, Sid Vicious, The Edge, Bob Marley, Kurt Cobain, Keith Moon and on into infinity. It's about the fantasy figures that rock fame transformed them into and the personal price they paid for playing a starring role in our dreams. We wanted rock stars to be glamorous but also authentic, willing to beat off willing sexual partners but also live a fulfilled family life, staying up too late and never giving their full attention, but still operating at their full potential and talent. Rock stars were uncommon people who came from the masses and got to the top without the help of education, training, family ties or money and surprisingly many had careers that lasted far longer than they ever had any right to expect. Here their legends endure. 421pp, paperback with many photos.

In the fourth Shetland novel, Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to Fair Isle to introduce his fiancée to his parents. With the autumn storms raging, the island is cut off from the rest of the world, and with the island on lockdown, a killer is on the loose. A woman's body is discovered at the renowned bird observatory, with feathers threaded through her hair. Perez has no support from the mainland and must investigate the old-fashioned way. He soon realises that this is no crime of passion, but a murder of cold and calculated intention. There is no way of getting off the island until the storms abate, so the killer is also trapped, just waiting for the opportunity to strike again. 352pp, paperback.

The darkest secrets are buried deepest and in the black days of a Shetland winter. Torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main road and sweeps down to the sea. At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Jimmy Perez watches the flood of peaty water and mud smash through a croft house in its path. Everyone thinks the croft is uninhabited, but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress. He becomes obsessed with tracing her identity and what she is doing there. Then it emerges she was already dead when the landslide hit the house, and Perez finds himself with a murder investigation to solve. 384pp, paperback.

Our favourite detective makes a reappearance in this second Vera Stanhope novel. They thought she was a murderer, but now she's a victim. Ten years ago, 15 year old Abigail Mantel was murdered, her cold body discovered lying in a ditch. Her father's girlfriend was found guilty of the crime but now evidence has emerged that proves her innocence and means that Abigail's killer still roams free. Abigail's best friend at the time of the murder has now returned to the East Yorkshire village of Elvet to raise her young family. Shocked by the new revelations, she begins to realise that she didn't know her friend as well as she had thought. Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope is tasked with uncovering the truth, and as her new enquiries stoke up past secrets the villagers will lie to protect, Vera must find out which lies will bring her to the killer. 397pp, paperback.

The eighth and final Shetland novel. On a small island, rumours can be deadly. A new English family has moved to Shetland, eager to give their autistic son a better life, but when the young nanny's body is found hanging in the barn of their home, rumours of her affair with the husband begin to spread like wild fire. With suspicion raining down on the family, DI Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate. For him it will mean returning to the islands of his on-off lover and boss Willow Reeves who will run the case. Perez is already facing the most disturbing investigation of his career when Willow drops a bombshell that will change his life forever. Is he ready for what is to come? 397pp, paperback.