An old friend is murdered and a dangerous package disappears. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim follow the trail into the antiques trade, encountering forgers, drug dealers and fraudsters. The fourth Thursday Murder Club mystery places their investigation alongside grief and trouble close to home.
This compact selection introduces Wendy Cope’s poems about love, disappointment, remembrance and ordinary pleasures. Humour sits alongside tenderness as small observations reveal changing moods and relationships. The collection brings together moments of joy and loss without separating the everyday from the emotionally significant.
Jeanie inherits her aunt’s café in Dream Harbor and sees a chance to begin again. Local farmer Logan prefers a quiet life away from the town’s gossip, but her arrival disrupts that plan. Their contrasting temperaments meet amid a small community and the practical work of creating a new home.
Pursued across worlds, Nomad reaches a planet where sunrise can be lethal. Caught between a tyrant and a desperate resistance, he must find enough power to escape while deciding how much responsibility he can bear for the people he encounters.
A young fugitive enters an elite academy inside an empire that draws strength from the people beneath its rulers. Concealing his identity, he must investigate dangerous secrets and climb the school’s hierarchy without surrendering the will that makes him a threat.
Tress leaves her quiet island home when the boy she loves falls into danger. Crossing seas made of deadly spores, she must negotiate with pirates and learn unfamiliar rules before she can confront the sorceress at the end of her journey.
Yumi's life of spiritual discipline and Painter's work protecting a city from nightmares belong to very different worlds. When their lives become inexplicably connected, they must learn each other's roles to understand the danger facing both communities.
Alejandro Palomas revisits childhood abuse and the silence that surrounded it, considering how unspoken experiences persist into adult life. This autobiographical account connects vulnerability, family relationships and writing with the difficult act of finding words for what had remained hidden.
A disturbing murder in Madrid points Elena Blanco’s team toward a wider pattern involving vanished women and crimes in other cities. As the investigation reaches people with considerable power, the brigade faces an organisation capable of turning its own methods against it.
Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan visit a secluded house once owned by a psychiatrist who disappeared. Trapped there by snow, Tricia discovers recordings of therapy sessions. Listening to them begins to change her understanding of the vanished owner, the house and the people whose secrets remain inside it.
A celebrated account of a wealthy New York couple leaves crucial questions about the origins of their fortune unanswered. Competing narratives revisit their lives, turning a story of finance and marriage into an investigation of who controls the record of the past.
Rosa Montero explores the relationship between literary creation and an unconventional inner life. Personal memories meet writers’ biographies and ideas drawn from psychology and neuroscience. Moving between essay and autobiography, she considers the consolations of writing and the tensions that can accompany an intensely imaginative mind.
An anonymous caller gives Kraken a week to find an exceptionally rare black Book of Hours, claiming that his supposedly dead mother will otherwise be killed. The search leads from Vitoria to Madrid through the secretive trade in valuable old books.
Caring for his ill mother brings a son back into the unresolved history of his family. Her words disturb the familiar account of his childhood and the sacrifices surrounding it. This autobiographical novel follows the difficult work of understanding one’s parents while memories, affection and old silences change meaning in the present.
Meals, occupied chairs and familiar rooms become ways of approaching absence in Paula Melchor’s poems. The collection follows the feeling of belonging to one place while longing for another. Food and hunger connect everyday rituals with the wish to keep loved people close despite distance and change.
As mysterious cyberattacks disrupt a French presidential campaign, government adviser Paul Raison is drawn into the response. His father’s illness also brings an estranged family together, shifting the story between political uncertainty and intimate questions of care, marriage and mortality.
At Oxford’s magical translation institute, Robin Swift discovers that linguistic scholarship helps sustain an empire. Torn between the opportunities his education offers and the violence it enables, he must decide where his loyalties belong as resistance begins to grow.
Daniel Jiménez revisits his father’s attempt to create a television programme and the dispute that followed its apparent appropriation. Investigating that unfinished fight draws him into family memories, creative ambition and financial sacrifice. The account examines what a son inherits when a parent’s struggle for recognition continues to shape their shared life.
Scottish investigator Noah Scott Sherrington nearly catches a serial killer before a heart condition interrupts the arrest. Refusing to abandon the pursuit, he follows a lead to Bilbao in 1983. His private race against time converges with a city approaching a catastrophic flood.
Fashion editor Miranda loves Madrid, while Tristán dreams of returning to Galicia. After their conflicting hopes end the relationship, she wakes up at earlier moments in their shared past. Trying to change what happened forces her to examine whether avoiding heartbreak would also mean abandoning the life she wants.