Midnight and Blue by Ian Rankin | 10th October | £25

John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh’s most deadly criminals behind bars. Now, he’s joined them. As new allies and old enemies circle, and the days and nights bleed into each other, even the legendary detective struggles to keep his head. That is, until a murder at midnight in a locked cell presents a new mystery. With no badge, no authority and no safety net, Rebus walks a tightrope – with his life on the line.

Map of Bones by Kate Mosse | 10th October | £22

The final novel of The Joubert Family Chronicles is an epic tale of courageous women battling to survive in a hostile land. Nearly one hundred and eighty years after Suzanne Joubert’s perilous journey to find her cousin – the notorious she-captain and pirate commander Louise Reydon-Joubert – Isabelle Lepard has followed in search of her long-lost relations. Intent on putting the women of her family back into the history books, she quickly discovers that the crimes and tragedies still shadow the present. And now, Isabelle faces a race against time if she is to discover the truth, and escape with her life.

Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst | 3rd October | £22

Alan Hollinghurst, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of Beauty, brings us a dark, luminous and wickedly funny portrait of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. Our Evenings is the intimate and touching story of Dave Win’s life as a schoolboy and student, his first love affairs, in London, and on the road with an experimental theatre company, and of a late-life affair, which transforms his sixties with a new sense of happiness and a perilous security.

Juice by Tim Winton | 17th October | £22

Survival is only the beginning. Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site. They’re exhausted, traumatized, desperate now, and this is a forsaken place, but as a refuge it’s the most promising they’ve seen. The child peers at the field of desolation. The man thinks to himself, this could work. Problem is, they’re not alone. So begins a searing journey through a life where the challenge is not only to survive; it’s keeping your humanity if you do.

Time of the Child by Niall Williams | 24th October | £16.99

Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in the little town of Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from his community. His youngest daughter, Ronnie, has grown up in her father’s shadow, and remains there, having missed her chance at real love. But in the advent season of 1962, as the town readies itself for Christmas, Ronnie and Doctor Troy’s lives are turned upside down when a baby is left in their care. As the winter passes, father and daughter’s lives, the understanding of their family, and their role in their community are changed forever.

Gliff by Ali Smith | 31st October | £18.99

Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house. What does it mean?It’s a truism of our time that it’ll be the next generation who’ll sort out our increasingly toxic world. In a state turned hostile, a world of insiders and outsiders, what things of the past can sustain them and what shape can resistance take? Gliff is a novel about how we make meaning and how we are made meaningless.

That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz by Malachy Tallack | 24th October | £18.99

In 1957, Sonny is working on a whaling ship in the South Atlantic and returns to his Shetland home to build a life but the legacy of his time at sea is felt by his wife and young son. In present day Shetland, Jack is an old man, living alone in the cottage where he grew up. And it is here, one evening, that something appears on his doorstep. Something that throws off the rhythm of his solitary existence. This is a story of unlikely friendship, longing, the power of music and the pull of home. It is about a life revisited – and reimagined.

The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins | 10th October | £22

Welcome to Eris – a tidal island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. A place that is unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day. Once the hideaway of Vanessa, a famous artist whose husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now home to Grace. A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation. But when a human bone is uncovered in Vanessa’s artwork, far away in London, Grace receives an unexpected visitor. And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge.

The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller | 24th October | £20

Local doctor, Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, in a farmhouse impossible to heat, Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore. There is affection – if not always love – in both homes. But when the ordinary cold of an English December gives way to violent blizzards – a true winter, the harshest in living memory – the two couples find their lives beginning to unravel. Where do you hide when you can’t leave home? And where, in a frozen world, can you run to?

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