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Book(s) of the Month

Green Oranges on Lion Mountain

Discovery Road

only £7.99 each

“In the space of five years, I went from graduating at Harvard
to becoming a psychiatric patient.”

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the complete guide

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new releases

Cry from the Highest Mountain

‘An enthralling journey of courage and endurance’ Joanna Lumley

The Mating Habits of Stags

The lyrical new novel from the award-winning author of Electricity and Forgetting Zoë

The Beat of the Pendulum

Catherine Chidgey

A thrillingly dark social dystopia about a world where ageing is a thing of the past

An Isolated Incident

When 25-year-old Bella Michaels is brutally murdered in the small town of Strathdee, the community is stunned and a media storm descends.

Mansfield and Me

The acclaimed graphic biography of Katherine Mansfield

The Hurtle of Hell

An atheist comedy featuring God and a confused young man from Hackney

The Industry of Human Happiness

Love, murder and obsession in the early days of the gramophone

The Story of Trojan Records

Laurence Cane-Honeysett

The definitive history of the iconic label, published as part of its official 50th anniversary celebrations

The Aladdin Trial

A new Burton and Lamb legal thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Pinocchio Brief.

Their Brilliant Careers

The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers

Matthew De Abaitua

A memoir of literary ambition

The Exphoria Code

Antony Johnston

A Brigitte Sharp thriller

The Participation Revolution

How to ride the waves of change in a terrifyingly turbulent world

The Antipodeans

The epic wartime love story that took New Zealand by storm

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A Raindrop in the Ocean

Michael Dobbs-Higginson

The life of a global adventurer

Jules Mountain has reached Everest Base Camp, within reach of fulfilling his life’s ambition, when the earthquake sets off the avalanche. Something sets him apart from the other surviving climbers: is it that he has already cheated death once before? Does his gung-ho attitude show him to be brave, fatalistic or irresponsible? Will he finally have picked a fight he cannot win? 

At The Deep End

Morgan Tsvangirai

At the Deep End is the story of a man who, through everything he has endured at the hands of Robert Mugabe's government, has remained committed to working for peace and democracy for all in Zimbabwe, and in the process become a beacon of hope for a beleaguered nation

Mission: Possible

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The Hopkins Conundrum

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The Shifting Pools

A challenging, dream-like, deeply personal novel

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Blog

Award-winning novelist Ray Robinson signs up with Lightning Books

Expanding on an award-winning short film starring Peter Mullan, The Mating Habits of Stags reveals afresh Robinson's lyrical prose and mastery of character

Lightning Books to reissue Ryan O'Neill’s debut

Lightning signs third deal in less than a year with the prize-winning Scottish author based in Australia

Lightning Books signs New Zealand’s bestselling author

The Beat of the Pendulum starts out as seemingly disparate daily entries but gradually reveals itself to be a story about family, memory and the passage of time

Lightning Books unveils dystopian debut novel for early 2019

Wolf Country takes place in 2050, in a Britain where monthly spending determines social status and ageing is a thing of the past

Would you trust a robot doctor?

In the Daily Telegraph, Jake Kerridge admires Abi Silver's mystery about the dangers of rushing to embrace new tech

Novelist Simon Edge, author of the new atheist comedy The Hurtle of Hell, did a Q&A with his local glossy, Bury & West Suffolk magazine, about his writing and his future projects