PassiontideFour women spark a revolution on a Caribbean island the electrifying new novel from the Costa winning author of The Mermaid of Black Conch. Vital, enraging and brilliant. I loved it SARAH WINMAN Beautiful and important SAFIYA SINCLAIR Early one morning, at the close of St Colibris carnival, a young female steel pan player is found dead beneath a cannonball tree. It is a discovery that will transform the lives of everyone on this small island. As the

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Against them Morgoth sends his most formidable servant

are destined to roam the earth across the centuries

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he will help readers create their own 'swing for life'

then this is RuPaul totally out of drag

and the Great Plague has London in its grip

proprietor of a cork-processing factory

wielding forbidden arcana to enforce the Dawn Republic's rule

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the entire story is a pleasure to relish' Scotsman 'Dick Francis's fiction has a secret ingredient - his inimitable knack of grabbing the reader's attention on page one and holding it tight until the very end' Sunday Telegraph 'Still the master' Racing Post 'The master of suspense and intrigue' Country Life Dick Francis was one of the most successful post-war National Hunt jockeys