The Last Death of the Year by Sophie Hannah Groundswell Speaker 2024

The Last Death of the Year by Sophie Hannah Groundswell Speaker 2024The new Hercule Poirot mystery by Sophie Hannah, follow up to the bestselling Hercule Poirots Silent Night. New Year's Eve, 1932. Hercule Poirot and his good friend Inspector Edward Catchpool arrive on the Greek island of Lamperos for a little holidayor is it? Catchpool suspects Poirot has a different reason for being there one he won't reveal. As the clock ticks towards the New Year and a festive guessing game takes a sinister turn, can Poirot stop a

the little girls are whisked away on a magic Christmas carpet ride

Kat moves from a hut in an active military training area in the far-north of Scotland to a fairy-tale cottage in Wales

to coastal coral reefs and kelp forests teeming with life

like who her father was - variously Jimmy

and closes with the arrival of the Normans

In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime

'Luscious … I devoured this' IMOGEN CRIMP 'A salty morsel with one hell of a bite’ ALICE SLATER ‘Nothing short of ingenious’ INEWS ‘Ambitious and unsettling’ GUARDIAN 'It isn’t entirely clear whether to read the novel or devour it’ OBSERVER

warm and packed with incident' Barbara Ellen

Radiohead or the Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Including stunningly beautiful photography throughout

and his mastery of emotive

For more than three decades