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As seen on BBC Two's 'Between the Covers'Told with exceptional grace, The Light Years is a modern classic of twentieth-century English life and is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane...

'Joyful, funny and vividly alive' Emily St John Mandel'The Lonely Hearts Hotel sucked me right in and only got better and better . . . I began underlining truths I...

It's the year 1260 and the great cathedral - the most ambitious building in all of Christendom - is rising above the streets of Cologne. Far below its soaring spires...

PRE-ORDER NOW: The new novel from the bestselling author of Miss Austen and Godmersham Park coming soon!'Has all Austen's wit and unnerving powers of observation with an extra twenty-first century...

As London comes alive with the 1960s youth revolution, one woman makes a choice that defies all expectations.'So real and humane and utterly transporting' Meg MasonIt's 1967 and London is...

In the first collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Keillor tells readers more about some of the people from Lake Wobegon Days and introduces some new faces.

Shao Bin is a factory fitter in a small Chinese town, a poor and unconnected man with a young wife and a small child, but also an accomplished artist and...

A giddying song from the sewers written with jet-propelled energy and 'a comic intensity reminiscent of Withnail and I' -- New York Times Book ReviewCharlie and Tinsel kill rats for...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction'Utterly, utterly perfect and brilliant - I think it is, simply, a new classic, and the book every woman will...

A wickedly funny and wonderfully deranged literary debut introducing a brilliant new voice in contemporary Irish fictionOur Woman refuses to be sunk by what life is about to serve her....

'A terrific collection' Monica Ali, author of Brick Lane and Love MarriageA Most Anticipated Title for Oprah Daily, Essence, BuzzFeed, The Millions and Brittle PaperFull of heart and humour, Gothataone...

*Winner of the Diverse Book Award 2023*'I loved this book so much! Intense and beautiful and heartbreaking.' Buki Papillon, author of An Ordinary Wonder It's hard to plan your future...

When the successful British mystery writer Judith Moore meets Gavin, a handsome and charming baron, at a birthday party on the Cornish coast, his love transforms her from a bitter,...

** AN INSTANT TIMES BESTSELLER **** A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR **** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD **** LONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIAR CRIME NOVEL...

July 1540. The courts of Europe are stunned to hear that Henry VIII has executed his all-powerful minister, Thomas Cromwell. Poet and classicist Nicholas Bourbon is sent from the cultured...

As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades previously, with...

Sara B. is losing her cool. Not just in the momentary-meltdown kind of way-though there's that, too. At the helm of must-read Snap magazine, veteran style guru Sara B. has...

Tall, blonde and handsome, Jack McBride was once a beloved teacher and football coach at a girl's school, until a student's crush sparked a powder-keg of accusation and robbed him...

When Anna, Lizzie Thorne's charismatic sister, is killed in a tragic fall from the roof of her school, her family is devastated. One year on and grief still has a...

A thrilling puzzle from the ancient world with real historical characters and based on a case in Cicero's Orations - Roman Blood is a perfect blend of mystery and history...

'As dazzling as anything brought off by Ellery Queen or Agatha Christie' New York Times'Incomparable excitement' New York TimesDorothy meets a handsome young man with an eye for her inheritance...

Dietland will be adapted into AMC's 10-episode straight-to-series starring multiple-Emmy winner Julianna Margulies and Joy Nash. Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed, because when you're fat, to...

'A novel of exhilarating intellectual inquiry, penetrating social insight and deep psychological sensitivity...the future of the novel is here'- Sally RooneyAdam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class...

Newlywed Rosie has grown disenchanted with NYC. Inspired by Instagram ads, she starts thirsting for a rural life upstate - one full of beauty and authenticity. Willing to do anything...

Erin McCabe's years as a criminal defence attorney have prepared her for almost anything - except for being on the opposite side of the interrogation table. A new client -...

* An Oprah Daily Book of 2022 *A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the three-time International Booker...

'Expansive, explosive and epic' Marlon James'A courageous book' New York Times Book ReviewA BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020Neither Mason, a US Special Forces medic, nor Lisette, a foreign...

It's time for a w(h)ine "God, she's funny" - Jilly Cooper 'Oh, for f*ck's sake' muttered Claire under her breath, as she opened the fridge to see what she could...

Marc Schlosser is a doctor to the rich and famous. When his most famous patient, the actor Ralph Meier, invites him and his family on holiday, Marc finds that he...

An eccentric professor saves a London Zoo ape from a rocket experiment in this dazzling classic by a trailblazing animal rights activist, introduced by Sarah Hall.'Pitch-perfect.' Ali Smith'So original.' Hilary...

Hannah Musgrave is on the run: from her adoring parents, her many lovers, even from herself. As a young woman, she worked for a Boston terrorist group which has put...

A Handmaid's Tale for our times, this exhilarating novel pits political oppression against the will to survive, in a nightmarishly believable vision of Britain in the near future. Following its...

A man escaping from a hotel fire sees a woman standing beneath a tree. He approaches her and sets in motion a series of events that will change his life...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD'A brilliantly pacy adventure story ... Ward writes like a dream' THE TIMES___________________________Hurricane Katrina is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town...

A seductive collection of stories from the 'magnificent story-teller' (Independent on Sunday). Rose Tremain has sold over one million copies of her books.Trapped in a London flat, Beth remembers a...

Theodore Street is driving towards the ocean where he plans to drown himself. But on the way he is hit by a van and he sails through the windscreen, his...

In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, explores the passage of time, and summons up its inevitable sorrows and comic pitfalls. In 'Debarking', a newly divorced man tries to keep...

'Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy' - The New York TimesDavid Larson can never go home.His parents are dead. His sister and her hippie...

'Absorbing in its simplicity about bourgeois banality and the quest for expression' NEW YORK TIMESKevin Pace is working on a painting that he won't allow anyone to see: not his...