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The powerful new bestseller from Josephine Cox - one of our foremost storytellers. It is 1902. Emily is sixteen years of age and blissfully in love with John, two years...

A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. 'An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.' Daily Telegraph...

Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel set among the houseboat community of the Thames. `Offshore' is a dry, genuinely funny novel, set among the houseboat community who rise and fall with...

Amsterdam Airport, 1998. Samir Karim steps off a plane from Vietnam, flushes his fake passport down the toilet, and requests asylum. Now, safely in the heart of Europe, he is...

From Giles Kristian, THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LANCELOT, comes this brutal, bloody and captivating Viking adventure, continuing the story begun in the bestselling Raven: Blood Eye. Perfect for...

Steven Pressfield, author of the Sunday Times bestseller Gates of Fire, brings the conflict between Sparta and Athens to life in this epic story filled with triumph and tragedy."Pressfield's talent...

'For fans of Celeste Ng and Ann Patchett, this quietly beautiful book will break, then mend, your heart' Amazon, The Best Books of 2023WINNER OF THE 2023 BARNES & NOBLE...

The brand new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Josephine Cox - the master storyteller. Sometimes you just need the courage to tell the truth... Although she's surrounded by a...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2023****A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR****A GRAZIA BOOK OF THE YEAR****SELECTED FOR MALALA'S BOOK CLUB**'Tender, devastating, witty. And deeply true. Sweetbitter meets Normal...

The greatest journey is the one you least expect... 'Swept me off my feet! A jewel of a novel - it simply sparkles' Evie Woods 'A treat of a book,...

'A touching exploration of passion untested by domesticity' Mail on SundayBefore Isabelle I knew nothing of sex.Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life....

Each story is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling -- about the ways in which...

Could Joy have been a different kind of girl, another woman, if her mother hadn't given her up?"From the arid desert of eighties Arizona to swinging sixties London, Noelle Harrison...

Olive Kitteridge might be described by some as a battle axe or as brilliantly pushy, by others as the kindest person they had ever met. Olive herself has always been...

It is New Year's Eve when the storm of the century hits northern California. For Quinn Thompson, what happens in the storm's wake will bring down a barrier he has...

'Why did people, who lived so briefly in this universe, contain so much time?'Lina and her father have arrived at an enclave called the Sea, a staging-post between migrations, with...

This title presents a famous account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter. Told through a series of match reports, "Fever Pitch" has enjoyed enormous critical and commercial...

Nell Reece has never known her mother, and her father's burden of guilt about his wife has kept him cowed for years, working as a common labourer on his sister's...

Rumi is now acknowledged as one of the great mystical poets of the Western world, with huge sales of the many collections of his poetry. Not much is known about...

'An accomplished, inventive detective novel thrumming with tension and family secrets' Sanae Lemoine, author of The Margot Affair'An astonishingly assured first novel, both funny and moving'The Times Crime Club'Very impressive......

"Human Traces" explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are. Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when the story starts in 1876, come from...

'A gorgeous, wildly seductive novel, shimmering with intelligence, humour and joy' - Sarah WatersLonglisted for the Dylan Thomas PrizeIn 1838 Frederic Chopin, George Sand and her children travel to a...

The international bestselling novel, now an AACTA Award winning seven part drama series from Prime Video, launching in 2023 in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. A young girl...

LIVERPOOL SISTERS is a nostalgic, heart-warming and dramatic Merseyside saga from bestselling author Lyn Andrews - not to be missed by readers of Dilly Court and Kitty Neale. Liverpool, 1907....

Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is knifed to death in broad daylight on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by...

Lucy Nolan is the golden girl. The only daughter of local grocers, Sally and Mike Nolan, she's grown up in a home of total love and security. The one thing...

Warrior of Rome is an epic of empire, heroes, treachery, courage, and most of all, a story of brutal bloody warfare. The year is AD 255 - the Roman Imperium...

** A WATERSTONES THRILLER OF THE MONTH **WHAT DARK SECRETS WAIT TO BE UNCOVERED WHEN YOU CHECK IN TO THE VILLA ROSA...?The scintillating new novel from the author of The...

Open Secrets consists of eight luminous and poetic stories, each one as rich as a novel.'A superb collection... Marriage, gambles, disappearances, motiveless vandalism - it is the stuff of unremarkable...

When a group of solo travellers meet for dinner on the first night of a luxury cruise, alliances are quickly formed.But as the ship makes its way through azure Mediterranean...

The fourth chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew continues the adventures of the 14th century Cambridge physician when he is called to attend to two deaths from some poisoned wine. The opening...

'Monique Roffey is a unique talent and most daring and versatile of writers' - Bernardine EvaristoMarch 1976: St Constance, a tiny Caribbean village on the island of Black Conch. A...

A desperate childhood. An uncertain past. One chance at happiness ...Born into poverty and living under the roof of her violent and abusive brother-in-law, young Kitty Cox dreams of working...

From extraordinary highs - patronage by the Medicis, friendship with Galileo and, most importantly of all, beautiful and outstandingly original paintings - to rape by her father's colleague, torture by...

Set in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, Carpentaria is the unforgettable portrait of the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old...

The Montgomery brothers have been the talk of Boonsboro, ever since they decided to renovate the old Inn into an intimate and handsome new Bed and Breakfast. Beckett and Owen...

Candy - it's the only the name she needs - is blazing her way through Paris, New York and Tokyo as fashion's latest international supermodel...Her sister, Tammy, has a job...