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***A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB book 2023***'Nora-Ephron-style wit...comforting, so funny, moving... one of my favourite books ever' MARIAN KEYES'Newman writes loss and laughter in equally brilliant amounts.' BONNIE GARMUS'Dazzling,...

Set on the beautiful Scottish island of Islay, The Christmas Secret is a gripping story filled with emotion from Karen Swan, bestselling author of Christmas Under the Stars.'I devoured it...

Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize, an epic novel of startling originality which confirms Nicola Barker as one of Britain's most exciting literary talents. If history is a sick...

The New York Times bestselling debut novel from the author of Hell of a Book 'Tragic and humorous and terrifying' Eowyn Ivey, Author of The Snow Child 'Fantastically readable' The...

'Intelligent, darkly humorous and brilliantly written' STANLEY TUCCI 'This is Elizabeth Day's writing at its finest' DOLLY ALDERTON 'A tantalising portrait of privilege and power' THE TIMES In this compulsive...

Discover the standalone dark MM mafia romance from the New York Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation.'This book was a masterpiece' ***** Reader review'I couldn't put it down, definitely recommend...

Discover the standalone grumpy sunshine dark mafia romance from the New York Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation.'This book was a masterpiece' ***** Reader review'I couldn't put it down, definitely...

Gerald Samper, an effete Englishman, lives on a hilltop in Tuscany. He is a ghostwriter for celebrities, and a foodie, whose weird tastes include 'Mussels in Chocolate and Garlic' and...

In 1904, at the age of six, Polly goes to live with her two holy aunts. The house is so close to the sea it seems to toss like a...

Fifteen years old and blazing with the hope of a better life, Hattie Shepherd fled the horror of the American South on a dawn train bound for Philadelphia.Hattie's is a...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2019**15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man is swept away by...

Uma, the plain, spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian family, is trapped at home, smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditions, unlike her ambitious younger sister Aruna, who brings...

Set against the backdrop of the Millenium celebrations and Britain's increasingly compromised role in America's 'war against terrorism', The Closed Circle lifts the lid on an era in which politics...

Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But...

Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket ground in Hampshire.Across the courtyard in a...

Isabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends, sometimes of lovers, and on occasion of chocolate. As an Edinburgh philosopher she is certain of where she stands. She can review a book...

the netherlands has been the home of irishman charlie jermyn for the last 5 years; it's a nation that has been dredged up from the water and which attempts, to...

London. Now. And here come the new Londoners.Francine would prefer to be thinner, but is happy enough to suffer her boss' manhandling of her ample hips if it helps her...

`Outrageous, hilarious and profound.' Simon Schama, Financial Times`The longer you stare at Beatty's pages, the smarter you'll get.' Guardian`The most badass first 100 pages of an American novel I've read.'...

A second-chance romance that questions whether a whirlwind, week-long love story can still stir something three decades later.In 1993, Lili and Reid lock eyes after a Jeff Buckley show at...

Ancient Egypt. Land of the Pharaohs. A kingdom built on gold. A legend shattered by greed. Now the Valley of the Kings lies ravaged by war, drained of its lifeblood...

The stories collected in What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip...

THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVELADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOODFrom the bestselling author of Here I Am, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and We are the Weather - a...

'So immersive, atmospheric and compelling' Marian Keyes'Kept me glued to the page' Alex Marwood'Achingly poignant . . . An absolutely brilliant read' Sunday Mirror_____________Beginnings, middles and ends; Peggy, Serena, Natasha...

Winner of the BOCAS Prize for Fiction 2023Winner of for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2023Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2023Shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize 2023Shortlisted for the...

'It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back.' Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night before his departure unfolds,...

Emily Pointer would rather jog naked through Harvey Nichols' beauty hall than be seen with last season's handbag. A fashion stylist with Chic magazine, Emily is a natural blonde, a...

Can she overcome her family's doubts to achieve her dream?Meg Turner has a hard life. She lives on a lonely farm in the Lake District and her only company is...

THE INSTANT BESTSELLER BY MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR BOB MORTIMER.'A touching story of human relationships' The Guardian'A delight to read' Daily Express 'Characteristically offbeat and thoroughly amiable' Financial Time Bathroom...

In the Montana backcountry live two brothers who run a saw mill and do a little poaching on the side. Thad is the brains of the operation. His brother Hazen...

Machiavelli is famous the world over, but who was he before he penned The Prince?It's October 1502, and the powerful Cesare Borgia is preparing to invade the Florentine Republic. Niccolo...