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Driven by her family's devastating losses, Congolese expatriate Francisca Thelin embarks, with human rights activist Lisa J. Shannon, on a perilous journey back to her beloved homeland, now under the...

Hope is about to go travelling. She needs to escape from her IT job in London and think about what she wants to do with the rest of her life....

From the burning plains of Syria to the filthy backstreets of Paris and London, Brethren is the story of Will Campbell, coming of age in a time of conspiracy, passion,...

For decades, Clive Cussler has been delighting readers with novels filled with suspense, action and sheer audacity. Now he does it again, in one of the wildest, most entertaining historical...

If they survive the war, will their marriage?Jessie Warner has married Tom Smith and their baby is almost due. Settling down into their new home in Bethnal Green, Jessie looks...

'Blistering' Sunday Times'Indispensable' Observer'Fascinating' The Times'Brilliant' Peter Frankopan'Revelatory' Lindsey HilsumA timely and unprecedented examination of how the modern Middle East unravelled, and why it started with the pivotal year of...

This book asks what might be required of "a new sociology of work" and why such a project is vital for understanding people's working lives at the start of the...

Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who hid the truth of Stone's past...

Pre-order now: a gripping look at the rise of the microchip and the British tech company behind the blueprint to it all.'A gripping and inspiring read.' Sir James Dyson'A revealing...

'Inhaling deep breaths I wait for it to begin. The battle I've been waiting my whole life to fight.' A group of vicious hunters are drawing dangerously close to discovering...

"Utterly unique and movingly memorable, a wonderful story about what happens when we take control of our own narrative, and find ways to communicate across the gaps in language. Clever,...

Meet the DeMeo gang - the most deadly killers the New York Mafia has ever known.They started out as a small-time Brooklyn corner crew, but once the killing started it...

The beautiful new edition of Diana Henry's classic Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons is OUT NOW***'Thrust this book into the hands of anyone who thinks they can't cook' - the Sunday...

THE THIRD BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES The one with the boy who might have been raised by lions . . . Facing financial trouble,...

News from No Man's Land is a brilliant interweaving of John Simpson's experiences in Afghanistan with tales from his thirty plus years of journalism. Concentrating on how news is made,...

It is the late 1970s and Manjula Padmanabhan is in her mid-twenties trying to find her way in the world. Life in Bombay is proving tricky: there are the visits...