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Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly mattered to two young men whose shared love...

It was a holiday she would never let them forget ...'She had it coming. So had the others.'In 2007, four friends returned home from a week in Ibiza with secrets...

'The Exile Breed' is a story of the Irish Famine in Ireland, Canada, England and the USA.The Famine intensified in 1847. Many left, but hunger and fever followed them. Thousands...

The best treat of all... Sweet Dreams Chocolate Company has been in the Sterling family for generations. But now it looks as if they're about to lose their beloved shop...

You will not know the day, or the hour, but I am coming for you...When DS Lucy Golden discovers an abandoned car showing signs of a recent and bloody escape,...

What do you do when a girlfriend's 60th birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend's 30th?Is it wrong to lie about your age when online dating?Is it morally...

THE BRAND NEW REBUS THRILLER FROM THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. ONE OF THE MUST-READ NOVELS OF THE YEAR. John Rebus had been in court plenty of times, but this...

Part of the Open Door series of short books for emerging readers. It all began one morning in the smoking room of the Department of Health and Welfare. That was...

In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end eighteen years of Conservative government. He has been one of the...

‘Sorry to wake you in the middle of the night, but we have a lady here who’s notvery well. She says she’s called Marigold, Queen of the Sky?’Dolphin Westward spent...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksA young writer leaves the city to complete her manuscript in a small coastal town, but finds herself writing about the lives...

Talking in the canteen yesterday about pets and the likes, one girl known for confusing her words came out with this in front of six or seven of us: 'My...

Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me.1899. As the new century approaches, English hack-writer Evelyn Dolman marries Laura Rensselaer, the daughter of a wealthy...

In The Tribe, Caitriona Perry is on familiar ground, returning to Washington and the green strongholds of the United States.Irish Americans were once considered kingmakers in local and national elections,...

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, NEW STATESMAN, METRO, DAILY MAIL, SUNDAY...

Even to case-hardened Detective Sergeant Pete Decker the brutal rape of Lilah Brecht, exquisite daughter of an aged Hollywood movie queen, is a disturbing act of violence. The only leads...

Life and death in a modern hospital, from Seamus O'Mahony, the award-winning author of The Way We Die Now and Can Medicine Be Cured?Seamus O'Mahony charts the realities of work...

Restoration-era poet, playwright and novelist Aphra Behn was the first truly professional woman writer in English, and Oroonoko is her sophisticated and insightful condemnation of slavery. This Penguin Classics edition...

A fallen regime. A missing child. A chance at freedom.By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divergent, Poster Girl is a haunting adult dystopian mystery that explores the...

Seventy Years Young is one of the great Anglo-Irish memoirs. Originally published in 1937, it now appears for the first time in paperback, with an introduction by Trevor West. It...

A TWISTED TALE OF DARK ROMANCE FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE GLOBAL ROMANTASY SENSATION QUICKSILVER.What happens in the dark never stays in the dark.As one of Seattle's most dangerous, feared...

Claire Walsh spent her twenties living the life she thought she was supposed to live, all the while playing hide and seek with depression. As a result, the road to...

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior. Oh yeah. And dead. Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back - just in time to see their whole world get turned upside down....

'A guide to counteract medical misogyny' New Scientist'The world's most famous - and outspoken - gynaecologist' GuardianIn The Menopause Manifesto internationally renowned, New York Times bestselling author Dr Jen Gunter...

Patrick 'Paddy' Reilly is an Irish folk singer and guitarist. Born in Rathcoole, County Dublin, he is one of Ireland's most famous balladeers and is best known for his renditions...

The past is never done with: always the song continues Harlow Donne has devoted his life to the Classical world. When a chance comes up to study an obscure collection...

A woman reeling from a disastrous love affair finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine. 'A novel to savour'SUNDAY TIMES'A vital storyteller' ALI SMITHAfter years away from her family's...

On a platform in occupied Paris, a mother whispers goodbye.It is the end. But also the beginning...'What a book... Emotional and heartrending...absolutely phenomenal. I was on tenterhooks throughout. A wonderful...

It is 1941. Britain is in the grip of the Second World War, and in Ireland, ten year-old Lizzie Doyle is getting on with her life, trying to adjust to...

The long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller PS, I Love You! It's been seven years since Holly Kennedy's husband died - six since she read his final letter, urging Holly...

In 2000, a Chinese woman gave birth to twins in a bamboo grove, trying to avoid detection by the government because she already had two daughters. Two years later, an...

'An utterly captivating insight into these fascinating women and the times they lived in ... it's an absolute page-turner' Irish Independent'Masterfully and glamorously told ... essential reading for history and...

In the hunt for a missing girl, every second countsOn the night of her sixteenth birthday, Rosie Wright vanishes from a remote farm in North Wales. DI Ruth Hunter and...

Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall... Berlin, 1931: Ally...

The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today' In August 2018...