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As Encore Valentine begins, snow falls like glitter over Tuscany at the wedding of Valentine's grandmother. Meet the Roncalli and Angelini families, artisans of handcrafted shoes in Greenwich Village since...

'I don't know if my story is grand enough to be a tragedy, although a lot of shitty stuff did happen. It is certainly a love story but that did...

AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'She is a vigorous and fearless writer, grabbing us by the throat to describe life's horrors and her responses to them, filling her pages with the...

Unexploded is Alison MacLeod's compelling novel of love and prejudice in wartime Brighton.LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013.May, 1940. On Park Crescent, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their eight-year-old...

How do you solve a mystery when you don't understand the clues? 'A rich tapestry... distinctive and compelling' Observer 'A stunning whodunnit' Mail on Sunday 'A beautiful, original novel, at...

New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan island, 1746. One rainy evening in November, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat pitches up at a counting-house...

Nicholas is running away, both from his marriage and an unfaithful wife, and the comfortable life he has known in Dublin. He buys a run down house in rural Cavan,...

'Tragically funny, with moments of clarity and wisdom, Newman writes loss and laughter in equally brilliant amounts.' BONNIE GARMUS'Nora-Ephron-style wit...comforting, so funny, moving... one of my favourite books ever' MARIAN...

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned...

When the boy was four, he asked his father why people needed sleep. His father said, 'So God could unfuck all the things people fuck up.'*LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE...

Always attuned to the moment of epiphany, these twelve stories are profound, intimate observations of men and women whose lives ache with possibility - each story a dramatisation of the...

The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, Carney, an illiterate Irishman, ex-convict...

'If you're looking for your next Handmaid's Tale-esque fix, this is it' Belfast TelegraphThe highly acclaimed debut novel about the power of women, for fans of Margaret Atwood and Naomi...

A brilliantly original thriller and "a startling, smart, vivid book" (Tana French, New York Times bestselling author) from the acclaimed author of Three Graves Full-inspired by the real-life unsolved theft...

As Botswana awaits the familiar blessing of the rains and the resumption of the eternal cycle, seismic upheaval is taking place at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Not only...

Strangers did not, as a rule, find their way to Chez Dom, a small, rundown Tunisian cafe on Paris's distant fringes run by the widow Houria and her young niece,...

The writer and professional controversialist Gustav Slavorigin is murdered in the small Swiss town of Meiringen during its annual Sherlock Holmes Festival, his body discovered with an arrow through the...

After the disappearance of their father and the sudden death of their mother, Lee Hart and his deaf brother, Ned, imagine all is lost until Lee lands a traineeship at...

In October 1993 our narrator, a novelist, is invited to go to Stockholm and then to Russia to take part in what is enigmatically referred to as The Diderot Project....

Jane Cockram makes her thrilling debut with this page-turning tale of psychological suspense in which a young woman whose life is in tatters flees to the safety of a family...

'Part of the power of Sugar Street lies in its style . . . in the prose you can feel the adrenaline of [the protagonist's] initial flight wearing off ,...

The Lost Time Accidents is a bold and epic saga set against the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.Haunted by a failed love affair and the darkest of family secrets,...

NAMED A "FALL 2020 MUST-READ" AND ONE OF THE "BEST BOOKS OF FALL 2020" BY TIME, VULTURE, THE BOSTON GLOBE, COSMOPOLITAN, WIRED, TOR AND MOREElectrifying and provocative, visceral and profound,...

From Montpelier, Vermont, across the country to Venice, California, Nina Lewis and her mother, Joyce, are always on the move. They own nothing that can't fit in the back of...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE BOOK EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT'Just read it. It's unforgettable'India Knight, The Sunday Times'It is impossible to read this novel and not be moved....

Single life in modern-day Nigeria is far from simple, in this new novel from the winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Deola Bello is tired of...

From the bestselling author of The Middlesteins comes comes this unique novel about a forgotten heroine of the 1930s.Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and feisty, she runs The Venice, the famed...

A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR.Who was the real George Eliot? In Love with George Eliot is a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling story of England's greatest woman...

It's Eleanor who starts the Friday nights. From her window she sees two young women, with small children, separate, struggling and plainly lonely, and decides to ask them in, and...

The New York Times bestsellerAs a young girl, Beryl Markham was brought to Kenya from Britain by parents dreaming of a new life. For her mother, the dream quickly turned...

'Frank Tallis brings a lifetime's clinical experience and wise reflection to a condition that, by its own strange routes, leads us into the very heart of love itself. This is...

'Powerful' Harriet Tyce'Brave' Liz Nugent'Compulsive' John Marrs'Dazzling' Chris Whitaker'Fearless' Anna Mazzola'Masterful' Araminta Hall'Timely' TM LoganYou know what it's like. A comment here, a closed door there, turning a blind eye...

The Sunday Times Number One BestsellerA picture hides a thousand words . . .On a hot July day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the stone steps of the Skelton gallery...

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE STAR OF THE ADDAMS FAMILY MUSICAL.'Reminded me so much of Cecelia Ahern' Ali McNamara'Utterly enchanting' Jill MansellYour soul is too heavy to...

***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family,...

'Enchanting, beautiful and heart-breakingly relevant' Culturefly______________________________________A magical new novel from the critically acclaimed bestselling author of THE TOYMAKERS which will appeal to fans of Neil Gaiman and Erin Morgenstern.______________________________________Every city...

The UNMISSABLE novel from the million-copy Sunday Times bestseller 'A gorgeous and deeply absorbing story' Tracy Rees, author of The House at SilvermoorA young mother's sacrifice. A child's desperate search...

Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2014Shortlisted for the National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year 2014Shortlisted for the National Book Awards New Writer of the Year...

Sixteen years after Robert Kincaid and Francesca Johnson have agreed that their swift, passionate and deep love affair must end, they are still thinking of each other. Robert has never...

'Haunting, atmospheric' Samira Ahmed'I loved this immensely evocative novel' Anita SethiGripping and atmospheric, Winter in Tabriz tells the story of four young people living in 1970s Iran during the months...

'I thought that I would see if the private life of a house could be made to bear witness to the public traumas of a century'. Here Penelope Lively recalls...

'Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.'...

When Amanda Baker was 14 she found a letter written by her runaway mother to her unborn child: 'Dear Jeremy' it began 'or Amanda...'Mrs Baker still sends Christmas presents -...