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For Vivian Apple, the end of the world was just the beginningSeventeen-year-old Vivian Apple has just travelled across the country, fended off roving bands of indoctrinated teenagers, re-evaluated everything she...

Rachel Calthorpe, forced to flee her home in Botany Bay in 1890 after witnessing a tragedy involving an aborigine girl and four local white men, leaves her family veiled in...

Christmas Magic is Stirring It might be Christmas, but Dr Katie McGann would prefer to work than celebrate. Until her estranged husband Dr Josh West strides into the ER, turning...

A cult classic in the making. 253 is the novel about everyone you've ever met and wished you hadn't or wished you could again. 252 passengers and one driver on...

Torn between two countries and various life stories, the siblings find themselves dealing with complex life choices, and the mystery of their sister's suicide twenty-two years ago.Whispering Walls is a...

How much blood would you spill to avenge those you love? Andy Park passes out at the sight of blood, but he thinks he's discovered a way to make his...

These two novellas, MORPHO EUGENIA and THE CONJUGIAL ANGEL, are set in the mid-nineteenth century, weaving fact and fiction, reality and romance. MORPHO EUGENIA is a lively Gothic fable of...

An extraordinary epic of love, family, and war set in the Basque town of Guernica before, during, and after its destruction by the German Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War....

A stolen sister. A daughter determined to uncover the truth. 'I was gripped, moved and utterly in thrall to this deeply emotional and compelling tale' Kate Furnivall Belle Hatton has...

In The Red Tent Anita Diamant brings the fascinating biblical character of Dinah to vivid life. 'Intensely moving . . . feminist . . . a riveting tale of love'...

Winner of the Writers' Guild Award for Best Debut NovelLonglisted for the Authors' Club First Novel Award'Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget. If you see her, you...

The heart-warming and uplifting Sunday Times bestseller from Giovanna Fletcher'This book is beautiful' ZOE BALL'Lovely, very moving. Giovanna's books are very very relatable' LORRAINE KELLYIt's always darkest before the dawn...

A breathtaking tale of family secrets, from the international bestselling author of An American MarriageAN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN 'BEST BOOK OF 2020 TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS'A...

Margaret and Patrick, married just a few months, set off on a great adventure - a year living in Kenya. While Patrick practices medicine, Margaret works as a photojournalist, capturing...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020 'A rollercoaster of a read with serious intent' The Times A moving and masterful novel about sex, death,...

Escape to Italy and fall in love with this perfect summer read...Floundering junior travel writer Katie has just been given the opportunity of her career. Her boss can't make her...

The Butler is an extraordinary tale of family, difficult decisions and destiny, from the world's favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel.Joachim von Hartmann was born and raised in Buenos Aires by his...

The death of a beautiful woman ...an arrogant man who claimed to be her suitor but was probably her murderer ...a cop accused of planting evidence ...and a town steeped...

The highly-anticipated new novel from the bestselling author of 'The Joy Luck Club' and 'The Bonesetter's Daughter'. On an ill-fated art expedition of the Southern Shan State in Burma, eleven...

From the French Riviera between the wars to a terrifying endgame in World War 2 Occupied France, a gripping story of doomed but triumphant love from the author of A...

A visitor calls with a gift and a message from the past in this literary, historical novel. In 1802 Thomas de Quincey, a young man from a comfortable middle-class background...

MILDRED PIERCE is the story of a determined and ambitious woman who, after her feckless husband abandons her, builds a successful business through hard work and sacrifice in order to...

'Moving, romantic, and downright funny! A magical read, perfect for anyone who's ever made a wish.' Samantha Tonge, 5 stars What do you do when 'the one that got away'...

In this latest Orchard mystery, amateur sleuth Meg Corey takes a bite out of crime... Some baby-faced chefs, fresh out of cooking school, are looking to open a restaurant in...

From the author of 'The House of Spirits' - teenage Maya is in trouble. She's an alcoholic, an addict and deeply involved with a criminal gang. How did it all...

If you like Catherine Cookson, Dilly Court and Katie Flynn, then you will love this breath-taking saga of one of love, passion, betrayal, tragedy and longing by much loved author...

The heatwarming festive follow-up to The Rose Queen, from beloved Sunday Times bestselling author Katie Flynn._____________________________________________Liverpool, 1941: After German bombs shatter the life Cadi has built for herself in Liverpool,...

David Morris lives the quiet life of a book-valuer for a London auction house, travelling every day by omnibus to his office in the Strand. When he is asked to...

Strangers have arrived in a quiet, perfectly English village. Dangerous, attractive strangers who caryy with them a raft of unfullfilled ambitions and passions. But the Bishops don't understand the complex...

It is the seventies, at the height of flower power. Star has just joined Drop City, a hippie commune in sunny California living the simple, natural life. But underneath the...

Lady Marianne scarce dreamed it possible her life could get any worse! That was before she found herself transplanted to the wild highlands of Scotland-land of savage barbarians-and the promised...

A forbidden love. A vow of revenge. And an empire on the brink of war.Set at the end of the nineteenth century, this sweeping, epic love story traces the doomed...

The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell is a thrilling tale of the intoxicating and dark side of friendship. New York City, 1924: the height of Prohibition and the whole city...

Bobbie's children never listen to a word she says. Even worse, her mother has a new boyfriend: the notorious child expert Dr Know, who dishes out hard-line advice to the...

A house in ruins. An island at war. A love affair just beginning...'This is one of the most fantastic books I have ever read' Amazon reviewer, 5 starsThe House of...

Her Frozen Heart is a thrilling mystery from Lulu Taylor, top ten bestselling author of The Snow Rose.Caitlyn, there's something I have to tell you. About Sara.Caitlyn thinks her marriage...