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During their childhood years in the Kenya Highlands of the 1950s, three girls from vastly different backgrounds become blood sisters, promising that nothing will ever destroy the bond between them....

It is 1667 and the mighty naval war between the Dutch and the English still rages. Sir Francis Courtney and his son Hal, in their fighting caravel, are on patrol...

Life in 1920s Belfast is hard for the working class people, but the McGuigans are more fortunate than most. But when eldest son Johnnie shatters the family's peaceful existence with...

Maria, a community worker, looks after an unruly gang of mentally disabled people. She wants to put on a community show but lacks both a venue and a community to...

Rasero, an Andalusian diplomat at the court Louis XV, is a privoleged particpantin the proceedings and witness to the private and public lives of everyone from Diderot to Madame de...

'Come Monday morning after breakfast, silence will commence...until the following Saturday morning. That gives you five full days of contemplation and prayer...As usual, leaving the Sister Chapel and its grounds...

Jordan returns from California to Utah to visit his mother in jail. As a teenager he was expelled from his family and religious community, a secretive Mormon offshoot sect. Now...

Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England with his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen...

A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this searing portrait of a to-the-death struggle between a mother and a daughter. Clair Knightly and her daughter Helen are...

The brilliant new novel from the bestselling author of 'Mr Golightly's Holiday' and 'Miss Garnet's Angel'. 'There is no cure for being alive.' Thus speaks Dr David McBride, a psychiatrist...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD & A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICKHe had always been scared of flying. Now, the fear is real. A plane crash. The water...

This bestseller from the country's number one storyteller is a deeply moving and powerful tale of love and courage and a sacrifice no man should be asked to make. Three...

Barney Livingstone and Laura Castellano are childhood neighbours who share an unforgettable friendship. From the crucible of med school's merciless training, through the demanding hours of internship and residency to...

Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer living a very private life in Maine. Until, one wintry morning, his solitude is disrupted by the arrival of a package postmarked Berlin.But...

Two backcountry skiers find the body of a young woman embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. All through the night police work with arc lights and chainsaws...

'An epic yet heartbreakingly intimate novel of conflict and betrayal, and of the pain of lost love' Kate MosseA long-buried secret, a heart-breaking betrayal...Estelle never really knew her mother, Fleur,...

Compelling and elegant - this is commercial women's fiction at its very best. "I've striven to be the perfect mother, wanting to create a perfect childhood for my child. Yet...

One Night in Italy is a charming, funny and heartwarming novel from Lucy Diamond, author of The Secrets of Happiness. Is Italian really the language of love? A new class...

Autumn Laing seduces Pat Donlon with her lust for life and art. In doing so she not only compromises the trusting love she has with her husband, Arthur, she also...

It is springtime in SoHo when Curtis, rock-star wannabe, first lays eyes on gangly, gorgeous Camilla and her matchmaking daschund - and New York is transformed from a grey city...

When her tryst with handsome billionaire Dominic Knight gets out of hand, Katherine Hart resolves to cut all contact for good. But Dominic won't let his object of fascination escape...

Number 1 bestselling author Philippa Gregory continues her series, "The Cousins War", with Jacquetta Woodville, mother of the White Queen. Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg and kinswoman to...

Martha Carrier was hanged on August 19th 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, unyielding in her refusal to admit to being a witch, going to her death rather than joining the ranks...

India,1955: as the scars of Partition are just beginning to heal, in Ramjas College, Delhi, seventeen-year-old Meera is enraptured. In a spotlight, a handsome young man, Dev, is singing a...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them . . .'So begins this irresistible voyage into the dark side of Victorian London. Amongst an...

A DEADLY VIRUS. QUARANTINE. A WORLD IN LOCKDOWN. THE THRILLER THAT PREDICTED IT ALL. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Flies thrillingly, eerily close to reality' Guardian'This page-turner... is riveting and...

**A Guardian Book of the Autumn 2023**'Through luminous moments of chance, change, and even grace, Michaels shows us our humanity - its depths and shadows' MARGARET ATWOODThe triumphant new novel...

Worthy Opponents is a riveting and dynamic tale of family, wealth and success from the billion copy bestselling author, Danielle Steel.Spencer Brooke grew up knowing that one day she would...

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2011'A writer of great talent and courage' MONICA ALI'An affecting, passionate and intelligent novel about the redemptive power of love and storytelling' TELEGRAPH_____________________Freetown, Sierra Leone,...

One of the most thrilling novels of the sea to have been written, Let Not the Deep tells the story of a tumultuous night in the storm-ravaged seas off the...

'A gorgeous novel' Mail on SundayFrom the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel comes a thrilling story of power, lust and deception...Seventeenth-century Amsterdam - a city in the...

Carystown, Kentucky, is still scarred by the mysterious disappearance two years ago of Isabella Moon. Faced with an almost complete lack of evidence - lack, even, of a body -...

Literary agent Valerie Morrell receives an email from prospective author William Mendez, containing the first chapters of a promising new novel. Mendez's book tells the story of an April night,...

Friends, family, workmates. The woman you see at the bus stop every morning; the man who reaches for the last newspaper just before you get to it. Everyone you meet,...

How would Antigone fare in a New Labour milieu? One of Us is a subtle and poignant novel about the dangerous space between private and public lives, about kingmakers and...