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In 1978, Max Oldroyd, evolutionary biologist and author of a bestselling popular science book explaining evolution to the masses, embarks on a triumphant book-tour of the US - only to...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1998SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FICTION PRIZEWINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE WH SMITH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDWhen Master Georgie...

In a society governed by strict marriage rules and the diktats of the Khap, Jugni knows love is not an option. Her beloved uncle, whose unspoken favourite she has always...

The poignant and powerful second novel from the bestselling author of Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts. London, 1923. Bermondsey is the larder of London with its bustling docks, spice mill,...

Couples.Couples at war.Couples apparently at peace - with war simmering beneath the surface.Desire frustrated.Desire, satisfied - but in surprising ways.Revenge at its most creative.Reconciliation at its most tender.Love. Perhaps.Here is...

Lucia Sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-old daughter of a fine Italian immigrant family in Greenwich Village, New York, in 1950. Fuelled by the post-war boom, in which talented girls with...

WINNER OF THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2015SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2015 AND THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2015Meet the Bradleys.In lots of ways, they're a...

'A prodigy of imagination, insight and overwhelming tenderness' Independent'Remember me when I'm gone' just took on a whole new meaning . . . Laura Byrd is in trouble. Three weeks...

Samuel Tyne always believed he was destined for greatness. Emigrating to Canada from Ghana in the 1960'S was the first step on this path, but fifteen years later his grand...

The New York Times bestseller - of how six bonobo apes change the lives of three humans, from master storyteller Sara Gruen, author of the international bestseller, Water for Elephants.These...

A moving novel about the relationships within families and between friends, told through the touching story of a young woman starting out on a new life in London, on a...

Abigail Schiller lives a seemingly normal childhood in a rural community in Wisconsin. But that life is shattered when her younger brother, Sam, vanishes at the age of seventeen, fleeing...

Many citizens of Ambient, Wisconsin, believe the old tales of an angel living in the Onion River that runs through the heart of their town. So when Gabriel Carpenter vanishes...

'We're going to a fine place,' Idie told Homer to console him, 'with gullies and monkeys and hummingbirds.' Idie Grace is twelve when she inherits a grand old house on...

"If your first love came back to offer you everything you ever dreamed of, what would you do?" Hannah is thirty-eight and the happily married mother of eleven-year-old Luke, the...

One woman, many personas. But which one is telling the truth? Alexa Wu is a brilliant yet darkly self-aware young woman whose chaotic life is manipulated and controlled by a...

For fans of Pam Jenoff and Margaret Leroy, a thrilling tale of intrigue and danger, filled with tension, excitement and romance, looking at the experiences of Australians in World War...

Step into Limehouse Wharf, the new, uber-luxury apartment building in Canary Wharf where celebrities who have had 'work' done can hole up until they have healed and which is about...

In 1954 a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder. In the course of his trial, it...

It's market day in an English city two years into the Great War. The farmers are coming in from the country, the cattle are being driven through the streets and...

On the twentieth anniversary of the death of Rebecca, the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter, family friend Colonel Julyan receives an anonymous parcel. It contains a black...

Ambitious, exotic, and a classic book club read, 'The Piano Teacher' is a combination of 'Tenko' meets 'The Remains of the Day'. Sometimes the end of a love affair is...

Venice, 1468. Sosia Simeon, a free spirit with a strange predilection for books and Venetians is making her particular mark on the fabled city. On the other side of the...

Eddie is an honest, compassionate man who finds himself, at the age of thirty-eight, with a wife, a child, and three dollars. How did he get that way? He is...

'A stellar literary event . . . written with panache and an enviable economy . . . the biggest risk of her literary life' Margaret AtwoodAccording to Queeney is a...

In the near future bees are extinct - until five unconnected individuals, in different parts of the wowrld, are stung. Immediately snatched up by ominous figures in hazmat suits, interrogated...

An intimate portrait of London intellectual life, the breakdown of a marriage and the friendship between two women, 'What You Will' draws the reader into a spellbinding world of beauty...

'This is a remarkable book, incredibly uplifting. The perfect summer read.' Brew and Books Review Three best friends. Three continents. Three months to live. How long can you keep a...

The gripping new psychological drama from the author of Richard and Judy Book Club selection This Perfect World As a teenager, Rachel lived through the death of a friend, and...

The #1 Kindle bestseller! ADDICTIVE, GRIPPING and EMOTIONALLY POWERFUL, this is the perfect read for your summer holiday escape. Everything you've built your life on is a lie... Willow's memories...

London, 1826. Leaving behind his father's tragic failures, Gabriel Swift arrives to study with Edwin Poll, the greatest of the city's anatomists. It is his chance to find advancement by...

Beautiful, kaleidoscopic . . . everyone should be watching Megan Bradbury from now on' Eimear McBride, Baileys Prize-winning author of A Girl Is a Half-formed ThingNew York: A city that...