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Alessandra is not quite fifteen when her prosperous merchant father brings a young painter back with him from Holland to adorn the walls of the new family chapel. She is...

With the centennial year of the United States as the target of this historical novel, Gore Vidal again mounts a glorious expedition into that grimy and intricate activity called politics....

In Craiglockhart war hospital, Doctor William Rivers attempts to restore the sanity of officers from World War I. When Siegfried Sassoon publishes his declaration of protest against the war, the...

Winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award and short-listed for the Booker Prize, "Nice Work" is a hilarious comedy of society and class misunderstandings. When Vic Wilcox,...

This captivating and charming novel from international multi-million copy seller Joanne Harris takes us back to the French village we first discovered in Chocolat. Seamlessly interweaving the past and the...

This is a moving novel about the greatest love affair in Irish history. WB Yeats was one of Ireland's greatest poets; Maud Gonne was a beautiful, upper class Protestant English...

An epic chronicle of the last 20 years of British life from the Booker longlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher. Beginning in 1974 and ending with...

______________WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE______________'Full of wit, warmth, intelligence, human feeling and understanding. It is also beautifully written with that sophisticated and near invisible skill of the authentic writer'...

Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young...

To a small flat in South London comes a Sumerian bowl: but the bowl is the Collector Collector, clay with something to say, an object d'art who will offer Rosa,...

A haunted child. A desperate mother. An unspeakable truth. 'She's my daughter, but in some weird way I feel she isn't really my child'. Young single mum Grace is drowning....

Jonathan Raban takes you on an enthralling journey into the least populated and least known region in the United States, the Great Plains of Montana, and finds there the heart...

'Both heart-breaking and heart-warming ... a joy to read' Woman's Way From the Richard and Judy Book Club author and Number One Bestseller!Lucy Murphy has a single goal in life...

'Her husband was sleeping with Carrie...the two people she loved most in the world were sleeping together.' Carrie is beautiful and untamed, a single girl with her own business and...

The battlefields run with blood in this gripping finale to the bestselling Attila trilogy.The infamous leader of the Huns stills thirsts for blood and supremacy as he crosses the Danube...

'We are so ready for this book. Exploring the exhausting push-pull of trying to pin down a career you love but that doesn't love you back, Buchanan's book is set...

Ava O'Hara is finally marrying hunky Simon, the love of her life. The wedding dress is on, the make-up is done, the bridesmaids are ready and the guests are eagerly...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with a moving new novel about an injured army doctor and the two women whose secrets will change the course of...

**A BBC RADIO 4 GOOD READ**'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The TimesAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University...

In The Strays, Evan Trentham is the wild child of the Melbourne art world of the 1930s. He and his captivating wife, Helena, attempt to carve out their own small...

As the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath. Born to a cabaret dancer and soon orphaned in a scandalous double murder,...

A young and successful journalist working in New York, Maureen English appears to have the perfect life and family. But Maureen's husband, a highly respected fellow reporter, has in private...

In a rundown house on an Irish coastline a woman gathers the ghosts of her past to hear their story retold, a story that begins with her grandmother's marriage ....

The Broadhursts were a mining family and, to outsiders, they appeared to be happy, loyal and united. But it was Jinny - wife, mother, sister - who held them together....

'An extraordinary novel... as beautiful and as wrenching as anything I've ever read' Emily St. John MandelA dark past. An impossible journey. The will to survive.Franny Stone is determined to...

A family conflict is set to make waves . . .After years of fast living and reckless excitement, Cameron Quinn is called home to help care for his adopted brother...

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017From the No. 1 New York Times bestselling and Booker long-listed author of My Name is Lucy Barton Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its...

There's no better time to rediscover James Bond.Who is Auric Goldfinger?The Bank of England wants to know and they're also curious to find out what he's done with the huge...

'Prepare to ugly cry and snort laugh with abandon' - Heat'An emotional read with an OMG ending' - Jill MansellOne moment in time can change everything...The day Scarlett dies should...

Entwined with You will take you to the very limits of obsession - and introduce you to a hero you'll never forget . . .One of the bestselling love stories...

Captivated by You will take you to the very limits of obsession - and introduce you to a hero you'll never forget . . .One of the bestselling love stories...

Annie and Duncan are a mid-thirties couple who have reached a fork in the road, realising their shared interest in the reclusive musician Tucker Crowe (in Duncan's case, an obsession...

According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that, her husband...

Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett's breakthrough international bestseller, is a heart-racingly exciting tale about the fate of the war resting in the hands of a master spy, his opponent...