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Ted Wallace is an old, sour, womanising, cantankerous, whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet and drama critic, but he has his faults too. Fired from his newspaper, months behind on...

From the author of A Perfectly Good Man, the bestselling story of an artist tormented by depression and the toll of creativity. When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies she leaves...

London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days we follow the lives of seven major characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his...

Funny, feisty and all-too-true, A Not Quite Perfect Family by Claire Sandy is for anyone who loves their family so much they'd just like a weekend away from them.Fern Carlile...

The Strong family are wealthy, arrogant, decadent, and ruthless - with a string of sugar plantations in Barbados, a stately home near Bristol, and ambitions to control the refining of...

A lifetime of restraint and placid affection erupts when a retired bank manager falls for a young girl, as far removed from him in background and experience as in age....

In a world where we have been genetically engineered so that we can photosynthesise sunlight with our hair, hunger is a thing of the past, food an indulgence. The poor...

To everyone who's anyone in New York City Victory Ford, Wendy Healy and Nico O'Neilly are the beautiful face of success in the city. Victory is the hottest new designer...

Business between the sheets Leo is determined to secure a crucial business acquisition - until he meets Maddie. When their irresistible chemistry ignites, it's unforgettable! Then Leo learns the truth:...

Secrets and memories collide in The Twilight Hour, the new novel from bestselling author Nicci Gerrard.'Be with me now, at the twilight hour. When the light fails.' 'I'm here.' 'Tell...

In the shadow of the Berlin Wall, murder is never an open-and-shut case . . .The award-winning, critically acclaimed Cold War crime thriller set in East Berlin - perfect for...

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR'Just promise me one thing . . . Have the courage to follow your heart' Buenos Aires, 1948. Audrey Garnet lives a sheltered life in the...

A Richard and Judy Book Club pick, set in Paris and Italy, The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton is a beautiful and uplifting exploration of love, loss and hope...

'A sublime piece of literary detective work that shows us once and for all how to be precisely the sort of reader that Austen deserves.' Caroline Criado-Perez, GuardianAlmost everything we...

Out of the savagery of the Paris barricades there was born the most sinister of all the terrorist groups of the late 1960s. Secretly funded by Moscow, trained in subversion...

Candlelight is hygge; the smell of freshly brewed coffee is hygge; the feel of crisp, clean bed linen is hygge; dinner with friends is hygge. 'Hygge', pronounced 'hoo-ga', is a...

Planning for a wedding requires careful organisation and effort. It is easy for the couple to be so caught up in the practical details of the reception and invitations that...

Marie is a waitress at an upscale Dallas steakhouse, attuned to the appetites of her patrons and gifted at hiding her private struggle as a young single mother behind an...

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020Longlisted for the Desmond Eliot Prize 2020Longlisted for the Polari Prize 2021Featuring on BBC 2's Between the Covers'Sophie Ward is a dazzling talent who writes...

From the #1 bestselling author of The Secret Wife, Another Woman's Husband will be adored by all fans of The Crown. Wallis Simpson is brought enticingly to life in this...

The sixth book in the Gallagher Girls series leads Cammie and her spy school friends to another wildly entertaining mission. With new assignments to tail and capture, the final book...

Janey is 18 and all alone apart from her baby daughter. Disowned by her family she is forced to move into a small flat on Peppercorn Street and learn to...

Will escaping for two weeks save her marriage? Or change her life?To the outside world, bestselling author Linda Costa has it all: a successful career, a wonderful marriage and two...

Government minister Patrick Macready has been found dead in his flat. The coroner rules it an accident, a sex game gone wrong. Jon Swift is from the old stock of...

A Richard and Judy Book Club pick and a Radio 2 Book Club Choice.Get to know Tess and Gus in Kate Eberlen's first novel, Miss You, perfect for fans of...

When sixty-eight-year-old Vietnam War veteran David Granger wakes up from emergency surgery, he finds himself repeating a name: Clayton Fire Bear, a soldier from whom he stole something long ago....

A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.Compelling, compassionate and powerful, Rhiannon Navin's Only Child will stay with you long after you've turned the final page.We all went to school that...

From legendary writer Edmund White, a bold and sweeping new novel that traces the extraordinary fates of twin sisters, one destined for Parisian nobility and the other for Catholic sainthood...

Judy is getting married on Saturday and it's a military operation: the dress, the three-tiered cake, the uncle that nobody will sit beside at the reception. She knows it'll be...

IF YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO FIND OUT YOUR FAMILY'S DARKEST SECRET . . . WOULD YOU?THE GRIPPING NEW SUSPENSE NOVEL ABOUT FAMILY AND LIES FROM THE 200,000 COPY BESTSELLING...

Longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize 2016An anonymous package arrives in the post: a cardboard box containing sheaves of printed emails chronicling New York-artist Jack's secret life. The package...

Ferret Skerritt - ventriloquist by trade, conman by birth - isn't expecting to find love at the 1898 Omaha World's Fair, a colourful world of flimflam men, snake-oil salesmen, occultists,...

"Fascinating, unsettling and beautifully written" Emily St John Mandel"Strange and profound" New York TimesWhat if you knew the exact date of your death? What if your perfect hermaphrodite match existed...

'A fun, sexy rom com that's impossible to resist' PopSugar'We absolutely adored this book!' Christina Lauren on The Right SwipeOMG! Wouldn't it be adorable if he's her soulmate???I don't see...

'A sweeping, colourful read' Mail on SundayLose yourself in the irresistable story of one woman's journey through 20th-century Russia.Growing up in 1930s Brooklyn, Florence Fein will do anything to escape...

'I wake up and I have to make the right choice,' he said. Master-stylist Ben Marcus returns with a wonder-cabinet of brain-rearranging stories. From the horrifyingly strange to the deeply...

WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD 2017Out at sea, in a sudden storm, a man is struck by lightning. When he wakes, injured and adrift on a kayak,...

'Weird and wild and wonderfully unsettling... Dive in for just a moment and you'll emerge gasping and haunted' Celeste Ng, bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere It's been sixteen years...

A bittersweet novel of family and self-discovery from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Spool of Blue ThreadWilla Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life:...

From the corner of a darkened room Joy Stone watches herself. As memories of the deaths of her lover and mother surface unbidden, life for Joy narrows - to negotiating...

Nina does not have a drinking problem. She likes a drink, sure. But what 17-year-old doesn't? Nina's mum isn't so sure. But she's busy with her new husband and five...

THE NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!'Warm and engaging' Sophie Kinsella'I'm smitten' Lindsey Kelk'Gorgeous, witty, reassuring' Daisy Buchanan'Funny, heartfelt, tender and empowering!' Giovanna Fletcher 'Hilarious, moving and extremely well written' Stylist...