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'I was down to my last chip, but it never occurred to me not to put it on the line, bet it, and roll the dice one more time ....

Sunday Times bestsellerLonglisted for the Women's Prize 2021Longlisted for the Orwell PrizeLonglisted for the National Book Award'The Vanishing Half is an utterly mesmerising novel. It seduces with its literary flair,...

Abie has followed the arc of a letter from London back to Africa, to the coffee groves of Kholifa Estates, the plantation formerly owned by her grandfather. It is a...

Lem Gulliver (25, maths teacher), can't seem to leave home. His mother (46, courtroom artist) and step-father (49, AA patrol man), make no secret of the fact that he's become...

Fifteen year old Jess is waiting for the world to end. Her evangelical father has packed up the family to drive to California, hoping to save as many souls as...

Where there's community, there's courage...Jess Delaney has always longed for independence. But when the Blitz reaches Manchester, she is locked in the cellar by her feckless mother, Lizzie. As bombs...

She was a woman of unbreakable spirit and quiet pride, and nothing - neither the drabness of her life nor the boredom of her job - could stop her from...

As one of the nation's favourite romantic novelists, Jack Carter knows romance only too well. But what he really wants now, after his traumatic divorce, is romance in his personal...

The wonderful new novel from the much loved author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels. The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are a set of six medieval...

"Excellent! Dark and light and brilliant." - Miles CameronSomewhere in England, in a small town called Strange Ground by the Skea, Ebbie Wren is the last librarian and he's about...

Named one of Pop Sugar's Best Books to Put in your Beachbag this summer and one of the best books of July. A Booktrib "Romance to get you in the...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLING THRILLER YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PUT DOWN'Dark, complex and thrilling' B.A. Paris _________________ THREE LITTLE GIRLS.ONE GOOD.ONE BAD. ONE DEAD. _________________ Kitty lives...

Her second semi-autobiographical novel of desire and lust in a new city far from China...According to the author, Marrying Buddha is the continuation of her first novel Shanghai Baby, the...

Something very strange has been happening in Warchester, and local pub singer Rik Suntan is about to have his doors of perception blown wide open. It seems that during the...

Her family's cottage was a place of innocence for Julie Bauer - until hersister was murdered. It's been many years since that August night, but Julie's memories of Izzy's death...

Sugar, an alluring, nineteen-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs Castaway, yearns for a better life and her ascent through the strata of 1870's London society offers us...

Engrossing and memorable, The Sins of the Father is the second novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer's celebrated the Clifton Chronicles. It takes us to New York in 1939 where...

They first met as children in 1940s London. Thirty years later, Marjorie, Chloe, and Grace make their way through an almost unrecognizable post-war society, coping with husbands, children, parents, and...

What would it be like to become Idi Amin's personal physician? Giles Foden's best-selling thriller is the story of a young Scottish doctor drawn into the heart of the Ugandan...

'Wiles is basically Kafka, if Kafka had spent more time in British hotels and pubs' David Baddiel Will Wiles both re-invents and murders the London novel, in a spectacular act...

Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2017 and longlisted for the 2017 CILIP Carnegie Medal, this novel will make you laugh and break your heart.Our memories are what make us...

From author Laura Sebastian comes Ash Princess, a nail-biting YA fantasy debut full of daring and vengeance.Theodosia was six when her country was invaded and her mother, the Queen of...

Jacob Hunt is a teenager: brilliant at maths, wicked sense of humour, extraordinarily organised, hopeless at reading social cues. And Jacob has Asperger's. He is locked in his own world...

Some people stay all summer long on the idyllic island of Belle Isle, North Carolina. Others come only for the weekends - and the mix between the regulars and "the...

1944. After the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings, half of Britain is occupied . . . Young farmer's wife Sarah Lewis wakes to find her husband has...

Abandoned as a baby, Stephen had nearly given up hope of ever finding his family. This epic adventure follows his change in fortunes as he receives an unexpected letter from...

He killed three hundred girls before he came to my village, looking for a wife.When a powerful and dangerous king arrives in the desert to take one of the village...

'Remarkable' Chika Unigwe, author of On Black Sisters' Street The stunning second novel from the author of Reese's Book Club pick His Only WifeWhen Selasi and Akorfa were young girls...

'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her...

For readers who loved Wonder and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time this extraordinary debut will make you laugh and cry. A story that crosses time and...

Now a BBC Radio 4 Book at BedtimeThe debut novel from award-winning author of Black Earth City: A Year in the Heart of Russia.When twenty-two-year-old Gerty Freely travels to Russia...

At one prestigious American public school, the boys like to emphasise their democratic ideals - the only acknowledged snobbery is literary snobbery. Once a term, a big name from the...

BOOK 19 IN THE EPIC HISTORICAL SAGA OF THE COURTNEY FAMILY, FROM GLOBAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH. BOOK 3 IN THE TIGER'S PREY SEQUENCE.The Courtney family is torn apart as three...

Ten years ago Jordan Weiss suffered the devastating death of her boyfriend Jared, a gifted rower at Cambridge. Since then work as an intelligence officer has taken her to the...

With the Great War raging, can they keep Britain going?1915. On Beth Healey's eighteenth birthday, she hopes that she will be able to forget the ghastly war and celebrate. But...

Marriage is one of the oldest and most respected of all our traditions. "The Husbands' Book" is a lighthearted celebration of the role of beloved husbands. From their penchant for...

'Haunting' Sara Sheridan 'Intriguing, atmospheric, thought-provoking' Alexandra Bell 'Beautifully crafted, thrilling and atmospheric' Rebecca Netley In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall. This place is...

There is no love like a mother's for her child . . .Little Billy, Polly's son, is the light of her life. It's for his sake that she puts up...

'beautifully observed portrait of dysfunctional family life.' Hannah Beckerman, The Observer'An astonishingly accomplished debut - the Brennans leap fully formed onto the page in this brilliantly judged novel of the...

*FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHTINGALE GIRLS, DONNA DOUGLAS*'A fascinating portrait of everyday life on the home front in wartime, with its hopes and hardships, and will leave...

RICHARD AND JUDY BESTSELLING AUTHOR'Gripping, emotional, utterly engrossing' Lisa Ballantyne'Stunning writing and wonderful nuanced characterisation. I was hooked' Rosamund LuptonFor fans of Maggie O'Farrell and Celeste Ng, How It Ends...

A heartbreaking new novel of grief, family and the enduring power of love from the author of We Must Be Brave When I open my eyes I see a small...

'Nobody does cosy, get-away-from-it-all romance like Jenny Colgan' Sunday Express'An evocative, sweet treat' Jojo Moyes___________________________________ In a quaint seaside resort, a charming bakery holds the key to another world... Curl...

For the second time in her marriage, Mariah White catches her husband with another woman, and Faith, their seven-year-old daughter, witnesses every painful minute. In the aftermath of a sudden...

Turgenev (1818-1883) was one of Russia's most famous writers, friend of Flaubert, Dostoyevsky and Henry James. Turgenev's private life was, perhaps, as remarkable as his public. For forty years he...

Perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves, Susan Hill, Nicci French and Val McDermid, this is an astute and intelligent psychological thriller centring around obsession and rage from international multi-million copy...