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StarterIf twenty-six-year-old Hannah Sugarman had her way, she'd be whipping up carrot cakes and running her culinary empire. Instead, she spends her hours cooking up papers on the financial crisis....

On the eve of her wedding anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband to come home, listening for his car along the dark, icy roads. As the night draws...

**The Sunday Times top ten bestseller**A QUESTION OF TRUST is vintage Penny Vincenzi: rich with characters, life-changing decisions, glamour, love, desire and conflict. 'There are few things better in life...

The unputdownable novel of wartime England, Hollywood glamour and long-buried secrets from the bestselling author of The Spoils of Time trilogy 'I defy any reader, once they've taken the smallest...

In India, at the birth of the last century, an infant is brought howling into the world, his remarkable paleness marking him out from his brown-skinned fellows. Revered at first,...

From the author of international bestseller Still Alice, a heartfelt novel about friendship and a mother coping with the loss of her autistic son'I'm always learning about how my brain...

When Cassie Rosse becomes the first woman to train an English Derby winner, with her home-bred horse The Nightingale, she has every right to believe that success is hers at...

Kit doesn't know who his mother is. What he does know, however, is that his father, Guy, is dying of cancer. Feeling his death is imminent, Guy gathers around him...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Bridesmaids and The Time of Our Lives. Abby has been on health kicks before. They involve having one muffin for breakfast, instead of...

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022'A thrilling work' Ta-Nehisi Coates'Lovely and lyrical . . . warm and wonderful' Kiley ReidA queen of...

It's never too late to grow up...This is the story of: Scott, who finds his belongings outside in a bin bag one day and realises he may have made a...

Meet Will Kelly. English teacher. Film fan. King of sandwich construction. Still in love with The One, desperately searching for An-Other One. In his decrepit flat, Will's lifeline is the...

"Devastatingly powerful. Bolander gives voice to the voiceless." -Helen MacDonaldIn the early years of the 20th century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey slowly died of...

For readers of The Nightingale and Brooklyn, an exquisitely moving novel about friendship, love, and redemption in a circle of immigrants who flee Europe for 1930s-era New York City.On the...

Reunited for the extravagant wedding of a college friend, Kezia, the second-in-command to an insane jewellery designer; Nathaniel, the former literary cool kid now selling his wares in Hollywood; and...

This action-packed novel is packed with colourful vignettes of life in Tudor times, as the novel races along with the vitality and compulsive readablity thathave made Horrible Histories a smash...

One girl's struggle to find her true home.It was meant to be like coming home... All her life, Safi's parents have dreamed of returning to Grandpa's native village in Crimea....

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lori Wilde's heartwarming follow-up to her "page-turning and passionate" (Jill Shalvis) trade paperback debut, The Moonglow Sisters, takes readers back to Moonglow...

A passionate kiss from an enticing stranger... ...ignites a craving she can't deny! Abandoned in paradise, jilted bride Kimmie Lancaster is adamant that she'll still enjoy her honeymoon. But she...

A remote island paradise... A chance to rekindle their marriage! Workaholic billionaire Massimo Briatore has convinced his estranged wife Livia to accompany him to Fiji. It's supposed to be one...

She ran from their attraction... But can she resist the billionaire's deal? Dutiful heiress Talia Grantham shared one earth-shattering evening with sinful stranger Luke, knowing that they could never have...

'Nothing short of stunning . . . something very powerful and unusual indeed' Guardian'Part-thriller, part adventure story, part social drama and utterly absorbing' Daily Mail'Hunt is a talented writer. On...

Perfect for fans of Joanna Trollope and Anita Shreve, Amanda Brookfield's The Love Child is a profoundly moving story about the redeeming power of love.When Janine and Dougie fell in...

Perfect for fans of Memoirs of a Geisha and Empress Orchid -- 'The Embers of Heaven' is a magical epic, with delightful characters, an intriguing scenario and a real feeling...

SOMETIMES COMING TO TERMS WITH THE FUTURE MEANS LETTING GO OF THE PAST...For Victoria, orphaned at six, her grandmother Evanthi's beautiful home in Corfu - known locally as The Venetian...

Lucy Lombard thought her 'Happily Ever After' was all sorted when her gorgeous boss finally declared his love for her, but when she catches him in bed with another woman...