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December 1917: Germany opens the final, bitter round of the war with a new and deadly weapon in the struggle for the seas - the...

Malta 1941. To most people HMS Saracen is just an ugly, obsolete ship with an equally ugly recent history: her last commander is...

November, 1941: The War in the Pacific.

Lieutenant Ralph Trewin, D.S.C., arrives at Singapore as second-in-command of the...

1774: The new year seems to offer Richard Bolitho and his friend Martyn Dancer the culmination of a dream. Both have been...

By Its Cover is the much anticipated twenty-third instalment in Donna Leon's bestselling crime series, where Commissario Brunetti...

During the First World War three quarters of a million British people died – a figure so huge that it feels impossible to give it...

A band of vigilante executioners roam London's hot summer nights, abducting evil men and hanging them by the neck until dead....

A murdered family. A dying serial killer. A missing child. DC Max Wolfe hunts a pitiless killer through the streets of London. By...

Peter Fortune is a boy who likes to daydream. He dreams about swapping bodies with his cat and with his baby cousin, but he gets...

Sometimes you come across a lofty railway viaduct, marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. Or a crumbling platform...

If you could be invisible, what would you do? The chances are that it would have something to do with power, wealth or sex....

The remarkable story of Bess of Hardwick, her ascent through Elizabethan society and the houses she built that shaped British...

As the youngest student to be admitted to Bergen's prestigious Writing Academy, Karl Ove arrives full of excitement and writerly...

Kate Battista is stuck.

How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and infuriating younger...

Avant-garde composer Albert Sanger lives in a ramshackle chalet in the Swiss Alps, surrounded by his 'Circus' of assorted...

Among the residents of a small Dorset town called Folly Down, an unlikely struggle between the forces of good and evil is taking...

Read the first historical novel - this tale of romance and adventure during the 1745 Jacobite rebellion will stir the blood and...

Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan's greatest modern female writers

Ibuki loves widow Yasuko who is young,...

‘Why shouldn’t we be detectives too?’

When Dick and Dorothea arrive in the Norfolk Broads all set for a blissful summer on the...

Read Jane Austen's unsung masterpiece.

'The most perfect artist among women, the writer whose books are immortal' Virginia...

Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Observer

Emma is young,...

George Gissing's best-known novel shows us the literary underbelly of Victorian England, and the writers striving to forge their...

'Hold your noise! Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!'

Little orphan Pip scarcely imagines how a...

'He was the father of my generation of American writers and the tradition of American writing' William Faulkner

This timeless...

A gloriously witty novel from Sebastian Faulks using P.G. Wodehouse’s much-loved characters, Jeeves and Wooster, fully authorised...

Gone Girl meets Mean Girls in this sharp and clever thriller from the publishers of The Never List

Hollywood It Girl Janie...

A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic.

Writing about real lives takes...

The Living

Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer and immediately sinks into the darkness of...

'Now we make you ugly,' my mother said. 'The best thing you can be in Mexico is an ugly girl.'

On the mountainside in rural...

White skin, green eyes, red hair... Blackass

Furo Wariboko - born and bred in Lagos - wakes up on the morning of his job...