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Spring, 1953. The sun is shining on Little Green Street, the bunting is being brought out, and Britain is getting ready to crown...

'He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others'.
So Virginia Woolf described...

Move fast. Stay dark.

These are the instructions sent to new operative Emma Makepeace.

She's been assigned to track down a...

Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. But one day a...

War is building. Blood is spilling.
And the gods are not pleased.
Casia has survived her brother's attempts to crush her but...

Sweden's elite are under attack.

Two rich and powerful men have been murdered, and in the face of mounting panic - and media...

Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history.
'Why...

The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community

Emma Lou Morgan's skin is black - 'too...

The Bind charts the rise and fall of Egret Bindings, once the most prestigious firm of bookbinders in London.

In 1910 brothers...

Lasting for six long years, the Blitz transformed life in the capital beyond recognition, marking a time of almost constant...

AD 406. Abandoned by friends and hounded by enemies, Roman cavalry commander Marcus Flavius Victor and a small band of loyal...

Benvenuto Cellini is an artist-craftsman, one of the greatest sculptors in the renaissance, passionately devoted to art, the...

The noodle soup called pho is the national dish of Vietnam. When Little Blue-- having been dropped by a mysterious man with a red...

Falco has his deadly day in court

Having returned from his trip to Londinium, Falco takes up employment with two lawyers at...

Tevye is the compassionate, lovable, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, and Tevye the Dairyman is a heartwarming and poignant...

A controversial artist is found dead in her own art installation inside a riverside gallery with locked doors and windows - the...

Maugham's studies of the lives and masterpieces of ten great novelists are outstanding examples of literary criticism at its...

Tamara Drewe has transformed herself. Plastic surgery, a different wardrobe, a smouldering look, have given her confidence and a...

Love is messy. Love can make us feel alive. It can also bring us down. Sometimes we look for it in all the wrong places. This is...

John, Susan, Titty and Roger return to the lake for another summer camping on their island with their old allies, Nancy and...

As she walks out of her marriage, a woman remembers the day her husband rescued a boy from drowning.

A blind man on his...

Nick and Laura are the hosts: pretending their marriage isn't on the rocks.

Madison and Bastian are the guests: neither is...

This wide-ranging anthology pays tribute to fathers young and old. At one end of the spectrum, a touching story by Ann Packer...

Barney is a solitary little boy, given to wandering off by himself. One day he is lying on the edge of a disused chalk-pit when...

The subjects of Salman Rushdie's collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death...

On a freezing winter's night, a small craft skims the Thames towards London's most exclusive riverside hotel. On board is a lone...

You can't believe all of them . . . But can you trust any of them?

Widower Kane Black has been hollowed by grief.

Until he...

Two families. One night. A constellation of lives changed forever.
When retired doctor Ben Wilf comes across ten-year-old Waldo...

1960. The border between East and West Germany has closed.

For Elisabeth - a young painter - the GDR is her generation's...

The hit BBC series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, offers a fresh, contemporary take on the classic Sir Arthur Conan...