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Upon publication in 1975, Corregidora was hailed as a masterpiece, winning acclaim from writers including James Baldwin, Maya...

By a frozen lake, ten-year-old Jesse waits for his father. It's New Year's Day, and his dad promised a fresh start. But Jesse...

In the near future, in a world that seems just like our own, Eve grows up in a loving family that is increasingly threatened by a...

She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the...

Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient...

Denham Dobie has been brought up in Andorra by her father, a retired clergyman. On his death, she is snatched from this reclusive...

Jane Peters is an adrift twenty-something by day, and a world-weary agony aunt by night. But when an office party goes too far,...

Provence, May 1889. The hospital of Saint-Paul-de Mausole is home to the mentally ill. An old monastery, it sits at the foot of...

Barsetshire in the war years. Miss Bunting, governess of choice to generations of Barsetshire aristocracy, has been coaxed out of...

Barsetshire in the latter years of the Second World War is a peaceful and gossipy place, but there has been one lively change. A...

Mr Marling, of Marling Hall, has begun to accept - albeit reluctantly - that he will probably never be able to pass his wonderful...

As the war continues it brings its own set of trials to the the village of Northbridge. Eight officers of the Barsetshire...

Jack Middleton likes to imagine himself a country squire. At weekends he retires to Laverings Estate with his wife, Catherine. He...

All over Britain life is beginning again now the war is over but for Lenny and Miriam, East End London teenage twins who have...

Owls Do Cry is the story of the Withers family: Francie, soon to leave school to start work at the woollen mills; Toby, whose...

On 18 April 1941, twenty-two days after Virginia Woolf went for a walk near her weekend house in Sussex and never returned, her...

In a pitiless story of prying suburban self-righteousness, Patricia Highsmith introduces the Alderman family as they descend into...

Morgan Stone was born with a hole in her middle. A perfectly smooth patch of nothing where a something should be.

After...

Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan of the Hong...

The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by...

When does sorrow turn to shame? When does love become labour? When does chance become choice? And when does fact become...

The wail of sirens and the bombs of the Luftwaffe shook the people of the Avenue out of their dreams and preoccupations, bringing...

Jim Carver - a tough, resolute war veteran, he returns from the trenches to build a better life for his family to find his wife...

1262 A.D.
In the dusty heat of French fields, knights battle for supremacy in a fierce tournament. At its violent heart is...

We don t want to tell you what happens in this book. It is a truly special story and we don t want to spoil it.

Nevertheless,...

Commander Thomas Kydd is eager to play his part in thwarting Bonaparte's plans for the invasion of England.

Joining Admiral...

Napoleon's forces are poised to invade Britain, and Commander Thomas Kydd's ship is at the forefront of the fleet defending the...

Thomas Kydd has dragged himself up in the navy from press-ganged seaman to captain of his own ship. Now he faces...

Charles Henderson is the last British spy left in occupied France in 1940, living on a farm near Calais with four runaway kids...

Summer, 1940.

Hitler's army is advancing towards Paris, and millions of French civilians are on the run.

Amidst the...