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Famous author Olive Wellwood writes a special private book, bound in different colours, for each of her children. In their...

Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? How do we make...

It is one of the more surprising facts about Old England that one can still find families living in the same houses their...

Bestselling historian Alison Weir brings Elizabeth I to vivid life in a novel of intrigue, sex, plots, mysteries and tragedies,...

Two women separated by time are linked by the most famous murder mystery in history, the Princes in the Tower.

Lady Katherine...

Lydia, Robyn and Dean don't know each other - yet.

They live very different lives but each of them, independently, has always...

Eleven years ago, Jem and Ralph fell in love. They thought it would be for ever, that they'd found their happy ending.

Then...

Melody Browne can remember nothing before her ninth birthday. Now in her early thirties, Melody lives in the middle of London...

The first novel from the great, incomparable Thomas Pynchon.

The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of...

Richard the Second is losing his hold on the crown and Henry of Bolingbroke, previously exiled by the king, returns to England to...

On the death of Henry the fifth, a nine-month-old baby is made King of England. Ambitious men surround the baby king, including...

Reckoned by those about him to be the most handsome man in the country, Edward the fourth has risen to the throne with the help...

When Henry VI becomes king, it is soon clear that he would be better suited to a quiet life than to ruling the country. Richard,...

It is 1946, and seventeen-year-old Laura Telling is stagnating in her dilapidated Sussex family home, while her eccentric parents...

It began with a spark...

A house is burning. Its six tenants include a failed priest, a naturalist, a neurosurgeon and a...

Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the central Himalayas,...

By far the shortest of Pynchon's great, dazzling novels - and one of the best.

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance,...

Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent-and...

Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild...

One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam at her holiday cottage. At first sight, it appears like a...

We are poised on the edge of discovery in particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) and cosmology (the...

In a sleepy hamlet in north Sweden, the local police make a chilling discovery; nineteen people have been brutally slaughtered....

Summer of 1911. English society is on the brink of change. The streets of London ring with cheers for a new king's coronation and...

Liverpool, 1939. Lonely historian Tom Baines is at work on a study of the city's architectural past but the ominous news from...

Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke lights fires. Paddy Clarke's name is written in wet cement all over Barrytown. Paddy...

With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his...

Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and...

The short story that inspired the play at the heart of BIRDMAN starring Michael Keaton, Ed Norton and Emma Stone

This...

After the early death of her philandering husband, Etsuko moves into her father-in-law's house, where she numbly submits to the...

Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins.

When she is captured she joins a...