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The world's finest living short story writer turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised,...

A haunting yet humorous evocation of a society dangerously trapped in its past.

Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard...

Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over... This engrossing, beautifully crafted novel follows the fictional adventures,...

In the summer of 1989, at Tel-Kedar, a small settlement in the Negev Desert, the long time love affair between Theo, a...

A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring...

A sensational short story collection from Britain's master of the genre.

Charting tantrums, funerals, pregnancy and love...

A bestseller in several countries, this enchanting novel about a collection of misfits in Paris is quirky, poignant and...

Two lost masterpieces of French literature gathered together in one volume for the first time.

From the author of the...

From the author of the bestselling Suite Franзaise.

Translated by Sandra Smith, with an introduction by Patrick Marnham.

In...

1789: NEW SOUTH WALES. Into Sydney, capital of Britain's infant colony, sails the frigate Tempest. She is one of His Majesty's...

1794: as the year draws to a close Richard Bolitho, commanding the old Hyperion, leaves Plymouth to join a squadron blockading...

1784: at a time when most of the fleet is laid up, His Majesty's frigate Undine weighs anchor at Spithead to begin a voyage to...

1782: British Captain Richard Bolitho is ordered to take the frigate Phalarope to the Caribbean, where the hard-pressed royal...

1778: a seminal year for the young Richard Bolitho... The American War of Independence changes to an all-out struggle for freedom...

1774: Bolitho is now a newly appointed third lieutenant joining the 28-gun frigate Destiny at Plymouth. It is a far step from...

1777: the revolution in America has erupted into a full-scale war.

The navy's main task is to prevent military supplies from...

One of the Roman novels from the bestselling historical fiction Falco series

‘We should have time to manage it … and still get...

A wrenching novel about the life and death of Lady Jane Grey, one of the most complex and sympathetic figures in Tudor England,...

Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter - and industrial spy. In 1848, the East India Company engaged him...

In the days when the word 'Italian' was synonymous with 'poisoner', there was no woman the French despised more than their own...

The story of the homesick Italian girl who became the most feared woman in sixteenth-century France...

Sullen-eyed and...

Stuck in a job he doesn't want - but can't afford to lose - as nominal Head of the Communications Department at Fenland...

Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George...

What if your partner just disappeared without a trace?

It's an early autumn day like any other as Miles Avery drives his wife,...

Some secrets are too devastating to be told...

When Natalie Moore is killed in a freak accident in France her mother - the...

Even as a fourteen-year-old orphan, Simon Beauvallet knows his own mind.

Later, friend and foe alike will know better than to...

A wonderful Regency romance by one of our best-known and most beloved historical novelists, reissued with a beautiful new cover...

Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg....

'A brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak...

Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary...