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An absorbing historical novel of power and betrayal, loyalty and political intrigue in thirteenth-century England, Wales and...

In Consciousness Explained, Daniel C. Dennett reveals the secrets of one of the last remaining mysteries of the universe: the...

McPherson recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War including the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas...

For six centuries the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern...

1752, the Liverpool Merchant sets sail from Merseydale. A slaver, she is bound for Africa to buy men and transport them in chains...

Join Horatio Hornblower and as he sets sail on a world of adventure, fighting against the ruthless Napoleonic France, taking...

Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, The Pigeon is Patrick Suskind's tense, disturbing...

Follow the thrilling and exciting adventures of Horatio Hornblower's life at sea in the Royal Navy, in these three classic...

Unicorns, dragons, sprites, will-o’-the-wisps: the inhabitants of an enchanted world. And into this world – through the pages of...

As mentioned in The Times Travel Book Club 2020

Award winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey that, though closer to...

Who rose to enduring fame on Blood and Typewriters?
Who told the pregnant Portia of the Chambers it would come out in the...

The Mosquito Coast - winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize - is a breathtaking novel about fanaticism and a futile search...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the French Revolution, this is the book for you . . .

Concise, convincing...

Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and...

Discover a chilling twentieth century classic, delving into the dark and complex heart of childhood

'Some people are coming...

Billy Casper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say; part of the limbo generation of school leavers too old for lessons...

In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs....

In 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish...

Vonnegut's riotous urban fairytale about the various fiascos of the Nixon years - a firm fan favourite

Walter J. Starbuck's...

Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped...

A party of English people board the Euphrosyne bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, young, innocent and wholly...

A village pageant is to take place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for time beyond memory. Written and...

Where the Jackals Howl is prize-winning author Amos Oz's first collection of stories. On publication it received immediate...

A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances, Angela Carter's witty and...

Harry is a black and white dog who hates having a bath - so when he sees his owner with the dredded bath, he runs away. But in...

When eccentric Professor Dupont tries to track down his troupe of brightly-coloured cockatoos, they're always just one step ahead...

'And if Ferdinand decides to make
a chocolate fudge banana cake
What do we do? For goodness sake!
We All Join In!'

This...

Fima, our eponymous hero, is a receptionist at a gynaecology clinic. A preposterous, yet curiously attractive figure, he spends...

‘So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use’

The narrator,...

Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything.

The Tulls of Baltimore are no exception....